Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) is one of the recently proposed swarm intelligence algorithms developed inspiring of the social behaviour of crow flocks. One of the drawbacks of the original CSA is that it tends to randomly select a neighbour on search strategy due to its low convergence rate, which pushes the search to stick in local optima due to the same search strategy applied across iterations. The multi-strategy search for CSA (CSA-MSS) has been proposed to enrich the search facilities and provide diversity to overcome these drawbacks. The multi-strategy search implies utilising a pool of strategies consists of six different types of search operators. The multi-strategy approach with a selection mechanism has not been proposed for CSA before and implemented first time. The comparative performance analysis for the proposed algorithm has been conducted over solving 24 benchmark problems. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is outperforming well-known state-of-the-art methods.