8. Wally Hammond:

Wally Hammond was a strongly built man with full of strokes to unleash against the bowlers. He was one of the greatest ever to have embraced the game and was perhaps England’s answer to Sir Donald Bradman.

He featured in a total of 85 tests and his cover drive was something else as described by many cricketing experts.

Apart from 22 test tons, he notched up a total of 167 centuries and picked up 732 wickets in his illustrious first-class career.