Batting Highest Career Batting Average

Highest averages in Tests at SA: Newlands, Cape Town

Highest averages

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s
RD Rickelton (SA)	2025-2025	1	1	0	259	259	259.00	343	75.51	1	0	0	29	3
H Wood (ENG)	1889-1892	2	2	1	193	134*	193.00	89+	66.29	1	1	0	11+	0
JW Burke (AUS)	1957-1958	1	1	0	189	189	189.00	-	-	1	0	0	15	0
DP Sibley (ENG)	2020-2020	1	2	1	167	133*	167.00	387	43.15	1	0	0	26	1
J Ryder (AUS)	1921-1921	1	1	0	142	142	142.00	-	-	1	0	0	12	0
SP Fleming (NZ)	1995-2006	2	3	0	394	262	131.33	701	56.20	1	2	0	48	2
DC Boon (AUS)	1994-1994	1	2	1	128	96	128.00	302	42.38	0	1	0	15	0
RR Pant (IND)	2022-2022	1	2	1	127	100*	127.00	189	67.19	1	0	0	10	4
TT Samaraweera (SL)	2012-2012	1	2	1	126	115*	126.00	276	45.65	1	0	0	14	0
DR Smith (WI)	2004-2004	1	2	1	125	105*	125.00	135	92.59	1	0	0	18	2
AJL Hill (ENG)	1896-1896	1	1	0	124	124	124.00	-	-	1	0	0	-	0
WA Brown (AUS)	1936-1936	1	1	0	121	121	121.00	-	-	1	0	0	-	1
MJK Smith (ENG)	1965-1965	1	1	0	121	121	121.00	-	-	1	0	0	12	1
R Abel (ENG)	1889-1889	1	1	0	120	120	120.00	241	49.79	1	0	0	11	0
LEG Ames (ENG)	1938-1939	1	1	0	115	115	115.00	-	-	1	0	0	13	0
JHW Fingleton (AUS)	1936-1936	1	1	0	112	112	112.00	-	-	1	0	0	-	0
BH Valentine (ENG)	1938-1939	1	1	0	112	112	112.00	-	-	1	0	0	12	1
VT Trumper (AUS)	1902-1902	1	2	1	108	70	108.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
RN Harvey (AUS)	1949-1958	2	3	1	216	178	108.00	-	-	1	0	0	-	0
Taufeeq Umar (PAK)	2003-2003	1	2	0	202	135	101.00	355	56.90	1	1	0	33	1
KD Karthik (IND)	2007-2007	1	2	1	101	63	101.00	218	46.33	0	1	0	13	0
BA Stokes (ENG)	2016-2020	2	4	0	403	258	100.75	356	113.20	1	1	0	47	15
JEF Beck (NZ)	1954-1954	1	1	0	99	99	99.00	-	-	0	1	0	9	1
CC McDonald (AUS)	1957-1958	1	1	0	99	99	99.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
AJ Watkins (ENG)	1949-1949	1	2	1	91	64*	91.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
EH Hendren (ENG)	1931-1931	1	2	0	179	93	89.50	-	-	0	2	0	-	0
AD Nourse (SA)	1936-1950	4	8	2	533	120	88.83	-	-	3	1	0	-	1
AC Gilchrist (AUS)	2002-2006	2	3	1	174	138*	87.00	151	115.23	1	0	0	27	2
DA Warner (AUS)	2014-2018	2	4	0	342	145	85.50	389	87.91	2	0	0	34	6
IR Redpath (AUS)	1966-1970	2	4	2	170	69*	85.00	220+	21.36	0	2	1	3+	0
SR Tendulkar (IND)	1993-2011	4	7	1	489	169	81.50	1087	44.98	2	2	0	64	3
MC Cowdrey (ENG)	1957-1957	1	2	0	162	101	81.00	-	-	1	1	0	17	1
JR Reid (NZ)	1954-1962	2	3	0	241	135	80.33	-	-	1	1	0	18+	2
