The cricket batting average allows us to measure the performance of a cricket batsman and we will usually have separate averages for various forms of cricket such as ODI, Test Cricket etc. How do you work out a cricket batting average? This is a simple calculation whereby you take the total number of runs made by a batsman and then divide this amount by the number of times he has been out (number of innings). Remember to firstly take away the number of “not-outs” from the total innings. Using the example of the greatest batting average of all time (6996 runs, 80 innings and 10 not-outs), take the 10 not outs from the 80 innings and we have 70. Then we have the 6996 runs and then divide this by that 70, equating to a batting average of 99.94.

This 99.94 record is of course a Test Cricket record belonging to the Australian cricketer Sir Donald George Bradman (Donald Bradman); to back this up, his overall batting average covering all cricket forms played still sits just above the 90 mark. Just to indicate how phenomenal Donald Bradman’s Test Cricket record is, the next best career averages include Graeme Pollock (60.97), George Headley (60.83) and Herbert Sutcliffe (60.73). A batsman would usually have a record between 30 and 50! A career batting average over 50 is considered exceptional (again rising attention to that 99.94). The modern great batsman is India’s Sachin Tendulkar who struggles with such batting averages, but he does of course hold many other batting records.