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  2. List of international cricket centuries by Sunil Gavaskar

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    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]

  3. Rohit Sharma - Wikipedia

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    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. [113] [114] In limited overs cricket, Sharma is widely recognised as one of the format's most outstanding batsmen.

  4. Sunil Gavaskar - Wikipedia

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    As opening batsman with a batting average above fifty, he is still holding those two test cricket records (runs and centuries). howstat.com (Retrieved October 5, 2024). As a batsman, he is the unique yearly aggregate record holder of test runs and centuries, with a half-century to century conversion rate above forty three per cent (since 1983 ...

  5. Alastair Cook - Wikipedia

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    He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in Test cricket. Cook is the sixth-highest Test run scorer of all time and second-highest run scorer for England ever. He retired from Test cricket in September 2018 and played for Essex County Cricket Club in English domestic cricket until 2023, while also working for the BBC radio programme ...

  6. List of England Test cricketers - Wikipedia

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    Sydney Barnes (129) became the best paid cricketer by spurning county cricket to play in the Lancashire leagues. However, the sheer volume of greats, that include Jack Hobbs (157), Tom Hayward (97), Gilbert Jessop (122) and Wilfred Rhodes (121), means that the age retains a fond place in the memory of England's cricket fans.

  7. Hashim Amla - Wikipedia

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    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. [3]

  8. Jack Hobbs - Wikipedia

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    Hobbs' Test batting average of 56.94 remained as of 2016 the sixth best among batsmen to have passed 5,000 runs, [303] despite a rise in the number of batsmen who average more than 50 since 2000. Among openers who have scored 5,000 Test runs, he has the third best average behind Sutcliffe and Len Hutton .

  9. Saeed Anwar - Wikipedia

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    An opening batsman and occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler, Anwar played international cricket between 1989 and 2003. Considered one of greatest opening batsmen Pakistan has ever produced and also regarded as one of the finest batsmen of his era. [2] [3] Anwar has scored twenty centuries in ODIs, more than any other Pakistani batsmen in ...