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You may have heard that Daniel Vettori is the best ever no. 8 batsman. He has scored 2072 runs in that position, which beats everyone including Shane Warne and his 2005 runs.  His average of 42.28 is handsomely superior to anyone else who has played at least 20 innings in that position.

So what do we do with this marvel of the lower order? We move him to the middle order. No. 6. Where he has an average of 18.25. That puts him a long, long way down the list of no. 6s. If he is going to move up high on the list of successful no. 6s he is going to have to push that average up. If he doubles it, he’ll get into the top 40. But to get to the top, he is going to have to leapfrog such names as Inzamam-ul-Haq, Jeremy Coney, Garfield Sobers and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, currently topping the list at 65.73.