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With a bit of spare time recently I have come up with my own Test batsman ranking system.
The criteria I have set is a minimum of 5000 runs. I have made a list of retired players and a separate list for the current players.
For the record, I consider anyone who has had a longish career who scores above 0.000 to be a very good Test batsman.
Enjoy/rubbish the list.
Current Players
The criteria I have set is a minimum of 5000 runs. I have made a list of retired players and a separate list for the current players.
For the record, I consider anyone who has had a longish career who scores above 0.000 to be a very good Test batsman.
Enjoy/rubbish the list.
Code:
Don Bradman 5.813
Wally Hammond 2.860
Jack Hobbs 2.824
Ken Barrington 2.105
Len Hutton 1.814
Javed Miandad 1.802
Greg Chappell 1.648
Garry Sobers 1.574
Sunil Gavaskar 1.550
Rohan Kanhai 1.500
Matthew Hayden 1.445
Neil Harvey 1.420
Viv Richards 1.398
Brian Lara 1.390
Clive Lloyd 1.311
Dennis Compton 1.152
Mohammad Azharuddin 1.098
Doug Walters 1.082
Bill Lawry 1.011
Allan Border 0.952
Justin Langer 0.883
Richie Richardson 0.857
Inzamam ul Haq 0.838
David Gower 0.769
Geoff Boycott 0.743
Mark Taylor 0.638
Steve Waugh 0.613
Gordon Greenidge 0.535
Colin Cowdrey 0.473
Marcus Trescothick 0.463
Martin Crowe 0.455
Aravinda de Silva 0.450
Gary Kirsten 0.448
John Edrich 0.400
Michael Slater 0.345
Michael Vaughan 0.306
Andrew Strauss 0.277
Desmond Haynes 0.254
Adam Gilchrist 0.232
Gundappa Viswanth 0.216
Saleem Malik 0.196
Graham Thorpe 0.189
Ian Chappell 0.168
David Boon 0.135
Graham Gooch 0.065
Mark Waugh 0.011
Herschelle Gibbs -0.019
Zaheer Abbas -0.022
Sourav Ganguly -0.033
Dilip Vengsarkar -0.111
Stephen Fleming -0.326
Nasser Hussain -0.391
Sanath Jayasuriya -0.403
John Wright -0.426
Alec Stewart -0.447
Michael Atherton -0.554
Carl Hooper -0.655
Arjuna Ranatunga -0.765
Marvan Atapattu -0.815
Ian Botham -0.885
Kapil Dev 1.691
Current Players
For Dravid, Chanderpaul, Laxman and Sarwan who are currently in the middle of a Test, I have not included this Test at all.Kumar Sangakarra 2.448
Jacques Kallis 1.921
Alastair Cook 1.860
Ricky Ponting 1.770
Virender Sehwag 1.635
Sachin Tendulkar 1.536
Rahul Dravid 1.519
Mahela Jayawardene 1.504
Mohammad Yousuf 1.475
Graeme Smith 1.434
Kevin Pietersen 1.186
Younis Khan 0.605
Shivnarine Chanderpaul 0.568
VVS Laxman 0.532
Ramnaresh Sarwan 0.000
Chris Gayle -0.018
Mark Boucher -1.587