Best Averages in 1996 for all time

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	155 / 2	Ali Brown	England
2	266 / 4	Greg Blewett	Australia
3	354 / 6	John Crawley	England
4	1370 / 24	Daryll Cullinan	South Africa
5	1236 / 22	Steve Waugh	Australia
6	2296 / 41	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
7	1832 / 33	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
8	608 / 11	Nasser Hussain	England
9	361 / 7	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
10	560 / 11	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
11	2234 / 44	Sachin Tendulkar	India
12	203 / 4	Mohammad Wasim	Pakistan
13	705 / 14	Nick Knight	England
14	1261 / 26	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
15	773 / 16	Sourav Ganguly	India
16	48 / 1	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
17	1289 / 27	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
18	1330 / 28	Andrew Hudson	South Africa
19	467 / 10	Carl Hooper	West Indies
20	1391 / 30	Mark Waugh	Australia
21	1196 / 26	Alec Stewart	England
22	1772 / 39	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
23	918 / 21	Brian Lara	West Indies
24	130 / 3	Sanjeeva Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
25	1167 / 27	Graham Thorpe	England
26	907 / 21	Michael Bevan	Australia
27	171 / 4	Junior Murray	West Indies
28	128 / 3	Matthew Elliott	Australia
29	758 / 18	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
30	168 / 4	Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk	Netherlands
30	84 / 2	Shaukat Dukanwala	United Arab Emirates
30	924 / 22	Adam Parore	New Zealand
31	1422 / 35	Mohammad Azharuddin	India
32	688 / 17	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
33	1165 / 29	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand
34	80 / 2	Adam Bacher	South Africa
35	1233 / 31	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan
36	78 / 2	David Boon	Australia
37	778 / 20	Sherwin Campbell	West Indies
38	620 / 16	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
39	991 / 26	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe
40	417 / 11	Phil Simmons	West Indies
41	1174 / 31	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
42	481 / 13	Dave Houghton	Zimbabwe
42	37 / 1	Shahid Anwar	Pakistan
43	1129 / 31	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
44	728 / 20	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
45	959 / 27	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
46	71 / 2	Mohammad Ishaq	United Arab Emirates
47	805 / 23	Ajay Jadeja	India
47	280 / 8	Robin Smith	England
48	137 / 4	Saleem Raza	United Arab Emirates
49	911 / 27	Rahul Dravid	India
50	905 / 27	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
51	896 / 27	Ricky Ponting	Australia
52	1026 / 31	Mark Taylor	Australia
53	198 / 6	Neil Fairbrother	England
53	66 / 2	Arshad Laeeq	United Arab Emirates
54	692 / 21	Ian Healy	Australia
55	590 / 18	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
56	262 / 8	Vinod Kambli	India
57	814 / 25	Romesh Kaluwitharana	Sri Lanka
58	65 / 2	Paras Mhambrey	India
59	194 / 6	Roland Holder	West Indies
60	160 / 5	Peter Cantrell	Netherlands
61	510 / 16	Roshan Mahanama	Sri Lanka
62	189 / 6	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
63	942 / 30	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
64	282 / 9	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
65	595 / 19	Lee Germon	New Zealand
66	593 / 19	Stuart Law	Australia
67	838 / 27	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
68	216 / 7	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
69	797 / 26	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe
