The skipper has been the best batsman for South Africa this summer.

I still think of him as the best batsman in the post-war world.

Did Steve Smith's ill-advised leave diminish his standing as the world's best batsman?

Here comes the world's second best batsman then, Jon Trott.

He was far and away the best batsman from Gardiner.

He was England's best batsman by a margin but yet again that major innings eluded him.

Winding back the clock then, who was the best batsman you bowled at back in the day?

Nearly 1,400 championship runs last season and their key best batsman.

For over after over the best batsman in the team was exposing the rabbits to the hunters' guns.

Similar value can be extracted from a punt on Shan Masood to be Pakistan's best batsman in the first innings.

Also: best batsman in the world with the expectations of 1.3bn people on his shoulders.

In his next, he brought one back to breach the gate of KL Rahul, comfortably Punjab's best batsman this season.

Martin Guptill was New Zealand's next best batsman, managing to bring up 42 runs off 19.

Cook struck his maiden test century in Nagpur, India, in 2006 and is arguably the world's best batsman on subcontinent pitches.

At the head of the Australian team is the best batsman in the series and probably the best in the world.

That came back to haunt the Black Caps when the side's second- best batsman Ross Taylor was given out LBW for 15.