Question

I’ve written a query that pulls out the average score per player who was in inning 4:

SELECT batsmen.player_id, AVG(score)
FROM batsmen
WHERE batsmen.inning_no=4
GROUP BY player_id;

But now I need to find the highest average score. obviously i could look at the output, orderby and easily see the highest average, but i would like a query that pulls it out for me.

I assume somehow i need to use

SELECT MAX(score);

with the result set received in my avg query above. Do I need to join/subquery?

Thanks
Theresa

Answer 1

Perhaps this will fill your needs:

SELECT player_id, AVG(score)
FROM batsmen
WHERE batsmen.inning_no=4
GROUP BY player_id
ORDER BY 2 DESC
LIMIT 1;