Top 10 Batsmen with Debut after 2000

[Thala_0710]

Good list, but Mark Richardson was better than at least 20 of them.

Completely forgot about him, he definitely makes the top 50, although a bit on the lower end

 

[capt_Luffy]

Richardson is ahead of Latham and Conway, so will make the cut.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Richardson is ahead of Latham and Conway, so will make the cut.

He is also ahead of McCullum as is Ryder.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Think Williamson and Root have at least 5 years left. The future is still unwritten

If Root has 5 more left he’s breaking Sachin’s runs record

 

[Johan]

Smith
Root
Sangakkara
De Villiers
Williamson
Kohli
Younis
Amla
Cook
Graeme

 

[Thala_0710]

Smith
Root
Sangakkara
De Villiers
Williamson
Kohli
Younis
Amla
Cook
Graeme

Smith
Root
Sangakkara
Abd
Younis
Kohli
Williamson
Amla
G Smith
Pietersen

 

[capt_Luffy]

Smith
Root
Sangakkara
Abd
Younis
Kohli
Williamson
Amla
G Smith
Cook

You just swapped Younis and Kane and Cook and graeme

 

[Thala_0710]

You just swapped Younis and Kane and Cook and graeme

Yeah

 

[Johan]

@Thala_0710 there is some serious Root cope on page 1 and 2, you a real one for standing on buisness about his rating.

 

[Thala_0710]

@Thala_0710 there is some serious Root cope on page 1 and 2, you a real one for standing on buisness about his rating.

Yeah both from a statistical and technical pov, I find Root to be a complete batsman, with the only hole in his resume being the AUS one. But imo we need to put a lot more respect on his peak in the pace playing pandemic post COVID where not many others have been making runs, which is what seperates him from the likes of Kohli, Abd etc.
He is arguable with the likes of Dravid, Sanga, Punter etc depending on personal preference for now. But if he has a good series in Aus and 1-2 more quality years, I'll put him ahead of those guys.

 

[Johan]

Yeah both from a statistical and technical pov, I find Root to be a complete batsman, with the only hole in his resume being the AUS one. But imo we need to put a lot more respect on his peak in the pace playing pandemic post COVID where not many others have been making runs, which is what seperates him from the likes of Kohli, Abd etc.
He is arguable with the likes of Dravid, Sanga, Punter etc depending on personal preference for now. But if he has a good series in Aus and 1-2 more quality years, I'll put him ahead of those guys.

Yeah, Agreed

 

[capt_Luffy]

I really can't think of any reason to put Root in a separate tier to ABD, Younis, Williamson and especially Kohli.

@Johan in my defense, it was the popular take back then and his India tour didn't helped much

 

[Johan]

@Johan in my defense, it was the popular take back then and his India tour didn't helped much

Fair

 

[Gob]

How is r00t better than Sanga?

 

[Gob]

Smith
Sangakkara
Root
Younis (thought he was from the 90s tbh)
Clarke
Williamson
Kohli
Amla
Pietersen
Smith

 

[Gob]

It's sometimes hard to remember how htb like Clarke's record was because he played some outrageously good knocks away from home in tough conditions. Had some very lean stretches that bring the numbers down though.

Didn't check of late but I'm sure Clarke averages over 40 in most countries which is normally the pass mark but all just over 40. From memory, the only non minnow countries that he averages less than 40 is WI and England (where he averages very close to 40) and we know he can score runs in England. His last series there with a severely bad back ****ed his average tony

 

[Thala_0710]

You just swapped Younis and Kane and Cook and graeme

Forgot about Pietersen, will take him over Cook too.

 

[Thala_0710]

Didn't check of late but I'm sure Clarke averages over 40 in most countries which is normally the pass mark but all just over 40. From memory, the only non minnow countries that he averages less than 40 is WI and England (where he averages very close to 40) and we know he can score runs in England. His last series there with a severely bad back ****ed his average tony

Clarke was close for me, would have him at no 12 (no 11 being Cook). He has an argument with Amla, Smith, Pietersen and Cook imo, similar tier of batsman as them.
Don't understand Clarke over Kohli though.

 

[Johan]

How is r00t better than Sanga?

if you remove minnows they average 51-53 and Root actually has more runs, from there I guess I'd take Root because tougher era and weaker batting as a whole until very recently.

 

[NZTailender]

So I read this thread this morning and was actually thinking about it off an on and finding a statistical way to get a sense of a top ten test batsman list. Came up with the following:

• 2000+ runs overseas
• 2000+ runs at home
• Has to feature in both list (i.e. 2000+ at home, <2000 away not included)
• Position on the home run scoring chart would be worth a multiple of 5 i.e. last place is 1 x 5, first place is 39 x 5 points
• Away runs would be worth double, so 10 points per position
• Overall position determined by sum of both points

In the end 39 players made the cut. Simon Katich was the only player I noticed who scored 2000+ away runs but <2000 home runs.
Filtering was a bit of a pain because I had to manually extract Pakistan's stats because of the neutral games being home games thing.
Doing everything manually means I probably ****ed it up tbh

Anyway here's the list. Home stats are first, away second.

Player

Span

Mat

Inns

NO

Runs

Ave ​

Score

Mat

Inns

NO

Runs

Ave ​

Score

Total

SPD Smith (AUS)

2010-2025

58​

100​

16​

5015​

59.7​

175​

58​

106​

9​

5256​

54.18​

370​

545​

KC Sangakkara (SL)

2000-2015

75​

124​

11​

6830​

60.44​

180​

59​

109​

6​

5570​

54.07​

360​

540​

Younis Khan

2000-2016

47​

86​

7​

4491​

56.84​ ​

165​

71​

127​

12​

5608​

48.76​

350​

515​

KS Williamson (NZ)

2011-2024

52​

87​

10​

5142​

66.77​

195​

53​

99​

7​

4134​

44.93​

310​

505​

JE Root (ENG)

2013-2024

78​

137​

14​

6758​

54.94​

155​

74​

141​

9​

6214​

47.07​

340​

495​

AB de Villiers (SA)

2004-2018

66​

109​

8​

4788​

47.4​

80​

48​

82​

10​

3977​

55.23​ ​

390​

470​

V Sehwag (IND)

2001-2013

52​

89​

3​

4656​

54.13​

150​

52​

91​

3​

3930​

44.65​

300​

450​

GC Smith (SA)

2002-2014

61​

103​

7​

3986​

41.52​

40​

56​

102​

6​

5279​

54.98​

380​

420​

TT Samaraweera (SL)

2001-2012

45​

70​

12​

3123​

53.84​

140​

36​

62​

8​

2339​

43.31​

280​

420​

MEK Hussey (AUS)

2005-2013

45​

76​

14​

3794​

61.19​

185​

34​

61​

2​

2441​

41.37​

230​

415​