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Top 10 Pakistani Batsmen In Tests Since 1950

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All Test Ratings on the website are from 01/01/1950 onwards (Know Why). They are updated till 2026-02-05. Brief explanation of the ratings is given before each section (Detailed Explanation) and in the last section. Here are the Top 10 Pakistani batsmen in Test Cricket since 1950.

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. ATTACKING
3.3.1. Against All Teams
3.3.2. Against Top Teams
3.4. BIG INNINGS POTENTIAL
3.4.1. Against All Teams
3.4.2. Against Top Teams
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. LOW SCORING INNS
5.2. TOP FORM
5.3. IMPACT INNS
5.4. SECONDARY RATING
6. OVERALL RATING
6.1. BRIEF EXPLANATION
6.1.1. Dynamic Nature
6.1.2. Trend Setter (TS)
6.1.3. Top Teams (TT)
6.1.4. Abbreviations
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, 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 Career 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 G Boycott ENG 1964 1982 1973 193 8114 230.00
1 Hanif Mohammad PAK 1952 1969 1960.5 97 3915 110.97
2 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 1964 1980 1972 99 3575 101.34
RANK ERA 2 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS AR Border AUS 1978 1994 1986 265 11174 240.00
1 Javed Miandad PAK 1976 1993 1984.5 189 8832 189.70
2 Salim Malik PAK 1982 1999 1990.5 154 5768 123.89
3 Zaheer Abbas PAK 1969 1985 1977 124 5062 108.72
RANK ERA 3 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS SR Tendulkar IND 1989 2013 2001 329 15921 250.00
1 Younis Khan PAK 2000 2017 2008.5 213 10099 158.58
2 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 1992 2007 1999.5 200 8830 138.65
3 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 1998 2010 2004 156 7530 118.24
RANK ERA 4 NAT FP LP MP INNS RUNS RAT
TS JE Root ENG 2012 2026 2019 298 13943 240.00
1 Azhar Ali PAK 2010 2022 2016 180 7142 122.93
2 Babar Azam PAK 2016 2025 2020.5 112 4366 75.15

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 160 21 8032 57.78 62.64 160.00
1 Javed Miandad 189 21 8832 52.57 53.32 136.20
2 Mohammad Yousuf 156 12 7530 52.29 51.62 131.86
3 Younis Khan 213 19 10099 52.06 50.39 128.72
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 200 22 8830 49.61 48.79 124.62
5 Hanif Mohammad 97 8 3915 43.99 47.34 120.93
6 Zaheer Abbas 124 11 5062 44.80 46.19 117.99
7 Salim Malik 154 22 5768 43.70 44.05 112.52
8 Babar Azam 112 9 4366 42.39 43.28 110.56
9 Azhar Ali 180 11 7142 42.26 41.36 105.65
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 99 7 3575 38.86 40.94 104.56

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN INNS NO RUNS AVE R AVE RAT
TS GS Sobers 124 16 6474 59.94 66.47 240.00
1 Younis Khan 142 10 6705 50.80 51.13 184.61
2 Javed Miandad 106 10 4250 44.27 48.36 174.60
3 Zaheer Abbas 93 9 3808 45.33 48.18 173.95
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 105 8 4360 44.95 48.10 173.66
5 Hanif Mohammad 73 5 2883 42.40 47.24 170.56
6 Mohammad Yousuf 99 6 4158 44.71 46.68 168.53
7 Salim Malik 62 8 2279 42.20 46.31 167.20
8 Babar Azam 72 6 2907 44.05 46.03 166.18
9 Azhar Ali 124 9 4605 40.04 40.55 146.40
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 71 5 2462 37.30 39.61 143.03

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 N Kapil Dev 4481 5580 80.30 90.81 40.00
1 Zaheer Abbas 4006 7186 55.75 64.76 28.52
2 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 1412 2903 48.64 59.08 26.02
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 8830 16352 54.00 56.64 24.95
4 Mohammad Yousuf 7530 14373 52.39 53.76 23.68
5 Salim Malik 5380 10940 49.18 53.53 23.58
6 Babar Azam 4366 8017 54.46 52.06 22.93
7 Younis Khan 10099 19355 52.18 51.75 22.79
8 Javed Miandad 6974 15241 45.76 50.74 22.35
9 Hanif Mohammad 425 1206 35.24 46.03 20.28
10 Azhar Ali 7142 17033 41.93 40.88 18.01

Against Top Teams

RANK BATSMAN R4BF BF SR R SR RAT
TS N Kapil Dev 3559 4345 81.91 93.76 60.00
1 Zaheer Abbas 3093 5757 53.73 63.19 40.44
2 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 1412 2903 48.64 59.59 38.13
3 Mohammad Yousuf 4158 7553 55.05 56.66 36.26
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 4360 8223 53.02 55.98 35.82
5 Salim Malik 2274 4613 49.30 55.09 35.26
6 Babar Azam 2907 5107 56.92 54.66 34.98
7 Younis Khan 6705 12692 52.83 52.46 33.57
8 Javed Miandad 3890 8755 44.43 50.58 32.37
9 Hanif Mohammad 425 1204 35.30 46.97 30.06
10 Azhar Ali 4605 11276 40.84 39.88 25.52

