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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.
TEST
1978
119 entries
1
86
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
1 clear of Alvin Kallicharran
2
85
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
1 off the lead
3
79
David Gower
ENG
7 off the lead
● LEADS
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
86 · 1 ahead of Kallicharran
↑ IN THE CHASE
2
players sit within 10% of the lead on most fours
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
43
The mark at number ten — 109 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
West Indies
11 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Fours — full list
119 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
86
2
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
85
3
David Gower
ENG
79
4
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
70
5
Graeme Wood
AUS
61
6
Geoff Boycott
ENG
56
7
Graham Yallop
AUS
54
7
Geoff Howarth
NZ
54
8
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
53
9
Peter Toohey
AUS
50
10
Clive Radley
ENG
43
10
Javed Miandad
PAK
43
10
Basil Williams
WI
43
11
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
42
11
Bruce Yardley
AUS
42
12
Graham Gooch
ENG
41
13
Graham Roope
ENG
39
14
Sew Shivnarine
WI
37
14
Larry Gomes
WI
37
14
Craig Serjeant
AUS
37
15
Robert Anderson
NZ
32
16
Derick Parry
WI
31
16
Derek Randall
ENG
31
17
Geoff Miller
ENG
29
18
Mark Burgess
NZ
28
18
Gary Cosier
AUS
28
19
Bob Simpson
AUS
27
20
Chetan Chauhan
IND
24
21
Sadiq Mohammad
PAK
23
21
Desmond Haynes
WI
23
22
Mohsin Khan
HK
22
23
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
21
23
Norbert Phillip
WI
21
23
Alvin Greenidge
WI
21
23
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
21
23
Steve Rixon
AUS
21
24
Haroon Rasheed
PAK
20
24
Mike Brearley
ENG
20
25
Gordon Greenidge
WI
19
25
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
19
26
Rick Darling
AUS
18
26
Jock Edwards
NZ
18
26
John Wright
NZ
18
27
Kapil Dev
IND
17
27
Kim Hughes
AUS
17
27
Clive Lloyd
WI
17
27
Phil Edmonds
ENG
17
28
David Murray
WI
16
28
Syed Kirmani
IND
16
28
John Parker
NZ
16
29
Asif Iqbal
PAK
15
30
Wasim Raja
PAK
14
30
Bev Congdon
NZ
14
31
Bruce Edgar
NZ
13
31
Mohinder Amarnath
IND
13
32
Brian Rose
ENG
10
32
Deryck Murray
WI
10
32
Bob Taylor
ENG
10
33
Chris Old
ENG
9
33
Vanburn Holder
WI
9
34
Sir Viv Richards
WI
8
34
Rodney Hogg
AUS
8
34
Richard Collinge
NZ
8
34
Karsan Ghavri
IND
8
35
Trevor Laughlin
AUS
7
35
Lance Cairns
NZ
7
35
Faoud Bacchus
WI
7
36
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
6
36
David Ogilvie
AUS
6
36
Jeff Thomson
AUS
6
37
Talat Ali
PAK
5
37
Shafiq Ahmed
PAK
5
37
Erapalli Prasanna
IND
5
38
Bob Willis
ENG
4
38
John Lever
ENG
4
38
John Maclean
AUS
4
38
Allan Border
AUS
4
39
Wayne Clark
AUS
3
39
Mike Hendrick
ENG
3
39
Irvine Shillingford
WI
3
39
Richard Austin
WI
3
40
Sylvester Clarke
WI
2
40
Liaqat Ali
PAK
2
40
Sikander Bakht
PAK
2
40
Abdul Qadir
PAK
2
40
Ashok Mankad
IND
2
40
Wasim Bari
PAK
2
40
Anshuman Gaekwad
IND
2
40
John Dyson
AUS
2
40
Ian Callen
AUS
2
40
Warren Lees
NZ
2
41
Brendon Bracewell
NZ
1
41
Stephen Boock
NZ
1
41
Jim Higgs
AUS
1
41
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
1
41
Geoff Dymock
AUS
1
41
Alan Hurst
AUS
1
41
Mike Gatting
ENG
1
41
Geoff Cope
ENG
1
41
Bishan Bedi
IND
1
41
Raphick Jumadeen
WI
1
41
Sir Andy Roberts
NZ
1
41
Maurice Foster
WI
1
41
Barry Wood
ENG
1
42
Malcolm Marshall
WI
0
42
Colin Croft
WI
0
42
Joel Garner
WI
0
42
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
0
42
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
IND
0
42
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
IND
0
42
John Emburey
ENG
0
42
Mushtaq Mohammad
PAK
0
42
Majid Khan
PAK
0
42
Imran Niazi
BHR
0
42
Surinder Amarnath
IND
0
42
Tony Mann
AUS
0
42
Bobjee Narasimha Rao
IND
0
42
Sam Gannon
AUS
0
42
Dayle Hadlee
NZ
0
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