Test Batting Strike Rates

[Coronis]

Since there's been a lot of SR discussion across threads, I thought I'd post a list of great batsmen and their Strike Rates just for comparison - and have included some other notable players too. Feel free to read into it what you will.

80+
Gilbert Jessop - 112
Harry Brook - 91.76
Shahid Afridi - 86.97
Ben Duckett - 84.73
Virender Sehwag - 82.23
Adam Gilchrist - 81.95
Kapil Dev - 80.5

70-79
Maurice Tate - 75.4
Rishabh Pant - 73.63
David Warner - 70.37

60-69
Viv Richards 69.0
Victor Trumper - 67.1
Sanath Jayasuriya - 65.2
Shakib al Hasan - 61.95
Kevin Pietersen - 61.72
Stan McCabe - 61.5
Don Bradman - 61.0
Frank Woolley - 60.7
Ian Botham - 60.7
Brian Lara - 60.51
Matthew Hayden - 60.10

55-59
Graeme Smith - 59.67
Clive Lloyd - 59.5
Ben Stokes 59.18
Barry Richards - 59
Ricky Ponting - 58.72
Everton Weekes - 58.5
Clem Hill - 58.5
KS Duleepsinhji - 58
Charles Macartney - 57.7
Joe Root - 56.75
Richard Hadlee - 56.2
Michael Clarke - 55.92
Graeme Pollock - 55.8
Virat Kohli - 55.23

50-54
AB de Villiers - 54.51
Kumar Sangakkara - 54.19
Sachin Tendulkar - 54.04
Inzamam-ul-Haq - 54.02
Steve Smith - 53.89
Marnus Labuschagne - 53.02
KS Ranjitsinhji - 53
Clyde Walcott - 53
Mohammad Yousuf - 52.39
Younis Khan - 52.12
Garry Sobers - 52
Kane Williamson - 51.46
Mahela Jayawardene - 51.45
Jack Hobbs - 51
Greg Chappell - 51
Mike Hussey - 50.13
Aubrey Faulkner - 50
Neil Harvey - 50
Gordon Greenidge - 50

45-49
Hashim Amla - 49.97
VVS Laxman - 49.37
Usman Khawaja - 48.99
Steve Waugh - 48.64
Imran Khan - 48
Javed Miandad - 47
Alastair Cook - 46.95
Bill Ponsford - 46
Jacques Kallis - 45.97
Wally Hammond - 45.2
Andy Flower - 45.07
Sunil Gavaskar - 45

40-44
Martin Crowe - 44.65
George Headley - 44.0
Bob Simpson - 44
Shivnarine Chanderpaul - 43.31
WG Grace - 43
Herbie Taylor - 43
Keith Miller - 43
Dudley Nourse - 42.7
Rahul Dravid - 42.51
Frank Worrell - 42
Arthur Morris - 42
Denis Compton - 41.2
Ken Barrington - 41.1
Sid Barnes - 41.0
Allan Border - 41.0
Vijay Merchant - 40.5
Peter May - 40

30-39
Vijay Hazare - 39.5
Bill Lawry - 38.8
Len Hutton - 38.3
Herbert Sutcliffe - 37.3
Geoff Boycott - 35.4
Bill Woodfull - 34.5
Hanif Mohammad - 33.5
Bruce Mitchell - 30.9

Notably the slowest players were generally openers, which makes sense with the new ball generally being harder to score off.

 

[a massive zebra]

Also

Alick Bannerman 22.4
Trevor Bailey 26.5

 

[Qlder]

I think these are worthy:

Quinton de Kock - 70.93
Andrew Symonds - 64.80
Travis Head - 64.12
Lance Klausner - 59.80
Brad Haddin - 58.45
Dean Jones - 48.88

 

[Prince EWS]

Also

Alick Bannerman 22.4
Trevor Bailey 26.5

@kyear2 will be unsurprised to learn that I am actually a direct descendant of Alec Bannerman

 

[Fuller Pilch]

3 of my favourite players are

Mark Richardson s/r 37.66
BJ Watling s/r 42.61
Che Pujara s/r 44.36

 

[Fuller Pilch]

A few high ones you missed

Southee
CDG
Clem Hill
Constantine
Perera
Sarfaraz

 

[TheJediBrah]

Viv Richards 69.0

Of course it is

 

[Line and Length]

Colin Milburn would have had a pretty high strike rate in his brief Test career.

 

[Coronis]

Colin Milburn would have had a pretty high strike rate in his brief Test career.

59, high but not excessively so.

 

[Zinzan]

McCullum 64.6

 

[Zinzan]

Chris Tavare lives up to his reputation of being the real 'corpse in pads' (eat your heart out Bill Lawry) with a Test SR 30.60 & even managed a sub 50 SR in ODIs, which takes some doing.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Chris Tavare lives up to his reputation of being the real 'corpse in pads' (eat your heart out Bill Lawry) with a Test SR 30.60 & even managed a sub 50 SR in ODIs, which takes some doing.

Trevor Franklin S/R 26.44

 

[Zinzan]

Trevor Franklin S/R 26.44

Almost forgot about big Trev B. Jeez he's even got Tavare covered. Ironically I saw him hit 2 of the biggest 6s I've ever seen as a 5 year old in a List A game.

 

[Zinzan]

Trev would've topped this all-time list if he scored another 170 odd runs at that same rate.

 

[Zinzan]

In fact he's no. 2 with min. 500 runs.

Surprised to see both P Kirsten, who could be a fluent stroke maker & Roger Twose in the top 10

 

[TheJediBrah]

Grant Flower is a surprise. Don't remember him being that slow. Not that I really remember him playing Tests tbh since Aus never play Zimbabwe and their Tests weren't really televised. Seemed to score ok in ODIs though

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Grant Flower is a surprise. Don't remember him being that slow. Not that I really remember him playing Tests tbh since Aus never play Zimbabwe and their Tests weren't really televised. Seemed to score ok in ODIs though

Zimbabwean pitches were terrible lifeless roads with no pace or carry - hard to score quickly or take wickets.

 

[Starfighter]

I'm going for William Scotton's of about 21.

 

[Qlder]

A few high ones you missed

Southee
CDG
Clem Hill
Constantine
Perera
Sarfaraz

Clem Hill is there at 58.5 and OP says list of "great batsmen" so that rules out Southee and Perera. Don't know who Constantine is but when did Safaraz play tests? Just leaves CDG, who should be mentioned

 

[Nintendo]

Trev would've topped this all-time list if he scored another 170 odd runs at that same rate.

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Good to see big man Dom Sibley here.