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DoG's Top 100 Test Batsmen - The Top 25
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Spikey
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Please be true
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
You'll be able to buy the book next month
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
What was the argument - did he predict this? Last I saw he was predicting Hammond to be next up (at number 11).
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Migara
International Coach
No I didn't predict it. Basically it's a shock for me. But I expected Sangers to be next to Sachin, higher than Kallis, and to overtake him when he finishes his career. To prove the point I did bring some disconcerting stats, to the unhappiness of many SRT fans.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
SRT at 10 has done a good deal for my faith in this list in a lot of ways - he's a hugely gifted batsman, who I have thoroughly enjoyed watching but I don't remember him for any remarkable knocks that turn matches on their head which, imo at least, is the most important measure of greatness (have we had Stan McCabe yet?)
Migara
International Coach
Still Sanga and Kallis left with Lara.
kyear2
International Coach
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Fair enough. Sanga is a superb player and a huge personal favourite of mine, though I'll admit to being surprised that he's quite this high in the rankings.
Sadly yes - McCabe came in at number 68, a relatively short career length counting against him. Though I reckon his Sydney, Jo'burg and Trent Bridge innings alone are worth more than most players' entire careers.
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indiaholic
International Captain
Aaahahahahahahaha.. Sanga > Tendulkar.
Days of Grace
International Captain
Here is an updated top 10:
1 B.C. Lara 153* Australia Bridgetown 1999 25.47
2 I.T. Botham 149* Australia Leeds 1981 25.21
3 G.A. Gooch 154* West Indies Leeds 1991 25.01
4 C. Bannerman 165* England Melbourne 1877 22.54
5 V.V.S. Laxman 281 Australia Kolkata 2001 22.18
6 D.G. Bradman 270 England Melbourne 1937 22.16
7 G.L. Jessop 104 Australia The Oval 1902 22.09
8 Azhar Mahmood 132 South Africa Durban 1998 22.07
9 V. Sehwag 201* Sri Lanka Galle 2008 21.52
10 D.L. Amiss 262* West Indies Kingston 1974 21.46
On that Chennai match, Afridi's innings was rated as 13.01.
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Prince EWS
Global Moderator
It's so awesome that after 135+ years of Test cricket and 83,567 individual batting innings, the very first innings in the history of the game is still rated statistically in the top four.
Spark
Global Moderator
I shouldn't be surprised that you know this number but somehow I still am
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I didn't know that number, although I suppose with an educated guess I'd have got within 10k of it, but it really does put that innings in context - phenomenal performance, although I don't think its in the top 25 in Patrick Ferriday's new book