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 Indian opening batsmen in Test Cricket since 1950.

*Note: All Test Ratings are updated till 2026-02-05

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. Asians In Asia

4.2.2. Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

4.2.2.1. Asians Outside 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 India.

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

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	SM Gavaskar	IND	1971	1987	1979	203	9607	180.00
2	FM Engineer	IND	1965	1975	1970	48	1577	29.55

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	AN Cook	ENG	2006	2018	2012	278	11845	200.00
1	V Sehwag	IND	2002	2013	2007.5	170	8207	138.57
2	G Gambhir	IND	2004	2016	2010	101	4119	69.55
3	M Vijay	IND	2008	2018	2013	100	3880	65.51
4	NS Sidhu	IND	1983	1999	1991	69	2911	49.15

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	DA Warner	AUS	2011	2024	2017.5	202	8747	170.00
1	KL Rahul	IND	2015	2025	2020	100	3599	69.95
2	RG Sharma	IND	2019	2024	2021.5	66	2697	52.42
3	YB Jaiswal	IND	2023	2025	2024	53	2511	48.80
4	S Dhawan	IND	2013	2018	2015.5	58	2315	44.99

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	YB Jaiswal	53	2	2511	49.24	54.97	241.38
2	SM Gavaskar	203	12	9607	50.30	52.29	229.58
3	V Sehwag	170	6	8207	50.04	49.57	217.66
4	RG Sharma	66	3	2697	42.81	46.18	202.76
5	NS Sidhu	69	1	2911	42.81	44.68	196.18
6	S Dhawan	58	1	2315	40.61	43.15	189.45
7	G Gambhir	101	5	4119	42.91	42.54	186.76
8	M Vijay	100	1	3880	39.19	40.90	179.60
9	KL Rahul	100	4	3599	37.49	40.50	177.83
10	FM Engineer	48	0	1577	32.85	35.17	154.44

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	YB Jaiswal	43	2	1837	44.80	52.38	230.10
2	SM Gavaskar	189	11	8746	49.13	51.70	227.11
3	V Sehwag	132	3	6338	49.13	50.35	221.16
4	RG Sharma	54	3	2298	45.06	50.28	220.86
5	G Gambhir	77	2	3095	41.27	42.49	186.66
6	M Vijay	81	1	3176	39.70	42.45	186.48
7	S Dhawan	48	1	1823	38.79	42.16	185.19
8	KL Rahul	79	2	2890	37.53	42.10	184.93
9	NS Sidhu	42	1	1467	35.78	39.40	173.06
10	FM Engineer	46	0	1569	34.11	36.56	160.62

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	V Sehwag	319	309	293	254	201*	201	195	253.14	150.00
2	SM Gavaskar	221	220	205	182*	176	172	172	192.57	114.11
3	YB Jaiswal	214*	209	175	171	161	118	101	164.14	97.26
4	G Gambhir	206	179	167	167	139	137	116	158.71	94.05
5	M Vijay	167	155	153	150	146	144	139	150.57	89.22
5	RG Sharma	212	176	161	131	127	127	120	150.57	89.22
7	S Dhawan	190	187	173	134	119	115	107	146.43	86.77
8	KL Rahul	199	158	149	137	129	123	110	143.57	85.07
9	NS Sidhu	201	131	124	116	111	107	106	128.00	75.85
10	FM Engineer	121	109	89	87	86	77	75	92.00	54.51

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	V Sehwag	8207	9875	83.11	79.95	150.00
2	FM Engineer	783	1334	58.70	72.41	135.86
3	S Dhawan	2315	3458	66.95	64.84	121.65
4	YB Jaiswal	2511	3803	66.03	59.84	112.28
5	RG Sharma	2697	4592	58.73	54.46	102.17
6	SM Gavaskar	6432	14626	43.98	50.89	95.49
7	G Gambhir	4119	7922	51.99	50.11	94.01
8	NS Sidhu	2891	6611	43.73	48.28	90.58
9	KL Rahul	3599	7115	50.58	48.03	90.12
10	M Vijay	3880	8358	46.42	44.96	84.36

