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CW's Ranking of Batsmen (Tests)

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PlayerComparisons

International Vice-Captain
Fuller Pilch said:
I think the 2nd best batsman of the Steve Smith era should make the top 30. Kane will be late 20s.
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Nah. He has an away average against the top 8 test nations of only 40.07 over a solid sample size of 40 matches. That's not good enough for top 30. He still has a lot of test cricket left in him though so that could potentially change by the end of his career.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
The Sean said:
Barrington has always fascinated me - he was clearly very much admired and respected as a player in his time, but from everything I've ever read his reputation was well below his statistical record.

It seems he was rated very highly as an anchor, an accumulator, a base around which to build. But the real plaudits were always reserved for the dazzling strokeplayers and/or technically classic batsmen, of which Barrington seems to have been neither.
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Further to this - I mean, the bloke made nearly 7,000 Test runs at an average nearing 59, and was extraordinarily productive away from home. Even if known as something of a stonewalling, on the face of it his record suggests he should be considered among the very best ever. And yet he never was.

He's almost the anti-Trumper in that respect. Victor Trumper's Test record was very good for his time but no more than that, and certainly gives no justification for being put on a plane above and beyond the best of his contemporaries. Yet it seems he was near-univerally held in awe by everyone who played with and against him, virtually all of whom considered the unchallenged batting wonder of the age, despite the numbers not necessarily backing that up.
 
HookShot

HookShot

U19 Vice-Captain
Sutcliffe had a better Test average than Hobbs, but it is universally agreed that Hobbs was the better/greater batsman.

I think that it’s a case of coverdrive to the boundary beats dead-bat-block.
 
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ma1978

International Debutant
Border for me

Barrington was a fine player (and by all accounts a fine man who passed away too young) but he played in arguably the most boring era of test cricket where the draw was the overwhelmingly likely outcome and contributed heavily to that.
 
Line and Length

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Apparently Barrington was a 'dasher' early in his first class career but was persuaded by Alec Bedser and others at Surrey to develop a more defensive style. He wore down many an attack with his dogged approach while batting with more flamboyant strokemakers. He not only 'saved' tests with his determined batting, he set up wins by forming the foundation of a big team score. His stats speak for themselves
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
I don’t know if it’s been beaten in the last few years, but for a very long time Barrington held the record for reaching most Test hundreds with a six.
 
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