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 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. 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.

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	Javed Miandad	PAK	1976	1993	1984.5	189	8832	134.37
2	Zaheer Abbas	PAK	1969	1985	1977	124	5062	77.01
3	Hanif Mohammad	PAK	1952	1969	1960.5	97	3915	59.56

RANK	ERA 2	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	SR Tendulkar	IND	1989	2013	2001	329	15921	200.00
1	Younis Khan	PAK	2000	2017	2008.5	213	10099	126.86
2	Inzamam-ul-Haq	PAK	1992	2007	1999.5	200	8830	110.92
3	Mohammad Yousuf	PAK	1998	2010	2004	156	7530	94.59
4	Salim Malik	PAK	1982	1999	1990.5	154	5768	72.46
5	Saeed Anwar	PAK	1990	2001	1995.5	91	4052	50.90

RANK	ERA 3	NAT	FP	LP	MP	INNS	RUNS	RAT
TS	JE Root	ENG	2012	2026	2019	298	13943	190.00
1	Azhar Ali	PAK	2010	2022	2016	180	7142	97.32
2	Babar Azam	PAK	2016	2025	2020.5	112	4366	59.50

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	Javed Miandad	189	21	8832	52.57	52.21	215.71
2	Mohammad Yousuf	156	12	7530	52.29	50.76	209.71
3	Younis Khan	213	19	10099	52.06	50.23	207.51
4	Inzamam-ul-Haq	200	22	8830	49.61	48.79	201.58
5	Hanif Mohammad	97	8	3915	43.99	48.28	199.45
6	Saeed Anwar	91	2	4052	45.53	48.13	198.83
7	Zaheer Abbas	124	11	5062	44.80	45.15	186.51
8	Salim Malik	154	22	5768	43.70	44.49	183.80
9	Babar Azam	112	9	4366	42.39	44.16	182.45
10	Azhar Ali	180	11	7142	42.26	42.82	176.92

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	Salim Malik	87	14	3623	49.63	52.29	205.52
2	Younis Khan	158	12	7644	52.36	52.00	204.38
3	Javed Miandad	125	14	5409	48.73	50.54	198.65
4	Hanif Mohammad	88	7	3487	43.05	47.66	187.31
5	Inzamam-ul-Haq	130	10	5535	46.13	47.44	186.48
6	Saeed Anwar	59	1	2497	43.05	47.43	186.43
7	Babar Azam	72	6	2907	44.05	46.64	183.34
8	Zaheer Abbas	94	9	3598	42.33	44.33	174.23
9	Mohammad Yousuf	122	5	5066	43.30	43.50	170.99
10	Azhar Ali	127	9	4706	39.88	41.30	162.35

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	Azhar Ali	302*	226	205*	185	157	157	141*	196.14	106.82
6	Inzamam-ul-Haq	329	200*	184	177	148	142	138*	188.29	102.54
7	Hanif Mohammad	337	203*	187*	160	142	111	104	177.71	96.78
8	Saeed Anwar	188*	176	169	149	145	136	126	155.57	84.73
9	Salim Malik	237	165	155	143	140	119*	116	153.57	83.64
10	Babar Azam	196	161	143	136	127*	119	104	140.86	76.71

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	Zaheer Abbas	4006	7186	55.75	63.10	106.54
2	Saeed Anwar	4052	7218	56.14	60.85	102.73
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	8830	16352	54.00	55.36	93.47
4	Salim Malik	5380	10940	49.18	53.24	89.89
5	Mohammad Yousuf	7530	14373	52.39	52.40	88.48
6	Babar Azam	4366	8017	54.46	51.63	87.17
7	Younis Khan	10099	19355	52.18	50.88	85.91
8	Javed Miandad	6974	15241	45.76	50.23	84.82
9	Hanif Mohammad	425	1206	35.24	46.20	78.01
10	Azhar Ali	7142	17033	41.93	41.07	69.34

