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Best batting average — Big Bash League

David Warner leads the best batting average in BBL history with an average of 49.52 across 31 innings; Steve Smith is next with an average of 47.9 across 38 innings. The all-time top 50 below is computed from ball-by-ball data of every Big Bash League match in our dataset and refreshed daily.

Minimum 20 innings.

Each point is a player; average (vertical) vs strike rate (horizontal). Hover or tap a point for detail; the leader is highlighted.

#	Player	Inns	Runs	Avg	SR	HS
1	David Warner	31	1139	49.52	143.99	130
2	Steve Smith	38	1485	47.9	151.69	125
3	Brad Hodge	42	1330	44.33	134.48	88
4	Shaun Marsh	77	2802	41.82	129.9	99
5	Kevin Pietersen	31	1026	36.64	135.18	74
6	Mitchell Marsh	80	2187	35.85	135.5	102
7	Chris Lynn	133	4088	35.24	149.47	101
8	Aaron Finch	104	3310	34.84	131.25	111
9	Glenn Maxwell	117	3196	34.37	155.3	154
10	Marcus Stoinis	114	3218	34.23	133.97	147
11	D'Arcy Short	102	3138	34.11	131.46	122
12	Ben McDermott	110	3104	34.11	138.08	127
13	Jonathan Wells	123	2935	33.74	121.68	73
14	Alex Carey	62	1986	33.66	131.18	101
15	Michael Hussey	24	671	33.55	131.31	96
16	Laurie Evans	33	850	32.69	156.83	85
17	Chris Gayle	20	616	32.42	137.81	100
18	Usman Khawaja	71	2123	32.17	131.7	104
19	George Bailey	62	1574	32.12	135.57	74
20	James Vince	77	2162	31.79	131.83	101
21	Cameron Bancroft	80	2030	31.72	121.85	95
22	Alex Hales	76	2240	31.55	148.25	110
23	Finn Allen	21	647	30.81	184.33	101
24	Jordan Silk	113	2429	30.75	124.63	78
25	Nick Larkin	51	1069	30.54	120.38	83
26	Jamie Overton	23	366	30.5	139.69	45
27	Liam Livingstone	28	851	30.39	138.15	79
28	Cooper Connolly	34	786	30.23	137.41	77
29	Matthew Wade	112	2946	30.06	141.84	130
30	Aaron Hardie	63	1499	29.98	133.48	94
31	Nathan McSweeney	32	830	29.64	119.6	84
32	Luke Wright	53	1389	29.55	131.29	117
33	Beau Webster	74	1726	29.25	121.04	78
34	Tim David	73	1424	29.06	155.8	76
35	Josh Inglis	77	1887	29.03	139.16	79
36	Matthew Short	92	2466	29.01	141.89	109
37	Colin Ingram	35	868	28.93	135.2	75
38	Colin Munro	58	1502	28.88	129.48	114
39	Aiden Blizzard	25	572	28.6	126.83	80
40	Ashton Turner	122	2485	28.24	147.83	99
41	Moisés Henriques	143	3322	28.15	128.76	77
42	Michael Klinger	67	1737	28.02	116.89	105
43	Hilton Cartwright	102	2037	27.9	124.89	79
44	Travis Head	55	1394	27.88	130.4	101
45	Brendon McCullum	34	920	27.88	136.5	72
46	Macalister Wright	21	500	27.78	122.55	70
47	Sam Billings	65	1634	27.69	138.59	83
48	Alex Ross	101	2209	27.61	128.96	77
49	Jason Sangha	38	882	27.56	118.71	91
50	Josh Philippe	110	2745	27.45	137.11	99

Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · Big Bash League · data through 13 October 2026Show ▾

Source. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet. New matches are loaded from Cricsheet twice a day (10:00 and 22:00 UTC), typically a day or two after a match is published there.

Internationals. T20 internationals are included only when both teams are ICC full members. Fixtures against Associate nations (e.g. Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA) are not in the dataset, so international totals for players who faced them are lower than their full career figures.

Leagues. Leagues: IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, SA20, MLC, ILT20, BPL, LPL, WBBL, WPL — full history of each. Domestic T20 competitions outside this list (e.g. the Blast, SMAT, Super Smash) are not included.

Exclusions. Super overs are excluded from every total. The dataset has no playing-XI record, so match appearances can't be counted. A match where a player neither batted nor bowled is not reflected anywhere in their figures.

Inns counts batting innings. The dataset cannot count match appearances, so there is no separate matches column.

Inns (batting) — innings in which the player came to the crease, including as non-striker without facing a ball. In T20 a player bats at most once per match, so this is also the number of matches they batted in.
Batting average — runs divided by dismissals. Bowling average — runs conceded divided by wickets. Not-out innings add runs but no dismissal.
Batting strike rate — runs per 100 balls faced (wides excluded). Bowling strike rate — balls per wicket.

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