ALASTAIR COOK - 10,042 runs in 128 Tests with 28 centuries.
GRAHAM GOOCH - 8,900 runs and 20 hundreds.
ALEC STEWART - 8,463 runs at an average of 39.54.
DAVID GOWER - 8,231 runs in 117 Tests.
KEVIN PIETERSEN - 8,181 Test match runs.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT - 8,114 runs at an average of 47.72.
MICHAEL ATHERTON - 7,728 runs but the join-highest number of ducks (20).
IAN BELL - 7,727 runs at an average of 42.69.
COLIN COWDREY - First man to 100 Test matches scored 7,624 runs.
WALLY HAMMOND - 7,249 runs while also returning 83 Test wickets.
Sport360 staff
17:56 02/06/2016
It looks like Cook will go on to break all kinds of records in world cricket and although none of the players on this list will ever catch him, they were once setting the bar.
Which of these ten players to you rate as England’s finest batsmen and do you think Cook can go on to beat Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time Test record?
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