Tests - Best Pakistani Middle Order Batsmen

Top 10 Pakistani Middle Order Batsmen in Tests

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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 Pakistani middle order (3-6) batsmen in Test Cricket since 1950.

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

CONTENTS
1. THE CRITERIA
2. QUALIFICATION
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 Pakistan.

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

This rating filters the OVERALL Rating to include performances of middle order (3-6) 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) 50
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 AR Border AUS 1978 1994 1986 257 10964 170.00
1 Javed Miandad PAK 1976 1993 1984.5 185 8725 135.28
2 Zaheer Abbas PAK 1969 1985 1977 118 4931 76.46
3 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 1964 1980 1972 80 3040 47.14
4 Saeed Ahmed PAK 1958 1972 1965 72 2848 44.16
RANK ERA 2 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS SR Tendulkar IND 1989 2013 2001 324 15789 200.00
1 Younis Khan PAK 2000 2017 2008.5 210 9899 125.39
2 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 1992 2007 1999.5 187 8189 103.73
3 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 1998 2010 2004 155 7520 95.26
4 Salim Malik PAK 1982 1999 1990.5 144 5600 70.94
5 Misbah-ul-Haq PAK 2001 2017 2009 129 5106 64.68
RANK ERA 3 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS JE Root ENG 2012 2025 2018.5 276 13126 180.00
1 Babar Azam PAK 2016 2025 2020.5 104 4064 55.73

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 2000

Against All Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS AVE R AVE RAT
TS GS Sobers 135 16 7048 59.23 61.04 250.00
1 Javed Miandad 185 19 8725 52.56 52.19 213.75
2 Mohammad Yousuf 155 11 7520 52.22 50.65 207.46
3 Younis Khan 210 18 9899 51.56 49.64 203.33
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 187 17 8189 48.17 47.29 193.68
5 Zaheer Abbas 118 9 4931 45.24 45.73 187.31
6 Misbah-ul-Haq 129 19 5106 46.42 45.56 186.59
7 Salim Malik 144 20 5600 45.16 45.32 185.63
8 Babar Azam 104 8 4064 42.33 43.81 179.45
9 Saeed Ahmed 72 3 2848 41.28 42.52 174.17
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 80 6 3040 41.08 42.38 173.60

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS AVE R AVE RAT
TS GS Sobers 119 14 6492 61.83 64.21 250.00
1 Salim Malik 77 12 3455 53.15 55.01 214.20
2 Younis Khan 155 11 7444 51.69 51.25 199.56
3 Javed Miandad 123 13 5319 48.35 50.13 195.19
4 Babar Azam 64 5 2605 44.15 46.22 179.97
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 124 7 5275 45.09 46.14 179.67
6 Misbah-ul-Haq 96 11 3729 43.87 43.98 171.23
7 Zaheer Abbas 91 7 3492 41.57 43.57 169.64
8 Mohammad Yousuf 121 4 5056 43.21 43.39 168.94
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 56 4 1984 38.15 40.48 157.64
10 Saeed Ahmed 68 2 2566 38.88 40.14 156.30

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 BC Lara 400* 375 277 226 221 216 213 275.43 150.00
1 Younis Khan 313 267 218 213 200* 200* 199 230.00 125.26
2 Javed Miandad 280* 271 260 211 206 203* 163 227.71 124.01
3 Zaheer Abbas 274 240 235* 215 186 176 168* 213.43 116.23
4 Mohammad Yousuf 223 204* 203 202 192 192 191 201.00 109.47
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 200* 184 177 148 142 138* 188.29 102.54
6 Salim Malik 237 165 155 143 140 119* 116 153.57 83.64
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 175 166 152* 135 134* 120 104* 140.86 76.71
7 Babar Azam 196 161 143 136 127* 119 104 140.86 76.71
9 Saeed Ahmed 172 166 150 121 103 97 91 128.57 70.02
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 161* 135 133* 114 102* 102* 102 121.29 66.05

