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A bowler gains points based on wickets taken, runs conceded and match result, with more points gained for dismissing highly rated batsmen. A damping-factor is applied to a player's rating at the start of their career, so they do not get a full rating for their performances until they have played about 20 Tests.
Sharma playing a late cut shot during the 2015 World Cup. Sharma is an aggressive batsman but plays with style and elegance. [111] [112] He is usually an opening batsman in limited overs cricket, but has played most of his Test cricket as a middle-order batsman.
He played as an opening batsman and he began his Test career in 1974 against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, scoring 93 and 107 on debut. Greenidge made his ODI debut against Pakistan in the 1975 World Cup. This was a quiet tournament for Greenidge, with his only innings of note being 55 in the semi-final against New Zealand. [16]
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have played for South Africa, and one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. He is a right-handed batsman and holds the record for the highest individual Test score of any South African batsman of 311 not out , scored against England at The Oval , London in July 2012.
Maxwell Patrick O'Dowd (born 4 March 1994) is a New Zealand-born Dutch international cricketer who made his debut for the Netherlands national cricket team in June 2015. He is a right-handed opening batsman and has played for the Netherlands in three editions of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
First (and so far only) batsman to score a triple century in Test cricket, double century in ODI cricket and a century in T20 internationals. [135] In World Cup 2015, he hit the fastest ever ODI double century, against Zimbabwe, off 138 balls. [136] Third batsman to score a century against eleven different countries in ODIs. [137]
Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, [3] [4] Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs. [3] He was the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs and held the record for most runs until Allan Border surpassed it. [ 5 ]
Graham Alan Gooch, OBE, DL (born 23 July 1953) is a former English first-class cricketer who captained Essex and England.He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning 1973 until 1997, he was the most prolific run scorer of all time, with 67,057 runs across first-a class and limited-overs games. [2]