Top 5 ODI batsmen with most runs while batting at No.5 & below

#2 Arjuna Ranatunga (Srilanka)

ARJUNA RANATUNGA / SRI LANKA

Arjuna Ranatunga, against all the odds, captained Sri Lanka to their first-ever World Cup triumph in 1996. Besides his influential leadership skills, Ranatunga gloated to be one of the best lower middle-order batsmen in those times.

His off-side exploits were as good as any another batting great. Although Ranatunga failed to grab those quickies between the stumps, his dazzling strokeplay and imperative placement skills made up for his slowness between the wickets. Arjuna had a great sense of timing which helped him rake up plenty of runs in the middle order with a minimum of risk taken.

Having donned 226 ODI caps while batting at No.5 and below, Ranatunga amassed 6041 runs at a decent average of 35.12 and a strike-rate of 76.88 which also included two centuries and 40 half-centuries with the best score being 102*. Thus, with this many runs, he collects the second position on the list.