Top 10 Pakistani Middle Order Batsmen in Tests

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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, Strike Rate, Top Inns
Conditions Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia
Secondary Top Form, Low Scoring Inns, Impact Inns

QUALIFICATION


Min Innings (TT) 30
Min Runs 1000

PRIMARY CRITERIA

The Primary Rating is divided into 4 main sections:-

CRITERIA STAT POINTS
Prolific Runs Scored 250.00
Consistent Average 400.00
Attacking Strike Rate 100.00
Big Innings Potential Top Inns (Runs) 250.00

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 1976
Era 2 MP between 1975 And 1996
Era 3 MP between 1995 And 2016
Era 4 MP greater than 2015

Criteria: Points For Runs Scored

RANK ERA 1 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS GS Sobers WI 1955 1974 1964.5 135 7048 220.00
1 Mushtaq Mohammad PAK 1960 1979 1969.5 89 3363 104.97
2 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 1964 1980 1972 80 3040 94.89
3 Saeed Ahmed PAK 1958 1972 1965 72 2848 88.90
RANK ERA 2 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS AR Border AUS 1978 1994 1986 257 10964 230.00
1 Javed Miandad PAK 1976 1993 1984.5 185 8725 183.03
2 Salim Malik PAK 1982 1999 1990.5 144 5600 117.48
3 Zaheer Abbas PAK 1969 1985 1977 118 4931 103.44
RANK ERA 3 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS SR Tendulkar IND 1989 2013 2001 324 15789 250.00
1 Younis Khan PAK 2000 2017 2008.5 210 9899 156.74
2 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 1992 2007 1999.5 187 8189 129.66
3 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 1998 2010 2004 155 7520 119.07
RANK ERA 4 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS JE Root ENG 2012 2026 2019 286 13526 240.00
1 Babar Azam PAK 2016 2025 2020.5 108 4195 74.43

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
Min Runs (TT) 1600

Against All Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS AVE R AVE RAT
TS GS Sobers 135 16 7048 59.23 64.11 160.00
1 Javed Miandad 185 19 8725 52.56 53.32 133.07
2 Mohammad Yousuf 155 11 7520 52.22 51.52 128.58
3 Younis Khan 210 18 9899 51.56 49.84 124.39
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 187 17 8189 48.17 47.39 118.29
5 Zaheer Abbas 118 9 4931 45.24 46.71 116.59
6 Salim Malik 144 20 5600 45.16 44.90 112.07
7 Saeed Ahmed 72 3 2848 41.28 43.78 109.27
8 Mushtaq Mohammad 89 7 3363 41.01 42.70 106.58
9 Babar Azam 108 8 4195 41.95 42.64 106.43
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 80 6 3040 41.08 42.47 105.99

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS AVE R AVE RAT
TS GS Sobers 105 11 5806 61.77 68.16 240.00
1 Younis Khan 142 10 6705 50.80 51.07 179.82
2 Salim Malik 53 6 2112 44.94 48.61 171.17
3 Javed Miandad 104 9 4160 43.79 47.84 168.46
4 Zaheer Abbas 90 7 3702 44.60 47.46 167.11
5 Mohammad Yousuf 98 5 4148 44.60 46.54 163.88
6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 100 5 4126 43.43 46.34 163.16
7 Babar Azam 68 5 2736 43.43 45.13 158.89
8 Saeed Ahmed 53 2 2008 39.37 43.93 154.68
9 Mushtaq Mohammad 68 5 2356 37.40 40.17 141.44
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 60 5 2043 37.15 38.71 136.30

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 Runs (TT) 1600
Min Average 25

Against All Teams

RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS HC Brook 3178 3660 86.83 79.08 40.00
1 Zaheer Abbas 3924 7003 56.03 64.99 32.87
2 Saeed Ahmed 323 706 45.75 60.38 30.54
3 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 1129 2306 48.96 58.65 29.67
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 8189 15209 53.84 56.50 28.58
5 Mohammad Yousuf 7520 14360 52.37 53.74 27.18
6 Salim Malik 5212 10536 49.47 53.68 27.15
7 Babar Azam 4195 7702 54.47 52.10 26.36
8 Younis Khan 9899 18954 52.23 51.71 26.16
9 Javed Miandad 6867 15036 45.67 50.61 25.60
10 Mushtaq Mohammad 884 2645 33.42 41.27 20.87

