Most Fours in 1978: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the most fours in 1978, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Most Fours	Player Name	Team Name
1	86	Sunil Gavaskar	India
2	85	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
3	79	David Gower	England
4	70	Sir Ian Botham	England
5	61	Graeme Wood	Australia
6	56	Geoff Boycott	England
7	54	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
7	54	Graham Yallop	Australia
8	53	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
9	50	Peter Toohey	Australia
10	43	Clive Radley	England
10	43	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
10	43	Basil Williams	West Indies
11	42	Bruce Yardley	Australia
11	42	Gundappa Viswanath	India
12	41	Graham Gooch	England
13	39	Graham Roope	England
14	37	Craig Serjeant	Australia
14	37	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
14	37	Larry Gomes	West Indies
15	32	Robert Anderson	New Zealand
16	31	Derick Parry	West Indies
16	31	Derek Randall	England
17	29	Geoff Miller	England
18	28	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
18	28	Gary Cosier	Australia
19	27	Bob Simpson	Australia
20	24	Chetan Chauhan	India
21	23	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
21	23	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
22	22	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
23	21	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
23	21	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
23	21	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
23	21	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
23	21	Steve Rixon	Australia
24	20	Mike Brearley	England
24	20	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
25	19	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
25	19	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
26	18	Rick Darling	Australia
26	18	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
26	18	John Wright	New Zealand
27	17	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
27	17	Kapil Dev	India
27	17	Kim Hughes	Australia
27	17	Phil Edmonds	England
28	16	John Parker	New Zealand
28	16	Syed Kirmani	India
28	16	David Murray	West Indies
29	15	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
30	14	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
30	14	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
31	13	Mohinder Amarnath	India
31	13	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
32	10	Deryck Murray	West Indies
32	10	Brian Rose	England
32	10	Bob Taylor	England
33	9	Chris Old	England
33	9	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
34	8	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
34	8	Rodney Hogg	Australia
34	8	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
34	8	Karsan Ghavri	India
35	7	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
35	7	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
35	7	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
36	6	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
36	6	David Ogilvie	Australia
36	6	Jeff Thomson	Australia
37	5	Erapalli Prasanna	India
37	5	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan
37	5	Talat Ali	Pakistan
38	4	John Maclean	Australia
38	4	Allan Border	Australia
38	4	Bob Willis	England
38	4	John Lever	England
39	3	Mike Hendrick	England
39	3	Wayne Clark	Australia
39	3	Irvine Shillingford	West Indies
39	3	Richard Austin	West Indies
40	2	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
40	2	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
40	2	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan
40	2	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
40	2	Warren Lees	New Zealand
40	2	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
40	2	Ian Callen	Australia
40	2	John Dyson	Australia
40	2	Ashok Mankad	India
40	2	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
41	1	Geoff Dymock	Australia
41	1	Alan Hurst	Australia
41	1	Bishan Bedi	India
41	1	Jim Higgs	Australia
41	1	Barry Wood	England
41	1	Geoff Cope	England
41	1	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
41	1	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
41	1	Mike Gatting	England
41	1	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
41	1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
41	1	Maurice Foster	West Indies
41	1	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
42	0	Colin Croft	West Indies
42	0	Joel Garner	West Indies
42	0	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
42	0	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
42	0	Majid Khan	Pakistan
42	0	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
42	0	Imran Khan
42	0	John Emburey	England
42	0	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
42	0	Sam Gannon	Australia
42	0	Tony Mann	Australia
42	0	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
42	0	Surinder Amarnath	India
42	0	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
42	0	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India