Best “international” batsmen of recent decades

[ourgameplandoesntwork]

It’s amazing the difference in batting performances from supposedly world-class batters, across different countries.

Name some of the batsmen in recent decades, who performed best across a range of countries.

Is this the true measure of the best batsmen?

 

[saint_]

Damien Martyn seem to go quite well wherever he played. I think he had a better average away than he did at home.

 

[Barry_Badrinath]

Steve Smith. Averages 40+ in every country except Bangladesh, where he's played 2 tests. Averages 54 away from home.

 

[PhatBoy]

AB de Villiers averaged at least 42 everywhere bar two nations:

• Bangladesh
• Zimbabwe

 

[PhatBoy]

Kallis averaged stupid amounts everywhere bar, again, Bangladesh, England and Sri Lanka.

England seems a bit odd (he averaged 36) because he thrived in the other 3 countries where either bounce, seam or swing were prevalent in NZ, Aus and SA.

Sri Lanka I guess maybe the Murali factor but his record in India, Pakistan and UAE was astronomical

 

[PhatBoy]

Dravid struggled in SA (29) and Sri Lanka (31) but was over 40 everywhere else and was one of the few major Indian contributors who has a higher away average than at home.
Not sure what the stats say but he may be the finest Indian player in England where he averaged nearly 70 including a couple of centuries late in his career as an opener

 

[PhatBoy]

Graeme smith had a very solid record everywhere.
His worst countries were Australia - 39.5 - and India, 35.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lara struggled - comparatively - in India and NZ. Mid 30s in both though he only played 3 matches in India and I suspect with more, given how he played spin, that wouldn’t have taken long to rectify.

 

[PhatBoy]

A really interesting one is Sunil Gavaskar.
Now it’s worth remembering he never had to play in SA but he had no trouble scoring I think 12 hundreds against the West Indies so I suspect he would have been fine.

He’s often derided because of how selfish his reputation was but the guy was a seriously tough cricketer at a time when India didn’t have a huge amount of them.

His only blemish is 37 in Sri Lanka of all places, at a time when they were still virtually a minnow. Even then he hit half-centuries in 2 of their 3 games.

 

[Cursed Cat]

Allan Border.

Averaged 56 in overseas Tests: 53 in the Carribean, 51 in India, 65 in England. For most of that time he had very little batting support. Still my all-time favourite cricketer, probably my all-time favourite sportsman.