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	V Sehwag	138.57	438.82	150.00	150.00	877.39	350.96
2	SM Gavaskar	180.00	456.69	114.11	95.49	846.29	338.52
3	YB Jaiswal	48.80	471.47	97.26	112.28	729.82	291.93
4	RG Sharma	52.42	423.62	89.22	102.17	667.43	266.97
5	G Gambhir	69.55	373.42	94.05	94.01	631.02	252.41
6	S Dhawan	44.99	374.64	86.77	121.65	628.05	251.22
7	KL Rahul	69.95	362.76	85.07	90.12	607.90	243.16
8	M Vijay	65.51	366.08	89.22	84.36	605.17	242.07
9	NS Sidhu	49.15	369.25	75.85	90.58	584.83	233.93
10	FM Engineer	29.55	315.06	54.51	135.86	534.99	213.99

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	V Sehwag	85	4496	54.83	84.43	874.97	26.25
2	SM Gavaskar	103	4738	47.86	45.79	777.71	23.33
3	YB Jaiswal	26	1393	55.72	73.43	744.73	22.34
4	RG Sharma	41	1766	44.15	66.04	675.97	20.28
5	M Vijay	45	2185	49.66	49.51	662.24	19.87
6	NS Sidhu	24	1435	59.79	44.50	647.44	19.42
7	G Gambhir	59	2322	40.74	51.97	593.91	17.82
8	S Dhawan	17	710	44.38	72.97	583.99	17.52
9	KL Rahul	31	1133	40.46	53.75	531.04	15.93
10	FM Engineer	24	759	31.63	54.85	490.13	14.70

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	SM Gavaskar	100	4869	52.92	41.98	838.13	100.58
2	V Sehwag	85	3711	45.26	81.56	786.83	94.42
3	KL Rahul	69	2466	36.26	49.25	623.57	74.83
4	S Dhawan	41	1605	39.15	64.59	613.14	73.58
5	YB Jaiswal	27	1118	43.00	58.66	609.93	73.19
6	G Gambhir	42	1797	46.08	52.03	595.61	71.47
7	RG Sharma	25	931	40.48	48.54	540.98	64.92
8	FM Engineer	24	818	34.08	63.24	514.19	61.70
9	NS Sidhu	45	1476	33.55	43.02	502.48	60.30
10	M Vijay	55	1695	30.82	42.97	492.46	59.10

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

Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	V Sehwag	109	6091	58.57	85.74	972.09	29.16
2	SM Gavaskar	122	5739	49.47	45.95	797.20	23.92
3	S Dhawan	24	1403	61.00	75.27	766.82	23.00
4	YB Jaiswal	26	1393	55.72	73.43	736.63	22.10
5	RG Sharma	41	1766	44.15	66.04	666.09	19.98
6	M Vijay	51	2516	50.32	49.98	659.14	19.77
7	NS Sidhu	37	2085	56.35	44.94	649.83	19.49
8	G Gambhir	73	3015	43.07	54.39	622.89	18.69
9	KL Rahul	43	1458	36.45	53.66	518.85	15.57
10	FM Engineer	24	759	31.63	54.85	480.86	14.43

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	SM Gavaskar	81	3868	51.57	40.94	943.73	113.25
2	KL Rahul	57	2141	38.23	48.68	773.00	92.76
3	V Sehwag	61	2116	35.27	76.36	767.18	92.06
4	YB Jaiswal	27	1118	43.00	58.66	718.65	86.24
5	G Gambhir	28	1104	42.46	46.41	642.56	77.11
6	RG Sharma	25	931	40.48	48.54	625.89	75.11
7	M Vijay	49	1364	27.84	41.03	562.36	67.48
8	FM Engineer	24	818	34.08	63.24	551.11	66.13
9	S Dhawan	34	912	26.82	57.21	511.69	61.40
10	NS Sidhu	32	826	26.65	40.97	490.39	58.85

