Best Averages in 1978 for Test

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	583 / 3	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
2	1099 / 11	Sunil Gavaskar	India
3	606 / 7	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
4	788 / 12	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
5	131 / 2	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
6	65 / 1	Erapalli Prasanna	India
7	644 / 10	Gundappa Viswanath	India
8	128 / 2	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
9	560 / 9	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
10	182 / 3	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
11	651 / 11	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
12	722 / 13	David Gower	England
13	481 / 9	Clive Radley	England
14	104 / 2	Imran Khan
15	150 / 3	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
16	199 / 4	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
17	590 / 13	Peter Toohey	Australia
18	363 / 8	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
19	759 / 17	Geoff Boycott	England
20	443 / 10	Basil Williams	West Indies
21	390 / 9	Graham Roope	England
22	474 / 11	Larry Gomes	West Indies
23	634 / 15	Graham Yallop	Australia
24	463 / 11	Chetan Chauhan	India
25	750 / 18	Graeme Wood	Australia
26	331 / 8	Derick Parry	West Indies
27	81 / 2	Deryck Murray	West Indies
28	597 / 15	Sir Ian Botham	England
29	235 / 6	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
30	377 / 10	Graham Gooch	England
31	298 / 8	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
32	222 / 6	Majid Khan	Pakistan
33	142 / 4	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
34	421 / 12	Bob Simpson	Australia
35	245 / 7	Kim Hughes	Australia
36	274 / 8	Kapil Dev	India
37	230 / 7	Karsan Ghavri	India
38	353 / 11	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
39	350 / 11	Derek Randall	England
40	62 / 2	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
41	147 / 5	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
41	147 / 5	Surinder Amarnath	India
42	88 / 3	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
43	205 / 7	John Parker	New Zealand
44	234 / 8	Mohinder Amarnath	India
45	29 / 1	Allan Border	Australia
45	232 / 8	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
46	289 / 10	Craig Serjeant	Australia
47	144 / 5	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
48	230 / 8	Steve Rixon	Australia
49	138 / 5	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
50	243 / 9	Syed Kirmani	India
51	203 / 8	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
52	50 / 2	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan
53	223 / 9	John Wright	New Zealand
54	306 / 13	Bruce Yardley	Australia
55	47 / 2	David Ogilvie	Australia
56	321 / 14	Geoff Miller	England
57	252 / 11	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
58	272 / 12	Mike Brearley	England
59	248 / 11	Rick Darling	Australia
60	245 / 11	Robert Anderson	New Zealand
61	199 / 9	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
62	242 / 11	David Murray	West Indies
63	255 / 12	Gary Cosier	Australia
64	42 / 2	Talat Ali	Pakistan
64	126 / 6	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
64	42 / 2	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
65	40 / 2	Geoff Cope	England
66	75 / 4	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
67	71 / 4	Rodney Hogg	Australia
68	87 / 5	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
69	119 / 7	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
70	67 / 4	John Maclean	Australia
71	99 / 6	Brian Rose	England
72	164 / 10	Phil Edmonds	England
73	163 / 10	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
74	32 / 2	John Dyson	Australia
74	16 / 1	Ashok Mankad	India
75	62 / 4	John Lever	England
76	206 / 14	Bob Taylor	England
77	72 / 5	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
78	14 / 1	Barry Wood	England
79	92 / 7	Bob Willis	England
80	78 / 6	Chris Old	England
80	117 / 9	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
81	25 / 2	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
82	59 / 5	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
83	23 / 2	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
83	23 / 2	Geoff Dymock	Australia
84	112 / 10	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
85	33 / 3	Mike Hendrick	England
85	22 / 2	Richard Austin	West Indies
86	19 / 2	Irvine Shillingford	West Indies
87	9 / 1	John Emburey	England
87	18 / 2	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
88	79 / 9	Jeff Thomson	Australia
89	16 / 2	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan
90	57 / 8	Bishan Bedi	India
91	7 / 1	Colin Croft	West Indies
92	13 / 2	Maurice Foster	West Indies
93	12 / 2	Warren Lees	New Zealand
94	17 / 3	Wayne Clark	Australia
95	11 / 2	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
95	11 / 2	Mike Gatting	England
96	10 / 2	Alan Hurst	Australia
97	24 / 5	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
98	9 / 2	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
99	12 / 3	Jim Higgs	Australia
99	4 / 1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
100	7 / 3	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
101	9 / 4	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
102	3 / 2	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
103	1 / 1	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India