Virat Kohli’s next target? Six batsmen who average over 60 in Tests

#5. George Headley

A West Indies cricket legend, George Headley managed to play only 22 Tests in a career interrupted by the second World War. Even in a Test career that did not last long, Headley did enough to place his name among the greats of world cricket. Headley’s short but successful career saw his scoring 2,190 runs at an average of 60.83, with 10 hundreds and five fifties. He made his debut in 1930 and played his last Test in 1954, but played most of his matches before the war.

Headley scored a century in each innings in his very third Test, when he made 114 and 112 against England at Georgetown in February 1930. He was also the first batsman to score a hundred in each innings at Lord’s, when he made 106 and 107 in June 1939. Headley’s Test best of 270 not out also came against his favourite opponent, England, at Kingston in March 1935.

Headley is widely regarded as the first great batsman from West Indies.

#4. Graeme Pollock

If Headley’s career was interrupted by the World War II, Graeme Pollock had to suffer the consequences of South Africa’s isolation from world cricket owing to their policy of apartheid. In a Test career that lasted from 1963 to 1970, Pollock featured in 23 matches and scored 2,256 runs at an average of 60.97, with 7 hundreds and 11 fifties.

Pollock was only 19 when he posted his first Test hundred in his third match, against Australia at Sydney in January 1964, when he made 122 in South Africa’s first innings. In the very next Test against Australia at Adelaide, he slammed 175. After scoring his first double hundred, 209, also against the Aussies at Cape Town in December 1966, Pollock went on to make that famous 274 against Australia at Durban in February 1970. This was the highest Test score by a South African until Daryll Cullinan scored 275 not out against England in 1999.

Apart from being a cricketing legend, Pollock is the brother of Peter Pollock and uncle of Shaun Pollock.