Who are the top ten cricket batsmen of all time?

There have been many excellent cricket batsmen to play the game over time. There is a lot of speculation about what makes a player the best hitter, is it the most runs, the highest average, a combination of both? Today I would like to discuss who I think are the greatest hitters of all time mostly by average as this represents consistently but also a combination of other factors.

At number ten, we have Jacques Kallis, also known as JH Kallis. Kallis is an active player and currently has a batting average of just under 58. Jacques is a right-handed batsman from South Africa, having primarily played for the country of South Africa. There is great promise that Kallis could be older than No. 10 as he is currently only 36 and could have a few more years of cricket still in him.

At number nine we have a man who played for the West Indies named Garfield Sobers. Sobers played cricket from 1954 to 1974 and finished his career with a batting average of 57.78. Sobers finished his career with an impressive 8,064 runs. At number eight we have Wally Hammond with an average of 58.46. Hammond played from 1927 to 1947 for England.

At number seven we have a man named Everton Weeks. Weeks had an average of 58.61 but the most impressive thing is that his career was quite short for a cricketer, only ten years. He played for the West Indies. The batsman with the sixth highest record is England’s Ken Barrington. Barrington’s average was slightly above Weeks’s at 58.67. His career lasted thirteen years and ended in 1968.

At number five we have an English cricketer named Eddie Paynter. He had a very impressive record of 59.23 in just eight years of playing. Player number four is a man named Herbert Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe, an English cricketer, played from 1924 to 1935 and finished his record eleven years with a batting average of 60.73.

The third best batsman is George Headley. He finished his career in 1954 with a batting average of 60.83. Headley played cricket for the West Indies. The second best batsman of all time is another South African named Graeme Pollock. Pollock’s batting average was 60.97 and he played only seven years. In those seven years he managed to have 2256 hits.

The greatest batman in cricket of all time is a man named Donald Bradman, also known as Sir Donald Bradman. Bradman played for Australia from 1928 to 1948. In that time he had 6,996 hits and an unprecedented batting average of 99.94. He has been retired from the game for nearly 64 years and still no cricketer has come close to touching his incredible record.

And there you have it, the most talented cricket batsmen of all time. Newer cricketers have a lot to live up to with these amazing cricket batsmen from the past. The question is do you think someone can beat a record of more than 99%? I do not want.