Cricket runs in the blood of Indians, it beats in the hearts of cricket lovers, it helps in the functioning of their brains. And when cricket takes a twist like IPL, the story gets even more interesting. So this IPL season, NYOOOZ is here with 10 greatest batsmen of all times in the history of cricket.

 1. Don Bradman

It was an honour for the bowler to take Sir Don Bradman’s wicket. His batting average of 99.94 tells the whole story. He scored 29 Test centuries from 80 innings.

2. Sachin Tendulkar

Although Wisden has listed Sachin as the second best batsmen in Test cricket after Don Bradman, and the second best batsmen in ODIs after Viv Richards. But, in modern Cricket Sachin Tendulkar is No. 1, both Formats, Tests and ODIs.H e has scored 15,921 runs in test cricket and 18426 runs in ODI’s.

3. Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne. Some Experts Regarded him best ever batsmen against fast bowlers.

 4. Garfield Sobers

 Sobers is the One of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history. also, the one the best batsman in cricket world ever seen. He has achieved the batting average of 57.78 in test cricket with the highest score of 365* runs. He has scored 26 centuries in 93 test matches.

5. Sunil Gavaskar

Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs. He was the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs and held the record for most runs until Allan Border surpassed it.

6.  Brian Lara

Brian Lara was always known for his long innings in test cricket. He has a record for highest individual runs in test cricket, 400* runs and in first class cricket 501* runs.

7. Rahul Dravid

Widely known as ‘The Wall’, Rahul Dravid has played lots of crucial innings in test cricket and ODIs. He has 53 Test average and 40 ODIs average.

8. Ricky Ponting

One of the highest run-makers in his era, he scored 41 tests and 30 ODIs tons in His Career.

9. Jacques Kallis

He is the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 11,000 runs and 250 wickets in both one day and Test match cricket. He scored 13,289 runs in test cricket and 11,574 in ODI’s cricket.

10. Javed Miandad

Termed as the ‘the greatest batsman Pakistan ever produced’,  Javed is widely known for his historic last ball big sixer against India in 1986, when 4 runs were required to win, winning an international game in that fashion for the first time.

Players like Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla could also be included in the list of greatest batsmen ever when they reach retirement.

 If you think we missed someone, or someone deserves to be on this list. Tell us!

Source: NYOOOZ DESK - IPL