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS HC Brook 2361 2689 87.80 81.53 60.00
1 Zaheer Abbas 3011 5574 54.02 63.44 46.69
2 Saeed Ahmed 323 706 45.75 61.70 45.41
3 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 1129 2306 48.96 59.20 43.56
4 Mohammad Yousuf 4148 7540 55.01 56.61 41.66
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 4126 7824 52.74 55.72 41.00
6 Salim Malik 2107 4229 49.82 55.56 40.89
7 Babar Azam 2736 4792 57.10 54.87 40.38
8 Younis Khan 6705 12692 52.83 52.43 38.58
9 Javed Miandad 3800 8587 44.25 50.37 37.07
10 Mushtaq Mohammad 884 2645 33.42 41.66 30.66

BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL


Ave HS

In this criteria, we have taken the top 7 scores of the batsman. 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

Against All Teams

RANK BATSMAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AVE HS RAT
TS BC Lara 400* 375 277 226 221 216 213 275.43 80.00
1 Younis Khan 313 267 218 213 200* 200* 199 230.00 66.80
2 Javed Miandad 280* 271 260 211 206 203* 163 227.71 66.14
3 Zaheer Abbas 274 240 235* 215 186 176 168* 213.43 61.99
4 Mohammad Yousuf 223 204* 203 202 192 192 191 201.00 58.38
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 200* 184 177 148 142 138* 188.29 54.69
6 Salim Malik 237 165 155 143 140 119* 116 153.57 44.61
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 175 166 152* 135 134* 120 104* 140.86 40.91
7 Babar Azam 196 161 143 136 127* 119 104 140.86 40.91
9 Mushtaq Mohammad 201 157 123 121 121 107 101 133.00 38.63
10 Saeed Ahmed 172 166 150 121 103 97 91 128.57 37.34

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AVE HS RAT
TS DPMD Jayawardena 374 275 242 240 237 213* 195 253.71 170.00
1 Younis Khan 313 267 218 213 199 194 177 225.86 151.33
2 Zaheer Abbas 274 240 235* 215 186 176 101 203.86 136.59
3 Mohammad Yousuf 223 202 192 173 128 126 115 165.57 110.94
4 Javed Miandad 271 154* 131 129* 118 114 106* 146.14 97.92
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 184 177 135 123 119 118 118 139.14 93.23
6 Babar Azam 196 161 136 104 102* 100* 99 128.29 85.96
7 Salim Malik 237 143 116 102 99 80* 77 122.00 81.75
8 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 152* 135 134* 120 104* 104 102 121.57 81.46
9 Mushtaq Mohammad 157 123 121 121 100* 100 99 117.29 78.59
10 Saeed Ahmed 166 150 97 91 80 78 74 105.14 70.45

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 Younis Khan 156.74 304.21 218.14 64.74 743.83 297.53
2 Javed Miandad 183.03 301.54 164.06 62.67 711.30 284.52
3 Zaheer Abbas 103.44 283.71 198.59 79.56 665.30 266.12
4 Mohammad Yousuf 119.07 292.46 169.32 68.85 649.70 259.88
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 129.66 281.45 147.92 69.58 628.61 251.45
6 Salim Malik 117.48 283.25 126.35 68.04 595.11 238.04
7 Saeed Ahmed 88.90 263.95 107.79 75.95 536.59 214.64
8 Babar Azam 74.43 265.33 126.87 66.73 533.37 213.35
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 94.89 242.29 122.37 73.23 532.79 213.11
10 Mushtaq Mohammad 104.97 248.02 117.22 51.53 521.74 208.70

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.

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: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 82 4214 56.19 53.40 715.11 21.45
2 Zaheer Abbas 48 2338 57.02 63.45 702.05 21.06
3 Javed Miandad 86 4481 61.38 45.75 691.24 20.74
4 Mohammad Yousuf 56 3337 66.74 53.06 632.42 18.97
5 Salim Malik 68 2904 50.07 51.32 631.73 18.95
6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 80 3673 50.32 52.80 604.33 18.13
7 Babar Azam 50 2261 48.11 56.45 550.54 16.52
8 Saeed Ahmed 28 1157 44.50 NK 485.84 14.58
9 Mushtaq Mohammad 28 1097 43.88 NK 483.75 14.51
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 31 1238 42.69 NK 453.85 13.62

