Best Ashes Series batting Averages

July 9, 2021 By Sourav

To all the Ashes (most popular test series) fans out there, in this article, you will get to know about the all-time Best Ashes Series batting Averages.

Best Ashes Series batting Averages

10. Matthew Elliott (AUS)

Average: 55.60

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1996-1997	6	10	556	199	55.60	2	2	0

Elliott’s a Victorian, left-handed, impervious, big-beaked, and bears a spooky resemblance to Bill Lawry. Where Lawry’s international days finished with his sacking as both captain and opener, Matthew Elliott’s test career also had an unhappy ending. His Ashes career was also too short.

9. Sir Leonard Hutton (ENG)

Average: 56.46

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1938-1955	27	49	2428	364	56.46	5	14	2

Fans still regard Sir L Hutton as one of the finest batsmen of all time. The world also notes him as the most technically correct England batsman after the Second World War. Interestingly, Len Hutton broke the world-record score in his 6^th Test. He was also England’s first professional captain.

8. Maurice Leyland (ENG)

Average: 56.83

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1929-1938	20	34	1705	187	56.83	7	3	2

Maurice was the symbol of the game’s combined strength and merriment. He died on January 1, 1967, aged 66, and was exactly as old as this part-worn century and his first-class career embraced the interwar years in addition to the vital season afterward.

The body of English cricket in those years was built on firm bone and muscle, but, more often than not, Maurice was its spinal column.

7. Steve Waugh (AUS)

Average: 58.75

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1986-2003	45	72	3173	177*	58.75	10	14	6

Steve Waugh was the embodiment of true Australian grit and is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time. Evolved from a raw 20-year-old talented batsman and medium-pacer into a cricketer who eliminated risk from his game.

He led Australia in 15 of their world-record 16 consecutive Test wins and to the 1999 World Cup title, playing 168 Tests and collecting 10,927 runs on the go.

6. Michael Hussey (AUS)

Average: 59.27

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
2006-2011	15	24	1304	195	59.27	4	9	3

M.Hussey was an accumulator who was virtually impossible to distract at the crease, Michael Hussey waited a decade before becoming an overnight star.

Others might have given up, or at least relaxed, during all that time in the backblocks of the Sheffield Shield and County Championship, but M.Hussey maintained the intensity and was soon living in a statistical world occupied by few others.

5. Ken Barrington (ENG)

Average: 63.96

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1961-1968	23	39	2111	256	63.96	5	13	1

Barrington’s Test place after being dropped, abandoned his natural attacking style to become one of the cricket’s most notorious stone Wallers.

The revised method cost him his place once, by way of punishment for taking 435 minutes to score 137 against a mundane New Zealand attack at Edgbaston in 1965, but overall it served him exceptionally.

4. Herbert Sutcliffe (ENG)

Average: 66.85

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1924-1934	27	46	2741	194	66.85	8	16	1

Sutcliffe was one of the greatest cricketers and he brought to Cricket as to all his undertakings an assurance and capacity for concentration that positively commanded success. His technical talent matched his character and his achievements, therefore, were supreme.

3. Sid Barnes (AUS)

Average: 70.50

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1933-1948	9	14	846	234	70.50	2	4	1

SG Barnes, who died suddenly at his home in Sydney on December 16, 1973, aged 57, was both a fine cricketer and a bizarre character.

He played generally as an opening batsman, in 13 Test matches for Australia, hitting three centuries, and he and Sir Donald Bradman, each scoring 234, shared a world record partnership for the 5^th wicket in Test Cricket when adding 405 against W. R. Hammond’s team.

2. Eddie Paynter (ENG)

Average: 84.42

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1933-1938	7	11	591	216*	84.42	1	3	1

Paynter, who died at Keighley on 5th February 1979, aged 77, was a left-handed batsman who averaged 84.42 for his 7 Tests against Australia, a figure which no other Englishman can approach.

This in itself would entitle him to a place among the great cricketers, but his figures become even more remarkable if his innings are evaluated.

1. Sir Donald Bradman (AUS)

Average: 89.78

Span	Matches	Inns	Runs	Highest	Average	100s	50s	0s
1928-1948	37	63	5028	334	89.78	19	12	6

Undoubtedly the greatest batsman in the game and imaginably the greatest cricketer ever. One of the finest sportsmen of all time, Don Bradman was so far ahead of the competition as to render comparisons meaningless and to transcend the game he graced.

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Final Words

Thus, we end this list of Best Ashes Series batting Averages here. Mentioning the 10 best-averaged batsmen in the Ashes Series history. We hope you enjoyed reading it. Please give your valuable opinions in the comment section below.