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 Azhar Ali 302* 226 205* 185 157 157 141* 196.14 56.97
6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 200* 184 177 148 142 138* 188.29 54.69
7 Hanif Mohammad 337 203* 187* 160 142 111 104 177.71 51.62
8 Salim Malik 237 165 155 143 140 119* 116 153.57 44.61
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 175 166 152* 146 135 134* 120 146.86 42.66
10 Babar Azam 196 161 143 136 127* 119 104 140.86 40.91

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 Azhar Ali 205* 185 157 157 141* 139 136 160.00 107.21
5 Hanif Mohammad 337 187* 142 111 104 104 103 155.43 104.14
6 Javed Miandad 271 154* 131 129* 118 114 106* 146.14 97.92
7 Inzamam-ul-Haq 184 177 135 123 119 118 118 139.14 93.23
8 Babar Azam 196 161 136 104 102* 100* 99 128.29 85.96
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 152* 146 135 134* 120 104* 104 127.86 85.67
10 Salim Malik 237 143 116 102 99 80* 77 122.00 81.75

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 158.58 313.33 218.14 56.36 746.41 298.56
2 Javed Miandad 189.70 310.80 164.06 54.72 719.28 287.71
3 Zaheer Abbas 108.72 291.94 198.59 68.96 668.21 267.28
4 Mohammad Yousuf 118.24 300.39 169.32 59.94 647.89 259.16
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 138.65 298.28 147.92 60.77 645.62 258.25
6 Hanif Mohammad 110.97 291.48 155.76 50.33 608.55 243.42
7 Salim Malik 123.89 279.72 126.35 58.83 588.79 235.52
8 Azhar Ali 122.93 252.05 164.18 43.53 582.69 233.08
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 101.34 247.59 128.33 64.15 541.41 216.56
10 Babar Azam 75.15 276.74 126.87 57.91 536.67 214.67

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: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 84 4382 56.91 53.15 718.39 21.55
2 Zaheer Abbas 51 2444 58.19 62.26 705.53 21.17
3 Javed Miandad 86 4481 61.38 45.75 679.86 20.40
4 Mohammad Yousuf 56 3337 66.74 53.06 627.87 18.84
5 Salim Malik 70 2908 49.29 51.07 624.84 18.75
6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 83 3809 52.18 53.22 615.59 18.47
7 Azhar Ali 69 3252 51.62 42.54 552.52 16.58
8 Babar Azam 52 2293 47.77 56.35 543.93 16.32
9 Hanif Mohammad 40 1613 46.09 NK 535.01 16.05
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 35 1331 40.33 NK 444.95 13.35

Away From Home

Min Innings Vs Top Teams: 15

RANK BATSMAN INNS RUNS AVE SR RAT WTG
1 Younis Khan 129 5717 48.86 51.46 693.17 83.18
2 Javed Miandad 103 4351 45.80 45.76 671.01 80.52
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 117 5021 47.82 54.61 603.06 72.37
4 Mohammad Yousuf 100 4193 44.61 51.87 597.99 71.76
5 Hanif Mohammad 57 2302 42.63 35.24 585.94 70.31
6 Zaheer Abbas 73 2618 36.87 51.41 568.48 68.22
7 Azhar Ali 111 3890 36.70 41.43 559.03 67.08
8 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 64 2244 38.03 48.64 537.65 64.52
9 Salim Malik 84 2860 39.18 47.36 476.06 57.13
10 Babar Azam 60 2073 37.69 52.51 452.20 54.26

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 53.69 831.26 24.94
2 Javed Miandad 111 5492 57.21 45.63 752.65 22.58
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 108 5104 54.88 54.30 697.91 20.94
4 Zaheer Abbas 63 2757 52.02 58.73 694.13 20.82
5 Hanif Mohammad 57 2310 45.29 0.00 679.18 20.38
6 Azhar Ali 94 4413 50.72 43.07 671.16 20.13
7 Mohammad Yousuf 87 4476 58.13 53.26 655.91 19.68
8 Salim Malik 98 3660 44.10 49.79 637.32 19.12
9 Babar Azam 62 2739 48.05 55.75 616.62 18.50
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 45 1598 38.05 55.28 555.53 16.67