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 128 5685 48.59 51.39 700.33 84.04
2 Javed Miandad 99 4244 45.63 45.60 671.55 80.59
3 Mohammad Yousuf 99 4183 44.50 51.83 604.96 72.59
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 107 4516 46.56 54.72 588.95 70.67
5 Zaheer Abbas 70 2593 38.13 51.41 578.63 69.44
6 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 49 1802 40.04 48.96 519.50 62.34
7 Mushtaq Mohammad 61 2266 39.75 33.42 499.00 59.88
8 Saeed Ahmed 44 1691 39.33 45.75 491.06 58.93
9 Salim Malik 76 2696 40.85 47.57 484.67 58.16
10 Babar Azam 58 1934 36.49 52.31 440.37 52.84

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 Younis Khan 130 6726 57.49 53.81 858.29 25.75
2 Javed Miandad 110 5475 57.63 45.63 813.20 24.40
3 Zaheer Abbas 60 2651 50.98 59.50 731.81 21.95
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 103 4825 52.45 53.65 712.95 21.39
5 Salim Malik 94 3632 45.40 50.19 698.46 20.95
6 Mohammad Yousuf 86 4466 58.00 53.22 686.73 20.60
7 Babar Azam 60 2707 48.34 55.83 660.14 19.80
8 Saeed Ahmed 37 1579 45.11 NK 621.85 18.66
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 41 1505 39.61 55.28 587.59 17.63
10 Mushtaq Mohammad 34 1347 44.90 NK 500.00 15.00

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 45.73 914.22 109.71
2 Zaheer Abbas 58 2280 40.00 52.92 770.85 92.50
3 Mohammad Yousuf 69 3054 45.58 51.16 746.57 89.59
4 Mushtaq Mohammad 55 2016 38.77 33.42 743.93 89.27
5 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 39 1535 42.64 47.28 739.07 88.69
6 Younis Khan 80 3173 42.31 49.16 734.21 88.11
7 Inzamam-ul-Haq 84 3364 43.13 54.12 689.14 82.70
8 Salim Malik 50 1968 44.73 48.32 672.09 80.65
9 Saeed Ahmed 35 1269 37.32 45.75 613.83 73.66
10 Babar Azam 48 1488 33.82 52.16 498.30 59.80

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 80.59 20.74 109.71 24.40 235.43
2 Younis Khan 84.04 21.45 88.11 25.75 219.35
3 Zaheer Abbas 69.44 21.06 92.50 21.95 204.95
4 Mohammad Yousuf 72.59 18.97 89.59 20.60 201.76
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 70.67 18.13 82.70 21.39 192.89
6 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 62.34 13.62 88.69 17.63 182.27
7 Salim Malik 58.16 18.95 80.65 20.95 178.72
8 Mushtaq Mohammad 59.88 14.51 89.27 15.00 178.66
9 Saeed Ahmed 58.93 14.58 73.66 18.66 165.82
10 Babar Azam 52.84 16.52 59.80 19.80 148.96

SECONDARY CRITERIA

Secondary Rating

It consists of three parts. If Innings are less than the Qualification than the Player gets 50% of the Points.

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

CRITERIA POINTS
Low Scoring Inns 50.00
Top Form 100.00
Impact Innings 150.00

LOW SCORING INNS


LSI RATING

Low Scoring Inns (LSI) are those inns in which batting average is less than 30.

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 95 2736 29.74 41.98 774.41 38.72
2 Inzamam-ul-Haq 95 2537 27.88 49.04 700.00 35.00
3 Mohammad Yousuf 75 2193 30.04 49.17 669.46 33.47
4 Babar Azam 64 1827 29.47 52.20 646.91 32.35
5 Salim Malik 64 1686 28.58 46.67 622.15 31.11
6 Saeed Ahmed 39 1017 26.76 48.17 591.59 29.58
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 38 934 25.94 45.08 564.36 28.22
8 Mushtaq Mohammad 45 1024 23.81 30.49 524.67 26.23
9 Younis Khan 97 1802 19.17 43.61 502.38 25.12
10 Zaheer Abbas 59 1076 19.21 51.32 488.40 24.42

TOP FORM


TF RATING

Points to note about Top Form Rating:-

  • TF is calculated by taking the best 50 consecutive innings of a batsman.
  • The inns are taken such that his points are maximum.
  • Only innings against Top Teams are considered.

