Best Continuous Peaks for some Great Batsmen. (Excluding Zimbabwe & Bangladesh to even things up across Eras). Post 1950s

Min Criteria 40 Tests and 5 Years

Gary Sobers (1958-1967)

Matches - 46

Runs - 4842

Average - 72.26

100s / 50s - 17 / 18

Ken Barrington (1963-1967)

Matches - 40

Runs - 3909

Average - 66.25

100s / 50s - 13 / 18

Sunil Gavaskar (1976-1980)

Matches - 46

Runs - 4507

Average - 59.30

100s / 50s - 18 / 16

Viv Richards (1979-1985)

Matches - 49

Runs - 3389

Average - 52.95

100s / 50s - 11 / 17

Greg Chappell (1974-1984)

Matches - 68

Runs - 5786

Average - 55.63

100s / 50s - 19 / 25

Allan Border (1983-1987)

Matches - 43

Runs - 3885

Average - 62.66

100s / 50s - 13 / 14

Javed Miandad (1983-1989)

Matches - 53

Runs - 4247

Average - 61.55

100s / 50s - 14 / 16

Steve Waugh (1993-1998)

Matches - 64

Runs - 4943

Average - 61.02

100s / 50s - 14 / 26

Sachin Tendulkar (1993-2001)

Matches - 62

Runs - 5652

Average - 62.8

100s / 50s - 21 / 23

Brian Lara (2001-2005)

Matches - 43

Runs - 4739

Average - 61.54

100s / 50s - 14 / 15

Inzamam-ul-Haq (1999-2005)

Matches - 46

Runs - 4326

Average - 58.45

100s / 50s - 15 / 21

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2007-2012)

Matches - 41

Runs - 3480

Average - 65.66

100s / 50s - 11 / 20

Adam Gilchrist (1999-2003)

Matches - 46

Runs - 2983

Average - 56.28

100s / 50s - 8 / 16

Ricky Ponting (2002-2006)

Matches - 51

Runs - 5622

Average - 71.16

100s / 50s - 22 / 18

Rahul Dravid (2002-2006)

Matches - 47

Runs - 4434

Average - 64.26

100s / 50s - 13 / 20

Jacques Kallis (2003-2007)

Matches - 45

Runs - 4715

Average - 67.35

100s / 50s - 18 / 19

Matthew Hayden (2001-2005)

Matches - 62

Runs - 5804

Average - 56.34

100s / 50s - 22 / 20

Mahela Jayawardene (2005-2010)

Matches - 42

Runs - 4079

Average - 59.98

100s / 50s - 13 / 15

Kumar Sangakkara (2006-2011)

Matches - 45

Runs - 4744

Average - 63.25

100s / 50s - 18 / 17

Younis Khan (2004-2011)

Matches - 42

Runs - 4158

Average - 59.4

100s / 50s - 13 / 15

Virender Sehwag (2004-2010)

Matches - 61

Runs - 5998

Average - 57.67

100s / 50s - 17 / 21

Michael Clarke (2006-2012)

Matches - 66

Runs - 5787

Average - 57.87

100s / 50s - 20 / 20

Hashim Amla (2010-2014)

Matches - 41

Runs - 4065

Average - 66.63

100s / 50s - 16 / 13

Ab de Villiers (2008-2013)

Matches - 52

Runs - 4685

Average - 65.98

100s / 50s - 15 / 21

Fab 4

Kane Williamson (2014-2019)

Matches - 43

Runs - 3880

Average - 56.23

100s / 50s - 14 / 15

Joe Root (2012-2016)

Matches - 51

Runs - 4496

Average - 54.16

100s / 50s - 11 / 26

Virat Kohli (2016-2020)

Matches - 42

Runs - 3868

Average - 61.39

100s / 50s - 14 / 10

Steven Smith (2014-2019)

Matches - 54

Runs - 6075

Average - 74.08

100s / 50s - 24 / 22

Edit : Also if I were to make an All Time XI on the Continuous Peak Criteria then My XI would look as following.

1. Sunil Gavaskar

2. Virender Sehwag / Matthew Hayden

3. Ricky Ponting (C)

4. Steven Smith

5. Gary Sobers

6. Adam Gilchrist / Ab de Villiers (wk)

7. Imran Khan

8. Richard Hadlee

9. Shane Warne / Muttiah Muralitharan

10. Dale Steyn

11. Malcom Marshall

12. Jacques Kallis

P.S Bowlers also Selected on the Same Continuous Peak Criteria.

Best Continuous Peak for Fast Bowlers

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