Best Average in 1997 for Test

Position	Best Average	Player Name	Team Name
1	16.00	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
2	17.74	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
3	18.61	Phil Tufnell	England
4	20.29	Simon Cook	Australia
5	20.63	Jason Gillespie	Australia
6	21.00	Michael Bevan	Australia
7	21.29	Brett Schultz	South Africa
8	21.38	Glenn McGrath	Australia
9	23.18	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
10	23.19	Adam Huckle	Zimbabwe
11	23.88	Mark Ealham	England
12	24.00	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
13	24.43	Shane Warne	Australia
14	24.91	Darren Gough	England
15	24.97	Allan Donald	South Africa
16	25.00	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
17	25.25	Andy Caddick	England
18	25.38	Heath Davis	New Zealand
19	25.85	Paul Reiffel	Australia
20	26.35	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
21	26.78	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
22	27.50	Adam Hollioake	England
23	27.55	Simon Doull	New Zealand
24	27.75	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan
24	27.75	Dean Headley	England
25	28.56	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
26	28.78	Mervyn Dillon	West Indies
27	28.83	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
28	29.00	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
29	29.33	Steve Waugh	Australia
30	29.63	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
31	30.00	Bryan Strang	Zimbabwe
32	30.09	Sunil Joshi	India
33	30.53	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
34	30.56	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
35	30.75	Ian Bishop	West Indies
36	31.44	Pat Symcox	South Africa
37	31.65	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
38	31.82	Javagal Srinath	India
39	33.39	Robert Croft	England
40	33.62	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
41	34.00	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan
41	34.00	Alan Mullally	England
42	34.23	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
43	34.67	Danny Morrison	New Zealand
44	35.35	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
45	35.68	Abey Kuruvilla	India
46	36.00	Ali Hussain Rizvi	Pakistan
47	38.07	Shayne O'Connor	New Zealand
48	38.14	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka
49	38.33	Paul Adams	South Africa
50	38.50	Craig White	England
51	38.56	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
52	39.50	Sourav Ganguly	India
53	40.25	Mark Waugh	Australia
54	41.33	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
55	41.50	Ben Hollioake	England
56	42.50	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
57	42.57	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
58	42.86	Dominic Cork	England
59	43.00	Craig McMillan	New Zealand
60	43.94	Anil Kumble	India
61	44.58	Lance Klusener	South Africa
62	46.07	Carl Hooper	West Indies
63	46.10	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
64	47.00	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
65	48.89	Rajesh Chauhan	India
66	48.92	Sajeewa de Silva	Sri Lanka
67	50.19	Venkatesh Prasad	India
68	51.17	Devon Malcolm	England
69	52.17	Dipak Patel	New Zealand
70	53.17	Brian McMillan	South Africa
71	53.25	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka
72	57.00	Justin Vaughan	New Zealand
73	57.40	Dodda Ganesh	India
74	58.00	Cameron Cuffy	West Indies
75	59.75	Debasis Mohanty	India
76	64.00	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
77	65.43	Geoff Allott	New Zealand
78	69.00	Shahid Nazir	Pakistan
79	72.00	Greg Blewett	Australia
80	72.50	Asif Mujtaba	Pakistan
81	74.00	Mohammad Zahid	Pakistan
82	76.00	Phil Simmons	West Indies
83	80.00	Patterson Thompson	West Indies
84	121.67	Jayantha Silva	Sri Lanka
85	139.00	Chris Harris	New Zealand
86	143.00	Andy Bichel	Australia
87	195.00	Nilesh Kulkarni	India