Best Averages in 1979 for all time

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	762 / 6	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
2	315 / 3	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
3	176 / 2	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
4	65 / 1	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
5	754 / 12	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
6	59 / 1	Anura Tennekoon	Sri Lanka
7	520 / 9	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
8	574 / 10	Greg Chappell	Australia
9	1065 / 19	Geoff Boycott	England
10	56 / 1	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
11	1494 / 27	Gundappa Viswanath	India
12	1088 / 21	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
13	1496 / 29	Sunil Gavaskar	India
14	698 / 14	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
15	246 / 5	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
16	591 / 13	Yashpal Sharma	India
17	767 / 17	David Gower	England
18	262 / 6	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
19	348 / 8	Peter Willey	England
20	1374 / 33	Kim Hughes	Australia
21	83 / 2	Sunil Wettimuny	Sri Lanka
22	289 / 7	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
23	518 / 13	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
24	1273 / 32	Allan Border	Australia
25	196 / 5	Larry Gomes	West Indies
26	78 / 2	Duleep Mendis	Sri Lanka
27	463 / 12	Syed Kirmani	India
28	344 / 9	John Wright	New Zealand
29	151 / 4	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
30	75 / 2	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka
31	294 / 8	Bob Taylor	England
32	183 / 5	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
33	508 / 14	Majid Khan	Pakistan
34	864 / 24	Chetan Chauhan	India
35	178 / 5	Collis King	West Indies
36	427 / 12	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
37	800 / 23	Graham Yallop	Australia
38	382 / 11	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
39	584 / 17	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
40	103 / 3	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
41	270 / 8	Bruce Yardley	Australia
42	67 / 2	Jeff Moss	Australia
43	588 / 18	Mike Brearley	England
44	326 / 10	Bruce Laird	Australia
45	323 / 10	Geoff Miller	England
46	672 / 21	Kapil Dev	India
47	31 / 1	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
48	302 / 10	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
49	656 / 22	Graham Gooch	England
50	89 / 3	David Hookes	Australia
51	59 / 2	Yajurvindra Singh	India
52	605 / 21	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
53	144 / 5	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
54	86 / 3	David Murray	West Indies
54	172 / 6	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
55	114 / 4	Joel Garner	West Indies
56	591 / 21	Sir Ian Botham	England
57	195 / 7	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
58	194 / 7	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
59	55 / 2	Graham Dilley	England
60	548 / 20	Rick Darling	Australia
61	160 / 6	Mohinder Amarnath	India
62	26 / 1	Basil Williams	West Indies
63	181 / 7	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
64	460 / 18	Derek Randall	England
65	127 / 5	Talat Ali	Pakistan
66	293 / 12	Dav Whatmore	Australia
67	73 / 3	Glenroy Sealy	Canada
68	24 / 1	Sudath Pasqual	Sri Lanka
69	210 / 9	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
70	46 / 2	Doug Walters	Australia
71	290 / 13	Graeme Wood	Australia
72	267 / 12	Imran Khan
73	133 / 6	Warren Lees	New Zealand
74	109 / 5	Dennis Lillee	Australia
75	261 / 12	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
76	86 / 4	Roger Binny	India
77	339 / 16	Karsan Ghavri	India
78	190 / 9	Julien Wiener	Australia
79	63 / 3	Brijesh Patel	India
79	42 / 2	Gary Cosier	Australia
80	124 / 6	David Bairstow	England
81	103 / 5	Phil Edmonds	England
82	60 / 3	John Emburey	England
82	80 / 4	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
83	78 / 4	Shivlal Yadav	India
84	248 / 13	Kevin Wright	Australia
85	95 / 5	Peter Sleep	Australia
85	38 / 2	Bharath Reddy	India
85	38 / 2	Bandula Warnapura	Sri Lanka
85	19 / 1	John Reid	New Zealand
86	56 / 3	Alan Hurst	Australia
87	149 / 8	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
88	109 / 6	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
88	109 / 6	Deryck Murray	West Indies
89	72 / 4	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
89	18 / 1	Chris Old	England
89	18 / 1	Tony Opatha	Sri Lanka
90	123 / 7	Peter Toohey	Australia
91	105 / 6	Bob Willis	England
91	175 / 10	Rod Marsh	Australia
92	34 / 2	Alan Butcher	England
93	65 / 4	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
94	48 / 3	Rick McCosker	Australia
94	64 / 4	Ray Bright	Australia
95	47 / 3	Franklyn Dennis	Canada
96	15 / 1	Anwar Khan	Pakistan
96	30 / 2	John Vaughan	Canada
97	177 / 12	Geoff Dymock	Australia
98	27 / 2	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
99	13 / 1	Gary Troup	New Zealand
99	13 / 1	Derek Underwood	England
100	76 / 6	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
100	38 / 3	John Parker	New Zealand
100	38 / 3	Christopher Chappell	Canada
101	85 / 7	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
102	47 / 4	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
103	23 / 2	John Maclean	Australia
104	34 / 3	Phil Carlson	Australia
105	45 / 4	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
106	11 / 1	John Morrison	New Zealand
107	43 / 4	Dilip Doshi	India
108	21 / 2	Mike Hendrick	England
109	20 / 2	Bryan Mauricette	Canada
109	10 / 1	Martin Stead	Canada
109	10 / 1	Stanley De Silva	Sri Lanka
110	9 / 1	Wayne Clark	Australia
110	9 / 1	Jeff Thomson	Australia
111	80 / 9	Jim Higgs	Australia
112	17 / 2	Surinder Khanna	India
113	131 / 16	Rodney Hogg	Australia
114	48 / 6	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
115	36 / 5	Derick Parry	West Indies
116	7 / 1	Somachandra De Silva	Sri Lanka
116	14 / 2	Michael Holding	West Indies
116	7 / 1	Wayne Larkins	England
116	7 / 1	John Lever	England
117	20 / 3	Bishan Bedi	India
118	6 / 1	Cornelius Henry	Canada
119	16 / 3	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
120	10 / 2	Cecil Marshall	Canada
120	5 / 1	Colin Croft	West Indies
120	5 / 1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
120	15 / 3	Tariq Javed	Canada
121	4 / 1	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
121	8 / 2	Herbert Chang	West Indies
122	3 / 1	Graeme Porter	Australia
123	5 / 2	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
124	2 / 1	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
125	3 / 2	Jitendra Patel	Canada
126	1 / 1	Dhiraj Parsana	India
126	1 / 1	Sunil Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka