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 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.

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	265	11174	170.00
1	GA Gooch	ENG	1975	1995	1985	215	8900	135.40
2	DI Gower	ENG	1978	1992	1985	204	8231	125.23
3	G Boycott	ENG	1964	1982	1973	193	8114	123.45
4	MC Cowdrey	ENG	1954	1975	1964.5	188	7624	115.99
5	KF Barrington	ENG	1955	1968	1961.5	131	6806	103.55
6	ER Dexter	ENG	1958	1968	1963	102	4502	68.49
7	DL Amiss	ENG	1966	1977	1971.5	88	3612	54.95

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	SR Tendulkar	IND	1989	2013	2001	329	15921	200.00
1	AN Cook	ENG	2006	2018	2012	291	12472	156.67
2	KP Pietersen	ENG	2005	2014	2009.5	181	8181	102.77

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	JE Root	ENG	2012	2025	2018.5	288	13543	190.00
1	JE Root	ENG	2012	2025	2018.5	288	13543	190.00

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	160	21	8032	57.78	60.51	250.00
1	KF Barrington	131	15	6806	58.67	58.55	241.90
2	JE Root	288	24	13543	51.30	54.73	226.12
3	G Boycott	193	23	8114	47.73	49.80	205.74
4	ER Dexter	102	8	4502	47.89	48.95	202.22
5	DL Amiss	88	10	3612	46.31	47.43	195.95
6	MC Cowdrey	188	15	7624	44.07	46.79	193.29
7	AN Cook	291	16	12472	45.35	46.57	192.40
8	DI Gower	204	18	8231	44.25	45.92	189.72
9	KP Pietersen	181	8	8181	47.29	45.89	189.57
10	GA Gooch	215	6	8900	42.58	45.79	189.16

Against Top Teams

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	NO	RUNS	AVE	R AVE	RAT
TS	GS Sobers	140	19	7274	60.12	63.61	250.00
1	KF Barrington	111	12	5639	56.96	57.55	226.19
2	JE Root	218	18	9939	49.70	54.22	213.13
3	G Boycott	162	18	6553	45.51	47.98	188.60
4	ER Dexter	90	7	3804	45.83	47.24	185.69
5	MC Cowdrey	159	12	6356	43.24	46.66	183.40
6	DI Gower	161	12	6505	43.66	46.59	183.13
7	DL Amiss	66	5	2727	44.70	46.36	182.22
8	KP Pietersen	131	5	5706	45.29	45.42	178.51
9	AN Cook	202	6	8278	42.23	45.00	176.88
10	GA Gooch	164	2	6099	37.65	41.93	164.81

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	AN Cook	294	263	244*	243	235*	190	189	236.86	128.99
2	JE Root	262	254	228	226	218	200*	190	225.43	122.77
3	GA Gooch	333	210	196	183	174	154*	154	200.57	109.23
4	DL Amiss	262*	203	188	183	179	174	164*	193.29	105.26
5	KP Pietersen	227	226	202*	186	175	158	158	190.29	103.63
6	DI Gower	215	200*	173*	166	157*	157	154*	174.57	95.07
7	KF Barrington	256	172	163	151*	148*	148	143	168.71	91.88
8	ER Dexter	205	180	174	172	172	141	136*	168.57	91.80
9	G Boycott	246*	191	155	142*	137	131	128*	161.43	87.91
10	MC Cowdrey	182	160	159	155	154	152	151	159.00	86.59

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	N Kapil Dev	4481	5580	80.30	88.84	150.00
1	KP Pietersen	8181	13254	61.72	59.54	100.53
2	DI Gower	8231	16266	50.60	55.94	94.44
3	GA Gooch	8900	18061	49.28	55.58	93.84
4	ER Dexter	1220	2820	43.26	54.40	91.84
5	JE Root	13543	23556	57.49	54.04	91.23
6	KF Barrington	2359	5485	43.01	52.46	88.58
7	DL Amiss	3227	7780	41.48	49.96	84.35
8	MC Cowdrey	2861	7942	36.02	45.86	77.43
9	AN Cook	12472	26562	46.95	45.30	76.48
10	G Boycott	7521	21193	35.49	42.49	71.73

