Test Cricket - Batting Records and Statistics - Averages / Scoring Rates
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  Player Country Career   Inns NO Runs 100s Avg   Inns NO Runs 100s Avg
1 D G Bradman Australia 1928-1948   80 10 6996 29 99.94   50 6 4322 18 98.23
2 A C Voges Australia 2015-2016   31 7 1485 5 61.88   12 4 690 3 86.25
3 B C Broad England 1984-1989   44 2 1661 6 39.55   10 2 626 4 78.25
4 R M Cowper Australia 1964-1968   46 2 2061 5 46.84   14 0 1061 3 75.79
5 E J Barlow South Africa 1961-1970   57 2 2516 6 45.75   10 2 603 3 75.38
6 G A Faulkner South Africa 1906-1924   47 4 1754 4 40.79   10 0 732 2 73.20
7 H A Gomes West Indies 1976-1987   91 11 3171 9 39.64   15 3 844 4 70.33
8 K F Barrington England 1955-1968   131 15 6806 20 58.67   18 3 1046 4 69.73
9 M D Crowe New Zealand 1982-1995   131 11 5444 17 45.37   15 2 870 2 66.92
10 T L Goddard South Africa 1955-1970   78 5 2516 1 34.47   10 3 454 0 64.86
11 H Sutcliffe England 1924-1935   84 9 4555 16 60.73   25 1 1529 6 63.71
12 M P Vaughan England 1999-2008   147 9 5719 18 41.44   10 0 633 3 63.30
13 S P D Smith* Australia 2010-   195 25 9685 32 56.97   91 16 4701 16 62.68
14 M Labuschagne* Australia 2018-   90 7 4114 11 49.57   47 5 2623 9 62.45
15 R R Pant* India 2018-   56 4 2271 5 43.67   12 2 624 1 62.40
16 M J Clarke Australia 2004-2015   198 22 8643 28 49.11   86 11 4654 17 62.05
17 W R Hammond England 1927-1947   140 16 7249 22 58.46   35 3 1981 7 61.91
18 S G Barnes Australia 1938-1948   19 2 1072 3 63.06   10 0 615 2 61.50
19 M E K Hussey Australia 2005-2013   137 16 6235 19 51.53   76 14 3794 14 61.19
20 F C M Alexander West Indies 1957-1961   38 6 961 1 30.03   10 2 484 1 60.50
21 K C Sangakkara Sri Lanka 2000-2015   233 17 12400 38 57.41   10 1 543 1 60.33
22 J B Hobbs England 1908-1930   102 7 5410 15 56.95   45 2 2493 9 57.98
23 M L Hayden Australia 1994-2009   184 14 8625 30 50.74   98 8 5210 21 57.89
24 D A Warner* Australia 2011-   205 8 8786 26 44.60   101 7 5438 20 57.85
25 K D Walters Australia 1965-1981   125 14 5357 15 48.26   62 9 3065 10 57.83
26 R T Ponting Australia 1995-2012   287 29 13378 41 51.85   154 21 7578 23 56.98
27 W M Lawry Australia 1961-1971   123 12 5234 13 47.15   54 4 2818 8 56.36
28 J H Edrich England 1963-1976   127 9 5138 12 43.54   26 3 1283 4 55.78
29 M Amarnath India 1969-1988   113 10 4378 11 42.50   13 1 668 2 55.67
30 G S Chappell Australia 1970-1984   151 19 7110 24 53.86   96 13 4515 16 54.40
31 A C Parore New Zealand 1990-2002   128 19 2865 2 26.28   11 4 379 1 54.14
32 V Kohli* India 2011-   191 11 8848 29 49.16   25 0 1352 6 54.08
33 A H Jones New Zealand 1987-1995   74 8 2922 7 44.27   12 0 647 2 53.92
34 B C Booth Australia 1961-1966   48 6 1773 5 42.21   23 3 1076 4 53.80
35 S R Tendulkar India 1989-2013   329 33 15921 51 53.79   38 4 1809 6 53.21
36 U T Khawaja* Australia 2011-   131 12 5451 15 45.81   62 8 2855 9 52.87
37 M J Slater Australia 1993-2001   131 7 5312 14 42.84   57 3 2842 9 52.63
38 A L Hassett Australia 1938-1953   69 3 3073 10 46.56   36 2 1778 5 52.29
39 M Leyland England 1928-1938   65 5 2764 9 46.07   20 2 937 3 52.06
40 Azhar Ali* Pakistan 2010-   180 11 7142 19 42.26   10 1 468 1 52.00

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