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
Indian cricket team in Australia in 2011–12 before being dismissed for 400 midway through the evening session, 68 runs short of making Australia bat again. Hilfenhaus (5/106) was the best of the Australian bowlers. Michael Clarke was named man of the match for his career best of 329*. Clarke's innings is the highest score and the first Test triple century at the SCG, and third-highest score by an Australian captain in Test cricket, behind Mark Taylor (334*) and Sir Donald Bradman (334). Clarke also took Tendulkar's wicket in the second innings. Ricky Ponting's 134 broke a slump of 31 Test innings without a century. On the eve