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	JE Root	190.00	439.25	122.77	91.23	843.25	337.30
2	KF Barrington	103.55	468.10	91.88	88.58	752.10	300.84
3	AN Cook	156.67	369.28	128.99	76.48	731.43	292.57
4	GA Gooch	135.40	353.98	109.23	93.84	692.45	276.98
5	DI Gower	125.23	372.84	95.07	94.44	687.58	275.03
6	G Boycott	123.45	394.34	87.91	71.73	677.44	270.98
7	KP Pietersen	102.77	368.08	103.63	100.53	675.02	270.01
8	MC Cowdrey	115.99	376.69	86.59	77.43	656.71	262.68
9	ER Dexter	68.49	387.91	91.80	91.84	640.05	256.02
10	DL Amiss	54.95	378.17	105.26	84.35	622.74	249.10

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	JE Root	147	7329	55.52	59.58	830.41	24.91
2	GA Gooch	131	5917	46.23	51.56	735.41	22.06
3	KP Pietersen	89	4537	52.76	66.19	714.44	21.43
4	AN Cook	155	6568	44.38	48.03	673.55	20.21
5	G Boycott	100	4356	48.40	37.99	660.09	19.80
6	DI Gower	113	4454	42.83	51.94	647.58	19.43
7	KF Barrington	73	3347	50.71	42.36	637.11	19.11
8	MC Cowdrey	88	3537	43.13	36.51	602.09	18.06
9	ER Dexter	54	2195	43.04	43.76	544.65	16.34
10	DL Amiss	45	1610	41.28	43.08	514.71	15.44

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	KF Barrington	58	3459	69.18	45.15	789.65	94.76
2	JE Root	141	6214	47.08	55.22	773.23	92.79
3	AN Cook	136	5904	46.49	45.81	707.28	84.87
4	DI Gower	91	3777	46.06	49.11	660.59	79.27
5	ER Dexter	48	2307	53.65	42.06	646.05	77.53
6	MC Cowdrey	100	4087	44.91	35.76	637.96	76.56
7	DL Amiss	43	2002	51.33	40.00	632.80	75.94
8	G Boycott	93	3758	46.98	32.86	616.90	74.03
9	KP Pietersen	92	3644	41.89	56.95	577.82	69.34
10	GA Gooch	84	2983	36.83	45.29	549.00	65.88

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: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	JE Root	228	10754	51.95	57.50	857.26	25.72
2	KF Barrington	118	5903	55.69	43.01	755.54	22.67
3	GA Gooch	191	8031	42.95	49.36	738.41	22.15
4	AN Cook	236	9762	43.58	47.60	733.86	22.02
5	KP Pietersen	139	6608	49.31	61.49	727.64	21.83
6	G Boycott	178	7408	46.89	35.73	712.37	21.37
7	DI Gower	180	7093	42.73	51.66	706.55	21.20
8	MC Cowdrey	180	7182	43.27	36.02	691.53	20.75
9	ER Dexter	89	3790	45.12	43.26	634.19	19.03
10	DL Amiss	67	2699	45.75	42.69	626.48	18.79

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Non Asians In Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	JE Root	60	2789	48.93	57.46	801.80	96.22
2	AN Cook	55	2710	53.14	44.77	773.64	92.84
3	KF Barrington	13	903	90.30	NK	732.22	87.87
4	ER Dexter	13	712	71.20	NK	605.90	72.71
5	DI Gower	24	1138	56.90	44.86	595.78	71.49
6	KP Pietersen	42	1573	40.33	62.72	581.23	69.75
7	DL Amiss	21	913	48.05	36.24	548.86	65.86
8	MC Cowdrey	8	442	63.14	NK	500.00	60.00
9	G Boycott	15	706	58.83	33.30	488.08	58.57
10	GA Gooch	24	869	39.50	48.55	477.63	57.32

