Ric Finlay, one of the famed statistician of Australia and a renowned member of Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, has worked out a method – not commonly used by Statisiticians to know Virender Sehwag’s place in the history. He has adopted “mean” with a qualification of at least 17 hundreds and found that Virender Sehwag occupies the first place according to his calculations.

V Sehwag, India’s dashing openers occupies the first place among the batsmen considering the “mean” into account. He has scored 3214 runs with 17 hundreds {his career not outs are not taken into account} and the mean works out to 189.06 which is the highest mean among the 45 batsmen of various era.

The following table calculates the mean of the century scores by Test batsmen who have scored at least 17 centuries (i.e., “not outs” aren’t taken into account).

No	Batsmen	Runs	100s	Mean
1	Sehwag, V	3214	17	189.06
2	Bradman, DG	5393	29	185.97
3	Lara, BC	5889	34	173.21
4	Sangakkara, KC	3381	20	169.05
5	Hammond, WR	3685	22	167.50
6	Jayawardena, DPMD	4377	27	162.11
7	Smith, GC	2820	18	156.67
8	Hutton, L	2966	19	156.11
9	Javed Miandad	3584	23	155.83
10	Dravid, RS	4280	28	152.86
11	Gooch, GA	3041	20	152.05
12	Sobers, GStA	3918	26	150.69
13	Richards, IVA	3536	24	147.33
14	Tendulkar, SR	6307	43	146.67
15	Mohammad Yousuf	3485	24	145.21
16	Kirsten, G	3046	21	145.05
17	Chappell, GS	3465	24	144.38
18	Greenidge, CG	2742	19	144.32
19	Langer, JL	3293	23	143.17
20	Ponting, RT	5425	38	142.76
21	Compton, DCS	2425	17	142.65
22	Crowe, MD	2420	17	142.35
23	Taylor, MA	2702	19	142.21
24	Harvey, RN	2975	21	141.67
25	Gavaskar, SM	4802	34	141.24
26	Gower, DI	2517	18	139.83
27	de Silva, PA	2794	20	139.70
28	Barrington, KF	2767	20	138.35
29	Inzamam-ul-Haq	3421	25	136.84
30	Vaughan, MP	2456	18	136.44
31	Hayden, ML	4092	30	136.40
32	Waugh, SR	4342	32	135.69
33	Kallis, JH	4168	31	134.45
34	Lloyd, CH	2534	19	133.37
35	Azharuddin, M	2925	22	132.95
36	Strauss, AJ	2393	18	132.94
37	Border, AR	3580	27	132.59
38	Gilchrist, AC	2246	17	132.12
39	Vengsarkar, DB	2204	17	129.65
40	Boycott, G	2830	22	128.64
41	Boon, DC	2700	21	128.57
42	Haynes, DL	2299	18	127.72
43	Cowdrey, MC	2778	22	126.27
44	Chanderpaul, S	2651	21	126.24
45	Waugh, ME	2412	20	120.60