Best Averages in 1979 for Test

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	236 / 2	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
2	315 / 3	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
3	65 / 1	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
4	708 / 11	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
5	60 / 1	Jeff Moss	Australia
6	1044 / 18	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
7	1388 / 24	Gundappa Viswanath	India
8	572 / 10	Geoff Boycott	England
9	285 / 5	Bruce Laird	Australia
10	56 / 1	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
11	1407 / 26	Sunil Gavaskar	India
12	54 / 1	Graham Dilley	England
13	569 / 11	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
14	465 / 9	David Gower	England
15	301 / 6	Greg Chappell	Australia
16	242 / 5	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
17	1152 / 24	Kim Hughes	Australia
17	144 / 3	Mohinder Amarnath	India
18	47 / 1	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
19	1073 / 23	Allan Border	Australia
20	91 / 2	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
21	591 / 13	Yashpal Sharma	India
22	89 / 2	Joel Garner	West Indies
23	176 / 4	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
24	479 / 11	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
25	245 / 6	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
26	446 / 11	Sir Ian Botham	England
27	80 / 2	David Hookes	Australia
27	40 / 1	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
28	196 / 5	Larry Gomes	West Indies
29	463 / 12	Syed Kirmani	India
30	675 / 18	Graham Yallop	Australia
31	262 / 7	Bob Taylor	England
32	149 / 4	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
33	864 / 24	Chetan Chauhan	India
34	358 / 10	Majid Khan	Pakistan
35	178 / 5	John Wright	New Zealand
36	319 / 9	Geoff Miller	England
37	248 / 7	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
38	619 / 18	Kapil Dev	India
39	68 / 2	David Bairstow	England
39	340 / 10	Graham Gooch	England
40	270 / 8	Bruce Yardley	Australia
41	168 / 5	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
42	436 / 13	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
43	133 / 4	Julien Wiener	Australia
44	260 / 8	Derek Randall	England
45	449 / 14	Rick Darling	Australia
46	126 / 4	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
47	31 / 1	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
48	61 / 2	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
49	59 / 2	Yajurvindra Singh	India
50	115 / 4	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
51	86 / 3	David Murray	West Indies
52	84 / 3	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
53	136 / 5	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
54	81 / 3	Phil Edmonds	England
55	452 / 17	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
56	318 / 12	Mike Brearley	England
57	79 / 3	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
58	105 / 4	Warren Lees	New Zealand
59	26 / 1	Basil Williams	West Indies
59	104 / 4	Peter Willey	England
60	127 / 5	Talat Ali	Pakistan
61	293 / 12	Dav Whatmore	Australia
62	47 / 2	Rick McCosker	Australia
63	258 / 11	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
64	304 / 13	Karsan Ghavri	India
65	210 / 9	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
66	203 / 9	Graeme Wood	Australia
67	45 / 2	Deryck Murray	West Indies
68	86 / 4	Roger Binny	India
69	225 / 11	Imran Khan
70	80 / 4	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
70	60 / 3	John Emburey	England
71	219 / 11	Kevin Wright	Australia
72	137 / 7	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
73	78 / 4	Bob Willis	England
73	78 / 4	Shivlal Yadav	India
74	38 / 2	Bharath Reddy	India
74	95 / 5	Peter Sleep	Australia
74	19 / 1	John Reid	New Zealand
75	72 / 4	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
76	68 / 4	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
76	34 / 2	Alan Butcher	England
77	50 / 3	Alan Hurst	Australia
78	49 / 3	Dennis Lillee	Australia
79	65 / 4	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
80	162 / 10	Geoff Dymock	Australia
81	75 / 5	Rod Marsh	Australia
81	15 / 1	Anwar Khan	Pakistan
82	44 / 3	Ray Bright	Australia
83	27 / 2	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
84	13 / 1	Derek Underwood	England
85	38 / 3	John Parker	New Zealand
86	12 / 1	John Maclean	Australia
86	12 / 1	Michael Holding	West Indies
87	47 / 4	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
88	23 / 2	Phil Carlson	Australia
89	45 / 4	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
90	43 / 4	Dilip Doshi	India
91	53 / 5	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
92	20 / 2	Mike Hendrick	England
92	10 / 1	Gary Troup	New Zealand
93	45 / 5	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
93	9 / 1	Wayne Clark	Australia
93	9 / 1	Jeff Thomson	Australia
94	80 / 9	Jim Higgs	Australia
95	123 / 14	Rodney Hogg	Australia
96	32 / 4	Derick Parry	West Indies
97	53 / 7	Peter Toohey	Australia
98	16 / 3	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
99	5 / 1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
100	8 / 2	Herbert Chang	West Indies
101	5 / 2	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
102	2 / 1	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
103	1 / 1	Bishan Bedi	India
103	1 / 1	Dhiraj Parsana	India