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 2000
Min Average 25
RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS IVA Richards 6609 9580 68.99 75.59 150.00
1 Zaheer Abbas 3924 7003 56.03 63.33 125.66
2 Saeed Ahmed 323 706 45.75 59.75 118.56
3 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 1129 2306 48.96 57.58 114.26
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 8189 15209 53.84 55.14 109.42
5 Salim Malik 5212 10536 49.47 53.45 106.07
6 Mohammad Yousuf 7520 14360 52.37 52.37 103.92
7 Babar Azam 4064 7473 54.38 51.75 102.68
8 Younis Khan 9899 18954 52.23 50.87 100.95
9 Javed Miandad 6867 15036 45.67 50.10 99.42
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 5106 11502 44.39 43.45 86.23

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 Javed Miandad 135.28 408.94 124.01 99.42 767.66 307.07
2 Younis Khan 125.39 402.89 125.26 100.95 754.49 301.80
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 103.73 373.35 102.54 109.42 689.04 275.61
4 Mohammad Yousuf 95.26 376.40 109.47 103.92 685.05 274.02
5 Zaheer Abbas 76.46 356.95 116.23 125.66 675.30 270.12
6 Salim Malik 70.94 399.83 83.64 106.07 660.47 264.19
7 Babar Azam 55.73 359.42 76.71 102.68 594.55 237.82
8 Misbah-ul-Haq 64.68 357.82 66.05 86.23 574.78 229.91
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 47.14 331.24 76.71 114.26 569.35 227.74
10 Saeed Ahmed 44.16 330.47 70.02 118.56 563.21 225.28

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: 20

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 86 4481 61.38 45.75 785.53 23.57
2 Younis Khan 82 4214 56.19 53.40 719.98 21.60
3 Zaheer Abbas 48 2338 57.02 63.45 699.60 20.99
4 Mohammad Yousuf 56 3337 66.74 53.06 690.91 20.73
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 80 3673 50.32 52.80 669.52 20.09
6 Salim Malik 68 2904 50.07 51.32 649.34 19.48
7 Misbah-ul-Haq 50 2351 55.98 45.53 611.96 18.36
8 Babar Azam 46 2130 49.53 56.41 610.67 18.32
9 Saeed Ahmed 28 1157 44.50 NK 524.03 15.72
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 31 1238 42.69 NK 500.00 15.00

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 128 5685 48.59 51.39 713.26 85.59
2 Javed Miandad 99 4244 45.63 45.60 674.73 80.97
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 107 4516 46.56 54.72 635.60 76.27
4 Mohammad Yousuf 99 4183 44.50 51.83 623.95 74.87
5 Salim Malik 76 2696 40.85 47.57 590.18 70.82
6 Zaheer Abbas 70 2593 38.13 51.41 583.19 69.98
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 49 1802 40.04 48.96 553.22 66.39
8 Saeed Ahmed 44 1691 39.33 45.75 515.96 61.91
9 Babar Azam 58 1934 36.49 52.31 499.06 59.89
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 79 2755 40.51 43.47 498.41 59.81

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: 20

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 110 5475 57.63 45.63 872.95 26.19
2 Younis Khan 130 6726 57.49 53.81 860.93 25.83
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 103 4825 52.45 53.65 777.71 23.33
4 Mohammad Yousuf 86 4466 58.00 53.22 741.19 22.24
5 Zaheer Abbas 60 2651 50.98 59.50 740.05 22.20
6 Babar Azam 56 2576 49.54 55.76 713.90 21.42
7 Salim Malik 94 3632 45.40 50.19 706.65 21.20
8 Misbah-ul-Haq 80 3487 52.04 45.93 689.06 20.67
9 Saeed Ahmed 37 1579 45.11 NK 613.96 18.42
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 41 1505 39.61 55.28 591.75 17.75

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 75 3250 45.77 45.73 850.98 102.12
2 Zaheer Abbas 58 2280 40.00 52.92 745.01 89.40
3 Mohammad Yousuf 69 3054 45.58 51.16 742.81 89.14
4 Younis Khan 80 3173 42.31 49.16 720.81 86.50
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 84 3364 43.13 54.12 708.67 85.04
6 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 39 1535 42.64 47.28 684.39 82.13
7 Salim Malik 50 1968 44.73 48.32 647.22 77.67
8 Saeed Ahmed 35 1269 37.32 45.75 572.67 68.72
9 Babar Azam 48 1488 33.82 52.16 539.24 64.71
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 49 1619 37.65 41.41 533.45 64.01

