All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards (Know Why). Most of our ratings are dynamic, and as new matches are played, the rating of earlier batsmen may change if current batsmen set new benchmarks. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation). Here are the Top 10 English opening batsmen in Test Cricket since 1950.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2025-09-10

CONTENTS

3. PRIMARY CRITERIA

3.1. PROLIFIC

3.2. CONSISTENT

3.2.1. Against All Teams

3.2.2. Against Top Teams

3.3. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

3.4. ATTACKING

3.5. PRIMARY RATING

4. CONDITIONS CRITERIA

4.1. HOME/AWAY

4.1.1. At Home

4.1.2. Away From Home

4.2. FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

4.2.1. Familiar Conditions Rating

4.2.1.1. Non Asians Outside Asia

4.2.2. Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

4.2.2.1. Non Asians In Asia

4.3. CONDITIONS RATING

5. SECONDARY CRITERIA

5.1. TOP FORM AT HOME

5.2. TOP FORM AWAY

5.3. IMPACT INNS

5.4. SECONDARY RATING

6. OVERALL RATING

7. TOP TEAMS

7.1. Top Teams In Asia

7.2. Top Teams Outside Asia

Nations Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to show players only from England.

The Rating of the players from England remains the same as in the original OVERALL Rating.
Thus the Trend Setter can be from any nation and is not necessarily from England.

Position Filter

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to include performances of opening batsmen. Innings played only at the specified position are counted in this rating.

THE CRITERIA

CRITERIA	CONSTITUENTS
Primary	Runs, Average, Top Inns, Strike Rate
Conditions	Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia
Secondary	Top Form (Home & Away), Min Impact Inns

The Trend Setter (TS)

TS is the player which does the best in a criteria. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Know All About TS. Here is an example:-

TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
TS Points: 250.00(Max); Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00
Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.

Top Teams (TT)

Some sections consider performances only against the top teams. Here is some information about the Top Teams:-

Win/Loss Ratio is used to determine top teams.
The top teams are calculated by decades.
Further, they are divided into In Asia and Outside Asia.
A batsman's performace is counted in TT if it comes in the specific condition and in the specific decade.

QUALIFICATION

Min Innings (TT)	25
Min Career Runs	1000

PRIMARY CRITERIA

The Primary Rating is divided into 4 main sections:-

CRITERIA	STAT	POINTS
Prolific	Runs Scored	200.00
Consistent	Average	500.00
Big Innings Potential	Top Inns (Runs)	150.00
Attacking	Strike Rate	150.00

PROLIFIC

The Eras

The time period from 1950 to present is divided into eras for this section. This is because less cricket was played earlier. To make it fair for earlier players they are compared with players of the same period with a slight reduction in points. Know More About Eras.

Era 1	MP before 1991
Era 2	MP between 1990 And 2016
Era 3	MP greater than 2015

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored

RANK	ERA 1	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	SM Gavaskar	IND	1971	1987	1979	203	9607	180.00
1	G Boycott	ENG	1964	1982	1973	191	8091	151.60
2	GA Gooch	ENG	1978	1995	1986.5	184	7811	146.35
3	JH Edrich	ENG	1963	1976	1969.5	82	3430	64.27
4	DL Amiss	ENG	1972	1977	1974.5	69	3276	61.38

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	AN Cook	ENG	2006	2018	2012	278	11845	200.00
1	AN Cook	ENG	2006	2018	2012	278	11845	200.00
2	MA Atherton	ENG	1990	2001	1995.5	197	7476	126.23
3	ME Trescothick	ENG	2000	2006	2003	142	5824	98.34
4	AJ Stewart	ENG	1990	1999	1994.5	77	3348	56.53
5	MP Vaughan	ENG	2002	2008	2005	72	3093	52.22

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	DA Warner	AUS	2011	2024	2017.5	202	8747	170.00
1	BM Duckett	ENG	2016	2026	2021	76	2972	57.76

