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Quiz! Batsmen with the most Test runs at No.5

by Wisden Staff 5-minute play

In this quiz, you’ll have to name the batsmen with the most runs at the No.5 position in Test cricket. Can you?

The position is a crucial one. One-drop is for the old-fashioned solid batsman, while No.4 is, usually, for the team’s best batsman. At five, the batsman is expected to be tenacious and flexible, have the stroke-play to make the most of the good work done by the top four, but also be plucky enough to dig the team out from tricky positions.

These are skills that the batsmen in this list made their careers out of. In all, with a cut-off of 2,000 runs, you have 28 batsmen to name in five minutes. We’ve revealed the total runs they scored while batting at five, the team they represented, and their total career span.

All the best!


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