Test cricket’s silver medal quiz: Who has the second-best Test batting average, after Don Bradman?

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Having gone past the Ponting-Kallis-Dravid cluster, Joe Root is approaching Sachin Tendulkar’s long-standing world record of 15,921 runs in Test cricket.

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Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralidaran clinched the corresponding record for most wickets from each other, but the Australian’s retirement resulted in the Sri Lanka surging ahead to finish on 800. Nevertheless, Warne is going to hold on to the second place for some time.

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Some other world records is more or less well-known as well, but the identity of the silver medalist is not as popular. This week’s quiz will test your knowledge on the cricketers holding the second place in some charts of men’s Test cricket. Since the numbers keeps changing, we have set May 10, 2026 as the cut-off date for this quiz.

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Men’s Test cricket’s silver medal quiz: Who has the second-best Test batting average?

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