Virat Kohli’s next target? Six batsmen who average over 60 in Tests

#1. Don Bradman

Don Bradman

When it comes to statistics, Sir Donald George Bradman is in a league of his own. Widely considered the greatest batsman ever to grace the game, Bradman plundered 6996 runs in 52 Tests at a now legendary average of 99.94, with 29 hundreds and 13 fifties. He needed only four runs to finish with a perfect Test average of 100 in his final match. Instead, he was bowled second ball by Eric Hollies, and his last innings failure stands testimony to the fact that the Don was, after all, human.

Until that point though, he was like a run machine whose engine just refused to fall off. In 1930, he scored 974 runs in the series against England, with a triple century at Headingley -- his Test best of 334. Bradman’s scores in that series read 8, 131, 254, 1, 334, 14 and 232. With Bradman in the team, Australia lost the Ashes only once, when Douglas Jardine devised Bodyline in 1932-33. The Don still ended up averaging 56.

Bradman also registered double centuries against West Indies, South Africa and India. He was famously unbeaten on 299 as Australia were all out for 513 in the Test against South Africa played at Adelaide from January 29-February 2, 1932. There never was and will never be another like the Don.