G Gambhir (IND)	2011-2011	1	2	0	157	93	78.50	406	38.66	0	2	0	22	0
AJ Pithey (SA)	1965-1965	1	2	0	156	154	78.00	-	-	1	0	0	12	1
KD Petersen (SA)	2022-2022	1	2	0	154	82	77.00	279	55.19	0	2	0	19	0
KR Miller (AUS)	1949-1950	1	2	1	74	58	74.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
JH Kallis (SA)	1996-2013	22	35	5	2181	224	72.70	4442	49.09	9	9	1	228	19
JEC Franklin (NZ)	2006-2013	2	3	1	145	122*	72.50	337	43.02	1	0	0	16	1
MJ Clarke (AUS)	2009-2014	3	6	1	361	161*	72.20	593	60.87	2	0	2	46	0
WR Hammond (ENG)	1927-1939	3	5	0	360	181	72.00	-	-	1	2	0	16+	0
L Klusener (SA)	1997-2001	3	4	1	214	102*	71.33	283	75.61	1	1	0	27	2
ML Hayden (AUS)	2002-2006	2	4	0	285	96	71.25	475	60.00	0	3	0	45	2
RG Pollock (SA)	1965-1970	3	6	0	416	209	69.33	264+	37.50	1	2	0	29+	1
MJ Slater (AUS)	1994-1994	1	2	1	69	43*	69.00	126	54.76	0	0	0	8	0
CH Morris (SA)	2016-2016	1	1	0	69	69	69.00	111	62.16	0	1	0	10	0
DJ Cullinan (SA)	1993-2001	8	13	0	882	168	67.84	1720	51.27	4	4	1	91	7
IJ Siedle (SA)	1931-1936	2	3	0	201	141	67.00	-	-	1	1	0	13+	0
BM McMillan (SA)	1993-1997	5	8	3	331	103*	66.20	881	37.57	1	3	0	28	0
B Sutcliffe (NZ)	1954-1954	1	1	0	66	66	66.00	-	-	0	1	0	5	0
PGZ Harris (NZ)	1962-1962	1	2	0	131	101	65.50	-	-	1	0	0	-	2
TR Veivers (AUS)	1966-1967	1	2	1	65	35*	65.00	-	-	0	0	0	-	2
RD Jacobs (WI)	1999-2004	2	4	2	130	69*	65.00	301	43.18	0	1	0	20	0
SB Styris (NZ)	2006-2006	1	2	1	65	54*	65.00	96	67.70	0	1	0	10	0
H Sutcliffe (ENG)	1927-1928	1	2	0	128	99	64.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
OJ Pope (ENG)	2020-2020	1	2	1	64	61*	64.00	152	42.10	0	1	0	7	0
KD Mackay (AUS)	1957-1958	1	1	0	63	63	63.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
KF Barrington (ENG)	1965-1965	1	2	1	63	49	63.00	-	-	0	0	0	7	0
IR Bell (ENG)	2010-2010	1	2	0	126	78	63.00	334	37.72	0	1	0	18	0
Shan Masood (PAK)	2019-2025	2	4	0	252	145	63.00	438	57.53	1	1	0	31	1
JB Hobbs (ENG)	1910-1910	2	3	0	188	187	62.66	-	-	1	0	1	0+	0
JT Tyldesley (ENG)	1899-1899	1	2	0	125	112	62.50	-	-	1	0	0	-	0
PGV van der Bijl (SA)	1938-1939	1	2	0	124	87	62.00	-	-	0	1	0	12	1
ER Dexter (ENG)	1965-1965	1	1	0	61	61	61.00	-	-	0	1	0	8	0
IA Healy (AUS)	1994-1994	1	1	0	61	61	61.00	118	51.69	0	1	0	8	0
KR Stackpole (AUS)	1966-1970	2	3	0	182	134	60.66	148+	32.43	1	0	0	22	2
DJ Richardson (SA)	1993-1997	5	7	2	298	109	59.60	709	42.03	1	1	0	24	0
BC Lara (WI)	1999-2004	2	4	0	238	115	59.50	487	48.87	1	1	0	34	2
Asad Shafiq (PAK)	2013-2019	2	4	0	238	111	59.50	403	59.05	1	1	0	33	2
