Most Wickets in 1978 for all time

Position	Most Wickets	Player Name	Team Name
1	71	Sir Ian Botham	England
2	63	Bob Willis	England
3	42	Phil Edmonds	England
4	31	Chris Old	England
4	31	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
4	31	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
5	30	Jeff Thomson	Australia
6	29	Karsan Ghavri	India
7	27	Rodney Hogg	Australia
8	26	Wayne Clark	Australia
8	26	Bruce Yardley	Australia
8	26	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
9	25	Bishan Bedi	India
9	25	Geoff Miller	England
10	20	Derick Parry	West Indies
11	19	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
11	19	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
12	18	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
12	18	Jim Higgs	Australia
12	18	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
13	17	Kapil Dev	India
13	17	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
14	16	Joel Garner	West Indies
15	15	Mike Hendrick	England
16	14	John Lever	England
16	14	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
16	14	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
16	14	Imran Khan
17	12	Colin Croft	West Indies
17	12	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
18	11	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
18	11	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
18	11	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
19	10	Bob Simpson	Australia
19	10	Alan Hurst	Australia
19	10	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
19	10	Ian Callen	Australia
20	9	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
20	9	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
20	9	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
20	9	Mohinder Amarnath	India
20	9	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
21	8	Erapalli Prasanna	India
21	8	Hasan Jamil	Pakistan
22	7	Geoff Dymock	Australia
23	6	Geoff Cope	England
23	6	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
24	5	John Emburey	England
24	5	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan
25	4	Barry Wood	England
26	3	Gary Cosier	Australia
26	3	Saleem Altaf	Pakistan
27	2	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
27	2	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
27	2	Graham Gooch	England
27	2	Sunil Gavaskar	India
27	2	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
28	1	Wayne Daniel	West Indies
28	1	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
28	1	Surinder Amarnath	India
28	1	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
28	1	David Lloyd	England
28	1	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
28	1	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
28	1	Maurice Foster	West Indies
29	0	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
29	0	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
29	0	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan
29	0	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
29	0	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
29	0	Majid Khan	Pakistan
29	0	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
29	0	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
29	0	Mike Gatting	England
29	0	Graham Roope	England
29	0	Derek Randall	England
29	0	Allan Border	Australia
29	0	Tony Mann	Australia
29	0	Sam Gannon	Australia
29	0	Graham Yallop	Australia
29	0	Chetan Chauhan	India
29	0	Gundappa Viswanath	India
29	0	Larry Gomes	West Indies
29	0	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
29	0	Aamer Hameed	Pakistan
29	0	Richard Austin	West Indies
29	0	Naeem Ahmed	Pakistan
29	0	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong