Best Average in 1981 for Test

Position	Best Average	Player Name	Team Name
1	15.07	Michael Holding	West Indies
2	15.11	John Bracewell	New Zealand
3	15.69	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
4	16.33	Madan Lal	India
5	16.67	Greg Chappell	Australia
6	18.69	Len Pascoe	Australia
7	19.00	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
8	19.50	Imran Khan
8	19.50	Sandeep Patil	India
9	20.56	Colin Croft	West Indies
10	20.95	Dennis Lillee	Australia
11	21.33	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
12	22.00	Paul Allott	England
13	22.63	Terry Alderman	Australia
14	22.83	Bruce Yardley	Australia
15	23.50	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
16	25.10	Ravi Shastri	India
17	25.12	Bob Willis	England
18	25.55	Sir Ian Botham	England
19	26.60	Joel Garner	West Indies
20	26.85	Geoff Lawson	Australia
21	27.40	Gary Troup	New Zealand
22	28.80	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
23	29.14	John Lever	England
24	30.79	Kapil Dev	India
25	31.31	Graham Dilley	England
26	31.96	Dilip Doshi	India
27	32.50	Ray Bright	Australia
28	33.00	Robin Jackman	England
29	34.00	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
29	34.00	Chetan Chauhan	India
30	35.17	Derek Underwood	England
31	35.71	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
32	35.78	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
33	36.64	Karsan Ghavri	India
34	36.83	Mike Hendrick	England
35	37.00	Graham Stevenson	England
36	37.33	Chris Old	England
37	37.75	Jim Higgs	Australia
38	38.00	Graham Gooch	England
39	38.63	Rodney Hogg	Australia
40	40.62	John Emburey	England
41	42.00	Geoff Miller	England
42	43.40	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
43	43.80	Jeff Thomson	Australia
44	44.60	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
45	45.00	Allan Border	Australia
46	47.11	Shivlal Yadav	India
47	49.20	Mike Whitney	Australia
48	54.33	Roger Binny	India
49	57.00	Larry Gomes	West Indies
50	58.25	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
51	63.00	Yograj Singh	India
52	73.00	Peter Willey	England
53	76.00	Ijaz Faqih	Pakistan
54	158.00	Kirti Azad	India