A Thread on Saeed Anwar as a Gun Test Opener of his Time
Taking the period from 01 Jan 1994 to 31 Dec 2001, eight year period in which Saeed played 53 out of his 55 tests

Lets look at overall performance of openers during that period (min 2000 runs)
Saeed has best average among all openers (min 2000 runs)
Average of 48.25 is better than Atherton, Kirsten, Slater, Taylor, Jayasuria, Attapatu, Stewart
Next best average is 44.12

This period includes all the tours to SENA, India and SL,
So overall away stats of all openers during that period are below:
Saeed avgs. 46.32 away from home during the period in 47 innings, only Gibbs averages more than him (60) but he played only 23 inns,
So again dominant here

Coming to SENA numbers only by Asian openers during that period (min 500 runs), Saeed is head and shoulders above the rest and only Asian opener to score 2000 SENA runs during that period, his average is 44.38 in SENA, next best average is 35 by Amir Sohail

If we look at home stats of all the openers during that period
Saeed averages 50.54, only Slater (51) and Sidhu (62) has better averages than him
He scored 7 away hundreds and 4 home tons, 6 of his 7 away hundreds resulted in victory for Pak

Now some of great away test performances of Saeed Anwar:
NZ tour 1994:
2nd test Wellington
169(248) 1st innings (Won)
3rd Test Christchurch
69(94) 1st innings (lost)
England tour 1996:
1st test Lords
74(120) & 88(144) (Won)
3rd Test Oval
176(264) 1st innings (Won)
Continued....

South Africa Tour 97:
Durban
43(84) & 118(209) (Won)
Port Elizabeth
55 (109) 2nd inns Pak (134) (lost)

India tour 99:
Delhi test
69(128) 2nd inns (Lost)
Kolkatta test
188(259) 2nd inns (Won)
Australia tour 99:
Brisbane
61(99)& 119(174) (Lost)
Hobart
78(156) 2nd inns (Lost)

Srilanka tour of 94:
Colombo test
94 (163) & 136(218) (Won)

Srilanka tour of 2000:
Colombo Test
56 (136) 1st inns (Won)
Galle test
123(237) 1st inns (Won)

Scored at least one 100 and one 50 in every away tour against big teams apart from England 2001
His country wise stats are also given below:
So he was not only about class in ODIs but numbers and his performances show that he was the best opener in that period

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