Most Wickets in 1979 for all time

Position	Most Wickets	Player Name	Team Name
1	76	Kapil Dev	India
2	58	Sir Ian Botham	England
3	50	Geoff Dymock	Australia
4	46	Rodney Hogg	Australia
5	43	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
6	40	Alan Hurst	Australia
6	40	Dilip Doshi	India
7	39	Karsan Ghavri	India
8	38	Mike Hendrick	England
9	34	Bob Willis	England
10	33	Jim Higgs	Australia
11	32	Shivlal Yadav	India
12	27	Imran Khan
13	26	Dennis Lillee	Australia
14	25	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
14	25	Joel Garner	West Indies
15	23	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
15	23	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
16	22	Michael Holding	West Indies
17	21	Colin Croft	West Indies
18	20	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
19	16	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
20	15	Geoff Miller	England
21	13	John Emburey	England
21	13	Bruce Yardley	Australia
22	12	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
23	11	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
23	11	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
23	11	Chris Old	England
23	11	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
24	10	Phil Edmonds	England
24	10	Majid Khan	Pakistan
24	10	Allan Border	Australia
25	9	Jeff Thomson	Australia
25	9	Roger Binny	India
25	9	Derek Underwood	England
25	9	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
25	9	Brian McKechnie	New Zealand
25	9	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
26	8	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
26	8	Graham Dilley	England
26	8	Len Pascoe	Australia
26	8	Gary Cosier	Australia
27	7	Bishan Bedi	India
27	7	Mohinder Amarnath	India
27	7	Peter Willey	England
27	7	Gary Troup	New Zealand
28	6	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
28	6	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
28	6	John Lever	England
28	6	Collis King	West Indies
28	6	Derick Parry	West Indies
28	6	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
29	5	Geoff Boycott	England
29	5	Graham Gooch	England
29	5	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
29	5	Greg Chappell	Australia
29	5	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
30	4	Phil Carlson	Australia
30	4	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
31	3	Graeme Porter	Australia
31	3	Ray Bright	Australia
31	3	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
31	3	Somachandra De Silva	Sri Lanka
31	3	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
31	3	Warren Stott	New Zealand
31	3	Tony Opatha	Sri Lanka
31	3	John Valentine	Canada
32	2	Stanley De Silva	Sri Lanka
32	2	Cornelius Henry	Canada
32	2	Peter Sleep	Australia
32	2	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
32	2	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
33	1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
33	1	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
33	1	Derek Randall	England
33	1	Dhiraj Parsana	India
33	1	Chetan Chauhan	India
33	1	Gundappa Viswanath	India
33	1	Wayne Clark	Australia
33	1	Graham Yallop	Australia
33	1	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
33	1	Robert Callender	Canada
33	1	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
33	1	Ajit de Silva	Sri Lanka
33	1	Bandula Warnapura	Sri Lanka
33	1	Larry Gomes	West Indies
34	0	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
34	0	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
34	0	John Vaughan	Canada
34	0	Sudath Pasqual	Sri Lanka
34	0	Ranjan Gunatilleke	Sri Lanka
34	0	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
34	0	Jitendra Patel	Canada
34	0	Glenroy Sealy	Canada
34	0	Martin Stead	Canada
34	0	David Hookes	Australia
34	0	Kim Hughes	Australia
34	0	Max Walker	Australia
34	0	Peter Toohey	Australia
34	0	Dav Whatmore	Australia
34	0	Julien Wiener	Australia
34	0	Sunil Gavaskar	India
34	0	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
34	0	Yajurvindra Singh	India
34	0	Doug Walters	Australia
34	0	Wayne Larkins	England
34	0	Alan Butcher	England
34	0	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
34	0	John Morrison	New Zealand
34	0	Anwar Khan	Pakistan