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	134.37	414.36	124.01	84.82	757.56	303.02
2	Younis Khan	126.86	411.90	125.26	85.91	749.93	299.97
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	110.92	388.06	102.54	93.47	694.99	278.00
4	Mohammad Yousuf	94.59	380.70	109.47	88.48	673.24	269.29
5	Zaheer Abbas	77.01	360.74	116.23	106.54	660.53	264.21
6	Salim Malik	72.46	389.32	83.64	89.89	635.31	254.12
7	Saeed Anwar	50.90	385.26	84.73	102.73	623.62	249.45
8	Hanif Mohammad	59.56	386.77	96.78	78.01	621.13	248.45
9	Azhar Ali	97.32	339.26	106.82	69.34	612.74	245.10
10	Babar Azam	59.50	365.78	76.71	87.17	589.16	235.67

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	767.88	23.04
2	Younis Khan	84	4382	56.91	53.15	716.82	21.50
3	Zaheer Abbas	51	2444	58.19	62.26	691.71	20.75
4	Mohammad Yousuf	56	3337	66.74	53.06	677.87	20.34
5	Inzamam-ul-Haq	83	3809	52.18	53.22	672.69	20.18
6	Salim Malik	70	2908	49.29	51.07	631.19	18.94
7	Azhar Ali	69	3252	51.62	42.54	602.92	18.09
8	Babar Azam	52	2293	47.77	56.35	592.97	17.79
9	Hanif Mohammad	40	1613	46.09	NK	577.37	17.32
10	Saeed Anwar	42	1860	45.37	55.42	543.94	16.32

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 20

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	Younis Khan	129	5717	48.86	51.46	679.90	81.59
2	Javed Miandad	103	4351	45.80	45.76	645.06	77.41
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	117	5021	47.82	54.61	618.87	74.26
4	Saeed Anwar	49	2192	45.67	56.76	594.97	71.40
5	Mohammad Yousuf	100	4193	44.61	51.87	590.19	70.82
6	Hanif Mohammad	57	2302	42.63	35.24	561.83	67.42
7	Zaheer Abbas	73	2618	36.87	51.41	543.42	65.21
8	Azhar Ali	111	3890	36.70	41.43	541.64	65.00
9	Salim Malik	84	2860	39.18	47.36	540.07	64.81
10	Babar Azam	60	2073	37.69	52.51	484.25	58.11

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	133	6926	58.20	53.69	840.63	25.22
2	Javed Miandad	111	5492	57.21	45.63	821.67	24.65
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	108	5104	54.88	54.30	767.30	23.02
4	Mohammad Yousuf	87	4476	58.13	53.26	712.23	21.37
5	Zaheer Abbas	63	2757	52.02	58.73	706.50	21.19
6	Azhar Ali	94	4413	50.72	43.07	704.60	21.14
7	Saeed Anwar	55	2652	50.04	55.69	670.74	20.12
8	Babar Azam	62	2739	48.05	55.75	667.89	20.04
9	Salim Malik	98	3660	44.10	49.79	658.99	19.77
10	Hanif Mohammad	57	2310	45.29	NK	637.98	19.14

Unfamiliar Conditions Rating

Asians Outside Asia

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 10

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	Javed Miandad	78	3340	46.39	45.93	822.59	98.71
2	Mohammad Yousuf	69	3054	45.58	51.16	726.51	87.18
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	92	3726	43.84	53.59	710.36	85.24
4	Younis Khan	80	3173	42.31	49.16	705.74	84.69
5	Zaheer Abbas	61	2305	38.42	52.92	695.54	83.46
6	Hanif Mohammad	40	1605	42.24	35.30	680.29	81.63
7	Salim Malik	56	2108	43.02	48.26	628.46	75.42
8	Azhar Ali	86	2729	33.28	40.22	615.91	73.91
9	Saeed Anwar	36	1400	38.89	57.00	608.33	73.00
10	Babar Azam	50	1627	35.37	52.42	545.59	65.47

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	77.41	23.04	98.71	24.65	223.81
2	Younis Khan	81.59	21.50	84.69	25.22	213.00
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	74.26	20.18	85.24	23.02	202.71
4	Mohammad Yousuf	70.82	20.34	87.18	21.37	199.71
5	Zaheer Abbas	65.21	20.75	83.46	21.19	190.62
6	Hanif Mohammad	67.42	17.32	81.63	19.14	185.51
7	Saeed Anwar	71.40	16.32	73.00	20.12	180.84
8	Salim Malik	64.81	18.94	75.42	19.77	178.93
9	Azhar Ali	65.00	18.09	73.91	21.14	178.13
10	Babar Azam	58.11	17.79	65.47	20.04	161.41

