Best Averages in 1988: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the best averages in 1988, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	85 / 1	Sanjay Manjrekar	India
2	84 / 1	Kim Barnett	England
3	81 / 1	Derek Pringle	England
4	189 / 3	Moin-ul-Atiq	Pakistan
5	782 / 13	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
6	111 / 2	Ajay Sharma	India
7	590 / 11	Dean Jones	Australia
8	746 / 14	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
9	584 / 11	Mohinder Amarnath	India
10	306 / 6	Mike Gatting	England
11	152 / 3	Neil Fairbrother	England
12	607 / 12	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
13	49 / 1	Carlisle Best	West Indies
14	271 / 6	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
15	135 / 3	Duleep Mendis	Sri Lanka
16	806 / 18	Andrew Jones	New Zealand
17	489 / 11	Carl Hooper	West Indies
18	444 / 10	Phil Simmons	West Indies
19	87 / 2	Chandrakant Pandit	India
20	380 / 9	Mark Greatbatch	New Zealand
21	463 / 11	Navjot Sidhu	India
22	539 / 13	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
23	327 / 8	Steve Waugh	Australia
24	314 / 8	Chris Broad	England
25	582 / 15	David Boon	Australia
26	498 / 13	Geoff Marsh	Australia
27	191 / 5	Bert Vance	New Zealand
28	742 / 20	John Wright	New Zealand
29	291 / 8	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
30	109 / 3	Allan Lamb	England
31	326 / 9	Mike Veletta	Australia
32	520 / 15	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
33	481 / 14	Mohammad Azharuddin	India
34	402 / 12	Roshan Mahanama	Sri Lanka
35	367 / 11	Ravi Shastri	India
36	499 / 15	Gus Logie	West Indies
37	618 / 19	Kris Srikkanth	India
38	32 / 1	Jamie Siddons	Australia
38	448 / 14	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
39	593 / 19	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
40	30 / 1	Paul Downton	England
40	30 / 1	Akram Khan	Bangladesh
41	419 / 14	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan
42	209 / 7	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
43	254 / 9	Jeff Dujon	West Indies
44	84 / 3	Tony Dodemaide	Australia
45	111 / 4	David Capel	England
46	331 / 12	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
46	331 / 12	Brendon Kuruppu	Sri Lanka
47	110 / 4	Graham Gooch	England
48	137 / 5	Jeff Crowe	New Zealand
49	27 / 1	Keith Arthurton	West Indies
49	27 / 1	Golam Faruq	Bangladesh
50	161 / 6	Athula Samarasekera	Sri Lanka
51	321 / 12	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
52	158 / 6	Tim Robinson	New Zealand
53	209 / 8	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
54	26 / 1	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
55	181 / 7	Imran Khan
56	77 / 3	Arun Lal	India
57	50 / 2	Mark Waugh	Australia
58	340 / 14	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
59	331 / 14	Kapil Dev	India
60	118 / 5	Guy de Alwis	Sri Lanka
61	91 / 4	Peter Taylor	Australia
62	68 / 3	Athar Ali Khan	Bangladesh
63	178 / 8	Tony Blain	New Zealand
64	66 / 3	Arshad Ayub	India
65	65 / 3	Phil DeFreitas	England
66	212 / 10	Allan Border	Australia
67	21 / 1	Trevor Franklin	New Zealand
67	42 / 2	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
67	42 / 2	Champaka Ramanayake	Sri Lanka
68	165 / 8	Woorkeri Raman	India
69	267 / 13	Ken Rutherford	New Zealand
70	41 / 2	Evan Gray	New Zealand
71	161 / 8	John Bracewell	New Zealand
72	258 / 13	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sri Lanka
73	130 / 7	Chris Kuggeleijn	New Zealand
74	37 / 2	Aminul Islam	Bangladesh
75	73 / 4	V.B.Chandrasekhar	India
76	18 / 1	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
77	53 / 3	Sanjeev Sharma	India
78	104 / 6	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
79	86 / 5	Manzoor Elahi	Pakistan
80	137 / 8	Saleem Yousuf	Pakistan
81	51 / 3	Eldine Baptiste	West Indies
82	101 / 6	Ian Smith	New Zealand
83	62 / 4	John Emburey	England
84	46 / 3	Roger Harper	West Indies
85	44 / 3	Vaughan Brown	New Zealand
86	72 / 5	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
87	43 / 3	Minhajul Abedin	Bangladesh
88	157 / 11	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
89	14 / 1	Faruque Ahmed	Bangladesh
89	42 / 3	Martyn Moxon	England
89	14 / 1	Maninder Singh	India
90	27 / 2	Ian Healy	Australia
91	106 / 8	Dipak Patel	New Zealand
92	77 / 6	Graeme Labrooy	Sri Lanka
93	25 / 2	Stu Gillespie	New Zealand
94	86 / 7	Kiran More	India
95	73 / 6	Greg Dyer	Australia
96	99 / 9	Craig McDermott	Australia
96	11 / 1	Shaul Karnain	Sri Lanka
96	11 / 1	Haafiz Shahid	Pakistan
97	10 / 1	Winston Davis	West Indies
98	27 / 3	Naved Anjum	Pakistan
98	9 / 1	Robin Smith	England
99	70 / 8	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
100	17 / 2	Sajid Ali	Pakistan
101	16 / 2	Richard Reid	New Zealand
101	8 / 1	Raman Lamba	India
102	31 / 4	Aamer Malik	Pakistan
103	23 / 3	Gazi Ashraf	Bangladesh
104	38 / 5	Asoka de Silva	Sri Lanka
105	30 / 4	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan
106	34 / 5	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
107	13 / 2	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
108	24 / 4	Willie Watson	New Zealand
108	6 / 1	Kaushik Amalean	Sri Lanka
108	6 / 1	Zahid Razzak	Bangladesh
109	28 / 5	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
110	11 / 2	Sanath Kaluperuma	Sri Lanka
111	10 / 2	Tauseef Ahmed	Pakistan
111	5 / 1	Mike Whitney	Australia
112	14 / 3	Azhar Hossain	Bangladesh
113	8 / 2	Monte Lynch	England
113	12 / 3	Winston Benjamin	West Indies
113	4 / 1	Bill Athey	England
113	8 / 2	Sadanand Viswanath	India
114	3 / 1	Narendra Hirwani	India
114	6 / 2	David Williams	West Indies
115	2 / 1	Ranjith Madurasinghe	Sri Lanka
115	2 / 1	Bruce French	England
116	1 / 1	Sridharan Jeganathan	Sri Lanka