70	153 / 5	Lance Klusener	South Africa
71	121 / 4	Mark Ealham	England
72	815 / 27	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
73	482 / 16	Navjot Sidhu	India
74	873 / 29	Mike Atherton	England
75	120 / 4	Flavian Aponso	Netherlands
75	90 / 3	Johanne Samarasekera	United Arab Emirates
76	559 / 19	Roger Twose	New Zealand
77	615 / 21	Graeme Hick	England
78	145 / 5	Ronnie Irani	England
79	719 / 25	Moin Khan	Pakistan
80	84 / 3	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
81	670 / 24	Craig Spearman	New Zealand
82	279 / 10	Andy Waller	Zimbabwe
83	110 / 4	Ali Shah	Zimbabwe
84	246 / 9	Bryan Young	New Zealand
85	191 / 7	Rashid Latif	Pakistan
86	245 / 9	Zahoor Elahi	Pakistan
87	27 / 1	Craig Matthews	South Africa
87	54 / 2	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
87	270 / 10	Michael Slater	Australia
88	268 / 10	Robert Samuels	West Indies
89	534 / 20	Sanjay Manjrekar	India
90	79 / 3	Richard Snell	South Africa
91	183 / 7	Dipak Chudasama	Kenya
92	78 / 3	Roland Lefebvre	Netherlands
93	492 / 19	Brian McMillan	South Africa
94	129 / 5	Chris Lewis	England
95	128 / 5	Shane Thomson	New Zealand
96	127 / 5	Azam Khan	Pakistan
97	329 / 13	Pat Symcox	South Africa
98	177 / 7	Hitesh Modi	Kenya
99	174 / 7	Kennedy Otieno	Kenya
100	344 / 14	Jack Russell	England
101	24 / 1	Martin Suji	Kenya
101	288 / 12	Shahid Afridi
102	282 / 12	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
103	634 / 27	Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe
104	210 / 9	Justin Vaughan	New Zealand
105	256 / 11	David Richardson	South Africa
106	93 / 4	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan
107	462 / 20	Chris Harris	New Zealand
108	92 / 4	Asif Mujtaba	Pakistan
109	91 / 4	Bas Zuiderent	Netherlands
110	721 / 32	Nayan Mongia	India
111	45 / 2	Min Patel	England
111	90 / 4	Tim de Leede	Netherlands
112	89 / 4	Woorkeri Raman	India
113	221 / 10	Craig Evans	Zimbabwe
114	22 / 1	Peter McIntyre	Australia
115	65 / 3	Simon Doull	New Zealand
115	130 / 6	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
116	43 / 2	Sandeep Gupta	Kenya
117	150 / 7	Stuart Carlisle	Zimbabwe
118	170 / 8	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
119	276 / 13	Dipak Patel	New Zealand
120	126 / 6	Saleem Elahi	Pakistan
120	42 / 2	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
121	249 / 12	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
122	124 / 6	Phil DeFreitas	England
123	60 / 3	Mark Ramprakash	England
123	40 / 2	Basit Ali	Pakistan
123	160 / 8	Mark Greatbatch	New Zealand
124	99 / 5	Mazhar Hussain	United Arab Emirates
125	97 / 5	Stuart Williams	Zimbabwe
126	504 / 26	Guy Whittall	Zimbabwe
127	135 / 7	Maurice Odumbe	Kenya
128	77 / 4	VVS Laxman	India
129	76 / 4	Aashish Kapoor	India
129	19 / 1	Eric Gouka	Netherlands
130	94 / 5	Matthew Maynard	England
131	241 / 13	Paul Reiffel	Australia
132	399 / 22	Anil Kumble	India
133	162 / 9	Shane Warne	Australia
133	18 / 1	Adam Gilchrist	Australia
133	36 / 2	Ganesh Mylvaganam	United Arab Emirates
134	179 / 10	Craig Wishart	Zimbabwe
135	89 / 5	Shadab Kabir	Pakistan
136	230 / 13	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
137	53 / 3	Glenn McGrath	Australia
138	88 / 5	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
139	139 / 8	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan
140	121 / 7	Derek Crookes	South Africa
141	207 / 12	Ian Bishop	West Indies
142	34 / 2	John Rennie	Zimbabwe
142	17 / 1	Graham Lloyd	England
143	84 / 5	Eddo Brandes	Zimbabwe
144	67 / 4	Sean Davies	Zimbabwe
145	100 / 6	Neil Smith	England
145	50 / 3	Nolan Clarke	Netherlands
145	50 / 3	Ian Salisbury	England
146	233 / 14	Vikram Rathour	India
147	83 / 5	Thomas Odoyo	Kenya
148	49 / 3	Marcel Schewe	Netherlands
149	163 / 10	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
150	16 / 1	Craig McDermott	Australia
151	267 / 17	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
152	46 / 3	Saeed Azad	Pakistan
153	122 / 8	Craig White	England
154	395 / 26	Javagal Srinath	India
155	45 / 3	Robert Kennedy	New Zealand
155	150 / 10	Roger Harper	West Indies
155	45 / 3	Chandika Hathurusingha	Sri Lanka
156	194 / 13	Courtney Browne	West Indies
157	88 / 6	Ottis Gibson	West Indies
157	44 / 3	Vijay Mehra	United Arab Emirates
158	211 / 15	Sunil Joshi	India
159	28 / 2	Adam Hollioake	England
159	42 / 3	Shahid Nazir	Pakistan
159	42 / 3	Aasif Karim	Kenya
160	55 / 4	Steve Palframan	South Africa
161	27 / 2	Lameck Onyango	Kenya
161	27 / 2	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
162	186 / 14	Dominic Cork	England
163	140 / 11	Mark Dekker	Zimbabwe
164	50 / 4	Upul Chandana	Sri Lanka
164	50 / 4	Dermot Reeve	England
165	12 / 1	Justin Langer	Australia
165	60 / 5	Alan Mullally	England
166	47 / 4	Robert Croft	England
167	58 / 5	Azhar Saeed	United Arab Emirates
168	56 / 5	Hasan Raza	Pakistan
169	123 / 11	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
170	99 / 9	Bryan Strang	Zimbabwe
170	11 / 1	Manjula Munasinghe	Sri Lanka
170	55 / 5	Allan Donald	South Africa
170	11 / 1	Simon Brown	England
170	11 / 1	Mike Watkinson	England
170	11 / 1	Tom Moody	Australia
170	11 / 1	Phil Tufnell	England
171	43 / 4	Brad Hogg	Australia
171	129 / 12	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
172	102 / 10	Darren Gough	England
173	61 / 6	Tito Odumbe	Kenya
174	30 / 3	Jason Gillespie	Australia
175	38 / 4	Mohammad Aslam	United Arab Emirates
176	65 / 7	Peter Martin	England
177	46 / 5	Gavin Larsen	New Zealand
178	9 / 1	Narendra Hirwani	India
178	9 / 1	Everton Matambanadzo	Zimbabwe
178	9 / 1	Stephen Peall	Zimbabwe
178	9 / 1	Rajindra Dhanraj	West Indies
178	27 / 3	Nicky Boje	South Africa
179	53 / 6	Paul Adams	South Africa
180	17 / 2	Ata-ur-Rehman	Pakistan
180	17 / 2	Darren Lehmann	Australia
180	17 / 2	Tariq Iqbal	Kenya
181	42 / 5	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka
182	41 / 5	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan
183	80 / 10	Venkatesh Prasad	India
183	16 / 2	Sujith Somasunder	India
183	8 / 1	Pankaj Dharmani	India
183	8 / 1	Sajeewa de Silva	Sri Lanka
183	32 / 4	Andy Whittall	Zimbabwe
183	8 / 1	Charlie Lock	Zimbabwe
183	24 / 3	Steven Lubbers	Netherlands
184	15 / 2	Prashant Vaidya	India
184	15 / 2	Shane Lee	Australia
185	29 / 4	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
186	7 / 1	Nixon McLean	West Indies
186	14 / 2	Tony Suji	Kenya
186	7 / 1	Richard Illingworth	England
186	21 / 3	Robin Singh	India
187	13 / 2	Ridley Jacobs	West Indies
187	13 / 2	Pommie Mbangwa	Zimbabwe
188	19 / 3	Dion Nash	New Zealand
189	6 / 1	Angus Fraser	England
189	6 / 1	Gavin Rennie	Zimbabwe
189	42 / 7	Kenny Benjamin	West Indies
190	16 / 3	Sultan Zarawani	United Arab Emirates
191	5 / 1	Matthew Hayden	Australia
191	5 / 1	Damien Fleming	Australia
192	14 / 3	Henry Olonga	Zimbabwe
193	4 / 1	Imtiaz Abbasi	United Arab Emirates
193	4 / 1	Andy Caddick	England
193	8 / 2	David Johnson	India
193	4 / 1	Greg Loveridge	New Zealand
194	11 / 3	Manoj Prabhakar	India
194	11 / 3	Ruwan Kalpage	Sri Lanka
195	3 / 1	Philo Wallace	West Indies
195	6 / 2	Laurie Williams	West Indies
196	1 / 1	Patterson Thompson	West Indies
196	1 / 1	Adrian Griffith	West Indies
196	1 / 1	Gary Brent	Zimbabwe
196	2 / 2	Keith Arthurton	West Indies
196	1 / 1	Cameron Cuffy	West Indies
196	1 / 1	Devon Malcolm	England
196	1 / 1	Chris Silverwood	England