Graeme Smith, AB de Villiers, Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Brian Lara, Chris Gayle Almost as interesting as the names who have made it to the auction list of 416, are the players who ...

Smith is the latest entry into the club and it took him 205 innings, the third fastest ever. Lara also shares the record of 10,000 Test runs in 195 innings and no real surprise there.

Steve Smith is only the seventh Test batter to reach 35 Test centuries after Sachin Tendulkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), Ricky Ponting (41), Kumar Sangakkara (38), Rahul Dravid (36) and Joe Root (36).