Overseas Specialists: 10 batsmen who performed better overseas in Test cricket

(1) Mohinder Amarnath (India)

Mohinder Amarnath played a crucial role in changing India's overseas reputation.

Home- Matches: 32, Runs: 1370, Average: 30.44, Highest: 131, 100/50: 2/7.

Away- Matches: 38, Runs: 3008, Average: 51.86, Highest: 138, 100/50: 9/17.

Average Difference: 21.42.

Mohinder Amarnath will always be remembered as the guy who played an instrumental role in India winning the 1983 World Cup, but Amarnath is also one of India's finest ever Test batsman.

Amarnath was India's best batsman after Gavaskar and the only thing that stopped that Amarnath from overshadowing Sunny was his poor record at home. Amarnath played in an era when Indian batsmen routinely struggled away from home, but Amarnath bucked the trend and was arguably India's greatest batsman overseas till Rahul Dravid came along.

Amarnath had to wait 7 years to play his second Test match but once he found his footing in international cricket, he was simply unstoppable.

Amarnath played 32 Tests at home, scoring 1370 runs at a mediocre average of 30. Amarnath scored only 2 hundreds and 7 half-centuries in those Test matches. The low point came in the 1983/84 series against West Indies where Amarnath scored only 1 run in 6 innings.

The story was completely different when Amarnath played in the West Indies, he scored 877 runs in 9 tests at an average of 54 in the Caribbean, including 2 hundreds and 6 half-centuries. Amarnath's lack of success in India could not be attributed to troubles against spin as he thrived in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Amarnath scored 856 runs at an average of 57 in Pakistan, and 216 runs at an average of 72 in Sri Lanka. He scored 5 hundreds in the 13 Tests he played in the two countries.

Amarnath found bouncy Australia pitches to his liking. He played 8 Tests Down Under and scored 668 runs at an average of 56. Amarnath is one of the few Indian batsmen to have scored a century at the WACA. He scored 100 and 90 in the only Test he played there.

Amarnath averaged 35 in New Zealand, and 30 in England having played only 3 Tests in the two countries. Overall. Amarnath scored 3004 runs at an average of 52 away from home with 7 of his 9 centuries also coming overseas.