CONSISTENT

R Ave

Relative Average (R Ave) is a more accurate type of average. Know How It Is Calculated. Briefly, it takes into account:-

Strength of Opposition.
Positions at which a batsman has played.
Venues at which he has played.
Time Period in which he has been active

Criteria: Points For Relative Average

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	1000

Against All Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	RB Simpson	70	4	3664	55.52	56.94	250.00
1	DL Amiss	69	8	3276	53.70	54.97	241.35
2	G Boycott	191	23	8091	48.16	50.27	220.73
3	AJ Stewart	77	2	3348	44.64	49.27	216.33
4	GA Gooch	184	6	7811	43.88	47.45	208.35
5	JH Edrich	82	5	3430	44.55	46.73	205.20
6	AN Cook	278	14	11845	44.87	46.44	203.90
7	MP Vaughan	72	4	3093	45.49	45.30	198.88
8	BM Duckett	76	3	2972	40.71	45.11	198.09
9	ME Trescothick	142	9	5824	43.79	43.68	191.81
10	MA Atherton	197	6	7476	39.14	42.58	186.96

Against Top Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	RB Simpson	65	4	3349	54.90	56.91	250.00
1	DL Amiss	57	5	2623	50.44	52.08	228.77
2	JH Edrich	73	5	3341	49.13	51.88	227.92
3	AJ Stewart	61	2	2600	44.07	50.60	222.27
4	G Boycott	160	18	6530	45.99	48.52	213.14
5	MP Vaughan	53	1	2327	44.75	46.49	204.24
6	AN Cook	202	6	8278	42.23	45.23	198.67
7	BM Duckett	58	1	2194	38.49	44.97	197.57
8	GA Gooch	137	2	5233	38.76	43.62	191.60
9	ME Trescothick	94	5	3657	41.09	43.09	189.27
10	MA Atherton	149	4	5098	35.16	40.12	176.25

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL

Ave HS

In this criteria, we have taken the top 7 scores of the batsman in the specific condition. Average High Score (Ave HS) is simply the total runs in the 7 innings divided by 7.

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored In The Top 7 Inns

RANK	BATSMAN	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	AVE HS	RAT
TS	V Sehwag	319	309	293	254	201*	201	195	253.14	150.00
1	AN Cook	294	263	244*	243	235*	190	189	236.86	140.35
2	DL Amiss	262*	203	188	183	179	174	164*	193.29	114.53
3	GA Gooch	333	196	183	174	154*	154	153	192.43	114.02
4	ME Trescothick	219	194	193	180	161	151	132	175.71	104.12
5	JH Edrich	310*	175	164	155	146	130	120	171.43	101.58
6	MP Vaughan	197	195	183	177	156	145	140	170.43	100.99
7	G Boycott	246*	191	155	142*	137	131	128*	161.43	95.65
8	MA Atherton	185*	160	151	144	136	135	131	148.86	88.21
9	AJ Stewart	190	170	148	143	119	118	107	142.14	84.23
10	BM Duckett	182	153	149	140	114	107	98	134.71	79.83

ATTACKING

R SR

Relative Strike Rate (R SR) is calculated using the same method as R Ave with average being replaced with SR. Batsman who were active in earlier times benefit from this as SR was generally low earlier.

R4BF

Balls played by batsmen for many inns is not available for earlier times. When such is the case, we have used Runs For Balls Faced (R4BF) to determine the Strike Rate. This is the runs scored by the batsman for the available data of balls.

