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Epic hundreds, ignominious king pairs, stonewallers and fire starters: the short history of cricket's first men in
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The Zaltzmeister
It's great when you're eight
Which No. 8's name would you tattoo on your body?
The Tendulkar of batting positions
Aiming to carve out megalithic statistics with the bat? Walk in at two-drop
The importance of being consistently rubbish
Just ask a genuine No. 10
The self-destroying batting position
Sobers excelled, Botham struggled in a slot that nobody wants for too long
Third man
Test batting's most intriguing position has served as a home to all manner of batsmen, including the greatest of them all
Test cricket's most useless batting position
Until Tino Best and other No. 11s decided that enough was enough
The magnificent seven
No. 7 used to be reserved for batsmen and allrounders. Then along came the wicketkeepers
The power of two. (Or not)
Why does the position seemingly inspire a relative lack of performance in many - and the opposite in a few?
No. 9 dream
Why batting at No. 9 offers some of the greatest potential for heroism