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
Bradman Oval competition, Bradman scored 1,318 runs, an average of 94.14 runs. He also took 51 wickets, averaging 7.8 and held 26 catches. Another memorable game on this ground was in 1925 when Bradman scored 234 against the Wingello team that included Bill O'Reilly. In 1947 the "A Glebe" wicket was formally named the Bradman Oval. Later, improvements were made to the oval through the efforts of Bowral Municipal Council, and Gordon Whatman of Bowral personally maintained the wicket area. In 1976 the reopening of a rehabilitated Bradman Oval was performed by Sir Donald Bradman himself in the company of O'Reilly. Bradman