ME Chapple (NZ)	1954-1962	2	3	0	178	76	59.33	-	-	0	2	0	5+	0
JM Parks (ENG)	1965-1965	1	1	0	59	59	59.00	-	-	0	1	0	7	1
W Jaffer (IND)	2007-2007	1	2	0	118	116	59.00	255	46.27	1	0	0	15	0
PA Gibb (ENG)	1938-1939	1	1	0	58	58	58.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
DCS Compton (ENG)	1949-1957	2	4	1	174	64	58.00	-	-	0	3	0	12+	0
RB Simpson (AUS)	1957-1967	2	3	0	174	153	58.00	-	-	1	0	0	14	0
RW Barber (ENG)	1965-1965	1	1	0	58	58	58.00	-	-	0	1	0	6	0
CH Gayle (WI)	2004-2008	2	4	0	232	116	58.00	265	87.54	1	0	0	33	6
JA Morkel (SA)	2009-2009	1	1	0	58	58	58.00	71	81.69	0	1	0	10	1
EJ Barlow (SA)	1962-1970	4	8	0	462	138	57.75	376+	38.03	2	2	0	39+	1
AL Hassett (AUS)	1949-1950	1	1	0	57	57	57.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
PA de Silva (SL)	1998-1998	1	2	0	114	77	57.00	160	71.25	0	1	0	19	0
RR Sarwan (WI)	2004-2004	1	2	0	113	69	56.50	226	50.00	0	1	0	16	0
GO Rabone (NZ)	1954-1954	1	1	0	56	56	56.00	-	-	0	1	0	5	0
AF Giles (ENG)	2005-2005	1	2	1	56	31*	56.00	99	56.56	0	0	0	7	0
A Symonds (AUS)	2006-2006	1	1	0	55	55	55.00	47	117.02	0	1	0	3	4
SM Katich (AUS)	2009-2009	1	2	0	109	55	54.50	319	34.16	0	2	0	11	1
DG Brownlie (NZ)	2013-2013	1	2	0	109	109	54.50	189	57.67	1	0	1	13	2
RA Duff (AUS)	1902-1902	1	2	1	54	34	54.00	-	-	0	0	0	-	0
HL Collins (AUS)	1921-1921	1	1	0	54	54	54.00	-	-	0	1	0	4	0
AE Dick (NZ)	1962-1962	1	2	1	54	50*	54.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
KC Bland (SA)	1962-1965	2	4	0	216	78	54.00	-	-	0	2	0	15+	6
Tanvir Ahmed (PAK)	2013-2013	1	2	1	54	44	54.00	83	65.06	0	0	0	5	0
HW Taylor (SA)	1921-1931	4	7	0	376	117	53.71	-	-	1	3	0	2+	0
B Mitchell (SA)	1931-1949	4	7	1	320	123	53.33	-	-	2	0	1	-	0
Babar Azam (PAK)	2019-2025	2	4	0	213	81	53.25	343	62.09	0	3	0	32	0
J Moroney (AUS)	1949-1950	1	2	0	106	87	53.00	-	-	0	1	0	-	0
CL Hooper (WI)	1999-1999	1	2	0	106	86	53.00	217	48.84	0	1	0	10	0
ND McKenzie (SA)	2001-2008	5	6	0	316	99	52.66	640	49.37	0	3	0	38	3
CT Bancroft (AUS)	2018-2018	1	2	0	103	77	51.50	167	61.67	0	1	0	17	0
AG Prince (SA)	2002-2011	11	17	4	668	150	51.38	1648	40.53	2	2	2	67	2

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Records includes the following current or recent matches:

South Africa vs Pakistan at Cape Town, South Africa vs Pakistan 2nd Test, Jan 3-6, 2025 [Test # 2576]

South Africa vs India at Cape Town, India in South Africa 2nd Test, Jan 3-4, 2024 [Test # 2522]

India vs South Africa at Cape Town, India in South Africa 3rd Test, Jan 11-14, 2022 [Test # 2448]