Top 10 left handed openers with most runs in Test cricket

#9 Marcus Trescothick

Marcus Trescothick

Marcus Trescothick was one of the best opening batsmen in the first decade of the new millennium. The Somerset stalwart was one of England’s batting mainstays under the captaincy of Naseer Hussain and Micheal Vaughan. The aggressive lefthander had both the dimensions of attack and defence in his batting. He could be an aggressor on docile batting tracks or play the sheet anchor’s role to perfection in testing conditions.

The tall and well built English opener replicated his enormous success in white-ball cricket and became England’s frontline opener post the retirement of Micheal Atherton and Alec Stewart.

Marcus Trescothick's record as Test opener

Matches: 76; Runs: 5824; Avg: 43.78; 100s: 14; 50s: 29