Highest Score in 1979: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the highest score in 1979, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Stats Value	Player Name	Team Name
1	250	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
2	221	Sunil Gavaskar	India
3	200	David Gower	England
4	179	Gundappa Viswanath	India
5	167	Graham Yallop	Australia
6	162	Allan Border	Australia
7	160	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
8	155	Geoff Boycott	England
9	150	Derek Randall	England
10	146	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
11	140	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
12	137	Sir Ian Botham	England
13	135	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
14	134	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
15	130	Kim Hughes	Australia
16	129	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
17	126	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
17	126	Kapil Dev	India
18	124	Greg Chappell	Australia
19	119	Majid Khan	Pakistan
20	114	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
21	102	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
22	101	Mohinder Amarnath	India
22	101	Syed Kirmani	India
23	100	Yashpal Sharma	India
24	98	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
25	97	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
25	97	Bob Taylor	England
26	92	Bruce Laird	Australia
27	91	Rick Darling	Australia
27	91	Larry Gomes	West Indies
28	88	John Wright	New Zealand
29	86	Karsan Ghavri	India
30	85	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
31	84	Chetan Chauhan	India
32	83	Graham Gooch	England
33	82	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
34	77	Dav Whatmore	Australia
35	71	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
36	64	Mike Brearley	England
36	64	Geoff Miller	England
36	64	Peter Sleep	Australia
37	61	Bruce Yardley	Australia
37	61	Talat Ali	Pakistan
38	60	Joel Garner	West Indies
39	59	David Bairstow	England
40	58	Julien Wiener	Australia
41	56	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
42	55	Kevin Wright	Australia
43	54	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
44	53	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
45	52	Peter Willey	England
46	50	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
47	49	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
48	48	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
48	48	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
49	47	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
49	47	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
50	46	Roger Binny	India
51	45	Warren Lees	New Zealand
52	44	David Murray	West Indies
53	43	David Hookes	Australia
53	43	Yajurvindra Singh	India
54	42	Rod Marsh	Australia
54	42	John Emburey	England
54	42	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
55	40	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
56	38	Graham Dilley	England
56	38	Jeff Moss	Australia
57	35	Graeme Wood	Australia
57	35	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
58	33	Imran Khan
58	33	Rick McCosker	Australia
58	33	John Parker	New Zealand
59	32	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
59	32	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
60	31	Geoff Dymock	Australia
61	29	Shivlal Yadav	India
61	29	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
62	28	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
63	27	Phil Edmonds	England
64	26	Basil Williams	West Indies
64	26	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
65	24	Deryck Murray	West Indies
65	24	Bob Willis	England
66	23	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
67	21	Phil Carlson	Australia
67	21	Bharath Reddy	India
68	20	Dilip Doshi	India
68	20	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
68	20	Alan Butcher	England
68	20	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
69	19	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
69	19	John Reid	New Zealand
69	19	Rodney Hogg	Australia
69	19	Peter Toohey	Australia
69	19	Dennis Lillee	Australia
70	17	Alan Hurst	Australia
70	17	Ray Bright	Australia
71	16	Jim Higgs	Australia
72	15	Derick Parry	West Indies
72	15	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
73	14	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
74	13	Derek Underwood	England
75	12	John Maclean	Australia
75	12	Anwar Khan	Pakistan
76	11	Michael Holding	West Indies
77	10	Mike Hendrick	England
78	9	Wayne Clark	Australia
78	9	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
79	8	Collis King	West Indies
79	8	Jeff Thomson	Australia
80	7	Gary Troup	New Zealand
81	6	Herbert Chang	West Indies
81	6	John Lever	England
82	5	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
83	4	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
84	2	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
84	2	Colin Croft	West Indies
85	1	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
85	1	Dhiraj Parsana	India
85	1	Bishan Bedi	India
86	0	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India