Top 5 left-handed opening Test batsmen of all time

Graeme Smith

South Africa's best-ever Test captain, Graeme Smith was a strength of character and grit in times of adversity. Such was an impact of his match-defining innings that, none of his 27 Test hundreds resulted in a loss for his side.

The left-hander, with an average of 48.25 in 117 Tests, was a big run-getter and an opener from day one.

The man who scored 9,235 runs, was a master of second innings chases. Nobody in Test cricket's history scored more than his 1,141 runs in the fourth innings wins.

Smith finished his career 12th on the all-time list of run-scorers in the longest format of the game and with five two hundred-plus scores as an opener, he has the second most double tons in Test cricket history.