Top 5 ODI finishers from New Zealand

#4 Scott Styris

Scott Styris had a profound understanding of the evolving 50-over game

Carrying on the mantle from the 1990s stars, Scott Styris upheld New Zealand's tradition of producing medium pace all-rounders in a reasonably stellar 12-year ODI career spanning from the 1999/2000 season to the 2011 World Cup. Aside from being a free-flowing batsman capable of lending sparkling finishing touches to the innings, he could also stem top-order implosions by operating in a sensible manner.

From 64 innings at either number five or six, Styris scored 1810 of his total career tally of 4483 runs. He averaged 30.16 and batted at a strike-rate of 76.53 with one century and 13 fifties in the lower middle-order. His finest ODI knock came against Australia in 2005. The right-hander's 96-ball ton helped New Zealand successfully chase down a mammoth total of 332 at Christchurch.