Highest Average in First Class Cricket

[G. S. Kohli]

Highest averages https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/highest-career-batting-average-284199

Sarfaraz close for test selection in WTC 2023-2025

 

[Socerer 01]

why no *official*

 

[Prince EWS]

why no *official*

It actually was originally, I edited it out.

 

[Socerer 01]

It actually was originally, I edited it out.

should have closed the thread too as usual

 

[Prince EWS]

should have closed the thread too as usual

I thought about merging with the 'doesn't deserve its own thread' thread but I was in a charitable mood.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

If this thread for Bevan or Rossco
Than 87 poster hang around now

 

[Socerer 01]

If this thread for Bevan or Rossco
Than 87 poster hang around now

truer words never been spoken more

 

[peterhrt]

Progressive highest first-class career averages of batsmen who had stopped playing. Qualification 10,000 runs.

23.78 Harry Jupp 1881
24.66 Maurice Read 1895
32.06 Walter Read 1897
32.12 AE Stoddart 1900
36.65 Arthur Shrewsbury 1902
36.79 CJ "Pinky" Burnup 1907
39.45 WG Grace 1908
44.57 Victor Trumper 1914
56.37 KS Ranjitsinhji 1920
65.18 Bill Ponsford 1934
95.14 Don Bradman 1949

 

[ankitj]

Surprised to see Trumper in the list.

 

[trundler]

Surprised to see Trumper in the list.

Shield pitches have been roads since the early 1900s and most of Trumper's reputation in England comes from his success in tour matches, not tests.

 

[ataraxia]

CB Fry unfortunate Ranji retired just before him

 

[peterhrt]

CB Fry unfortunate Ranji retired just before him

Yes. And Woodfull's last game (average 64.99) was also Ponsford's.

 

[ataraxia]

Yes. And Woodfull's last game (average 64.99) was also Ponsford's.

Haha that's a goodie. The greatest beneficiaries of Shield roads, them two.

 

[ankitj]

Shield pitches have been roads since the early 1900s and most of Trumper's reputation in England comes from his success in tour matches, not tests.

I consider Trumper a myth propagated by poetic write-ups in pre Television era.

 

[honestbharani]

Bradman is such a ball buster when it comes to batting stats, huh.

 

[Coronis]

Bradman is such a ball buster when it comes to batting stats, huh.

I mean, he only blueballed Merchant in this one.

 

[peterhrt]

I consider Trumper a myth propagated by poetic write-ups in pre Television era.

As memories of rain-damaged pitches faded, so did Trumper's reputation. He was probably the only one regularly to attack successfully on the worst of these surfaces. Others concentrated on survival.

For half a century or more he was considered one of the four or five greatest ever batsmen. Many who saw him play maintained he was the best. Fingleton and others used him as a stick with which to beat Bradman. That has also passed into history.

In 1950 an attempt was made to compare the scoring rates of batsmen in first-class cricket, based on available data and measured in runs per hour. Rates of some of the best-known batsmen whose careers had ended:

Jessop 80, Trumper 56, Woolley 55, Macartney 52, Ranji 50, McCabe 49, Bradman 47, Hammond 43, Hill 43, Hobbs 43, Ponsford 43, Grace 36, Sutcliffe 34, Mitchell 28, Shrewsbury 28. Headley (33) was nearing the end of his career.

Trumper averaged 69 in Grade cricket with a highest score of 335 in three hours.

 

[Coronis]

I wish Jessop could see T20 and Bazball

 

[Socerer 01]

I wish Jessop could see T20 and Bazball

“i did it all before you guys thought it was cool”