Top 10s
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When we launched the Wisden 100 last year - the first ratings system to assess each and every international innings and bowling performance - one of the most frequent questions we were asked was what would happen if you totted up all the findings and averaged them out - who would come out on top?

We already had the details of each performance, assessed against a number of factors including strength of opposition, contribution to the innings and importance. So we added everything up and determined the average points score. This favoured players with meteoric, short careers - so we mixed in a small bonus for length of career with a dash of additional points for milestones achieved.

And the winner in the Test batting section was ... Don Bradman. We thought this probably meant we were on the right track. The expected score for a top performer was around 1000 points - and The Don managed 1349. Just like his fabulous Test batting average of 99.94, this deservedly left him way clear of the field.

In second place, one of seven batsmen clustered with a points total between 902 and 920, lies Sachin Tendulkar. This proves Tendulkar's consistency over the years - somewhat controversially not one of his many centuries amassed enough points to break into the top 100 of the individual innings ratings.

Some great names fill out the top ten. Allan Border of Australia and England's 1960s rock Ken Barrington lie fifth and seventh, testimony to their ability to come up with the goods when it mattered - more points are awarded for big runs in low-scoring matches, or backs-to-the-wall efforts.

In the Test bowling list Muttiah Muralitharan comes out on top, which emphasises the lone-wolf role he has played in Sri Lankan cricket for so long. Another man who largely hunted alone, Richard Hadlee, is second, just ahead of the amazing Sydney Barnes, whose 189 wickets in just 27 Tests for England - 49 of them in one magic series - was a phenomenal performance in cricket's Golden Age before the Great War.

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