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Top 50 Greatest test batters

Thala_0710

International Captain
My top 50:

1. Don Bradman
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Brian Lara
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Garfield Sobers
6. Len Hutton
7. Viv Richards
8. Steve Smith
9. Sunil Gavaskar
10. Wally Hammond
11. George Headley
12. Herbert Sutcliffe
13. Graeme Pollock
14. Greg Chappell
15. Jacques Kallis
16. Ricky Ponting
17. Allan Border
18. Kumar Sangakkara
19. Steve Waugh
20. Rahul Dravid
21. Ken Barrington
22. Joe Root
23. Victor Trumper
24. KS Ranjitsinhji
25. Everton Weekes
26. Denis Compton
27. Clyde Walcott
28. Barry Richards
29. Dudley Nourse
30. Neil Harvey
31. Peter May
32. Javed Miandad
33. AB De Villiers
34. Younis Khan
35. Frank Worrell
36. Clem Hill
37. Virat Kohli
38. Geoffrey Boycott
39. Martin Crowe
40. Rohan Kanhai
41. Andy Flower
42. Gordon Greenidge
43. Graham Gooch
44. Colin Cowdrey
45. Clive Lloyd
46. Kane Williamson
47. Hashim Amla
48. Bruce Mitchell
49. Charlie Macartney
50. Stan McCabe

Honourable mentions:
Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Alastair Cook
Inzamam Ul Haq
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Sachin goes at 2 as well. Final change
 

Johan

Hall of Fame Member
Also, Hobbs vs Sachin is reasonably close in quality but I don't know what the argument for the latter being better would be.
 

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