Most Wickets in 1979 for Test

Position	Most Wickets	Player Name	Team Name
1	74	Kapil Dev	India
2	42	Sir Ian Botham	England
3	41	Geoff Dymock	Australia
4	40	Dilip Doshi	India
5	39	Karsan Ghavri	India
6	37	Rodney Hogg	Australia
7	36	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
8	33	Jim Higgs	Australia
9	32	Shivlal Yadav	India
10	30	Alan Hurst	Australia
11	23	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
11	23	Mike Hendrick	England
12	22	Imran Khan
13	21	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
14	18	Bob Willis	England
14	18	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
15	14	Geoff Miller	England
16	13	John Emburey	England
16	13	Dennis Lillee	Australia
16	13	Bruce Yardley	Australia
17	11	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
17	11	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
17	11	Joel Garner	West Indies
17	11	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
18	10	Colin Croft	West Indies
19	9	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
19	9	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
19	9	Roger Binny	India
19	9	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
20	8	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
20	8	Michael Holding	West Indies
21	7	Jeff Thomson	Australia
21	7	Bishan Bedi	India
22	6	Allan Border	Australia
22	6	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
22	6	Phil Edmonds	England
23	5	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
23	5	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
24	4	Derek Underwood	England
24	4	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
25	3	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
25	3	Majid Khan	Pakistan
25	3	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
25	3	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
25	3	Gary Troup	New Zealand
25	3	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
25	3	Graham Dilley	England
25	3	Mohinder Amarnath	India
25	3	Derick Parry	West Indies
26	2	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
26	2	Greg Chappell	Australia
26	2	Phil Carlson	Australia
26	2	Peter Sleep	Australia
26	2	Ray Bright	Australia
26	2	Peter Willey	England
26	2	John Lever	England
26	2	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
27	1	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
27	1	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
27	1	Larry Gomes	West Indies
27	1	Collis King	West Indies
27	1	Graham Gooch	England
27	1	Wayne Clark	Australia
27	1	Graham Yallop	Australia
27	1	Dhiraj Parsana	India
27	1	Chetan Chauhan	India
27	1	Gundappa Viswanath	India
27	1	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
28	0	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
28	0	Sunil Gavaskar	India
28	0	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
28	0	Yajurvindra Singh	India
28	0	David Hookes	Australia
28	0	Peter Toohey	Australia
28	0	Kim Hughes	Australia
28	0	Dav Whatmore	Australia
28	0	Julien Wiener	Australia
28	0	Geoff Boycott	England
28	0	Alan Butcher	England
28	0	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
28	0	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
28	0	Anwar Khan	Pakistan