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 Javed Miandad 80.97 23.57 102.12 26.19 232.84
2 Younis Khan 85.59 21.60 86.50 25.83 219.52
3 Mohammad Yousuf 74.87 20.73 89.14 22.24 206.97
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 76.27 20.09 85.04 23.33 204.73
5 Zaheer Abbas 69.98 20.99 89.40 22.20 202.57
6 Salim Malik 70.82 19.48 77.67 21.20 189.17
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 66.39 15.00 82.13 17.75 181.27
8 Saeed Ahmed 61.91 15.72 68.72 18.42 164.77
9 Babar Azam 59.89 18.32 64.71 21.42 164.33
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 59.81 18.36 64.01 20.67 162.85

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 30 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: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Zaheer Abbas 30 2045 88.91 65.16 875.80 26.27
2 Javed Miandad 30 2050 78.85 50.25 795.40 23.86
3 Mohammad Yousuf 30 2077 76.93 57.23 771.72 23.15
4 Younis Khan 30 1946 77.84 53.21 761.03 22.83
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 30 1942 74.69 56.18 749.75 22.49
6 Babar Azam 30 1857 68.78 58.49 709.55 21.29
7 Misbah-ul-Haq 30 1674 72.78 45.78 640.87 19.23
8 Salim Malik 30 1574 58.30 56.31 635.32 19.06
9 Saeed Ahmed 28 1157 44.50 NK 516.42 15.49
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 30 1237 44.18 NK 500.24 15.01

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 30 1860 68.89 46.85 806.81 96.82
2 Mohammad Yousuf 30 1730 64.07 60.32 768.71 92.24
3 Younis Khan 30 1623 62.42 51.02 729.27 87.51
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 30 1553 57.52 63.13 687.66 82.52
5 Zaheer Abbas 30 1338 44.60 53.44 629.82 75.58
6 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 30 1318 47.07 49.34 620.52 74.46
7 Saeed Ahmed 30 1336 44.53 70.27 610.24 73.23
8 Salim Malik 30 1303 50.12 51.16 597.08 71.65
9 Babar Azam 30 1318 48.81 55.42 580.73 69.69
10 Misbah-ul-Haq 30 1213 52.74 44.68 568.67 68.24

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: 50

RANK BATSMAN DIS II II/Dis% RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 166 71 42.77 820.62 123.09
2 Mohammad Yousuf 144 55 38.19 652.58 97.89
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 170 60 35.29 642.84 96.43
4 Babar Azam 96 33 34.38 626.53 93.98
5 Younis Khan 192 58 30.21 567.47 85.12
6 Saeed Ahmed 69 23 33.33 564.15 84.62
7 Misbah-ul-Haq 110 35 31.82 551.26 82.69
8 Salim Malik 124 34 27.42 518.12 77.72
9 Zaheer Abbas 109 31 28.44 501.73 75.26
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 74 19 25.68 450.97 67.65

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 Javed Miandad 23.86 96.82 123.09 243.77
2 Mohammad Yousuf 23.15 92.24 97.89 213.28
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 22.49 82.52 96.43 201.44
4 Younis Khan 22.83 87.51 85.12 195.46
5 Babar Azam 21.29 69.69 93.98 184.95
6 Zaheer Abbas 26.27 75.58 75.26 177.11
7 Saeed Ahmed 15.49 73.23 84.62 173.34
8 Misbah-ul-Haq 19.23 68.24 82.69 170.15
9 Salim Malik 19.06 71.65 77.72 168.43
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 15.01 74.46 67.65 157.12

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 9 Javed Miandad PAK 307.07 232.84 243.77 783.68
2 19 Younis Khan PAK 301.80 219.52 195.46 716.77
3 23 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 274.02 206.97 213.28 694.28
4 27 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 275.61 204.73 201.44 681.78
5 31 Zaheer Abbas PAK 270.12 202.57 177.11 649.81
6 41 Salim Malik PAK 264.19 189.17 168.43 621.78
7 59 Babar Azam PAK 237.82 164.33 184.95 587.11
8 63 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 227.74 181.27 157.12 566.12
9 65 Saeed Ahmed PAK 225.28 164.77 173.34 563.40
10 66 Misbah-ul-Haq PAK 229.91 162.85 170.15 562.92

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 ENG SA

Top Teams Outside Asia

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

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