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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...

Top 5 Batsman With Most Runs In A Calendar Year In Overseas Tests Cricket
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Top 5 Batsman With Most Runs In A Calendar Year In Overseas Tests

2018 has been another year that has seen Virat Kohli's brilliance across formats. He started the year where he left 2017. A year that saw him conquering England where it failed miserably in 2014. He always looked determined at the crease and taking on the opposition with his sheer aggressive style of batting whether it's hitting boundaries or blocking the balls. It has been a year where most of the batsmen have struggled to score runs but not Virat. He has dominated every opponent he played against.## It has always been for any subcontinent batsman to score runs in overseas condition but Virat Kohli perhaps the only one who has dominated those conditions. And this is the result of this that he surpassed legendary Rahul Dravid to score most numbers of runs by an Indian player in a calendar year in overseas Tests. Though, he couldn't end the year on high as he got out on Zero in last innings of 2018 but has done enough to find himself among the leading run-getters in overseas.## Here is the list of TOP 5 batsman with most runs in a calendar year in Overseas Tests:## 1. Graeme Smith (1212 runs, 2008) - Former South African captain and one of the most successful captains Graeme Smith took 2008 by storm and smashed 1212 runs. Smith who has scored 9265 runs in 117 Tests, has been South Africa's one of the best batsmen of all time. He is South Africa's youngest captain who became country's captain at the age of 22. He retired from International cricket in 2014.## 2. Viv Richards (1154 runs, 1976) - Viv Richards has considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He was a member of West Indies team that was unbeatable in the '70s and '80s. In 1976, a year after West Indies won World Cup 1975, Sir Viv Richards scored 1154 runs in overseas Tests. Sir Richards played 121 Tests for Windies between 1974 and 1991 and scored 8,540 runs with an average of 50.23.## 3. Virat Kohli (1138 runs, 2018) - 2018 has been the year of India captain Virat Kohli where he has scored 1318 Test runs and 1138 runs came against England (593), South Africa (286), and Australia (259) in 10 matches. He also scored 4 centuries. The ranked 1 batsman was the highest run-getter in the series' against South Africa and England.## 4. Rahul Dravid (1137 runs, 2002) - Former India captain and legendary Rahul Dravid who has scored 13288 runs in 164 Tests have been India's one of the best overseas batsmen. In 2002, Dravid scored 1137 runs in overseas conditions and is one of only three Indian batsmen who has scored more than 1000 runs in overseas Tests in a calendar year. Dravid last played a Tests vs Australia at Adelaide Oval, Jan 24, 2012.## 5. Mohinder Amarnath (1065 runs, 1983) - Mohinder Amarnath was a man of comeback who played for India almost two decades. He played a crucial role in India's World Cup 1983 triumph. His defining season was 1982-83 where he made his come back to the side after three years and scored 1182 runs including five hundred in 11 away Tests against West Indies and Pakistan. And in 1983, he scored 1065 runs on overseas tours. Amarnath played 69 Tests for India and scored 4378 runs including 11 hundred.## Follow for more...