5 players with the best 50 to 100 conversion rate of all time in Tests

#2 George Headley – 66.67%

George Headley

George Headley was one of the rare batsmen who was known to be at par with Don Bradman. Thus, the nickname ‘The Black Bradman’.

Headley’s parents wanted him to become a dentist in the USA but it was his cricket career that blossomed. He made his debut in 1930 when England toured West Indies and played a second string side. West Indies tried as many as 28 players in that series with Headley playing all the games.

Headley grabbed that opportunity with both hands as he scored 703 runs in eight innings which included four centuries. He scored 176 in the first Test, 114 and 112 in the third and 223 in the fourth. His 223 came in the fourth innings of the fourth Test and it is still the highest score by any batsman in the fourth innings of a Test.

Except for his last couple of Test series’, a Headley scored a century in every series he played. He ended up getting 10 test hundreds out of the 15 times he went past 50. Thus, he is ranked second on the list of best conversion rates.