Ben Stokes, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
Players Batting in Every Position: At present the Test cricket season is going on. While a three-match series is being played between Australia and Pakistan, two Tests are going on between India and South Africa. However, all the teams are playing the last match of the series. But there is still amazing thrill to be seen in it. Meanwhile, when the talk of Test is going on, let us tell you about those selected players of the world, who have batted in every position from opener i.e. number one to 11 in Test cricket. Although the number of such players is very less, but still it has happened. One of those players is still playing cricket.
Australia’s Sid Gregory is the first batsman to do so
Australia’s Sid Gregory, who played from 1890 to 1912, was the first player to have batted at every position from opening to number 11. Sid Gregory, who played 100 Test innings during his career, has played maximum 34 innings at number five. After this, if we talk about another player, it was Wilfred Rhodes of England. Wilfred Rhodes, who made his Test debut in the year 1899, played cricket till the year 1930 and he is also a player who batted from opener to number 11. However, he has played maximum 43 innings as an opener.
Names of India’s Mulvantrai Mankad and Pakistan’s Naseem ul Ghani also included.
If we talk about India, Mulvantrai Mankad was the first Indian who has batted everywhere from number one to 11. Mulvantrai Mankad, who played a total of 72 innings, played the responsibility of opening for his team in 40 of these innings. Pakistan’s Naseem-ul-Ghani is also a player who bats from number one to 11. Out of his 50 Test innings, he has played 15 innings at number eight. Among the currently active players, Ben Stokes is the only player who has batted everywhere from number one to 11. Ben Stokes, who has played 175 Test innings so far, has batted at number six 99 times, number five 49 times and number seven ten times.
This record is also in the name of Ben Stokes
Overall, in the history of Test cricket, there are only 5 players in the world who have managed to achieve such a feat. Although these players have batted only once in various positions, still their names have been added to the statistics. If we talk about current batsmen, apart from Ben Stokes, there is no other batsman who has played 8 or 9 innings at any one position and is close to this record, but something like this will definitely happen in the coming years. It will happen, due to which his name can also be added to this list after Ben Stokes.
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