5 players with the best batting record in Australia-South Africa Tests

#4 Neil Harvey

Neil Harvey scored eight Test tons against South Africa

One of the greatest left-handers in the history of cricket, Neil Harvey is the last survivor from Don Bradman’s mighty 1948 Ashes champions.

In a career that lasted 15 years, Harvey played 14 Tests against South Africa and scored 1,625 runs at a whopping average of 81.25.

During the 1949-50 tour of South Africa, Harvey amassed 660 runs at 132.00 from eight innings in the series with four hundreds and was the chief reason behind Australia trouncing the Proteas 4-0 in their own den.

Harvey scored eight tons against South Africa but his highest score came when he hit a double ton in a 1953 Test at Melbourne. Although the hosts lost the Test, the five-match series ended in a 2-2 draw.

Harvey scored 1,659 runs in that entire home season, just 31 short of Bradman’s 1,690.