10 all-rounders who played for a long time

4. Chris Cairns

The New Zealand team of the 90s and early 2000s was made up of several bits and pieces cricketers, but seldom could someone alter the course of a game as radically as Cairns. One of the cleanest strikers of the cricket ball, Cairns used to clear the boundary at will.

In 2004, he surpassed Vivian Richards for most sixes in a Test career. When he was not up to his six-hitting spree, Cairns was an effective medium pacer, although injuries resulted in a drop in speed, even as he resorted to variations, including a difficult-to-pick slower ball.

If it weren't for injuries, he could have played way more than the 62 Tests he managed. In a fifteen year Test career, he missed a total of 55 matches.