Batting averages: 99.94 and all that
Cricket's ultimate failure is a duck; the most common score in cricket is also a duck. For batters in men's Test cricket, a tenth of all innings finish without a run, so failure is the most frequent outcome for a batter, yet this is not truly reflected in batting averages. The high rate of failure and low rate of success makes the median, not the average, a better measure of a batter's effectiveness. Collective innings for all batters in men's Tests who have scored 2000+ runs. All men's Tests innings of batters with 2000+ runs Successes are over-represented in batting averages. The collective average of all men's Test batters who've made 2000+ runs is an impressive 41.89, with a range of individual averages bookended by two greats of the game, ranging from 17.32 (Shane Warne) to Donald Bradman (99.94)*. Batting innings are more likely to fail than succeed, as shown by the familiar exponential fall-off in scores in Test innings from zero up. 50% of innings