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Best Averages in 1971: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
This page shows players with the best averages during the 1971 season, ranking them by their on-field performances.
TEST
1971
95 entries
1
529 / 4
Charlie Davis
WI
3.58 clear of Zaheer Abbas
2
386 / 3
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
3.58 off the lead
3
766 / 7
Geoff Boycott
ENG
22.82 off the lead
● LEADS
Charlie Davis
WI
529 / 4 · 3.58 ahead of Abbas
↑ IN THE CHASE
1
player sits within 10% of the lead on best averages
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
433 / 8
The mark at number ten — 85 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
England
12 of the top 50 · 6 teams represented
Best Averages — full list
95 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Charlie Davis
WI
529 / 4
2
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
386 / 3
3
Geoff Boycott
ENG
766 / 7
4
Mark Burgess
NZ
104 / 1
5
Sir Garry Sobers
WI
597 / 6
6
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
918 / 10
7
Maurice Foster
WI
177 / 2
8
Desmond Lewis
WI
259 / 3
9
Dilip Sardesai
IND
789 / 13
10
Rohan Kanhai
WI
433 / 8
11
Glenn Turner
NZ
160 / 3
11
Asif Iqbal
PAK
160 / 3
12
Brian Luckhurst
ENG
765 / 15
13
Keith Stackpole
AUS
407 / 8
14
Ian Chappell
AUS
316 / 7
15
Richard Hutton
ENG
219 / 5
16
Alan Knott
ENG
652 / 15
17
Farokh Engineer
IND
172 / 4
18
Basil D'Oliveira
ENG
765 / 18
19
Mushtaq Mohammad
PAK
164 / 4
19
Sadiq Mohammad
PAK
164 / 4
20
Bob Cunis
NZ
40 / 1
21
Doug Walters
AUS
239 / 6
22
Bill Lawry
AUS
198 / 5
23
Eknath Solkar
IND
392 / 10
24
Wasim Bari
PAK
77 / 2
25
John Edrich
ENG
713 / 19
26
Rod Marsh
AUS
148 / 4
27
Ian Redpath
AUS
250 / 7
28
John Jameson
ENG
141 / 4
29
Roy Fredericks
WI
242 / 7
30
Ray Illingworth
ENG
562 / 17
31
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
263 / 8
32
Graham Dowling
NZ
98 / 3
33
Colin Cowdrey
ENG
162 / 5
34
John Hampshire
ENG
192 / 6
35
Peter Lever
ENG
311 / 10
36
Erapalli Prasanna
IND
61 / 2
37
Saleem Altaf
PAK
30 / 1
38
Ajit Wadekar
IND
355 / 12
39
Clive Lloyd
WI
295 / 10
40
Bev Congdon
NZ
56 / 2
41
Hedley Howarth
NZ
27 / 1
41
Mike Shrimpton
NZ
54 / 2
41
Greg Chappell
AUS
135 / 5
42
Dennis Amiss
ENG
133 / 5
43
Aftab Gul
PAK
106 / 4
43
David Holford
WI
53 / 2
44
Vic Pollard
NZ
52 / 2
45
Lance Gibbs
WI
25 / 1
46
Joey Carew
WI
121 / 5
47
John Snow
ENG
188 / 8
48
Majid Khan
PAK
44 / 2
49
Derek Underwood
ENG
65 / 3
50
Syed Abid Ali
IND
169 / 8
51
Keith Fletcher
ENG
205 / 10
52
Ashok Mankad
IND
222 / 11
53
Norman Gifford
ENG
37 / 2
53
Mike Findlay
WI
37 / 2
54
Steve Camacho
WI
68 / 4
54
Graham McKenzie
AUS
17 / 1
54
Terry Jenner
AUS
34 / 2
55
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
IND
167 / 10
56
Motganhalli Jaisimha
IND
43 / 3
57
Alan Connolly
AUS
14 / 1
57
Kerry O'Keeffe
AUS
42 / 3
58
Saeed Ahmed
PAK
27 / 2
59
Ashley Mallett
AUS
38 / 3
60
Ken Shuttleworth
ENG
37 / 3
61
Intikhab Alam
PAK
48 / 4
62
Bob Willis
ENG
47 / 4
63
Vanburn Holder
WI
35 / 3
64
John Gleeson
AUS
21 / 2
65
Grayson Shillingford
WI
31 / 3
66
Bishan Bedi
IND
49 / 5
67
John Price
ENG
9 / 1
67
Keith Boyce
WI
9 / 1
68
Ken Wadsworth
NZ
17 / 2
69
Pochiah Krishnamurthy
IND
33 / 4
69
Arthur Barrett
WI
33 / 4
70
Salim Durani
IND
24 / 3
70
Dennis Lillee
AUS
16 / 2
71
Ross Morgan
NZ
14 / 2
72
Robin Hobbs
ENG
6 / 1
72
John Shepherd
WI
12 / 2
73
Jack Noreiga
WI
11 / 2
74
Imran Niazi
PAK
5 / 1
74
Ken Eastwood
AUS
5 / 1
74
Don Wilson
ENG
5 / 1
74
Kenia Jayantilal
IND
5 / 1
75
Bob Taylor
ENG
4 / 1
76
Ross Duncan
AUS
3 / 1
76
Uton Dowe
WI
3 / 1
77
Bruce Murray
NZ
2 / 2
77
Asif Masood
PAK
1 / 1
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