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Top 5 Batsmen With Most Runs In An Ashes Series Cricket
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Top 5 Batsmen With Most Runs In An Ashes Series

If you wondered that Steve Smith doesn't have any weakness, well, just for your information he averages only 30.68, least among the fab four (Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Joe Root, Kane Williamson) in the 4th innings of the Test matches. And just to confirm, his fourth innings' venom again came to hunt him in the 5th Test in the ongoing Ashes series as he could manage to score only 23 off 53 balls in the chase of 399.## It was one of those rare days when Smith failed to score. For the records, it was the first under 50 runs score for him after scoring 10 successive 50+ scores in the Ashes. Well, there was something about his batting that Though he got out cheaply he finished the Ashes 2019 with 774 runs in just 7 innings. Australia retained the Ashes for the first time since 2001 in England. However, Australia couldn't win the series as it finished 2-2 with one game ended as drawn, the number one ranked Test batsman showed his class.## Smith's 774 runs in the series are now at the number five in among the top run-getter in a single Ashes series. During his short innings of 23 runs, he surpassed Sir Alastair Cook's 766 runs in 2010-11 in Australia.## Here is the list of the Top 5 highest run-getter in a single Ashes series:## 1. Sir Donald Bradman (974 Runs) - An average nearly 100 in Test cricket, Sir Donald Bradman was the real batting maestro. In 1930, he made the Ashes by his own with his masterful batting. In the 7 innings of the 5 matches, Sir Bradman aggregated 974 runs at an average of 139.14 with 4 hundred. His highest score (334) also came in that series. It was such his magic that Australia won the Ashes 2-1 after losing the first Test against the host nation.## 2. Wally Hammond (905 Runs) - Wally Hammond was England's giant in the age of Sir Don Bradman. It is saying that WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Walter Hammond, and Don Bradman are the greatest batsmen of all-time cricket has ever known. Two years before Bradman's Ashes, Wally Hammond was on the same run of success. 905 runs in 9 innings at an average of 113.12 with 4 centuries, Wally Hammond single-handedly won the Ashes 4-1 against the host nation.## 3. Mark Taylor (839 Runs) - On his first England tour, the classy left-hand batsman was the show stopper of the series in 1989. He simply didn't put a foot wrong in that Ashes and made 839 runs in 11 innings of 6 matches at an average of 83.90 with 2 centuries and 5 half-centuries. His highest score in the series was 219 as Australia clinched the Ashes 4-0.## 4. Sir Donald Bradman (810 Runs) - Six years later his not so forgettable England tour in 1930, Sir Donald Bradman was again at his very best on home soil. He scored 810 runs in 9 innings at an average of 90 with 3 hundred and a fifty. It was a closely fought series which Australia won by 3-2.## 5. Steve Smith (774 Runs) - Steve Smith is the only modern-day batsman whose records are closer to Sir Donald Bradman than anyone else. He was under pressure to perform well as he was making his comeback in Tests after facing one year of a ban on the ball-tampering scandal in 2018 in South Africa. And against all odds, he looked unmovable at the crease.## He played only 7 innings in this Ashes and without anyone's surprise, he by far looked the best batsman of the series and made 774 runs at an average of 110.57 with 3 hundred and 3 half-centuries. The series ended with the result of 2-2 but Australia retained the Ashes and Smith played a significant part in that.## Follow for more...

Top 10 All-Time Highest Test Rating For The Batsmen Cricket
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Top 10 All-Time Highest Test Rating For The Batsmen

Steve Smith is going with all guns blazing since he has made his comeback to the international cricket after facing a one-year ban in the ball-tampering scandal. In the ongoing Ashes series, he has looked unstoppable and its clearly reflecting on England's bowlers who seemed to have no answers of Smith's brilliance. He has already scored 671 runs in just 5 innings with an average of 134.20. In none of the all five innings, he has not dismissed under 50 and has scored one double hundred, 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries.## Steve Smith's staller form has not only helped Australia to retain the Ashes for the first time since 2001 in England but also has helped him to regain his number one Test ranking which he lost to Virat Kohli. His rating was 857 before the Ashes and after the 4th Ashes Test, he has now on 937 points and 34 ahead of the second-ranked Virat Kohli. ## Looking at Smith's current form, it is highly likely that he can break Sir Donald Bradman's record of the highest Test rating ever of 961 which he got in 1948. Smith has already reached to 947 rating points in 2017 which is the second-best rating in Test. The Indian captain Kohli too has reached to 937 rating points and is supposed to cross his personal best in upcoming matches.## Here is the list of the Top 10 highest Test rating of the batsmen: RankBatsmanCountryHighest RatingYear 1. Sir Donald Bradman Australia 961 1948 2. Steve Smith Australia 947 2017 3. Sir Len Hutton England 945 1954 4. Sir Jack Hobbs England 942 1912 4. Ricky Ponting Australia 942 2006 5. Peter May England 941 1956 6. Sir Vivian Richards West Indies 938 1981 6. Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka 938 2007 6. Sir Garry Sobers West Indies 938 1967 6. Sir Clyde Walcott West Indies 938 1955 7. Virat Kohli India 937 2018 8. Matthew Hayden Australia 935 2002 8. Jacques Kallis South Africa 935 2007 8. AB de Villiers South Africa 935 2014 9. Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan 933 2006 10. Sir Everton Weekes West Indies 927 1956 10. Graeme Pollock South Africa 927 1970 ## Note - Rankings as of 11 September, 2019 ## Follow for more...