TOP 20 RANKED BATSMEN OF ALL TIME FROM STUDY BY: PROF. R. BOYS NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, UK DR P. PHILIPSON, NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, UK

1. Don Bradman Australia 2. Steve Smith Australia 3. Gary Sobers West Indies 4. George Headley West Indies 5. Clyde Walcott West Indies 6. Steve Waugh Australia 7. Herbert Sutcliffe England 8. Martin Crowe New Zealand 9. Jack Hobbs England 10. Jacques Kallis South Africa 11. Sachin Tendulkar India 12. Everton Weekes West Indies 13. Ricky Ponting Australia 14. Wally Hammond Englands 15. Graeme Pollock South Africa 16. Ken Barrington England 17. Len Hutton England 18. Brian Lara West Indies 19. Allan Border Australia

20. Kane Williamson New Zealand

AUSTRALIA BANGLADESH ENGLAND INDIA 1 Don Bradman 1 Mominul Haque 1 Herbert Sutcliffe 1 Sachin Tendulkar 2 Steve Smith 2 Shakib Al Hasan 2 Jack Hobbs 2 Rahul Dravid 3 Steve Waugh 3 Mushfiqur Rahim 3 Wally Hammond 3 Sunil Gavaskar 4 Ricky Ponting 4 Tamim Iqbal 4 Ken Barrington 4 Dilip Vengsarkar 5 Allan Border 5 Imrul Kayes 5 Len Hutton 5 Vijay Hazare 6 Greg Chappell 6 Nasir Hossain 6 Joe Root 6 Cheteshwar Pujara 7 Adam Voges 7 Habibul Bashar 7 Eddie Paynter 7 Virat Kohli 8 Matthew Hayden 8 Sabbir Rahman 8 Geoffrey Boycott 8 Virender Sehwag 9 Adam Gilchrist 9 Junaid Siddiqie 9 Denis Compton 9 VVS Laxman 10 Neil Harvey 10 Mahmudullah 10 Peter May 10 Mohammad Azharuddin NEW ZEALAND PAKISTAN SOUTH AFRICA SRI LANKA 1 Martin Crowe 1 Younis Khan 1 Jacques Kallis 1 Kumar Sangakkara 2 Kane Williamson 2 Mohammad Yousuf 2 Graeme Pollock 2 Mahela Jayawardene 3 Stewie Dempster 3 Javed Miandad 3 Hashim Amla 3 Aravinda de Silva 4 Ross Taylor 4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 4 Dudley Nourse 4 Hashan Tillakaratne 5 Andrew Jones 5 Misbah-ul-Haq 5 AB de Villiers 5 Angelo Matthews 6 Mark Richardson 6 Taslim Arif 6 Herschelle Gibbs 6 Thilan Samaraweera 7 John Reid 7 Saeed Anwar 7 Bruce Mitchell 7 Marvan Attapattu 8 Martin Donnelly 8 Hanif Mohammad 8 Barry Richards 8 Sanath Jayasuriya 9 Stephen Fleming 9 Azhar Ali 9 Colin Bland 9 Asnaka Gurusinha 10 Jeremy Coney 10 Shoaib Mohammad 10 Gary Kirsten 10 Dinesh Chandimal

WEST INDIES ZIMBABWE 1 Gary Sobers 1 Andy Flower 2 George Headley 2 Murray Goodwin 3 Clyde Walcott 3 Dave Houghton NB: Ireland and Afhganistan are not included in this data set as the analysis 4 Everton Weekes 4 Sikandar Raza referred to test matches played before 2017. 5 Brian Lara 5 Craig Ervine 6 Frank Worrell 6 Brendan Taylor 7 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 7 Grant Flower 8 Viv Richards 8 Guy Whittall 9 Rohan Kanhai 9 Tatenda Taibu 10 Seymour Nurse 10 Paul Strang