Worst Bowling Fig in 1987: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

The worst bowling fig in 1987 highlights the top performers of the season based on official match data.

Position	Stats Value	Player Name	Team Name
1	3/217	Sir Ian Botham	England
2	5/189	Tauseef Ahmed	Pakistan
3	6/154	Graham Dilley	England
4	5/149	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
5	4/146	Arshad Ayub	India
6	7/143	John Emburey	England
7	5/136	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
8	5/135	Craig McDermott	Australia
8	7/135	Maninder Singh	India
9	3/134	Tim May	Australia
10	2/133	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
11	9/130	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
12	7/129	Imran Khan
13	4/127	Mohsin Kamal	Pakistan
13	4/127	Shivlal Yadav	India
14	2/122	John Bracewell	New Zealand
14	2/122	Clyde Butts	West Indies
15	3/115	Saleem Jaffar	Pakistan
16	0/114	Asoka de Silva	Sri Lanka
17	5/111	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka
17	5/111	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
18	6/109	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
18	5/109	Peter Sleep	Australia
19	8/107	Neil Foster	England
19	5/107	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
20	4/105	Ravi Shastri	India
21	4/104	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
22	4/103	Kapil Dev	India
23	1/102	Evan Gray	New Zealand
24	1/98	Rumesh Ratnayake	Sri Lanka
25	3/97	Phil Edmonds	England
26	3/96	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
27	4/93	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
28	4/92	Mike Whitney	Australia
29	2/90	Imran Niazi	Pakistan
30	5/89	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
31	4/88	Gopal Sharma	India
32	3/87	Nick Cook	England
33	5/86	Phil DeFreitas	England
33	1/86	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
34	3/84	Winston Davis	West Indies
35	1/81	Ijaz Faqih	Pakistan
36	5/80	Chetan Sharma	India
37	5/79	Joel Garner	West Indies
38	6/78	Peter Taylor	Australia
39	1/76	Winston Benjamin	West Indies
40	4/75	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
40	5/75	Gladstone Small	England
41	4/74	Bruce Reid	Australia
42	1/71	Steve Waugh	Australia
42	4/71	Don Anurasiri	Sri Lanka
43	0/65	Michael Holding	West Indies
44	1/64	Kosala Kuruppuarachchi	Sri Lanka
44	1/64	David Capel	England
45	6/58	Tony Dodemaide	Australia
45	3/58	Merv Hughes	Australia
46	6/56	Roger Binny	India
47	3/47	Tony Gray	West Indies
48	0/43	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
49	1/41	Raju Kulkarni	India
50	0/40	Carl Hooper	West Indies
51	0/38	Dipak Patel	New Zealand
52	1/37	Larry Gomes	West Indies
53	1/35	Eddie Hemmings	England
54	0/27	Martyn Moxon	England
55	1/26	Bharat Arun	India
56	1/25	Allan Border	Australia
57	1/23	Dean Jones	Australia
58	0/22	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
59	0/20	Aamer Malik	Pakistan
60	1/19	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan
61	0/18	Mike Gatting	England
62	0/17	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka
62	0/17	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
63	1/16	Mohinder Amarnath	India
64	0/15	Sunil Gavaskar	India
65	1/14	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
66	1/13	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
66	0/13	Roger Harper	West Indies
67	0/10	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
68	1/8	Manzoor Elahi	Pakistan
69	1/7	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
69	0/7	Kris Srikkanth	India
70	0/6	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
70	0/6	Younis Ahmed	Pakistan
71	0/4	Graham Gooch	England
71	0/4	Chris Broad	England
71	0/4	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
72	0/1	Arun Lal	India