Best Strike Rate in 1985: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

The best strike rate in 1985 highlights the top performers of the season based on official match data.

Position	Best Strike Rate	Player Name	Team Name
1	0.60	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
2	6.00	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
3	18.00	Ken Rutherford	New Zealand
3	18.00	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka
4	25.20	Chris Cowdrey	England
5	25.50	Derek Pringle	England
6	26.40	Thirumalai Sekhar	India
7	27.44	Tahir Naqqash	Pakistan
8	28.40	Allan Border	Australia
9	28.44	Madan Lal	India
10	29.25	Roger Binny	India
11	30.00	Norman Gifford	England
12	32.50	Kepler Wessels	Australia
13	32.71	Kapil Dev	India
14	33.00	Tony Gray	West Indies
15	34.86	Craig McDermott	Australia
16	35.02	Imran Khan
17	35.44	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
18	36.20	Chetan Sharma	India
19	36.39	Ravi Shastri	India
20	37.37	Joel Garner	West Indies
21	37.50	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan
22	37.71	Roger Wijesuriya	Sri Lanka
23	38.00	Zakir Khan	Pakistan
24	38.09	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
25	38.32	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
26	39.55	Norman Cowans	England
27	39.69	Laxman Sivaramakrishnan	India
28	40.01	Michael Holding	West Indies
29	41.84	Rumesh Ratnayake	Sri Lanka
30	42.00	Jonathan Agnew	England
30	42.00	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
31	42.20	Larry Gomes	West Indies
32	42.40	Winston Davis	West Indies
33	42.55	Rod McCurdy	Australia
34	43.50	Sir Ian Botham	England
35	43.58	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
36	43.76	Roger Harper	West Indies
37	44.35	Geoff Lawson	Australia
38	45.00	Gopal Sharma	India
38	45.00	Graham Gooch	England
39	45.40	Tauseef Ahmed	Pakistan
40	45.86	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
41	46.48	Rodney Hogg	Australia
42	48.00	Richard Ellison	England
42	48.00	Gary Troup	New Zealand
43	48.60	Azeem Hafeez	Pakistan
44	50.00	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
44	50.00	Neil Foster	England
45	50.54	Simon O'Donnell	Australia
46	51.47	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
47	51.84	Vic Marks	England
48	52.54	Mohsin Kamal	Pakistan
49	53.64	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
50	57.00	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
51	60.00	Paul McEwan	New Zealand
51	60.00	Peter Willey	England
51	60.00	Carl Rackemann	Australia
52	61.30	Ashantha de Mel	Sri Lanka
53	62.52	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
54	63.00	Bob Holland	Australia
55	64.50	Eldine Baptiste	West Indies
56	67.10	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
57	67.50	Mohinder Amarnath	India
57	67.50	Terry Alderman	Australia
58	68.50	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka
59	69.65	Vinothen John	Sri Lanka
60	70.50	Phil Edmonds	England
61	73.80	Rajinder Singh Ghai	India
62	74.20	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
63	75.00	Somachandra De Silva	Sri Lanka
64	76.29	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
65	76.50	Greg Matthews	Australia
66	78.00	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
67	84.00	Paul Allott	England
68	85.80	John Bracewell	New Zealand
69	87.00	Murray Bennett	Australia
70	102.00	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
71	114.00	Jeff Thomson	Australia
72	120.00	Ashok Patel	India