List of top 10 batsmen in test cricket (2017)

3. Dean Elgar (South Africa)

Elgar continued to lay strong foundation for Proteas while opening the batting with Hashim Amla. On 11 March 2017, against New Zealand he became the first South African opener to face 200 or more balls in both innings of a Test. Elgar thrashed the Bangladeshi bowling attack by scoring 330 runs in a 3 match series with a average of 110.

2. Cheteshwar Pujara (India) 

Pujara stood like a rock strong pillar for India in test. In February 2017, during the one-off Test match against Bangladesh, he set a new record for the most runs by a batsman in an Indian first-class season, with 1,605 runs.

Cheteshwar played a key role in India’s second inning of second Test scoring a crucial 92 in Bangalore, and helped the team win the game. In the third Test, played in Ranchi, Pujara scored 202, his third double-hundred, off 525 balls, in the first innings. He was judged as the man of the match in draw match.

In May, he signed for Nottinghamshire on a four-match contract as a replacement to James Pattinson, to play in Division Two of the County season. He scored a hundred in his first game, against Gloucestershire, scoring 112 and adding 185 runs for the fourth wicket. Carrying the good form, he scored his 12th Test century in the first Test of the tour of Sri Lanka at Galle in July. Pujara scored 153 off 265 balls, helping India record its biggest away Test win. He scored another hundred in the second Test, his 50th, a first innings knock of 133. On course of the innings, he went past 4,000 runs, becoming the second fastest Indian to get there in terms of number of innings batted.

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Top 10 batsmen in test cricket 2017

Pujara finished the season with 1,316 runs in Tests, the second most in a single season after Australia’s Ricky Ponting (1,483). He also broke the record for the most runs scored in a first-class season by an Indian. At the end of the season, he was placed fourth in the Batsman ranking in tests.