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	SM Gavaskar	100.58	23.33	113.25	23.92	261.07
2	V Sehwag	94.42	26.25	92.06	29.16	241.89
3	YB Jaiswal	73.19	22.34	86.24	22.10	203.87
4	KL Rahul	74.83	15.93	92.76	15.57	199.08
5	G Gambhir	71.47	17.82	77.11	18.69	185.08
6	RG Sharma	64.92	20.28	75.11	19.98	180.29
7	S Dhawan	73.58	17.52	61.40	23.00	175.50
8	M Vijay	59.10	19.87	67.48	19.77	166.22
9	NS Sidhu	60.30	19.42	58.85	19.49	158.06
10	FM Engineer	61.70	14.70	66.13	14.43	156.97

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	V Sehwag	20	1517	79.84	97.49	890.39	26.71
2	SM Gavaskar	20	1395	73.42	51.17	779.71	23.39
3	YB Jaiswal	20	1222	64.32	73.26	740.98	22.23
4	RG Sharma	20	1186	62.42	66.52	718.20	21.55
5	G Gambhir	20	1219	64.16	53.28	693.05	20.79
6	NS Sidhu	20	1321	66.05	44.89	670.31	20.11
7	M Vijay	20	1043	54.89	50.02	592.32	17.77
8	KL Rahul	20	865	48.06	55.34	527.99	15.84
9	S Dhawan	17	710	44.38	72.97	513.06	15.39
10	FM Engineer	20	751	37.55	54.85	487.59	14.63

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 5

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	V Sehwag	20	1364	71.79	84.35	914.37	109.72
2	SM Gavaskar	20	1323	69.63	46.19	817.02	98.04
3	G Gambhir	20	1245	73.24	57.93	799.35	95.92
4	S Dhawan	20	1090	54.50	69.25	731.67	87.80
5	M Vijay	20	1041	52.05	46.21	661.05	79.33
6	YB Jaiswal	20	899	47.32	56.72	630.35	75.64
7	NS Sidhu	20	879	43.95	43.24	584.79	70.18
8	RG Sharma	20	864	45.47	48.19	571.52	68.58
9	KL Rahul	20	788	39.40	60.94	563.97	67.68
10	FM Engineer	20	681	34.05	66.84	507.66	60.92

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	SM Gavaskar	191	74	38.74	905.32	135.80
2	V Sehwag	164	60	36.59	809.26	121.39
3	KL Rahul	96	30	31.25	655.07	98.26
4	YB Jaiswal	51	18	35.29	646.36	96.95
5	RG Sharma	63	19	30.16	637.90	95.68
6	G Gambhir	96	27	28.13	618.41	92.76
7	FM Engineer	48	13	27.08	540.58	81.09
8	S Dhawan	57	15	26.32	532.95	79.94
9	NS Sidhu	68	18	26.47	514.74	77.21
10	M Vijay	99	23	23.23	475.68	71.35

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	V Sehwag	26.71	109.72	121.39	257.83
2	SM Gavaskar	23.39	98.04	135.80	257.23
3	G Gambhir	20.79	95.92	92.76	209.47
4	YB Jaiswal	22.23	75.64	96.95	194.83
5	RG Sharma	21.55	68.58	95.68	185.81
6	S Dhawan	15.39	87.80	79.94	183.13
7	KL Rahul	15.84	67.68	98.26	181.78
8	M Vijay	17.77	79.33	71.35	168.45
9	NS Sidhu	20.11	70.18	77.21	167.50
10	FM Engineer	14.63	60.92	81.09	156.63

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	1	SM Gavaskar	IND	338.52	261.07	257.23	856.82
2	2	V Sehwag	IND	350.96	241.89	257.83	850.67
3	15	YB Jaiswal	IND	291.93	203.87	194.83	690.62
4	23	G Gambhir	IND	252.41	185.08	209.47	646.97
5	32	RG Sharma	IND	266.97	180.29	185.81	633.07
6	37	KL Rahul	IND	243.16	199.08	181.78	624.02
7	42	S Dhawan	IND	251.22	175.50	183.13	609.86
8	51	M Vijay	IND	242.07	166.22	168.45	576.74
9	60	NS Sidhu	IND	233.93	158.06	167.50	559.49
10	72	FM Engineer	IND	213.99	156.97	156.63	527.59

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