7 great batsmen who never topped the ICC Test rankings chart

#2 KEVIN PIETERSEN: ENGLAND

There was a never dull moment with Kevin Pietersen around

HIGHEST RATING: 909 (June 1, 2007)

HIGHEST RANKING: 3 (December 18, 2006)

909 rating points, 27th highest rating of all time and yet Kevin Pietersen finds himself on this list. It is no fault of Pietersen though, such was the domination of Mohammad Yousuf and Ricky Ponting in the mid-2000s, even Pietersen wasn't able to break through.

He scored over 8000 runs in his career, and while he played some of the greatest knocks we have ever seen, he was never able to maintain consistency, thus denying him the opportunity to get to the top of the mountain.