10 batsmen who are ahead of Virat Kohli in the ICC All-Time Test rankings list

(1) Donald Bradman (Australia): 961

The only batsman to have crossed the 950 mark: Can Bradman be eclipsed?

Sir Donald Bradman is the greatest batsman to have ever played the sport. No other sportsmen has been so far ahead of the field like Bradman was, and continues to be. He played 52 tests in his career and scored 6996 runs at a mind-boggling average of 99.94. The next best is a bloke averaging 61, which is fantastic in itself, but nowhere close to where Bradman was. Bradman scored 29 hundreds in his career, including 12 double hundreds and 2 triple-hundreds. No one has bettered those numbers since. It should therefore not come as a surprise that Bradman leads the rankings list as well, not by that much though.

Bradman is the only batsman in Test history to have crossed the 950 ratings mark. He first did so in the year 1934. Bradman had 950 rating points after his triple century against England at Headingley. Don scored a double century in the next test at The Oval, and now stood at 960 rating points. It was a record that stood for 14 years, before being eclipsed by the Don himself. Bradman played against India for the first time in 1948, and took them to the cleaners. After scoring 201 against India at Adelaide in 1948 (his third consecutive hundred), Bradman had 960 rating points to his name. He scored 57* in the next test, which propelled him to 961 rating points. It remains till date, the highest rating any batsmen has ever achieved.

Bradman finished his career with 954 rating points, more than anyone else has ever achieved. Over the course of his career, Don created many amazing records, most of which seem unbreakable. The only record in sight of modern day batsmen is his highest ratings one. Steven Smith made a fantastic push earlier in the year, and now Virat Kohli is going at it with full gutso. Will Kohli, Smith or anyone else gets there remains to be seen.