Top 5 left-arm seam all-rounders of all time

#2 Wasim Akram

Akram is unarguably the best left-arm pacer of all time

Plenty may have hogged the limelight before him and several may have emerged in his wake. However, Wasim Akram continues to remain the gold standard for left-arm seam and swing bowling. Blessed with innate ability to move both new and old ball at sharp pace, he wrecked batting lineups on a regular basis during his memorable career. Aside from his jaw-dropping skills with the ball, Akram was also a hard-hitting batsman in the lower-order.

Akram scalped 414 wickets from 104 Tests at a stellar average of 23.62 and proficient strike-rate of 54.6 with as many as 25 five-wicket hauls and 5 ten-wicket match hauls. His tally of wickets is the highest among all types of left-arm bowlers in the illustrious history of the traditional format. 2898 runs at an average of 22.64 with a career-best score of 257 stand as testament to his ability to chip in with the bat too.

While his exploits in Test cricket were quite exemplary, Akram's prowess with the white-ball was the stuff of dreams. With 502 wickets from 356 ODIs at a brilliant average of 23.52 and spectacular economy-rate of 3.89, he is the second-most prolific wicket-taker in the 50-over format. The southpaw also scored 3717 runs at a rapid strike-rate of 88.33 with six fifties.