Adam Voges had a taste of batting immortality on Saturday, bettering records held by Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar, two of the greatest the game has seen. The Australian finished unbeaten on 176, which boosted his career average to 100.33, the most for anyone with at least 1000 Test runs and higher than Bradman’s 99.94.
While this will change if he is dismissed for fewer than 272 on Sunday, the other mark he set will stand for a while yet.
Having made 551 consecutive runs without being dismissed, Voges broke Tendulkar’s 12-year-old record of 497 — scores of 241 n.o., 60 n.o., 194 n.o. and 2 – from January to April 2004.
Voges’s performance, however, came after a huge stroke of luck on Friday — he was dismissed from what replays showed was a legitimate delivery, only for the umpire to call no-ball.
