Ranking the top 10 Test openers in the world currently

#4 Dimuth Karunaratne (Sri Lanka)

Karunaratne has become a key player to this Sri Lanka side

Karunaratne is someone who has really taken his game to the next level over the last couple of years, with half of his eight Test centuries coming since the start of 2017. He had quite a patchy start to his career but has become a reliable member of this Sri Lanka side, and he looks like a top class opening batsman.

It is no surprise that the players highest up on this list are the ones who are the more old-fashioned openers and put more effort into trying to get themselves in, and put away the bad balls, rather than take risks. Karunaratne is another one of those players, and this has bought him a lot of success in recent times. This was most notable in the most recent two-match Test series with South Africa, where he was named Man of the Series, making at least 50 in all four innings he batted.