Top 10 English middle order batsmen of all time

#2 Ken Barrington

In his 13 year Test career from 1955 to 1968, Ken Barrington emerged as one of the world's best batsmen and he is still regarded as one of the finest batsmen to have ever played for England. He had opened the innings 4 times and had even batted at number 3 on 40 occasions.

However, the major part of his career was spent as a middle-order batsman at either number 4 or number 5. Barrington was an attacking batsman by nature but later on, in his career, he became far more conservative batsman and was intent on grinding the opposition bowlers to dust.

The right-handed batsman played in the middle-order in 60 Test matches and scored 3978 runs, at a brilliant average of 50.35. He also brought up 7 centuries and 27 half-centuries as a middle-order batsman.