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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.
TEST
1978
119 entries
1
1099
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
311 clear of Alvin Kallicharran
2
788
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
311 off the lead
3
759
Geoff Boycott
ENG
340 off the lead
● LEADS
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
1099 · 311 ahead of Kallicharran
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Gavaskar is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
597
The mark at number ten — 109 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
10 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Runs — full list
119 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
1099
2
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
788
3
Geoff Boycott
ENG
759
4
Graeme Wood
AUS
750
5
David Gower
ENG
722
6
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
651
7
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
644
8
Graham Yallop
AUS
634
9
Javed Miandad
PAK
606
10
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
597
11
Peter Toohey
AUS
590
12
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
583
13
Geoff Howarth
NZ
560
14
Clive Radley
ENG
481
15
Larry Gomes
WI
474
16
Chetan Chauhan
IND
463
17
Basil Williams
WI
443
18
Bob Simpson
AUS
421
19
Graham Roope
ENG
390
20
Graham Gooch
ENG
377
21
Sew Shivnarine
WI
363
22
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
353
23
Derek Randall
ENG
350
24
Derick Parry
WI
331
25
Geoff Miller
ENG
321
26
Bruce Yardley
AUS
306
27
Sadiq Mohammad
PAK
298
28
Craig Serjeant
AUS
289
29
Kapil Dev
IND
274
30
Mike Brearley
ENG
272
31
Gary Cosier
AUS
255
32
Mark Burgess
NZ
252
33
Rick Darling
AUS
248
34
Kim Hughes
AUS
245
34
Robert Anderson
NZ
245
35
Syed Kirmani
IND
243
36
David Murray
WI
242
37
Mohsin Khan
HK
235
38
Mohinder Amarnath
IND
234
39
Norbert Phillip
WI
232
40
Karsan Ghavri
IND
230
40
Steve Rixon
AUS
230
41
John Wright
NZ
223
42
Majid Khan
PAK
222
43
Bob Taylor
ENG
206
44
John Parker
NZ
205
45
Haroon Rasheed
PAK
203
46
Asif Iqbal
PAK
199
46
Faoud Bacchus
WI
199
47
Desmond Haynes
WI
182
48
Phil Edmonds
ENG
164
49
Bev Congdon
NZ
163
50
Mushtaq Mohammad
PAK
150
51
Bruce Edgar
NZ
147
51
Surinder Amarnath
IND
147
52
Jock Edwards
NZ
144
53
Alvin Greenidge
WI
142
54
Anshuman Gaekwad
IND
138
55
Gordon Greenidge
WI
131
56
Clive Lloyd
WI
128
57
Wasim Raja
PAK
126
58
Wasim Bari
PAK
119
59
Vanburn Holder
WI
117
60
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
112
61
Imran Khan
BHR
104
62
Brian Rose
ENG
99
63
Bob Willis
ENG
92
64
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
88
65
Trevor Laughlin
AUS
87
66
Deryck Murray
WI
81
67
Jeff Thomson
AUS
79
68
Chris Old
ENG
78
69
Richard Collinge
NZ
75
70
Lance Cairns
NZ
72
71
Rodney Hogg
AUS
71
72
John Maclean
AUS
67
73
Erapalli Prasanna
IND
65
74
John Lever
ENG
62
74
Sir Viv Richards
WI
62
75
Sikander Bakht
PAK
59
76
Bishan Bedi
IND
57
77
Shafiq Ahmed
PAK
50
78
David Ogilvie
AUS
47
79
Talat Ali
PAK
42
79
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
42
80
Geoff Cope
ENG
40
81
Mike Hendrick
ENG
33
82
John Dyson
AUS
32
83
Allan Border
AUS
29
84
Ian Callen
AUS
26
85
Abdul Qadir
PAK
25
86
Stephen Boock
NZ
24
87
Sylvester Clarke
WI
23
87
Geoff Dymock
AUS
23
88
Richard Austin
WI
22
89
Irvine Shillingford
WI
19
90
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
IND
18
91
Wayne Clark
AUS
17
92
Ashok Mankad
IND
16
92
Liaqat Ali
PAK
16
93
Barry Wood
ENG
14
94
Maurice Foster
WI
13
95
Warren Lees
NZ
12
95
Jim Higgs
AUS
12
96
Mike Gatting
ENG
11
96
Andy Roberts
NZ
11
97
Alan Hurst
AUS
10
98
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
IND
9
98
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
9
98
John Emburey
ENG
9
99
Raphick Jumadeen
WI
8
100
Colin Croft
WI
7
100
Malcolm Marshall
WI
7
101
Joel Garner
WI
5
102
Brendon Bracewell
NZ
4
103
Dayle Hadlee
NZ
3
104
Bobjee Narasimha Rao
IND
1
105
Tony Mann
AUS
0
105
Sam Gannon
AUS
0
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