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Best Strike Rate in 1986: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
Here is the complete breakdown of the best strike rate in 1986, featuring the most impactful players of the year.
ALL FORMATS
1986
96 entries
1
7.20
Larry Gomes
WI
4.80 clear of Sir Richie Richardson
2
12.00
Sir Richie Richardson
WI
4.80 off the lead
3
21.26
Kosala Kuruppuarachchi
SL
14.06 off the lead
● LEADS
Larry Gomes
WI
7.20 · 4.80 better than Richardson
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Gomes is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
32.10
The mark at number ten — 86 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
West Indies
9 of the top 50 · 9 teams represented
Best Strike Rate — full list
96 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Larry Gomes
WI
7.20
2
Sir Richie Richardson
WI
12.00
3
Kosala Kuruppuarachchi
SL
21.26
4
Champaka Ramanayake
SL
24.00
4
Gazi Ashraf
BAN
24.00
5
Martin Snedden
NZ
26.40
6
Mohsin Kamal
PAK
28.29
7
Bruce Blair
NZ
30.00
8
Joel Garner
WI
31.62
9
Tony Gray
WI
31.72
10
Kaushik Amalean
SL
32.10
11
Malcolm Marshall
WI
35.36
12
Courtney Walsh
WI
37.10
13
Shoaib Mohammad
PAK
38.40
14
Kirti Azad
IND
39.00
15
Imran Khan
BHR
40.05
16
Abdul Qadir
PAK
40.91
17
Chetan Sharma
IND
40.96
18
Ravi Ratnayeke
SL
41.50
19
Saleem Jaffar
PAK
41.60
20
Keerthi Ranasinghe
SL
42.00
21
Patrick Patterson
WI
42.17
22
Wasim Akram
PAK
42.47
23
Roger Binny
IND
43.25
24
Winston Benjamin
WI
43.64
25
Michael Holding
WI
43.80
26
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
44.23
27
Jahangir Shah
BAN
45.00
28
Simon Davis
AUS
46.01
29
Stu Gillespie
NZ
46.27
30
Manzoor Elahi
PAK
46.75
31
Zakir Khan
PAK
46.80
32
Arjuna Ranatunga
SL
48.14
33
Jayananda Warnaweera
SL
49.80
34
Gopal Sharma
IND
51.00
35
Madan Lal
IND
51.40
36
Asanka Gurusinha
SL
52.20
37
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
52.39
38
Bharat Arun
IND
52.50
39
John Lever
ENG
53.00
40
Graham Dilley
ENG
54.05
41
John Bracewell
NZ
54.73
42
Gladstone Small
ENG
55.31
43
Bruce Reid
AUS
55.34
44
Steve Waugh
AUS
55.46
45
Mohammad Azharuddin
IND
56.76
46
Tauseef Ahmed
PAK
56.94
47
Raju Kulkarni
IND
57.00
48
Dave Gilbert
AUS
57.13
49
Peter Willey
ENG
58.50
50
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
59.25
50
Ashantha de Mel
SL
59.25
51
Clyde Butts
WI
60.00
52
Maninder Singh
IND
60.01
53
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
60.62
54
Martin Crowe
NZ
61.20
55
Rumesh Ratnayake
SL
61.26
56
Kapil Dev
IND
62.53
57
Neil Foster
ENG
67.65
58
Shivlal Yadav
IND
68.84
59
Chris Matthews
AUS
70.10
60
Greg Matthews
AUS
70.24
61
Don Anurasiri
SL
70.29
62
Mohinder Amarnath
IND
75.00
63
Allan Border
AUS
76.00
64
Greg Thomas
ENG
78.33
65
Ravi Shastri
IND
78.99
66
Derek Pringle
ENG
79.93
67
R.P.Singh
IND
80.40
68
Merv Hughes
AUS
81.22
69
Richard Ellison
ENG
82.15
70
Craig McDermott
AUS
83.86
71
Willie Watson
ENG
85.29
72
Golam Faruq
BAN
85.80
73
Roger Harper
WI
86.54
74
Graeme Labrooy
SL
87.00
74
Graham Gooch
ENG
87.00
75
Derek Stirling
NZ
88.00
76
Phil DeFreitas
ENG
94.27
77
Peter Sleep
AUS
96.00
77
Gholam Nousher
BAN
96.00
78
John Emburey
ENG
96.85
79
Rajinder Singh Ghai
IND
97.20
80
Jeremy Coney
NZ
98.57
81
Phil Edmonds
ENG
98.94
82
Evan Gray
NZ
101.88
83
Sir Viv Richards
WI
105.00
84
Stephen Boock
NZ
108.00
85
Ray Bright
AUS
112.36
86
Bob Holland
AUS
126.00
86
Neal Radford
ENG
126.00
86
Roshan Jurangpathy
SL
126.00
87
Gary Troup
NZ
154.00
88
Gary Robertson
NZ
252.00
89
Asoka de Silva
SL
294.00
90
Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
IND
324.00
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