Best Average in 1989: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the best average in 1989, featuring the most impactful players of the year.
ALL FORMATS198988 entries
116.56Mike WhitneyAUS3.24 clear of Peter Sleep
219.80Peter SleepAUS3.24 off the lead
320.17Ian BishopWI3.61 off the lead
● LEADS
Mike WhitneyAUS
16.56 · 3.24 better than Sleep
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Whitney is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
26.00
The mark at number ten — 78 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
11 of the top 50 · 8 teams represented

Best Average — full list

88 entries, ranked
1Mike WhitneyAUS16.56
2Peter SleepAUS19.80
3Ian BishopWI20.17
4Terry AldermanAUS20.28
5Allan BorderAUS20.56
6Sir Richard HadleeNZ20.70
7Wasim AkramPAK23.35
8Malcolm MarshallWI23.65
9Simon O'DonnellAUS24.56
10Courtney WalshWI26.00
11Saleem JaffarPAK26.83
12Kapil DevIND26.91
13Martin SneddenNZ27.22
14Asanka GurusinhaSL27.60
15Aamer MalikPAK28.33
16Sir Curtly AmbroseWI28.36
17Manoj PrabhakarIND28.48
18Peter TaylorAUS29.31
19Danny MorrisonNZ29.53
20Imran NiaziBHR29.59
21Merv HughesAUS30.00
22Waqar YounisPAK30.44
23Neil FosterENG30.61
24Carl RackemannAUS30.67
25Vivek RazdanIND31.17
26Shoaib MohammadPAK31.43
27Geoff LawsonAUS31.51
28Craig McDermottAUS32.60
29Winston BenjaminWI32.75
30Trevor HohnsAUS34.12
31John EmbureyENG34.36
32Ajay SharmaIND34.67
33Gary RobertsonNZ35.00
34Aaqib JavedPAK35.30
35Rumesh RatnayakeSL35.89
36Salil AnkolaIND36.20
37Graham GoochENG37.17
38Naved AnjumPAK37.25
39Aravinda de SilvaSL37.38
40Sir Viv RichardsWI37.38
41Mushtaq AhmedPAK37.92
42Gladstone SmallENG38.27
43Abdul QadirPAK39.03
44Mudassar NazarPAK40.00
45Kapila WijegunawardeneSL40.57
46Ravi RatnayekeSL41.83
47Robert HaynesWI42.00
48Angus FraserENG42.08
49Carl HooperWI42.60
50Phil DeFreitasENG43.25
51Akram RazaPAK43.80
52Tim MayAUS45.00
53Nick CookENG46.43
54Graeme LabrooySL47.56
55Alan IgglesdenENG48.67
56Eldine BaptisteWI49.00
57Greg CampbellAUS51.00
58Arjuna RanatungaSL51.29
59Arshad AyubIND51.36
60Chetan SharmaIND52.27
61David CapelENG53.80
62Zakir KhanPAK54.50
63Ravi ShastriIND58.29
64Tom MoodyAUS59.50
65Derek PringleENG61.00
66Maninder SinghIND61.20
67Mohinder AmarnathIND61.33
68Narendra HirwaniIND61.57
69Tauseef AhmedPAK62.29
70Champaka RamanayakeSL63.00
71Graham DilleyENG63.60
72Shahid MahboobPAK65.50
73Kris SrikkanthIND65.75
74Asoka de SilvaSL69.29
75Sir Ian BothamENG70.80
76Steve WaughAUS71.73
77Eddie HemmingsENG80.00
78Phil NewportENG87.50
79Willie WatsonENG100.33
80John BracewellNZ130.50
81Shahid SaeedPAK132.00
82Ewen ChatfieldNZ138.00
83Paul JarvisENG145.00
84Dipak PatelNZ149.00
85Devon MalcolmENG166.00
86Chris KuggeleijnNZ184.00
87Patrick PattersonWI209.00
88Stephen BoockNZ229.00
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