5) Matt Prior
Matt Prior is a strange case-study. An aggressive and attacking wicket-keeper, Prior maintained a more-than-impressive strike-rate of 61.66 in Test cricket and that too, with an average of 40.18, scoring 4,099 runs in 123 innings.
However, he didn’t replicate the same success in ODI cricket, where he managed just 1,282 runs at 24.18 with a meagre strike-rate of 76.76 in 62 games. Prior has 7 centuries in Test cricket, quite a few coming in genuine salvaging and counter-attacking innings from No.5.
Prior’s peak form overlapped with England’s ascent to the top of the Test playing nations, although his form ebbed away pretty quickly towards the fag end of his career, the curtains brought down by a disastrous Ashes series.
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