Top 5 number 5s in Tests for West Indies

#2 Sir Garry Sobers

He is quite simply the greatest cricketer to have played the game and hence, it is not a surprise that Sir Garry Sobers finds himself among the highest scoring number 5 batsmen for the West Indies even though he batted at the position in only 29 out of the 93 Tests that he played.

Sobers' calibre as a batsman remains unparalleled and the greatness of is batting lay in the fact that there was hardly any weakness in his play. He was perfectly capable of playing on both the front foot and the backfoot, while he had no trouble in playing horizontal bat shots or the crunching drives.

There was very little that a bowler could do to keep him quiet and that made him a batsman, who could take the game away from the opposition very quickly.

As a number 5, he made 1895 runs but it is his average of 59.21 that shows the sort of command the left-hander had when he batted at the position. Sobers made 7 centuries and 8 half-centuries while batting at number 5.