Batting Average — Test

Men's cricket. Runs per dismissal. · min. 6 innings Ranked from ball-by-ball data. See the women's list →


1	Mohammad Yousuf	70.76	21	1507	59.75	5
2	Mahela Jayawardene	61.60	30	1908	55.30	8
3	Brian Lara	59.31	13	771	60.95	4
4	Kumar Sangakkara	58.79	28	1758	59.78	5
5	Michael Hussey	58.74	23	1466	50.89	5
6	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	57.56	16	969	46.16	3
7	Harry Brook	57.15	48	2791	87.91	8
8	Ricky Ponting	55.24	33	1922	60.84	8
9	Stephen Fleming	53.70	10	537	54.08	1
10	Yashasvi Jaiswal	52.77	44	2410	67.13	7
11	Chris Gayle	51.61	18	929	59.21	1
12	Kamindu Mendis	51.00	20	1080	63.12	3
13	Kevin Pietersen	50.47	55	2886	64.90	11
14	Abid Ali	49.50	20	1030	49.61	4
15	Matthew Hayden	47.94	33	1648	54.21	7
16	Phil Jaques	47.40	10	474	53.62	2
17	Shahid Afridi	45.88	8	367	112.23	1
18	Michael Clarke	45.29	21	1014	58.28	4
19	Devon Conway	44.98	44	1979	52.60	7
20	Andrew Symonds	44.28	18	851	70.98	2
21	Ashwell Prince	43.80	30	1464	42.92	6
22	Marcus Trescothick	43.71	21	918	58.14	3
23	Dimuth Karunaratne	43.53	83	3696	52.37	11
24	Tillakaratne Dilshan	42.52	21	914	64.01	1
25	Mohammad Kaif	42.43	7	311	46.63	1
26	Karun Nair	42.33	12	520	66.24	1
27	Kane Williamson	42.29	78	3845	55.00	14
28	VVS Laxman	41.70	27	1180	48.84	4
29	Virat Kohli	41.03	113	5427	57.17	17
30	Sachin Tendulkar	40.85	26	1114	53.87	3
31	Tamim Iqbal	39.63	38	1544	65.62	2
32	Jacques Kallis	39.35	26	1049	42.37	3
33	Salman Butt	39.20	10	392	46.50	1
34	Virender Sehwag	38.92	24	958	76.33	2
35	Corbin Bosch	38.83	6	245	76.80	1
36	David Warner	38.21	82	3461	62.81	8
37	Jayant Yadav	38.17	6	235	43.76	1
38	Tatenda Taibu	37.83	6	233	45.33	0
39	Beau Webster	37.82	11	438	62.04	0
40	Sourav Ganguly	37.73	22	874	57.35	2
41	Wasim Jaffer	37.35	26	971	45.46	3
42	Alastair Cook	37.18	91	3656	45.71	10
43	Prithvi Shaw	37.00	6	222	83.46	1
44	Abdullah Shafique	36.87	39	1516	44.17	5
45	Michael Vandort	36.71	17	658	47.58	3
46	Michael Vaughan	36.55	29	1089	51.68	3
47	Ian Bell	36.46	50	2073	53.50	7
48	Azhar Ali	36.39	70	2827	43.61	9
49	Daryl Mitchell	36.32	44	1818	51.24	5
50	Mayank Agarwal	36.27	30	1088	50.98	3
51	Murali Vijay	36.24	33	1196	44.46	5
52	Sean Williams	36.05	22	793	63.80	2
53	Cheteshwar Pujara	35.64	95	3861	41.21	10
54	Tom Latham	35.44	97	3632	49.00	9
55	Jamie Smith	35.38	26	972	71.58	2
56	Saud Shakeel	35.29	35	1270	47.04	2
57	Litton Das	35.18	51	1845	61.95	4
58	Rachin Ravindra	34.85	26	984	68.72	2
59	Travis Head	34.79	98	3899	68.42	10
60	Dinesh Chandimal	34.72	69	2879	49.92	7
61	Marnus Labuschagne	34.47	101	4289	52.39	11
62	Binura Fernando	34.45	20	709	52.52	1
63	Shan Masood	34.37	57	1959	55.34	6
64	Shikhar Dhawan	34.33	18	618	67.91	1
65	Graeme Smith	34.22	27	978	62.02	2
66	Joe Root	33.98	181	7960	58.10	22
67	Shubman Gill	33.84	58	2311	62.63	7
68	Ryan Rickelton	33.58	24	830	53.34	2
69	Rahul Dravid	33.56	32	1202	42.56	1
70	Shaun Marsh	33.48	27	931	40.67	2
71	Martin Guptill	33.29	7	233	56.01	0
72	Aiden Markram	33.18	77	2709	59.39	7
73	Ramnaresh Sarwan	33.09	11	364	52.07	2
74	Pathum Nissanka	33.08	25	852	54.06	2
75	Rohit Sharma	32.99	75	3074	59.32	10
76	Imran Farhat	32.94	16	543	50.94	0
77	AB de Villiers	32.90	40	1396	53.47	2
78	Rishabh Pant	32.86	72	2726	73.74	6
79	Babar Azam	32.82	95	3878	54.31	9
80	Ben Duckett	32.74	68	2430	85.99	5
81	KL Rahul	32.61	84	2823	51.56	6
82	Steven Smith	32.49	113	5366	51.37	17
83	Usman Khawaja	32.38	108	4253	47.06	9
84	Soumya Sarkar	32.32	19	614	63.04	1
85	Andrew Strauss	31.84	51	1624	46.73	2
86	Milan Priyanath	31.71	7	222	54.95	0
87	Henry Nicholls	31.71	66	2555	50.72	10
88	Lahiru Thirimanne	31.62	21	664	40.61	1
89	Quinton de Kock	31.60	57	1972	71.63	3
90	Yasir Khan	31.54	35	1209	52.54	2
91	Haris Sohail	31.52	21	662	42.35	2
92	Imam-ul-Haq	31.44	64	2332	48.95	6
93	Keegan Petersen	31.37	19	596	48.06	0
94	Najmul Hossain Shanto	31.37	43	1392	51.08	5
95	Dhruv Jurel	31.36	14	453	55.45	1
96	Senuran Muthusamy	31.27	11	388	47.84	1
97	Angelo Mathews	31.21	67	2426	47.48	4
98	Shreyas Iyer	31.17	18	579	61.53	1
99	Kusal Mendis	31.14	71	2495	59.95	6
100	Jeet Raval	31.12	34	1092	42.86	1

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