Criteria: Points For R SR

Min Qualification For TS
Min Runs	1000
Min Average	25

RANK	BATSMAN	R4BF	BF	SR	R SR	RAT
TS	V Sehwag	8207	9875	83.11	79.95	150.00
1	BM Duckett	2972	3428	86.70	76.86	144.21
2	GA Gooch	7811	15619	50.01	56.29	105.60
3	AJ Stewart	3348	6852	48.86	54.52	102.29
4	ME Trescothick	5824	10684	54.51	52.89	99.24
5	MP Vaughan	3093	5718	54.09	52.83	99.13
6	DL Amiss	2891	6772	42.69	51.36	96.37
7	JH Edrich	2890	7643	37.81	46.76	87.73
8	AN Cook	11845	25236	46.94	45.37	85.12
9	G Boycott	7498	21104	35.53	42.54	79.82
10	MA Atherton	7476	19863	37.64	41.18	77.27

PRIMARY RATING

The total of the above four criteria comes out to be 1,000.00 points. The Primary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 40 percent.

RANK	BATSMAN	PRO	CON	BIP	ATT	RAT	PRI PTS
1	AN Cook	200.00	402.57	140.35	85.12	828.04	331.21
2	GA Gooch	146.35	399.95	114.02	105.60	765.93	306.37
3	G Boycott	151.60	433.87	95.65	79.82	760.94	304.38
4	DL Amiss	61.38	470.12	114.53	96.37	742.40	296.96
5	JH Edrich	64.27	433.12	101.58	87.73	686.69	274.68
6	ME Trescothick	98.34	381.08	104.12	99.24	682.78	273.11
7	AJ Stewart	56.53	438.59	84.23	102.29	681.64	272.66
8	BM Duckett	57.76	395.66	79.83	144.21	677.46	270.98
9	MP Vaughan	52.22	403.12	100.99	99.13	655.46	262.19
10	MA Atherton	126.23	363.21	88.21	77.27	654.92	261.97

CONDITIONS CRITERIA

The Conditions

The Conditions Ratings are calculated by applying the four criteria of the Primary Rating to diffirent conditions. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The four conditions criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Home	30.00
Away	120.00
Familiar Conditions	30.00
Unfamiliar Conditions	120.00

HOME/AWAY

HM/AW RATING

Points to note:-

U.A.E. is considered as a second Home for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
All Home and Away stats of Pakistani and Afghani batsmen are calculated accordingly.

At Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	GA Gooch	110	5117	47.82	52.06	816.59	24.50
2	AN Cook	142	5941	43.36	48.11	754.17	22.63
3	G Boycott	100	4356	48.40	37.99	746.83	22.40
4	ME Trescothick	75	3472	51.06	57.05	731.71	21.95
5	AJ Stewart	27	1322	50.85	55.73	704.00	21.12
6	JH Edrich	58	2514	45.71	38.35	696.54	20.90
7	DL Amiss	28	1342	55.92	45.77	687.08	20.61
8	MP Vaughan	24	1246	56.64	59.25	680.44	20.41
9	BM Duckett	32	1469	48.97	86.92	673.97	20.22
10	MA Atherton	112	4515	41.42	39.35	653.65	19.61

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	AN Cook	136	5904	46.49	45.81	819.27	98.31
2	DL Amiss	41	1934	52.27	40.34	697.03	83.64
3	G Boycott	91	3735	47.88	32.92	693.08	83.17
4	BM Duckett	44	1503	34.95	86.48	620.88	74.51
5	GA Gooch	74	2694	37.94	46.53	613.26	73.59
6	AJ Stewart	50	2026	41.35	45.22	609.94	73.19
7	MA Atherton	85	2961	36.11	35.30	592.63	71.12
8	MP Vaughan	48	1847	40.15	51.09	575.29	69.03
9	ME Trescothick	67	2352	36.18	51.15	564.64	67.76
10	JH Edrich	24	916	41.64	34.59	546.13	65.54

FAMILIAR/UNFAMILIAR CONDITIONS

FC/UC RATING

Points to note:-

Unfamiliar Conditions (UC) is Outside Asia for Asians and In Asia for Non Asians.
Familiar Conditions (FC) are the opposite.

