5 cricketers who bowled with both hands

The Pakistani great was a multi-talented cricketer

#3 Hashan Tillakaratne

Hashan Tillakaratne displayed his rare skill in an ODI

Hashan Tillakaratne had a very decent career as a left-handed batsman for Sri Lanka and represented his country in 83 Tests and 200 ODIs. Tillakaratne could also bowl some decent right-arm off-spin, but bowled on rare occasions, that too primarily in ODI cricket.

But the fact that he is ambidextrous as a bowler was revealed in a match in the 1996 World Cup. It was the Sri Lanka-Kenya encounter where the Lankans registered a then ODI highest score of 398. In the last over of the Kenya innings, Hashan Tillakaratne bowled both right-arm and left-arm since the result was a foregone conclusion.

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