Don Bradman

Don Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94 is the most statistically dominant performance in any major sport — a gap so vast that statisticians calculate the nearest equivalent would be a basketball player averaging 43 points per game. In 52 Tests, he scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, a rate of centuries every 1.79 innings that outperforms #2 Sachin Tendulkar's rate of one every 5.4 innings. Named one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, his average remains 45.77 runs higher than the average of all other Test batsmen, a chasm unrivaled in sports history.