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===Cricket context=== {{Test cricket batting averages}} Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94 has become one of cricket's most famous, iconic statistics.<ref name=CricinfoLords/> No other player who has played more than 20 Test match innings has finished their career with a Test average of more than 62.<ref name=avg/> Bradman scored [[century (cricket)|centuries]] at a rate better than one every three innings{{snd}}in 80 Test innings, Bradman scored 29 centuries.<ref name="Freq">{{cite web| url = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/296259.html| work = Cricinfo| title = Highest frequency of hundreds and fiver-fors| access-date = 23 August 2008| date = 30 May 2007| archive-date = 12 October 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012213628/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/296259.html| url-status = live}}</ref> Only [[List of Test cricket records#Centuries|11 players]] have since surpassed his total, all at a much slower rate: the next fastest player to reach 29 centuries, [[Sachin Tendulkar]], required nearly twice as long (148 innings) to do so.<ref name="Freq"/> In addition, Bradman's total of 12 Test double hundreds{{snd}}constituting 15% of his innings{{snd}}remains the most achieved by any Test batsman and was accumulated faster than any other player's total.<ref name="doubhun" /> For comparison, the next-highest totals of Test double hundreds are [[Kumar Sangakkara]]'s 11 in 223 innings (4.9%), [[Brian Lara]]'s 9 in 232 innings (3.9%), and [[Wally Hammond]]'s 7 in 140 innings (5%); the next-highest rate of scoring Test double centuries was achieved by [[Vinod Kambli]], whose 21 innings included 2 double centuries (9.5%).<ref name="doubhun"/>
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