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Most Fours in 1979: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
Here is the complete breakdown of the most fours in 1979, featuring the most impactful players of the year.
TEST
1979
123 entries
1
177
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
26 clear of Gundappa Viswanath
2
151
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
26 off the lead
3
117
Kim Hughes
AUS
60 off the lead
● LEADS
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
177 · 26 ahead of Viswanath
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Gavaskar is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
65
The mark at number ten — 113 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
12 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Fours — full list
123 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
177
2
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
151
3
Kim Hughes
AUS
117
4
Allan Border
AUS
116
5
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
113
6
Chetan Chauhan
IND
96
7
Javed Miandad
PAK
74
8
Kapil Dev
IND
69
9
Graham Yallop
AUS
67
10
Asif Iqbal
PAK
65
11
Yashpal Sharma
IND
63
12
Wasim Raja
PAK
58
13
Syed Kirmani
IND
54
14
David Gower
ENG
52
15
Majid Khan
PAK
49
16
Rick Darling
AUS
43
17
Geoff Boycott
ENG
42
18
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
41
19
Faoud Bacchus
WI
40
19
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
40
20
Dav Whatmore
AUS
36
21
Andrew Hilditch
AUS
35
21
Graham Gooch
ENG
35
22
Greg Chappell
AUS
31
23
Sir Viv Richards
WI
29
24
Bruce Yardley
AUS
28
24
Karsan Ghavri
IND
28
25
Geoff Miller
ENG
27
25
Derek Randall
ENG
27
26
Bruce Laird
AUS
24
26
Imran Khan
BHR
24
26
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
24
27
Jeremy Coney
NZ
23
27
Bob Taylor
ENG
23
28
Mike Brearley
ENG
22
28
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
22
29
John Wright
NZ
21
29
Kevin Wright
AUS
21
30
Mushtaq Mohammad
PAK
20
31
Geoff Dymock
AUS
18
32
Graeme Wood
AUS
17
32
Mohinder Amarnath
IND
17
32
Anshuman Gaekwad
IND
17
32
Geoff Howarth
NZ
17
33
Bruce Edgar
NZ
14
33
Wasim Bari
PAK
14
33
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
14
33
Peter Willey
ENG
14
34
Haroon Rasheed
PAK
13
34
Larry Gomes
WI
13
35
Warren Lees
NZ
12
35
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
12
35
Phil Edmonds
ENG
12
36
Mark Burgess
NZ
11
36
Rodney Hogg
AUS
11
36
Abdul Qadir
PAK
11
36
Talat Ali
PAK
11
37
Gordon Greenidge
WI
10
37
Desmond Haynes
WI
10
37
Julien Wiener
AUS
10
37
Roger Binny
IND
10
38
Lawrence Rowe
WI
9
38
Lance Cairns
NZ
9
39
Joel Garner
WI
8
39
Peter Sleep
AUS
8
39
David Bairstow
ENG
8
40
Bob Willis
ENG
7
40
David Hookes
AUS
7
40
Andy Roberts
NZ
7
40
Sadiq Mohammad
PAK
7
41
Bharath Reddy
IND
6
41
Shivlal Yadav
IND
6
42
Rod Marsh
AUS
5
42
Alan Hurst
AUS
5
42
Rick McCosker
AUS
5
42
Ray Bright
AUS
5
42
Bobjee Narasimha Rao
IND
5
42
John Emburey
ENG
5
42
Graham Dilley
ENG
5
42
Peter Toohey
AUS
5
42
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
5
43
John Parker
NZ
4
43
Mohsin Khan
HK
4
43
Jeff Moss
AUS
4
43
Dilip Doshi
IND
4
43
Yajurvindra Singh
IND
4
43
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
IND
4
44
Jim Higgs
AUS
3
44
Alan Butcher
ENG
3
44
Deryck Murray
WI
3
45
Clive Lloyd
WI
2
45
Sikander Bakht
PAK
2
45
Michael Holding
WI
2
45
John Reid
NZ
2
45
Phil Carlson
AUS
2
45
Wayne Clark
AUS
2
45
Dennis Lillee
AUS
2
46
Jeff Thomson
AUS
1
46
John Maclean
AUS
1
46
Mike Hendrick
ENG
1
46
Derek Underwood
ENG
1
46
John Lever
ENG
1
46
Collis King
WI
1
47
Colin Croft
WI
0
47
Malcolm Marshall
WI
0
47
Herbert Chang
WI
0
47
Derick Parry
WI
0
47
Sylvester Clarke
WI
0
47
Alvin Greenidge
WI
0
47
David Murray
WI
0
47
Norbert Phillip
WI
0
47
Sew Shivnarine
WI
0
47
Basil Williams
WI
0
47
Anwar Khan
PAK
0
47
Ehteshamuddin
PAK
0
47
Vanburn Holder
WI
0
47
Raphick Jumadeen
WI
0
47
Gary Troup
NZ
0
47
Stephen Boock
NZ
0
47
Brendon Bracewell
NZ
0
47
Bishan Bedi
IND
0
47
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
IND
0
47
Dhiraj Parsana
IND
0
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