What differentiates great batsmen from good ones is that the former makes lots of runs and with a certain amount of consistency.

But even then there stands a league of majestic, outstanding talents who've scored loads of Test match runs at astonishingly high averages.

So which are the leading five Test batsmen with the highest averages in the game's longest format (with 20 innings being the basic minimum criterion).

List of batters with the Highest Batting average in Test:

Sir Donald Bradman

There are batters. There are great batters and then there's the Don. There's just one man who's donned supreme colours of greatness in this sport and that is of Australia, a talent who shall never again be seen for so daunting and magnificent have been his deeds with the cricket bat.

The batting maestro made tons of runs for Australia, just four shy of 7,000, and ended his sublime innings with an average of 99 to his name. This is surely that kind of record that may well stand unbroken in the times to come.

Kamindu Mendis

Kamindu Mendis is the beholder of a very young career that is still developing and he's just the kind of talent that could set Sri Lanka rolling and buzzing with new achievements.

With just 21 Test innings from 12 games to his name, the Galle-born batter has amassed 1184 runs, including a highest score of 182* and has already hit 5 test hundreds.

Adam Voges

Adam Voges was one heck of a talented and gritty batter but ultimately one whose career didn't have the long legs to go afar.

The dogged batter played Tests for just 2 years but still amassed 1485 runs from 20 games with an average of 61.8, the third highest for any Test batsman with a minimum of 20 innings to his name.

Graeme Pollock

Sir Donald famously called the great South African the finest ever left hander he saw and Pollock's heroics were indisputable with the bat.

He scored a total of 2256 Test runs from just 23 games and enjoyed a batting average of 60.9.

Alongside Jack Kallis, he's still considered the greatest to ever wield the bat from South Africa.

George Headley

While it's a pity that back in those days one didn't really play a lot many Test matches, but George Headley, despite presiding over a 24-year-long career was able to astonish the world with his brilliant strokeplay. He still holds the record for the fifth highest batting average of 60.8 after scoring 2,190 runs from just 22 Tests. An out and out West Indian batting legend of his time!