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How is a cricket batting average calculated?

Learn the batting-average formula and see how not-outs and missing dismissals affect a career record.

Batting average is runs divided by dismissals. A not-out innings adds runs and innings but does not add a dismissal. Cricket Wicket recomputes combined averages from the published runs and dismissals; if the denominator is missing or zero, the page shows an unavailable or inapplicable value rather than inventing one.

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This answer is generated from Cricket Wicket’s validated international dataset. Career figures and available scorecard figures are kept as separate layers; see the methodology page for definitions and coverage dates.