Cricket resembles the uncertainty and adjustment in a very odd way. It not always what has been planned on the field as per the game situations, but players do mold themselves on the basis of what the team needs. Recently India's prime fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah said how he even did spin bowling and wicketkeeping for his school team because the team required him. However, it is not the case for a school team or otherwise. Cricketers picked up roles because the team needed them to do so. Cricketers sacrificed a part of their role to focus on the other. Injuries caused some to sacrifice the other; one of the key examples of this is the former Indian captain Rohit Sharma, who used to be a legspinner. Thus, here is five cricketers, who grew up in a different way, giving up some key skills to be specialists in some. 1 | Nasser Hussain (England): Began his career as a youth and domestic cricketer as a promising leg-spinner who could bat. A loss of confidence and form in his bowling led him to focus on batting, becoming a prolific top-order specialist batsman and later England's Test captain. He bowled a total of 5 overs in his 96-Test career, taking no wickets. 2 | Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka): Initially selected for the Sri Lankan team as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler who batted at number 6 or 7. He dramatically transitioned to a devastating opening batsman during the 1996 World Cup, a move that revolutionized his career and saw him score all of his 28 ODI centuries as an opener. 3 | Shikhar Dhawan (India): Shikhar Dhawan's wicketkeeping is a not-much-said skill which he gradually shed off with time. Started his cricketing journey as a wicket-keeper during his early training at the Sonnet Club. He then dropped the gloves to concentrate purely on his batting, establishing himself as a prominent specialist left-handed opening batsman for India in all formats. He does not bowl in international cricket. 4 | Ravichandran Ashwin (India): In his domestic career for Chennai, Ashwin started as an opening batsman. It is not unbelievable given the techniques he shows coming down the order. However, he later shifted his focus to off-spin bowling and became one of the world's leading specialist bowlers, particularly in Test cricket. Despite that, he maintains good lower-order batting skills and has scored six Test centuries. 5 | Rahul Dravid (India): He was the wall in front of the stumps before he was given the role behind the stumps. At a time when Australia had Adam Gilchrist, Indian captain Sourav Ganguly desperately wanted someone who could bat and keep. Dravid, already the backbone of the middle order and one of the safest slip fielders, was the obvious choice. Thus, Ganguly pointed to his most trusted man, who eventually was one of his closest friends. In several interviews, Dravid admitted how nervous he was about taking on the new role. But he was a team man and accepted the challenge if it helped the side in any way. In the mid-2000s, he became India’s primary wicketkeeper in ODIs to provide better team balance. He performed the role admirably before returning to his specialist batting role later in his ODI career.