Highest Average in Third Innings of Test Matches

The highest average of any batsman in the third innings of Test matches given a minimum of 15 innings is the lofty 130.41 of the one and only Don Bradman. Next come is Herbert Sutcliffe of England, with 74.75, then the first man with more than 20 innings - another Englishman, Peter May, with 68.05. And then next come two current players the South Africans Hashim Amla (67.00) and Jacques Kallis (66.54). Don Bradman had only 15 innings, and hit 7 hundreds, while the only people to score more centuries than him in the third innings batted far more often is Kumar Sangakkara leads the way with 11 hundreds from 56 third-innings attempts, while Matthew Hayden 42 innings, Alastair Cook 45, Jack Kallis 66 and Sachin Tendulkar 72 all have ten hundreds.