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	JE Root	92.79	24.91	96.22	25.72	239.63
2	KF Barrington	94.76	19.11	87.87	22.67	224.40
3	AN Cook	84.87	20.21	92.84	22.02	219.93
4	DI Gower	79.27	19.43	71.49	21.20	191.39
5	ER Dexter	77.53	16.34	72.71	19.03	185.60
6	KP Pietersen	69.34	21.43	69.75	21.83	182.35
7	DL Amiss	75.94	15.44	65.86	18.79	176.04
8	MC Cowdrey	76.56	18.06	60.00	20.75	175.36
9	G Boycott	74.03	19.80	58.57	21.37	173.77
10	GA Gooch	65.88	22.06	57.32	22.15	167.41

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	GA Gooch	30	2247	77.48	54.87	845.01	25.35
2	KF Barrington	30	1923	73.96	41.93	747.03	22.41
3	JE Root	30	1741	64.48	68.19	714.43	21.43
4	KP Pietersen	30	1862	62.07	69.40	691.35	20.74
5	G Boycott	30	1777	68.35	38.41	688.55	20.66
6	DI Gower	30	1569	54.10	55.25	626.87	18.81
7	DL Amiss	30	1400	53.85	45.93	601.97	18.06
8	AN Cook	30	1521	52.45	48.58	592.10	17.76
9	ER Dexter	30	1490	51.38	44.98	590.23	17.71
10	MC Cowdrey	30	1407	54.12	36.95	578.82	17.36

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	AN Cook	30	2113	81.27	48.95	884.29	106.11
2	KF Barrington	30	2097	87.38	NK	845.49	101.46
3	JE Root	30	1748	58.27	56.51	765.13	91.82
4	DL Amiss	30	1656	63.69	42.06	751.45	90.17
5	MC Cowdrey	30	1763	70.52	39.08	742.34	89.08
6	G Boycott	30	1862	74.48	33.48	733.81	88.06
7	ER Dexter	30	1737	66.81	43.81	729.22	87.51
8	KP Pietersen	30	1505	53.75	61.35	645.94	77.51
9	DI Gower	30	1473	54.56	47.18	631.79	75.81
10	GA Gooch	30	1373	49.04	51.31	609.53	73.14

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	KF Barrington	116	53	45.69	866.07	129.91
2	JE Root	264	99	37.50	768.60	115.29
3	DI Gower	186	66	35.48	711.60	106.74
4	G Boycott	170	61	35.88	689.39	103.41
5	MC Cowdrey	173	58	33.53	656.43	98.46
6	GA Gooch	209	67	32.06	629.28	94.39
7	KP Pietersen	173	55	31.79	576.55	86.48
8	ER Dexter	94	29	30.85	561.52	84.23
9	AN Cook	275	76	27.64	550.26	82.54
10	DL Amiss	78	23	29.49	519.65	77.95

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	KF Barrington	22.41	101.46	129.91	253.78
2	JE Root	21.43	91.82	115.29	228.54
3	G Boycott	20.66	88.06	103.41	212.12
4	AN Cook	17.76	106.11	82.54	206.42
5	MC Cowdrey	17.36	89.08	98.46	204.91
6	DI Gower	18.81	75.81	106.74	201.36
7	GA Gooch	25.35	73.14	94.39	192.89
8	ER Dexter	17.71	87.51	84.23	189.44
9	DL Amiss	18.06	90.17	77.95	186.18
10	KP Pietersen	20.74	77.51	86.48	184.74

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	JE Root	ENG	337.30	239.63	228.54	805.47
2	8	KF Barrington	ENG	300.84	224.40	253.78	779.02
3	18	AN Cook	ENG	292.57	219.93	206.42	718.92
4	32	DI Gower	ENG	275.03	191.39	201.36	667.78
5	36	G Boycott	ENG	270.98	173.77	212.12	656.87
6	39	MC Cowdrey	ENG	262.68	175.36	204.91	642.96
7	40	GA Gooch	ENG	276.98	167.41	192.89	637.28
8	41	KP Pietersen	ENG	270.01	182.35	184.74	637.09
9	48	ER Dexter	ENG	256.02	185.60	189.44	631.06
10	57	DL Amiss	ENG	249.10	176.04	186.18	611.31

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