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Javed Miandad
Born
Miandad's six off the last ball from Chetan Sharma to beat India in the 1986 Austral-Asia Cup final at Sharjah, with four needed, is the founding legend of one-day finishing. It was not a fluke: he was a master of manipulating the field and running between the wickets, and he regularly saw chases home for Pakistan through the 1980s. He made the street-smart finisher a role.
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Michael Bevan
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Bevan was the first specialist one-day finisher, with an average above 50 and a huge proportion of not-out innings for Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s. He rarely hit sixes; instead he worked singles and twos into gaps and calculated the chase ball by ball. His last-ball four to beat the West Indies at Sydney in 1996 is the innings that defined his method.
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Lance Klusener
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Klusener's 1999 World Cup was a run of brutal finishes, striking at over 120 and averaging well above 100 as South Africa's lower-order hitter, and he was player of the tournament. The semi-final at Edgbaston, where he brought South Africa to within a run before the famous run-out tie, is the pressure innings Birmingham will never forget. His power changed what a No. 7 could be.
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MS Dhoni
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Dhoni's method was to take a chase deeper than seemed safe, keeping wickets in hand and backing his own power at the death. His six to win the 2011 World Cup final at Mumbai is the image, but the record is the real case: over 10,000 one-day runs with an average above 50 from the middle order, and many unbeaten finishes. Bowlers learned that a close finish against Dhoni favoured him.
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Michael Hussey
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Mr Cricket averaged around 50 in one-day internationals, largely from the lower middle order, and was Australia's chase-closer in the late 2000s. His 60 not out off 24 balls in the 2010 World T20 semi-final against Pakistan, finishing it with a flurry of sixes off Saeed Ajmal in the last over, is the signature innings. He was calm, quick between the wickets and brutal against the last bowler left.
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Kieron Pollard
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Pollard built a whole career as a T20 death-overs hitter, playing more T20 matches than almost anyone and winning multiple IPL titles with Mumbai Indians, often from the final overs. He also hit six sixes in an over in a T20 international in 2021. He is the template of the franchise-era finisher: huge power, a clear role and repeated delivery over hundreds of games.
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Jos Buttler
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Before he became an opener, Buttler was England's one-day finisher, with a range of scoops and ramps that let him score off yorkers. He ran out Martin Guptill to complete the 2019 World Cup final super over win and later led England to the 2022 T20 World Cup. His finishing years from 2014 to 2019 show the 360-degree hitting that changed England's white-ball approach.
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AB de Villiers
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De Villiers could finish from almost anywhere, with an average above 50 and a strike rate above 100 in one-day cricket and a range of shots that made field settings irrelevant. His 31-ball hundred against the West Indies in 2015 is the record, but the case rests on how often he turned South Africa's late-overs pressure into surplus runs, and on his years carrying Royal Challengers Bengaluru's middle order.
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Ben Stokes
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Stokes's 84 not out in the 2019 World Cup final at Lord's, batting with the tail and then in the super over, is the defining pressure innings in English white-ball history. Three years later he made an unbeaten 52 to win the 2022 T20 World Cup final in Melbourne. He did not always finish, but in the biggest finals he repeatedly controlled the chase.
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Glenn Maxwell
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Maxwell's 201 not out against Afghanistan at the 2023 World Cup, from 91 for 7 chasing 292 and batting with cramp on one leg, is perhaps the greatest one-day chase innings. His reverse sweeps and switch hits make him hard to set fields to, though his consistency has varied. Australia have trusted him for years as the late-overs batter who can change a match in ten balls.
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Deandra Dottin
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Dottin brought power hitting to women's cricket before it was common, scoring the first T20 international hundred by a woman, off 38 balls in 2010, and clearing the rope regularly from the middle order for the West Indies. She was part of the 2016 World Twenty20 winning side. Her career showed what a specialist late-overs hitter could do in the women's game.
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Jemimah Rodrigues
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Rodrigues made 127 not out in the 2025 Women's World Cup semi-final against Australia, guiding India to a record chase of 339 and a five-wicket win that ended Australia's long unbeaten World Cup run. She batted through the pressure rather than slogging, rotating strike with Harmanpreet Kaur in a 167-run stand. India went on to win the title, which makes it one of the decisive finishes in the sport.
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David Miller (South African cricketer)
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Killer Miller has been South Africa's left-handed finisher across a decade and more, with one of the best death-overs strike rates in T20 cricket and a habit of rescuing innings from collapse, as with his 101 in the 2023 World Cup semi-final from 24 for 4. He has also won the IPL with Gujarat Titans. His calm against high run rates is built on picking the right ball to hit.
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Hardik Pandya
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Pandya combines late-overs hitting with seam bowling at the death, so he finishes games with both bat and ball. He bowled the final over of the 2024 T20 World Cup final, defending 16 against South Africa as India won, and has long been India's lower-order power option. His case rests on doing both pressure jobs regularly over many seasons, including IPL titles with Mumbai and Gujarat.
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