3. Jack Hobbs' 61,760 First-Class Runs
The game we call cricket simply is not the same game that Sir Jack Hobbs dominated in the early part of the 20th Century.
Matches were longer, conditions tougher, and international schedules were limited (of Hobbs' 834 first-class matches, only 61 were Tests).
It was a game for gentlemen of leisure, not an intensely physical sport played by professional athletes.
It's fitting, then, that Hobbs was by all accounts a true gentleman, and his favourite pastime was to score copious amounts of runs.
The game has moved on from Hobbs' era, making his 61,760 first-class runs a relic rather than a realistic target, but he will always be remembered as a legend of the game.