MOST TEST RUNS: STATS

Who has scored the most runs in test cricket in the opening(#1/#2) position ? How about the #3 batting position ? Who has scored the most runs ? What about batting positions 4 through 7 ?


BELOW ARE THE BATSMEN WHO HAVE SCORED THE MOST RUNS IN THE TOP 7 BATTING POSITIONS:


#1:  9607 runs: Sunil Gavaskar
#3: 11527 runs: Kumar Sangakkara
#4: 13492 runs: Sachin Tendulkar
#5:  6791 runs: Shiv Chanderpaul
#6:  3165 runs: Steve Waugh
#7:  3948 runs: Adam Gilchrist

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* There you have it the most productive batsmen in test history at the #1 thru #7 batting positions.

* Any surprises ?

* Ponting, Dravid, Kallis and Lara did not dominate any position.

* Give praise to Gavaskar, Sangakkara, Tendulkar, Chanderpaul, Waugh and Gilchrist.

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* Now that Shiv has taken over as the highest scorer at the #5 batting position he should drop down to the #6 batting position in the WI team.

* Steve Waugh(3165) has scored the most runs at the #6 batting position.

* Shiv to date has scored 2528 runs at #6 and needs 638 runs to surpass Waugh at that position.

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Most Test Runs By A West Indian versus South Africa


1715 Brian Lara @49.00 avg, 4 100s and 9 50s
1710 Shiv Chanderpaul @46.21 avg, 5 100s and 8 50s
1359 Chris Gayle @45.30 avg, 3 100s and 5 50s

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Most Runs Scored By A Batsman In The West Indies


6217 Brian Lara @58.65 avg, 17 100s and 26 50s
6095 Shiv Chanderpaul @60.95 avg, 19 100s and 32 50s
4075 Gary Sobers @66.80 avg, 14 100s and 12 50s

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MOST RUNS SCORED BY A NON WI BATSMAN IN THE WI

1511 Rahul Dravid @65.69 avg
1404 Sunil Gavaskar @70.20 avg
1179 Geoff Boycott @51.26 avg
1160 Ricky Ponting @61.05 avg

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Batsmen with a Test batting average above 50


Australia(10)

Donald Bradman (99.94)
Greg Chappell (53.86)
Ricky Ponting (51.85)
Jack Ryder (51.62)
Michael Hussey (51.52)
Steve Waugh (51.06)
Michael Clarke (50.79)
Matthew Hayden (50.73)
Allan Border (50.56)
Steve Smith (50.38)

England(9)

Herbert Sutcliffe (60.73)
Eddie Paynter (59.23)
Ken Barrington (58.67)
Wally Hammond (58.45)
Jack Hobbs (56.94)
Len Hutton (56.67)
Ernest Tyldesley (55.00)
Joe Root (50.94)
Denis Compton (50.06)

India(4)

Vinod Kambli (54.20)
Sachin Tendulkar (53.78)
Rahul Dravid (52.31)
Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)

Pakistan(3)

Younus Khan (53.37)
Javed Miandad (52.57)
Mohammad Yousuf (52.29)

South Africa(6)

Graeme Pollock (60.97)
Jacques Kallis (55.37)
Dudley Nourse (53.81)
Faf du Plessis (52.50)
Hashim Amla (52.40)
AB de Villiers (51.43)

Sri Lanka(2)

Kumar Sangakkara (58.22)
Angelo Mathews (52.83)

West Indies(8 )

George Headley (60.83)
Everton Weekes (58.61)
Garfield Sobers (57.78)
Clyde Walcott (56.68)
Charlie Davis (54.20)
Brian Lara (52.88)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (52.53)
Viv Richards (50.23)

Zimbabwe(1)

Andy Flower (51.54)

Bangladesh(1)

Mominul Haque (63.05)


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chanderpaul is among the greats in average

* In 161 tests Shiv has scored 11,775 runs at an average of 52.33 with 30 hundreds and 66 fifties.

* THOSE ARE GREAT NUMBERS SHIV HAS PUT UP.

* But some West Indians refuse to acknowledge that Shiv has put up great stats in his career.

* Of course, if Darren Bravo or Kraig Brathwaite or Leon Johnson or Jermaine Blackwood were to put up Shiv's numbers at the end of their careers those very West Indians who claim Shiv is not a great would be celebrating the greatness of Bravo, Brathwaite, Johnson and Blackwood.

* It's called PREJUDICE---West Indians who are prejudiced against Shiv would never accept the fact he has put up great numbers in his career.

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"Great numbers" and "greatness" are two different things.

2014 was the best year for hundreds after 1948. It is simply easier to make runs nowadays.

Shiv has "great numbers", but whether he's a "great batsman" is another issue entirely.

Here's a pertinent discussion:

www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/61...-all-time-great.html

* I look at greatness in cricket the way I look at billionaires.

* The world has about 1600 billionaires, but not all billionaires are the same.

* You have the elite billionaires----those whose are worth 10 billion or more and then you have the ordinary billionaires.

* In cricket you have the elite greats and you have the ordinary greats.

* Let's focus on batsmen.

* The elite greats among batsmen are those who dominated the eras they played in----Bradman, Sobers, Richards, Lara and Tendulkar.

* Then you have the ordinary greats----they are not in the same league as the elite greats but they have put up great numbers----scored a minimum of 6000 test runs at an average of 50+

* There you have it----Elite greats vs ordinary greats.

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