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 50 3113 67.67 56.93 844.77 84.48
2 Mohammad Yousuf 50 2752 58.55 59.23 745.50 74.55
3 Zaheer Abbas 50 2267 48.23 54.04 680.49 68.05
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 50 2490 54.13 55.48 661.58 66.16
5 Babar Azam 50 2356 51.22 59.02 630.67 63.07
6 Javed Miandad 50 2239 44.78 45.41 601.49 60.15
7 Salim Malik 50 2098 47.68 49.89 592.84 59.28
8 Saeed Ahmed 50 1945 40.52 53.83 555.93 55.59
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 50 1827 39.72 48.76 535.55 53.55
10 Mushtaq Mohammad 50 1859 41.31 33.48 522.70 52.27

IMPACT INNS


II RATING

Impact Inns are those innings which have an impact in terms of runs or strike rate. Know All About II. Points to note about II:-

  • A Batsman should score at least 30 runs to qualify.
  • An Inn is included in II if it is 15 percent of the total runs or
  • The SR is high or in a successful chase while being Not Out.

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 30

RANK BATSMAN DIS II II/Dis% RAT WTG
1 Javed Miandad 166 78 46.99 833.68 125.05
2 Babar Azam 100 43 43.00 682.85 102.43
3 Mohammad Yousuf 144 63 43.75 675.77 101.37
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 170 66 38.82 630.44 94.57
5 Saeed Ahmed 69 26 37.68 613.28 91.99
6 Mushtaq Mohammad 82 29 35.37 577.71 86.66
7 Younis Khan 192 66 34.38 577.64 86.65
8 Zaheer Abbas 109 37 33.94 558.00 83.70
9 Salim Malik 124 42 33.87 555.14 83.27
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 74 25 33.78 546.22 81.93

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 LSI TF II SEC RAT
1 Javed Miandad 38.72 60.15 125.05 223.92
2 Mohammad Yousuf 33.47 74.55 101.37 209.39
3 Babar Azam 32.35 63.07 102.43 197.84
4 Younis Khan 25.12 84.48 86.65 196.24
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 35.00 66.16 94.57 195.72
6 Saeed Ahmed 29.58 55.59 91.99 177.16
7 Zaheer Abbas 24.42 68.05 83.70 176.17
8 Salim Malik 31.11 59.28 83.27 173.66
9 Mushtaq Mohammad 26.23 52.27 86.66 165.16
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 28.22 53.55 81.93 163.71

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 13 Javed Miandad PAK 284.52 235.43 223.92 743.87
2 18 Younis Khan PAK 297.53 219.35 196.24 713.12
3 25 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 259.88 201.76 209.39 671.02
4 30 Zaheer Abbas PAK 266.12 204.95 176.17 647.24
5 35 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 251.45 192.89 195.72 640.06
6 46 Salim Malik PAK 238.04 178.72 173.66 590.42
7 58 Babar Azam PAK 213.35 148.96 197.84 560.15
8 60 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 213.11 182.27 163.71 559.09
9 62 Saeed Ahmed PAK 214.64 165.82 177.16 557.62
10 68 Mushtaq Mohammad PAK 208.70 178.66 165.16 552.52

BRIEF EXPLANATION


Dynamic Nature

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.

Trend Setter (TS)

  1. TS is the player who does the best in a criteria.
  2. The rating of all other players are calculated taking the TS as the benchmark. Example:-
  3. TS Runs: 2,000; Player X Runs: 1,000; Section Points: 250.00
  4. TS Points: 250.00 (Max)
  5. Player X Points: Runs/TS Runs X 250 = 1,000/2,000 X 250 = 125.00.
  6. Ratings of all sections are calculated similarly with Runs being replaced by the Criteria Stat.
  7. Know All About the Trend Setter
  8. .

Top Teams (TT)

  1. An opposition is counted as a TT considering its Win/Loss (WL) Ratios in last 7 years.
  2. Home, Away, In Asia, Outside Asia and Overall WL Ratio is considered.
  3. The WL Ratio should be more than a certain value overall or in specific condition.

Abbreviations

  1. AVE - Average or Runs/(Inns - Not Out)
  2. BF - Balls Faced
  3. FP - First Played by Year
  4. INF - Infinite
  5. LP - Last Played by Year
  6. MP - Middle Played or (FP+LP)/2
  7. NA - Not Applicable
  8. NI - Not In Top
  9. NK - Not Known
  10. NO, * - Not Out
  11. NQ - Not Qualified
  12. OPP - Opposition
  13. R4BF - Runs for available data of balls
  14. SR - Strike Rate or Runs/Balls
  15. TS - Trend Setter
  16. TT - Top Teams


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