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.

Position	Best Strike Rate	Player Name	Team Name
1	21.26	Kosala Kuruppuarachchi	Sri Lanka
2	24.00	Peter Willey	England
3	25.50	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
4	34.60	Joel Garner	West Indies
5	36.40	Kaushik Amalean	Sri Lanka
6	38.40	Michael Holding	West Indies
7	39.53	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
8	40.33	Imran Khan
9	40.45	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
10	41.00	Madan Lal	India
11	42.26	Tony Gray	West Indies
12	43.60	Roger Binny	India
13	45.00	Mohsin Kamal	Pakistan
14	46.71	Tauseef Ahmed	Pakistan
15	48.71	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
16	49.80	Jayananda Warnaweera	Sri Lanka
17	51.31	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
18	53.00	John Lever	England
19	53.25	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
20	54.00	Bharat Arun	India
21	54.09	Chetan Sharma	India
22	54.62	Graham Dilley	England
23	55.31	Gladstone Small	England
24	55.80	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka
25	57.34	John Bracewell	New Zealand
26	57.56	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
27	57.93	Ashantha de Mel	Sri Lanka
28	58.00	Raju Kulkarni	India
29	60.00	Clyde Butts	West Indies
30	62.79	Sir Ian Botham	England
31	64.78	Maninder Singh	India
32	65.36	Steve Waugh	Australia
33	68.45	Derek Pringle	England
34	68.95	Shivlal Yadav	India
35	69.60	Rumesh Ratnayake	Sri Lanka
36	70.10	Chris Matthews	Australia
37	74.50	Roger Harper	West Indies
38	74.81	Bruce Reid	Australia
39	77.16	Greg Thomas	England
40	78.00	Graham Gooch	England
41	81.22	Merv Hughes	Australia
42	85.64	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
43	85.67	Greg Matthews	Australia
44	87.00	Saleem Jaffar	Pakistan
45	87.25	Neil Foster	England
46	87.97	Richard Ellison	England
47	88.00	Derek Stirling	New Zealand
48	90.00	Zakir Khan	Pakistan
49	92.40	Craig McDermott	Australia
50	94.27	Phil DeFreitas	England
51	96.00	Peter Sleep	Australia
52	99.15	Phil Edmonds	England
53	99.73	John Emburey	England
54	100.48	Kapil Dev	India
55	102.00	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
56	105.00	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
57	108.75	Willie Watson	England
58	108.76	Ravi Shastri	India
59	114.00	Ray Bright	Australia
60	126.00	Bob Holland	Australia
60	126.00	Dave Gilbert	Australia
60	126.00	Neal Radford	England
60	126.00	Roshan Jurangpathy	Sri Lanka
61	140.40	Evan Gray	New Zealand
62	141.90	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
63	144.00	Gary Robertson	New Zealand
64	150.00	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
65	154.00	Gary Troup	New Zealand
66	162.00	Stu Gillespie	New Zealand
67	210.00	Graeme Labrooy	Sri Lanka
68	288.00	Asoka de Silva	Sri Lanka