Top 5 highest year-end averages for runs scored across all formats

#3 Hashim Amla – 76.90 (2010)

Hashim Amla has become the lynchpin in the South African side

One of South Africa’s greatest batsmen ever, Amla scored 2307 runs in 2010 in 34 innings with 10 centuries and 8 half-centuries. His year included the invincible 253* at Nagpur that helped set up a rare innings victory for a visiting team against India in India. He followed that up with centuries in both innings of the next Test announcing himself to the world.

There were 5 ODI centuries in there too with Amla consistently managing to score over a strike-rate of 90 in ODIs despite his technically correct, orthodox and elegant game. That style of play and the truckloads of runs made him the lynchpin of the South African batting attack. 2307 was also the most runs scored by a South African in a calendar year beating Kallis’ 2007 mark of 2201.