Top-scorer most often/times in Tests

[W63L35]

Saw this list of batsmen on another forum..... who top scored most times and most often for their sides in completed (all-out, i.e., ten players were dismissed) Test innings. The first column gives the number of time they top-scored (TS) and the second gives the number times they were one of the top three highest scorers (T3). The third column gives the number of completed innings in which the listed player batted.

Top-scorer most often (batted in at least 50 completed innings):

TS % T3 % In 21 38.89 34 62.96 54 DG Bradman (Aus) 22 30.14 40 54.79 73 PBH May (Eng) 15 29.41 32 62.75 51 H Sutcliffe (Eng) 25 28.74 47 54.02 87 A Flower (Zim) 16 28.07 32 56.14 57 B Mitchell (SAf) 22 27.85 49 62.03 79 L Hutton (Eng) 37 27.82 64 48.12 133 SM Gavaskar (Ind) 15 27.78 27 50.00 54 GM Turner (NZ) 22 26.83 44 53.66 82 KF Barrington (Eng) 24 26.37 45 49.45 91 Habibul Bashar (BD) 16 26.23 31 50.82 61 HW Taylor (SAf) 13 26.00 26 52.00 50 CL Walcott (WI) 49 25.93 94 49.74 189 BC Lara (WI+) 14 25.45 27 49.09 55 B Sutcliffe (NZ) 19 25.33 41 54.67 75 JB Hobbs (Eng)

Top-scorer most times:

TS T3 Inn 49 94 189 BC Lara (WI+) 48 93 193 SR Tendulkar (Ind) 39 94 184 S Chanderpaul (WI) 37 64 133 SM Gavaskar (Ind) 36 85 187 AR Border (Aus) 34 76 154 GA Gooch (Eng) 32 71 150 DI Gower (Eng) 32 80 181 SR Waugh (Aus) 31 66 136 IVA Richards (WI) 30 71 153 Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 29 80 173 AJ Stewart (Eng) 29 82 174 RS Dravid (Ind) 28 61 134 SP Fleming (NZ) 27 61 150 MA Atherton (Eng) 25 64 126 CH Gayle (WI) 25 57 137 DL Haynes (WI) 25 47 87 A Flower (Zim) 24 59 129 IT Botham (Eng) 24 56 95 G Boycott (Eng) 24 47 124 N Hussain (Eng) 24 67 160 RT Ponting (Aus) 24 73 152 JH Kallis (SAf) 24 60 127 DPM Jayawardene (SL) 24 45 91 Habibul Bashar (BD) 23 53 121 Mohammad Yousuf (Pak) 22 44 67 KF Barrington (Eng) 22 58 122 MC Cowdrey (Eng) 22 49 79 L Hutton (Eng) 22 40 73 PBH May (Eng) 21 34 54 DG Bradman (Aus) 21 40 86 MD Crowe (NZ) 21 49 103 V Sehwag (Ind) 21 41 110 PA de Silva (SL) 20 53 106 RB Richardson (WI)

[Justcrazy]

Interesting post.
It shows what a great player Lara was.

[Statsman]

Originally Posted by Justcrazy Interesting post. It shows what a great player Lara was.

and how incompetent his team mates were in comparison to him...

[MR__KHAN__JI]

It would be good to see a list just of Pak players....

[mastermind_quad]

Originally Posted by MR__KHAN__JI It would be good to see a list just of Pak players....

From the list ...its Inzama-ul-Haq & M.Yousuf with 30 and 23 respectively

[AlizeeFan]

Bradman, Gavaskar, Habib, Andy Flower, Lara - obvious choice of players way ahead of their teammates.

[W63L35]

Originally Posted by AlizeeFan Bradman, Gavaskar, Habib, Andy Flower, Lara - obvious choice of players way ahead of their teammates.

...as oppose to batsmen who were not waaaaay ahead of their team mates?

[AlizeeFan]

Originally Posted by W63L35 ...as oppose to batsmen who were not waaaaay ahead of their team mates?

haha, others were not that obvious for me. If I was asked to make a guess who would have made into that list (the first one), I would have been able to name those only. Other players are good, but I didn't know that they were so waaaay ahead of their team mates.

[Saqs]

Good thread.

Goes to show how underappreciated Shiv Chanderpaul is for Windies.

Him and Lara held that batting lineup together for so long yet even by the responses so far in this thread people aren't recognizing his contribution.