Batting average player's skill as a batter. Most players have career batting averages in the range of 20 to 40. Among players with a minimum of 20 innings played or completed, the highest Test batting average belongs to Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, with 99.94. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and read without the decimal: A player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred." In modern times, a season batting average higher than .300 is considered to be excellent, and an
Don Bradman's batting technique as a run-maker. In recent years, efforts have been made to analyse his game by using biomechanical studies. In the Bradman Museum, it is revealed that Bradman used a ping pong ball and a cricket stump to practice batting. At 170 cm (5' 7"), Bradman was not a big man, but he was athletic and very fast on his feet. During his developing years, he played cricket on artificial pitches, made of concrete with coir matting stretched tautly over the top. His short stature shaped his early development, as he had to deal with the high bounce of the ball