Bradman, Tendulkar or Kohli, who is the greatest batsman cricket has ever produced

[Brandon14]

Cricket's own greatest of all time argument almost always begins and ends with Don Bradman, whose Test batting average of 99.94 remains one of the single most extraordinary statistical outliers in the history of professional sport, a number so far ahead of every other player before or since that it has become the sport's standard shorthand for genuinely untouchable greatness, achieved across a career largely confined to the era before the Second World War against a much smaller pool of Test playing nations.

Sachin Tendulkar's case rests on an entirely different kind of dominance, sustained excellence across close to 24 years at the international level, during which he became the leading run scorer in the history of both Test and one day international cricket and the first player to ever score a double century in an ODI innings, doing so against far more varied bowling attacks, conditions and formats than Bradman ever had to face across his own career.

Virat Kohli represents the modern era's leading candidate, a batsman whose relentless chasing prowess in one day cricket and consistency across all three formats of the modern game, alongside his continued accumulation of international centuries, has kept his name firmly in this conversation even as the sport itself has evolved to include an entirely new format in T20 cricket that neither Bradman nor peak era Tendulkar ever really had to master.

An outlier statistical anomaly, a modern era record breaker, or the most complete batsman across the current format heavy game. Which one gets your vote?