Top 5 Test batsmen with most runs in winning causes

#1 Ricky Ponting - 9157 runs

Punter has scored more runs than any Test batsman in a winning cause

The second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket, Ricky Ponting scored 68.44% of his 13378 Test runs in a winning cause. From 178 innings, Ponting scored 9157 runs at an average of 59.46 in a winning cause. Punter scored 6807 of these runs while batting at No.3 which is the most number of runs scored by any batsman in a winning cause, regardless of the position.

Ponting was the nucleus of the Aussie batting during the late-90s and mid-2000s and he scored most of his finest Test knocks during this period. 30 of Ponting’s 41 Test centuries came in a winning cause. 5 of Punter’s 6 Test double hundreds came in a winning cause. These included his highest Test score of 257 against India at Melbourne in 2003