Top 5 left-handed Australian Test openers of all time

#4 Bill Lawry

He is perhaps better known among a certain generation of cricket fans for his prowess as a commentator but during his playing days, the left-handed batsman was one of Australia's best opening batsmen in Test cricket.

When Bill Lawry started off his career back in 1961 in England, he was a compulsive stroke-maker but after a few years, he altered his batting style and turned himself into a player, who hardly ever played any strokes.

However, even though Lawry's batting became increasingly unwatchable due to his dogged refusal to give away his wicket, it also became very difficult to get his wicket that easily and that is what made him such a superb opening batsman.

In addition to that, he was an extremely courageous batsman and faced fearsome bowlers like Fred Trueman, Brian Statham and Charlie Giffith without giving an inch. In a career consisting of 67 Test matches, Lawry scored 5234 runs at an average of 47.15. He had also scored 13 centuries and 27 half-centuries during the course of his decade-long career.