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 45.93 866.45 103.97
2 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 54 1977 39.54 47.31 769.58 92.35
3 Hanif Mohammad 40 1605 42.24 35.30 760.15 91.22
4 Mohammad Yousuf 69 3054 45.58 51.16 731.40 87.77
5 Younis Khan 80 3173 42.31 49.16 720.10 86.41
6 Zaheer Abbas 61 2305 38.42 52.92 714.37 85.72
7 Inzamam-ul-Haq 92 3726 43.84 53.59 693.74 83.25
8 Salim Malik 56 2108 43.02 48.26 635.87 76.30
9 Azhar Ali 86 2729 33.28 40.22 634.41 76.13
10 Babar Azam 50 1627 35.37 52.42 506.94 60.83

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 80.52 20.40 103.97 22.58 227.47
2 Younis Khan 83.18 21.55 86.41 24.94 216.08
3 Mohammad Yousuf 71.76 18.84 87.77 19.68 198.04
4 Hanif Mohammad 70.31 16.05 91.22 20.38 197.96
5 Zaheer Abbas 68.22 21.17 85.72 20.82 195.93
6 Inzamam-ul-Haq 72.37 18.47 83.25 20.94 195.02
7 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 64.52 13.35 92.35 16.67 186.88
8 Azhar Ali 67.08 16.58 76.13 20.13 179.92
9 Salim Malik 57.13 18.75 76.30 19.12 171.30
10 Babar Azam 54.26 16.32 60.83 18.50 149.91

SECONDARY CRITERIA

Secondary Rating

It 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
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 97 2753 29.60 42.00 753.96 37.70
2 Inzamam-ul-Haq 101 2802 29.19 49.49 715.66 35.78
3 Hanif Mohammad 54 1563 30.06 34.52 674.97 33.75
4 Mohammad Yousuf 76 2203 30.18 49.25 659.23 32.96
5 Babar Azam 65 1885 29.92 51.97 639.36 31.97
6 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 49 1230 26.74 47.17 629.81 31.49
7 Salim Malik 70 1763 27.12 46.28 605.14 30.26
8 Azhar Ali 95 2134 23.20 36.66 602.47 30.12
9 Younis Khan 98 1834 19.51 43.89 498.09 24.90
10 Zaheer Abbas 61 1078 18.59 51.32 470.05 23.50

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 56.93 831.43 83.14
2 Mohammad Yousuf 50 2752 58.55 59.23 732.31 73.23
3 Zaheer Abbas 50 2286 49.70 54.36 675.60 67.56
4 Hanif Mohammad 50 2347 51.02 39.22 660.07 66.01
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 50 2490 54.13 55.48 649.69 64.97
6 Babar Azam 50 2427 51.64 58.89 627.36 62.74
7 Salim Malik 50 2138 50.90 50.88 601.84 60.18
8 Javed Miandad 50 2215 45.20 45.53 590.19 59.02
9 Azhar Ali 50 2195 46.70 41.49 587.28 58.73
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 50 1824 39.65 48.44 527.47 52.75

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 168 79 47.02 833.38 125.01
2 Babar Azam 103 44 42.72 679.97 102.00
3 Mohammad Yousuf 144 63 43.75 671.44 100.72
4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 178 73 41.01 670.38 100.56
5 Younis Khan 194 68 35.05 583.53 87.53
6 Zaheer Abbas 113 38 33.63 556.42 83.46
7 Salim Malik 132 44 33.33 550.57 82.59
8 Azhar Ali 169 54 31.95 534.14 80.12
9 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 92 29 31.52 525.41 78.81
10 Hanif Mohammad 89 26 29.21 464.86 69.73

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 37.70 59.02 125.01 221.72
2 Mohammad Yousuf 32.96 73.23 100.72 206.91
3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 35.78 64.97 100.56 201.31
4 Babar Azam 31.97 62.74 102.00 196.70
5 Younis Khan 24.90 83.14 87.53 195.58
6 Zaheer Abbas 23.50 67.56 83.46 174.52
7 Salim Malik 30.26 60.18 82.59 173.03
8 Hanif Mohammad 33.75 66.01 69.73 169.48
9 Azhar Ali 30.12 58.73 80.12 168.97
10 Asif Iqbal (PAK) 31.49 52.75 78.81 163.05

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 15 Javed Miandad PAK 287.71 227.47 221.72 736.91
2 22 Younis Khan PAK 298.56 216.08 195.58 710.22
3 31 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 259.16 198.04 206.91 664.10
4 32 Inzamam-ul-Haq PAK 258.25 195.02 201.31 654.58
5 40 Zaheer Abbas PAK 267.28 195.93 174.52 637.74
6 55 Hanif Mohammad PAK 243.42 197.96 169.48 610.86
7 65 Azhar Ali PAK 233.08 179.92 168.97 581.97
8 68 Salim Malik PAK 235.52 171.30 173.03 579.84
9 79 Asif Iqbal (PAK) PAK 216.56 186.88 163.05 566.49
10 84 Babar Azam PAK 214.67 149.91 196.70 561.28

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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