Top 10 Australian batsmen of all time

4 Greg Chappell

In a Test career spanning around 13 years from 1970 to the early 1980s, Greg Chappell was, without a doubt, the best Australian batsman of his time and one of the world's leading batsmen who could take on the great West Indies fast bowlers with aplomb.

Blessed with an excellent technique, the temperament to take on any situation head-on and the ability to attack the best bowlers in the world made him one of Australia's all-time greats.

Chappell started his career with a bang when he scored a century on his Test debut at Perth in 1970, and rounded off his stellar career with another one at Sydney against Pakistan in 1984. He scored 7110 runs at an average of 53.86 in 87 Tests and scored 24 hundreds.

However, what is often forgotten is that during one of his best runs of form in the 1970s, he played in World Series Cricket. Since those were unofficial Tests, the runs are not part of the record books. However, Chappell scored heavily against the best fast bowlers in the world and averaged 69 in those 'Super Tests'.

He played only 74 one-day internationals but managed to score 3 centuries and aggregated 2331 runs at an average of 40.18.