Top 5 No. 4 England batsmen of all time

2 Denis Compton

Compton Bats

The former England great was one of the nation's greatest cricketing icons and during the course of a remarkably long career spanning 20 years from 1937 to 1957, Denis Compton became one of the nation's best ever batsmen.

Although Compton was technically sound, his first instinct was always to attack the bowler and due to that fact that he possessed almost all the strokes in his repertoire, he made life extremely difficult for the opposition bowlers.

He was equally at ease against pace and spin, which made Compton the ideal number 4. Out of the 78 Tests in his career, he played at number 4 in 57 of them and made 4234 runs at a brilliant average of 53.59. He also made 13 hundreds and as many as 20 fifties as a number 4 batsman for England.