Rangana Herath picks top 5 spinners modern cricket: Sri Lankan legend Rangana Herath, the only left-handed spin bowler to take more than 400 wickets in Test cricket, has selected the top 5 spinners of modern cricket.

Herath has chosen some experienced and new spin bowlers as his choice. This former player led the spin attack for Sri Lanka for many years and achieved a lot of success.

Rangana Herath, who started his career in 1999, got very few opportunities in the initial years. After this, he made a comeback but still Muttiah Muralitharan played as the main spinner.

However, after Murali's retirement, Herath took over the reins and did not let Sri Lanka feel his absence. This bowler took 433 Test wickets in a Test career of 93 matches. During this, he took 5 wickets in an innings 34 times and 10 wickets in a match 9 times.

Rangana Herath picks his top 5 current spin bowlers

In a recent interview with Cricblog, Rangana Herath mentioned several spin bowlers who have caught his attention. He praised finger spinners like Ravichandran Ashwin and Nathan Lyon.

He also praised the bowling of South Africa's Keshav Maharaj and Kuldeep Yadav. Apart from this, Herath chose Prabhat Jayasuriya as Sri Lanka's standout spinner.

“If you talk about finger spinners, Ravichandran Ashwin and Nathan Lyon have to be replaced. I also like Keshav Maharaj from South Africa. I am also very excited to see Kuldeep Yadav bowling. For Sri Lanka, of course, Prabhat Jayasuriya, so these are some names that come to my mind,” Herath said.

Sri Lanka defeated India on the strength of spinners

Let us tell you that recently Sri Lanka succeeded in winning the ODI series against India after 27 years.

Spin bowlers played an important role in their victory, who took 27 wickets. This is also the record of most wickets taken by spin bowlers in a three-match series.