5 batsmen whose average never fell below 40 across a 100+ Test career

#4 David Gower

David Gower: Elegant & Enigmatic

Yet another successful Test captain, classical English batsman David Gower ended up amassing 8231 runs in a 117 match career that included 18 centuries. His strokes displayed a gentle liquidity to go along with the grace of a left-handed batsman, as he hardly ever looked complicated on a cricket field.

He was the epitome of consistency among the English batsman throughout his career, leaving everyone watching transfixed with his gentle strokeplay.

Scoring a sublime 58 on debut against Pakistan in 1978, Gower went on to become the pillar of the English batting order in the 1980s, his average falling to its lowest of 40.53 at the end of his 32nd Test. It never again came close to that figure again, as he ended up with an average of 44.25.