Spirit On the Water (2011)
“England tour of Australia, 1928/29 10. England tour of Australia, 1928/29 The Holy Grail for Test batsmen is to end their career with a batting average of over 60. Only four players have achieved this: Don Bradman, Graeme Pollock, George Headley and Herbert Sutcliffe.
The rest of the top ten is made up of the following who didn’t quite reach 60. Eddie Paynter, Ken Barrington, Everton Weekes, Walter Hammond, Garry Sobers and Jack Hobbs. No modern players feature in the top ten of Test averag...es. Garry Sobers is the most recent and he played his last Test in 1973.
The best current batsmen – Ponting, Tendulkar, Sangakkara and Kallis – are all in the mid 50s and unlikely to make the 60 benchmark. Relatively recent players who you might think would have qualified – Lara, Richards, Gavaskar and Miandad – all have Test averages in the early 50s.
It goes without saying that averages are not everything. Ian Botham averaged just over thirty-three in Test matches but his batting stopped the traffic and won games for England.MoreLess
The rest of the top ten is made up of the following who didn’t quite reach 60. Eddie Paynter, Ken Barrington, Everton Weekes, Walter Hammond, Garry Sobers and Jack Hobbs. No modern players feature in the top ten of Test averag...es. Garry Sobers is the most recent and he played his last Test in 1973.
The best current batsmen – Ponting, Tendulkar, Sangakkara and Kallis – are all in the mid 50s and unlikely to make the 60 benchmark. Relatively recent players who you might think would have qualified – Lara, Richards, Gavaskar and Miandad – all have Test averages in the early 50s.
It goes without saying that averages are not everything. Ian Botham averaged just over thirty-three in Test matches but his batting stopped the traffic and won games for England.MoreLess
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