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Most Runs in 1978: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
Here is the complete breakdown of the most runs in 1978, featuring the most impactful players of the year.
ALL FORMATS
1978
126 entries
1
1103
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
180 clear of David Gower
2
923
David Gower
ENG
180 off the lead
3
829
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
274 off the lead
● LEADS
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
1103 · 180 ahead of Gower
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Gavaskar is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
663
The mark at number ten — 116 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
10 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Runs — full list
126 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
1103
2
David Gower
ENG
923
3
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
829
4
Graeme Wood
AUS
783
5
Geoff Boycott
ENG
768
6
Clive Radley
ENG
731
7
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
688
8
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
677
9
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
674
10
Javed Miandad
PAK
663
11
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
661
12
Graham Yallop
AUS
653
13
Peter Toohey
AUS
625
14
Geoff Howarth
NZ
614
15
Chetan Chauhan
IND
488
16
Graham Roope
ENG
483
17
Larry Gomes
WI
481
18
Graham Gooch
ENG
471
19
Bob Simpson
AUS
457
19
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
457
20
Basil Williams
WI
443
21
Derek Randall
ENG
423
22
Sew Shivnarine
WI
383
23
Gary Cosier
AUS
339
24
Derick Parry
WI
336
25
Mike Brearley
ENG
331
26
Desmond Haynes
WI
330
27
Geoff Miller
ENG
323
28
Mohinder Amarnath
IND
319
29
Craig Serjeant
AUS
314
30
Bruce Yardley
AUS
313
31
Sadiq Mohammad
PAK
311
32
Majid Khan
PAK
309
33
Mohsin Khan
HK
304
34
Kapil Dev
IND
292
35
Rick Darling
AUS
277
36
John Wright
NZ
271
37
Asif Iqbal
PAK
261
38
Robert Anderson
NZ
257
39
Mark Burgess
NZ
253
40
Steve Rixon
AUS
250
41
Syed Kirmani
IND
248
42
Surinder Amarnath
IND
247
43
Kim Hughes
AUS
245
44
David Murray
WI
244
45
Karsan Ghavri
IND
236
46
Anshuman Gaekwad
IND
232
46
Norbert Phillip
WI
232
47
Haroon Rasheed
PAK
224
48
Bob Taylor
ENG
218
49
Bev Congdon
NZ
217
50
John Parker
NZ
212
51
Faoud Bacchus
WI
199
52
Bruce Edgar
NZ
178
53
Mushtaq Mohammad
PAK
172
54
Wasim Raja
PAK
170
55
Phil Edmonds
ENG
168
56
Alvin Greenidge
WI
165
57
Jock Edwards
NZ
156
58
Lance Cairns
NZ
155
59
Wasim Bari
PAK
150
60
Vanburn Holder
WI
147
61
Deryck Murray
WI
132
62
Gordon Greenidge
WI
131
63
Clive Lloyd
WI
128
64
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
122
65
Imran Khan
BHR
116
66
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
114
67
Chris Old
ENG
113
68
Brian Rose
ENG
99
69
Bob Willis
ENG
92
70
Trevor Laughlin
AUS
89
71
Richard Collinge
NZ
83
72
Jeff Thomson
AUS
80
73
Sikander Bakht
PAK
75
74
Sir Viv Richards
WI
71
74
Rodney Hogg
AUS
71
75
John Maclean
AUS
67
75
John Lever
ENG
67
76
Erapalli Prasanna
IND
65
77
Hasan Jamil
PAK
63
78
Bishan Bedi
IND
59
79
Shafiq Ahmed
PAK
53
80
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
51
81
Irvine Shillingford
WI
49
82
Barry Wood
ENG
48
83
David Ogilvie
AUS
47
84
Azmat Rana
PAK
42
84
Talat Ali
PAK
42
85
Geoff Cope
ENG
41
86
Mike Hendrick
ENG
35
87
David Lloyd
ENG
34
88
John Dyson
AUS
32
88
Ian Callen
AUS
32
89
Richard Austin
WI
30
90
Allan Border
AUS
29
91
Abdul Qadir
PAK
25
92
Stephen Boock
NZ
24
93
Liaqat Ali
PAK
23
93
Sylvester Clarke
WI
23
93
Geoff Dymock
AUS
23
94
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
IND
18
94
Joel Garner
WI
18
95
Wayne Clark
AUS
17
96
Ashok Mankad
IND
16
97
Mike Gatting
ENG
14
97
Andy Roberts
NZ
14
97
Wayne Daniel
WI
14
98
Maurice Foster
WI
13
99
Colin Croft
WI
12
99
Warren Lees
NZ
12
99
Jim Higgs
AUS
12
100
Yashpal Sharma
IND
11
100
Arshad Pervez
PAK
11
101
Alan Hurst
AUS
10
102
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
IND
9
102
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
9
102
John Emburey
ENG
9
103
Raphick Jumadeen
WI
8
104
Malcolm Marshall
WI
7
105
Brendon Bracewell
NZ
4
106
Dayle Hadlee
NZ
3
107
Bobjee Narasimha Rao
IND
1
108
Tony Mann
AUS
0
108
Sam Gannon
AUS
0
108
Naeem Ahmed
PAK
0
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