Full list of number one test batters

[kevinw]

Published by Wisden - https://www.wisden.com/cricket-news/every-batter-to-be-no1-in-the-icc-test-rankings - presumably this shows the date they first became number one and they may have returned to the top after being dethroned.

Any surprising names? Jimmy Adams in the mid-90s but iirc he started his test career incredibly well before dropping off.

 

[Molehill]

Interesting that in 2015, 3 big names all got on there, and there's only been 3 to have got on in the 10 years since.

Gilchrist is kind of a surprise, I'm guessing he's the only number 7 on there. Hard to score the weight of runs required from that far down the order.

 

[CricAddict]

The batter who held onto that spot for the longest time was Don Bradman, who was No.1 for 6,996 days, first reaching there in March 1931.

What a coincidence!

 

[ankitj]

Colin Mcdonald? I don't think I have ever heard that name.

 

[Thala_0710]

So in the last 50 years, all no 1 ranked batsman have been good/great batsmen except 1 mid guy

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The batter who held onto that spot for the longest time was Don Bradman, who was No.1 for 6,996 days, first reaching there in March 1931.

What a coincidence!

@ashley bach

 

[Immenso]

I remembered Jimmy Adam's being umber 1 at the time, so not a surprise to me, even though retrospectively it seems strange from a whole of career perspective.

The one that does surprise me is Gambhir. Don't remember that happening, and only ever saw him as a pretty good player.

 

[Immenso]

Stackpole also a surprise.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

So in the last 50 years, all no 1 ranked batsman have been good/great batsmen except 1 mid guy

Who?
Jimmy Adams, Michael Vaughan, or Gautam Gambhir?

Admittedly all three punched above their weight at times. Am still a bit annoyed GG won a series for India in NZ.
Adams was amazing early on and of course Vaughan had that great Ashes in Oz.

 

[Thala_0710]

Who?
Jimmy Adams, Michael Vaughan, or Gautam Gambhir?

Admittedly all three punched above their weight at times. Am still a bit annoyed GG won a series for India in NZ.
Adams was amazing early on and of course Vaughan had that great Ashes in Oz.

Gambhir definitely

 

[Thala_0710]

I remembered Jimmy Adam's being umber 1 at the time, so not a surprise to me, even though retrospectively it seems strange from a whole of career perspective.

The one that does surprise me is Gambhir. Don't remember that happening, and only ever saw him as a pretty good player.

It happened soon after his famous Napier inns

 

[Betterpolo]

Disappointed Bannerman doesn't dominate that list in a more statistically significant manner

 

[Burgey]

There have been as many as 24 Australia batters who have been crowned No.1 in Test cricket, overall, closely followed by 17 from England.

Interesting definition of “close”.

 

[ataraxia]

The batter who held onto that spot for the longest time was Don Bradman, who was No.1 for 6,996 days, first reaching there in March 1931.

What a coincidence!

Which is strange, for it was 6,502 days. It's a shame how such an eminent domain name wisden.com is so clickbaity and unreliable.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Who?
Jimmy Adams, Michael Vaughan, or Gautam Gambhir?

Admittedly all three punched above their weight at times. Am still a bit annoyed GG won a series for India in NZ.
Adams was amazing early on and of course Vaughan had that great Ashes in Oz.

Surely Glenn Turner

 

[Blenkinsop]

What do the dates signify, and why are they out of order?

 

[ankitj]

I remembered Jimmy Adam's being umber 1 at the time, so not a surprise to me, even though retrospectively it seems strange from a whole of career perspective.

The one that does surprise me is Gambhir. Don't remember that happening, and only ever saw him as a pretty good player.

Gambhir was bossing all 3 formats for a brief period. He was very good. But it lasted barely 2 years.

 

[Coronis]

Gambhir was bossing all 3 formats for a brief period. He was very good. But it lasted barely 2 years.

And now his legacy is a single phrase.

 

[nightprowler10]

Yusuf getting there in 2009 seems off to me.

 

[Darwin Award]

How dirty would Michael Vaughan feel to have Ricky Ponting snatch the Year End Number 1 test batter title away from him right at the very end of the year practically... December 30th.