Best Averages in 1951: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

This page shows players with the best averages during the 1951 season, ranking them by their on-field performances.

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	154 / 1	Vijay Merchant	India
2	124 / 1	Cyril Poole	England
3	327 / 3	Vijay Hazare	India
4	171 / 2	Peter May	England
5	327 / 4	Allan Watkins	England
6	225 / 3	Pankaj Roy	India
7	260 / 4	Tom Graveney	England
8	903 / 14	Sir Leonard Hutton	England
9	515 / 8	Eric Rowan	South Africa
10	620 / 10	Lindsay Hassett	Australia
11	118 / 2	Dattu Phadkar	India
11	59 / 1	Alex Moir	New Zealand
12	175 / 3	Vinoo Mankad	India
13	568 / 10	Keith Miller	Australia
14	111 / 2	Coimbatarao Gopinath	India
15	587 / 11	Reg Simpson	England
16	156 / 3	John Goddard	West Indies
17	98 / 2	Percy Mansell	South Africa
17	147 / 3	Bert Sutcliffe	New Zealand
18	292 / 6	Trevor Bailey	England
19	48 / 1	Vijay Manjrekar	India
20	181 / 4	Doug Ring	Australia
21	226 / 5	Dick Spooner	England
22	90 / 2	Donald Carr	England
23	311 / 7	Gerry Gomez	West Indies
24	86 / 2	Verdun Scott	New Zealand
25	313 / 8	Frank Worrell	West Indies
26	469 / 12	Denis Compton	England
27	78 / 2	Hemu Adhikari	India
28	462 / 12	Arthur Morris	Australia
29	301 / 8	Dudley Nourse	South Africa
30	250 / 7	Robert Christiani	West Indies
31	240 / 7	Willie Watson	England
32	438 / 13	Neil Harvey	Australia
33	194 / 6	Frank Lowson	England
34	31 / 1	Sammy Guillen	New Zealand
35	151 / 5	Jack Robertson	England
36	149 / 5	Jack Ikin	England
36	149 / 5	George Fullerton	South Africa
37	143 / 5	Jim Burke	Australia
38	224 / 8	Sir Everton Weekes	West Indies
39	360 / 13	Freddie Brown	England
40	138 / 5	Roy McLean	South Africa
41	219 / 8	Jack Cheetham	South Africa
42	82 / 3	Merv Wallace	New Zealand
43	217 / 8	Clive van Ryneveld	South Africa
44	162 / 6	Ken Archer	Australia
45	214 / 8	Jeffrey Stollmeyer	West Indies
46	210 / 8	Graeme Hole	Australia
47	26 / 1	Ramesh Divecha	India
48	76 / 3	Tom Burtt	New Zealand
48	152 / 6	John Waite	South Africa
49	177 / 7	Cyril Washbrook	England
50	101 / 4	Roy Marshall	West Indies
51	50 / 2	Derek Shackleton	England
52	74 / 3	Walter Hadlee	New Zealand
52	74 / 3	Sir Clyde Walcott	West Indies
53	72 / 3	John Reid	New Zealand
54	71 / 3	Doug Wright	England
55	258 / 11	Ray Lindwall	Australia
56	46 / 2	M.K.Mantri	India
56	46 / 2	Jim Laker	England
57	85 / 4	Nigel Howard	England
58	42 / 2	Frank Mooney	New Zealand
59	40 / 2	Eddie Leadbeater	England
60	77 / 4	Polly Umrigar	India
61	38 / 2	Russell Endean	South Africa
62	37 / 2	Kenneth Rickards	West Indies
63	36 / 2	Lala Amarnath	India
64	53 / 3	Johnny Wardle	England
65	34 / 2	Chandu Sarwate	India
65	34 / 2	Ranga Sohoni	India
65	17 / 1	Sam Loxton	Australia
65	51 / 3	Allan Rae	West Indies
66	67 / 4	Bill Johnston	Australia
67	160 / 10	Ian Johnson	Australia
67	16 / 1	Don Brennan	England
68	62 / 4	Gilbert Parkhouse	England
68	31 / 2	Jack Moroney	Australia
68	124 / 8	Sir Alec Bedser	England
69	15 / 1	Denis Atkinson	West Indies
70	44 / 3	Gil Langley	Australia
70	44 / 3	Fred Ridgway	England
71	58 / 4	David Sheppard	England
72	111 / 8	Godfrey Evans	England
73	27 / 2	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
74	67 / 5	Don Kenyon	England
75	105 / 8	Athol Rowan	South Africa
76	13 / 1	Cuan McCarthy	South Africa
77	50 / 4	Jackie McGlew	South Africa
78	24 / 2	Johnny Hayes	New Zealand
79	22 / 2	Michael Melle	South Africa
80	32 / 3	Tony MacGibbon	New Zealand
81	63 / 6	Geoff Chubb	South Africa
82	8 / 1	Geff Noblet	Australia
83	31 / 4	Alf Valentine	West Indies
84	43 / 6	Brian Statham	England
85	7 / 1	Rusi Modi	India
86	27 / 4	Don Tallon	Australia
87	44 / 7	Roy Tattersall	England
88	36 / 6	Tufty Mann	South Africa
89	8 / 2	Prior Jones	West Indies
89	4 / 1	John Warr	England
90	2 / 1	Fen Cresswell	New Zealand
91	1 / 1	Jack Iverson	Australia