Familiar Conditions Rating

Non Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	GA Gooch	160	6942	44.50	50.20	827.84	24.84
2	AN Cook	223	9135	42.89	47.62	825.25	24.76
3	G Boycott	176	7385	47.34	35.78	812.47	24.37
4	DL Amiss	48	2363	56.26	44.46	779.56	23.39
5	AJ Stewart	71	3202	46.41	50.30	744.81	22.34
6	JH Edrich	75	3224	45.41	37.81	741.67	22.25
7	ME Trescothick	109	4519	44.74	56.36	720.44	21.61
8	MA Atherton	183	6991	39.28	38.07	706.11	21.18
9	MP Vaughan	54	2378	46.63	56.63	700.96	21.03
10	BM Duckett	52	2002	40.04	87.54	657.42	19.72

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Non Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	AN Cook	55	2710	53.14	44.77	783.61	94.03
2	BM Duckett	24	970	42.17	85.01	608.35	73.00
3	DL Amiss	21	913	48.05	36.24	594.92	71.39
4	ME Trescothick	33	1305	40.78	48.95	524.31	62.92
5	GA Gooch	24	869	39.50	48.55	521.91	62.63
6	G Boycott	15	706	58.83	33.30	520.36	62.44
7	MP Vaughan	18	715	42.06	47.07	430.75	51.69
8	MA Atherton	14	485	37.31	32.31	357.15	42.86
9	JH Edrich	7	206	34.33	NK	325.93	39.11
10	AJ Stewart	6	146	24.33	30.04	232.64	27.92

CONDITIONS RATING

The Conditions Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the four criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BATSMAN	AWAY	HOME	UC	FC	CON PTS
1	AN Cook	98.31	22.63	94.03	24.76	239.73
2	DL Amiss	83.64	20.61	71.39	23.39	199.03
3	G Boycott	83.17	22.40	62.44	24.37	192.39
4	BM Duckett	74.51	20.22	73.00	19.72	187.45
5	GA Gooch	73.59	24.50	62.63	24.84	185.55
6	ME Trescothick	67.76	21.95	62.92	21.61	174.24
7	MP Vaughan	69.03	20.41	51.69	21.03	162.17
8	MA Atherton	71.12	19.61	42.86	21.18	154.77
9	JH Edrich	65.54	20.90	39.11	22.25	147.79
10	AJ Stewart	73.19	21.12	27.92	22.34	144.57

SECONDARY CRITERIA

The Secondary Rating consists of three parts. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points. Click on the Rating Titles to see how they were calculated.

The three secondary criteria and thier weightage is as follows:-

CRITERIA	POINTS
Top Form Home	30.00
Top Form Away	120.00
Impact Innings	150.00

TF RATING

Points to note about Top Form Rating:-

Top Form (TF) is calculated by taking the best 20 consecutive innings of a batsman.
There are two TF Ratings used in our OVERALL Rating: Home and Away.

TOP FORM AT HOME

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	GA Gooch	20	1665	87.63	57.18	947.93	28.44
2	ME Trescothick	20	1337	78.65	64.56	796.78	23.90
3	G Boycott	20	1291	75.94	36.40	753.83	22.62
4	JH Edrich	20	1139	63.28	43.39	699.29	20.98
5	MP Vaughan	20	1174	65.22	59.93	694.04	20.82
6	AN Cook	20	1173	61.74	48.79	678.03	20.34
7	DL Amiss	20	1094	60.78	46.67	667.85	20.04
8	AJ Stewart	20	1079	56.79	54.55	637.29	19.12
9	BM Duckett	20	963	50.68	89.50	609.27	18.28
10	MA Atherton	20	990	49.50	42.60	548.25	16.45

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	AN Cook	20	1482	82.33	51.69	929.60	111.55
2	G Boycott	20	1338	83.63	33.26	821.82	98.62
3	DL Amiss	20	1194	66.33	43.37	809.37	97.12
4	MA Atherton	20	1106	58.21	37.88	707.10	84.85
5	MP Vaughan	20	1093	57.53	52.67	698.36	83.80
6	GA Gooch	20	1018	56.56	54.26	692.75	83.13
7	BM Duckett	20	905	47.63	91.32	666.50	79.98
8	AJ Stewart	20	953	47.65	46.17	636.79	76.42
9	ME Trescothick	20	896	44.80	52.49	595.86	71.50
10	JH Edrich	20	877	48.72	35.55	570.37	68.44

