Date-stamped : 10 Sep1999 - 19:28



Versatile Batsmen in Test Cricket

Based on all Tests up to and including
Sri Lanka v Australia at Kandy 09/09/1999

Only hree batsmen have batted at all 11 positions in Test cricket:

SE Gregory (Aus), W Rhodes (Eng), MH Mankad (Ind)

The following batsmen have batted at at least 9 positions:
(position/s not batted at in the parentheses):

Australia
10     WW Armstrong            (10)
       JM Blackham             (4)
       JM Gregory              (,11)
       IW Johnson              (4)
       SP Jones                (11)
       H Trumble               (5)

 9     W Bruce                 (3,11)
       H Carter                (1,5)
       ATW Grout               (4,5)
       C Kelleway              (10,11)
       CG Macartney            (4,11)
       MA Noble                (10.11)
       WAS Oldfield            (2,6)
       AJ Richardson           (10,11)
       VT Trumper              (9,10)

England
10     W Barnes                (11)

 9     TE Bailey               (10,11)
       GA Lohmann              (1,3)
       AE Relf                 (1,11)
       FJ Titmus               (1,11)
       DL Underwood            (1,2)

South Africa (no instance, best)
 8     WR Endean               (9,10,11)
       GA Faulkner             (9,10,11)
       JH Sinclair             (3,10,11)
       LA Stricker             (1,2,3)
       JHB Waite               (1,10,11)
       TA Ward                 (1,4,5)

West Indies
 9     LR Gibbs                (1,2)

New Zealand
 9     B Sutcliffe             (9,11)

India
10     FM Engineer             (11)
       RJ Shastri              (11)

 9     SMH Kirmani             (1,2)
       RF Surti                (1,11)

Pakistan
10     Shujauddin              (5)
       Nasim-ul-Ghani          (1)
       Wasim Bari              (4)

 9     Asif Iqbal              (1,11)
       Salim Yousuf            (1,11)
       
Sri Lanka (no instance, best)
 7     MS Atapattu             (8,9,10,11)
       PA de Silva             (2,9,10,11)
       RJ Ratnayake            (1,4,6,11)

Zimbabwe (no instance, best)
 6     GJ Whittall             (1,2,9,10,11)
       CB Wishart              (4,5,9,10,11)

Some of the players who have batted at 8 positions:

Aus: RB Simpson; RR Lindwall; SK Warne

Eng: MC Cowdrey; DCS Compton; AC MacLaren; J Briggs; PH Edmonds;
     DL Underwood; DW Headley

NZ : BE Congdon; V Pollard; JG Bracewell; DK Morrison

WI : FMM Worrell; JDC Goddard; FCM Alexander; DStE Atkinson;
     GStA Sobers; RB Kanhai; WW Davis

Ind: M Prabhakar; S Venkatraghavan; BK Kunderan; ML Jaisimha;
     RG Nadkarni; EAS Prasanna; SA Durani; Abid Ali; AV Mankad

Pak: Saeed Ahmed; Majid Khan; Abdul Qadir; Saqlain Mushtaq

<END> Contributed by aslam (asiddiqu@iupui.edu)