My memories of watching Test cricket go back to the early eighties so that will tell you how many batters I've seen, and Sachin Tendulkar is the best.
Between his debut at 16 and retiring at 40, he made 34,357 international runs. Kumar Sangakkara is the second all-time run scorer with 28,016, and Ricky Ponting is third with 27,483.
See how easily I turned to statistics? That's a cricket-lover's habit, usually about half the story.
