4 players who did well in Tests despite being touted as limited-overs specialists

#3 Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya's rise to the top coincided with Sri Lanka's ascent as a cricketing powerhouse. The Matara Mauler, as he was famously called for his ability to tear bowling attacks to all corners of the ground, was at the vanguard of Sri Lanka rise as a top-level cricket team.

Initially picked in the side as a typical utility player in white-ball cricket, one who could bash the ball around in the closing stages of the ODI innings and someone who could roll his arm over with the ball.

As a result, Jayasuriya's career was a stop-start in his first six years from 1989-1995. It was in 1996 that Jayasuriya 2.0 was born. A player who would terrorize the bowing attacks irrespective of the format of the game was born when skipper Arjuna Ranatunga pushed him at the top of the order. What followed was mayhem with his partner Romesh Kaluwitharana, revamping the way one should approach the first 15 overs in an ODI.

Yet, Jayasuriya wasn't only a great white-ball player. The southpaw put up some quality knocks, such as the 340 against India at Colombo when Sri Lanka racked up more than 900 runs in a Test match back in 1997, his swashbuckling 213 in the very next year against England at the Oval that helped Sri Lanka win their first Test on English soil and the 253 against the likes of Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram.

Test Career: Matche - 110, Runs - 6973, Average - 40.07, Centuries -14