IMPACT INNS

II Rating

Impact Innings (II) are those innings which have a minimum impact in terms of runs or Strike Rate. Know All About II. Points to note about II:-

1st & 2nd and 3rd & 4th innings are clubbed together.
A Batsman should score at least 30 runs to qualify.
An Inn is included in II if it is 16.67% of the total runs of the higher total or
The runs are more than 10.00% of the total runs and
The SR is high or in a successful chase while being Not Out.

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 25

RANK	BATSMAN	DIS	II	II/Dis%	RAT	WTG
1	AJ Stewart	75	30	40.00	817.93	122.69
2	G Boycott	168	61	36.31	813.23	121.98
3	GA Gooch	178	61	34.27	751.11	112.67
4	MA Atherton	191	62	32.46	728.18	109.23
5	DL Amiss	61	22	36.07	703.20	105.48
6	AN Cook	264	71	26.89	673.03	100.95
7	JH Edrich	77	23	29.87	621.74	93.26
8	BM Duckett	73	21	28.77	559.83	83.97
9	ME Trescothick	133	36	27.07	556.53	83.48
10	MP Vaughan	68	19	27.94	556.40	83.46

SECONDARY RATING

Secondary Rating is the addition of the points a batsman scored in the three criteria. The Weightage of the Rating is 30%.

RANK	BATSMAN	TF HM	TF AW	II	SEC RAT
1	G Boycott	22.62	98.62	121.98	243.22
2	AN Cook	20.34	111.55	100.95	232.85
3	GA Gooch	28.44	83.13	112.67	224.23
4	DL Amiss	20.04	97.12	105.48	222.64
5	AJ Stewart	19.12	76.42	122.69	218.22
6	MA Atherton	16.45	84.85	109.23	210.53
7	MP Vaughan	20.82	83.80	83.46	188.08
8	JH Edrich	20.98	68.44	93.26	182.69
9	BM Duckett	18.28	79.98	83.97	182.23
10	ME Trescothick	23.90	71.50	83.48	178.89

OVERALL RATING

The OVERALL Rating is the addition of the points of all the above criteria. The rating is out of 1,000 Pts.

RANK	OV RANK	BATSMAN	NAT	PRI RAT	CON RAT	SEC RAT	FIN RAT
1	3	AN Cook	ENG	331.21	239.73	232.85	803.79
2	8	G Boycott	ENG	304.38	192.39	243.22	739.99
3	12	DL Amiss	ENG	296.96	199.03	222.64	718.63
4	13	GA Gooch	ENG	306.37	185.55	224.23	716.16
5	26	BM Duckett	ENG	270.98	187.45	182.23	640.66
6	29	AJ Stewart	ENG	272.66	144.57	218.22	635.45
7	34	MA Atherton	ENG	261.97	154.77	210.53	627.26
8	35	ME Trescothick	ENG	273.11	174.24	178.89	626.23
9	39	MP Vaughan	ENG	262.19	162.17	188.08	612.44
10	44	JH Edrich	ENG	274.68	147.79	182.69	605.16

TOP TEAMS

Top Teams In Asia

DECADE OF MAT	1	2	3	4	5	6
1950s	AUS	WI	PAK	IND	ENG
1960s	WI	AUS	PAK	IND	ENG	SA
1970s	PAK	ENG	IND	WI	SA	AUS
1980s	PAK	WI	ENG	NZ	AUS
1990s	IND	PAK	SA	AUS	WI
2000s	AUS	IND	SL	PAK	SA	ENG
2010s	IND	PAK	SL	ENG	SA	AUS
2020s	IND	AUS	PAK	NZ	SA	ENG