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	Zaheer Abbas	30	2101	95.50	63.76	893.71	26.81
2	Javed Miandad	30	2050	78.85	50.25	785.66	23.57
3	Mohammad Yousuf	30	2077	76.93	57.23	761.39	22.84
4	Younis Khan	30	1946	77.84	53.21	752.35	22.57
5	Inzamam-ul-Haq	30	1942	74.69	56.18	738.45	22.15
6	Babar Azam	30	1858	71.46	58.30	714.50	21.43
7	Salim Malik	30	1574	58.30	56.31	626.33	18.79
8	Azhar Ali	30	1579	56.39	46.76	610.51	18.32
9	Hanif Mohammad	30	1335	51.35	NK	569.90	17.10
10	Saeed Anwar	30	1375	47.41	56.96	551.18	16.54

TOP FORM AWAY

Min Innings Vs All Teams: 15

RANK	BATSMAN	INNS	RUNS	AVE	SR	RAT	WTG
1	Javed Miandad	30	1841	68.19	46.84	785.05	94.21
2	Mohammad Yousuf	30	1730	64.07	60.32	753.76	90.45
3	Younis Khan	30	1623	62.42	51.02	715.94	85.91
4	Inzamam-ul-Haq	30	1675	64.42	53.28	691.20	82.94
5	Saeed Anwar	30	1487	51.28	56.60	660.54	79.26
6	Azhar Ali	30	1523	54.39	43.10	654.75	78.57
7	Hanif Mohammad	30	1412	48.69	46.35	648.23	77.79
8	Zaheer Abbas	30	1326	44.20	53.44	613.28	73.59
9	Salim Malik	30	1344	53.76	52.56	613.24	73.59
10	Babar Azam	30	1318	48.81	55.42	569.10	68.29

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	168	72	42.86	846.61	126.99
2	Inzamam-ul-Haq	178	66	37.08	690.30	103.54
3	Mohammad Yousuf	144	55	38.19	669.79	100.47
4	Babar Azam	103	36	34.95	652.97	97.95
5	Saeed Anwar	89	33	37.08	629.22	94.38
6	Younis Khan	194	60	30.93	596.34	89.45
7	Salim Malik	132	36	27.27	529.07	79.36
8	Zaheer Abbas	113	32	28.32	520.66	78.10
9	Hanif Mohammad	89	24	26.97	488.99	73.35
10	Azhar Ali	169	43	25.44	482.05	72.31

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	23.57	94.21	126.99	244.77
2	Mohammad Yousuf	22.84	90.45	100.47	213.76
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	22.15	82.94	103.54	208.64
4	Younis Khan	22.57	85.91	89.45	197.93
5	Saeed Anwar	16.54	79.26	94.38	190.18
6	Babar Azam	21.43	68.29	97.95	187.67
7	Zaheer Abbas	26.81	73.59	78.10	178.50
8	Salim Malik	18.79	73.59	79.36	171.74
9	Azhar Ali	18.32	78.57	72.31	169.19
10	Hanif Mohammad	17.10	77.79	73.35	168.23

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	10	Javed Miandad	PAK	303.02	223.81	244.77	771.60
2	20	Younis Khan	PAK	299.97	213.00	197.93	710.90
3	26	Inzamam-ul-Haq	PAK	278.00	202.71	208.64	689.34
4	29	Mohammad Yousuf	PAK	269.29	199.71	213.76	682.76
5	43	Zaheer Abbas	PAK	264.21	190.62	178.50	633.34
6	51	Saeed Anwar	PAK	249.45	180.84	190.18	620.47
7	62	Salim Malik	PAK	254.12	178.93	171.74	604.79
8	65	Hanif Mohammad	PAK	248.45	185.51	168.23	602.20
9	74	Azhar Ali	PAK	245.10	178.13	169.19	592.42
10	82	Babar Azam	PAK	235.67	161.41	187.67	584.74

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