Best Averages in 1998 for all time

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	2541 / 37	Sachin Tendulkar	India
2	971 / 15	Michael Bevan	Australia
3	1112 / 18	Mark Taylor	Australia
4	60 / 1	Suresh Perera	Sri Lanka
5	119 / 2	Keith Arthurton	West Indies
6	58 / 1	Dale Benkenstein	South Africa
7	115 / 2	Gagan Khoda	India
8	620 / 11	Justin Langer	Australia
9	56 / 1	Neil Fairbrother	England
10	53 / 1	Derek Crookes	South Africa
11	927 / 18	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
12	1738 / 34	Mohammad Azharuddin	India
13	1791 / 36	Mark Waugh	Australia
14	1042 / 21	Mark Ramprakash	England
15	1182 / 24	Jonty Rhodes	South Africa
16	1311 / 27	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka
17	1649 / 34	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
18	1492 / 31	Steve Waugh	Australia
19	1299 / 27	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
20	1731 / 36	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
21	673 / 14	Nick Knight	England
22	190 / 4	Maurice Odumbe	Kenya
23	994 / 21	Brian Lara	West Indies
24	189 / 4	Aminul Islam	Bangladesh
25	1036 / 22	Ajay Jadeja	India
26	46 / 1	Saleem Elahi	Pakistan
27	1277 / 28	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand
28	179 / 4	Hitesh Modi	Kenya
29	1295 / 29	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
30	1376 / 31	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
31	1548 / 35	Ricky Ponting	Australia
32	570 / 13	Ian Healy	Australia
33	1506 / 35	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
34	1546 / 36	Alec Stewart	England
35	1458 / 34	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe
36	213 / 5	Ravi Shah	Kenya
37	1266 / 31	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
38	1427 / 35	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe
39	407 / 10	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
40	719 / 18	Michael Slater	Australia
41	1597 / 40	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
42	1595 / 40	Sourav Ganguly	India
43	316 / 8	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka
44	1526 / 39	Murray Goodwin	Zimbabwe
45	1055 / 27	Nasser Hussain	England
46	467 / 12	Clayton Lambert	West Indies
47	543 / 14	Philo Wallace	West Indies
48	831 / 22	Adam Gilchrist	Australia
49	604 / 16	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
50	477 / 13	Neil Johnson	Zimbabwe
51	1172 / 32	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
52	689 / 19	Carl Hooper	West Indies
53	866 / 24	Mike Atherton	England
54	684 / 19	Mark Butcher	England
54	72 / 2	Steve Elworthy	South Africa
55	179 / 5	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
56	425 / 12	Robin Singh	India
57	1092 / 31	Daryll Cullinan	South Africa
58	492 / 14	Graham Thorpe	England
59	875 / 25	Darren Lehmann	Australia
60	696 / 20	Navjot Sidhu	India
61	554 / 16	Graeme Hick	England
62	900 / 26	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
63	376 / 11	Mohammad Wasim	Pakistan
64	951 / 28	Craig McMillan	New Zealand
65	696 / 21	Rahul Dravid	India
66	882 / 27	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
67	321 / 10	Mike Rindel	South Africa
68	64 / 2	Andy Bichel	Australia
68	32 / 1	Naved Ashraf	Pakistan
69	714 / 23	Adam Parore	New Zealand
70	62 / 2	Athar Ali Khan	Bangladesh
70	62 / 2	Ian Bishop	West Indies
71	864 / 28	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan
72	516 / 17	Pat Symcox	South Africa
73	182 / 6	Brian McMillan	South Africa
73	91 / 3	Bryan Strang	Zimbabwe
74	180 / 6	Ridley Jacobs	West Indies
74	180 / 6	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
74	330 / 11	Dion Nash	New Zealand
75	89 / 3	Vinod Kambli	India
76	1174 / 40	Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe
77	469 / 16	Chris Harris	New Zealand
78	812 / 28	Moin Khan	Pakistan
79	457 / 16	Lance Klusener	South Africa
80	114 / 4	Damien Fleming	Australia
81	28 / 1	Arshad Khan	Pakistan
81	252 / 9	John Crawley	England
81	28 / 1	Nicky Boje	South Africa
81	420 / 15	Gavin Rennie	Zimbabwe
82	885 / 32	Romesh Kaluwitharana	Sri Lanka
83	55 / 2	Roland Holder	West Indies
84	273 / 10	Adam Hollioake	England
85	680 / 25	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan
86	54 / 2	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
87	532 / 20	Matt Horne	New Zealand
88	132 / 5	Khaled Mahmud	Bangladesh
89	287 / 11	Llorne Howell	New Zealand
90	78 / 3	Dipak Chudasama	Kenya
90	156 / 6	Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh
90	26 / 1	Chris Lewis	England
91	284 / 11	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
92	436 / 17	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
93	178 / 7	Gavin Robertson	Australia
93	178 / 7	VVS Laxman	India
94	127 / 5	Stuart MacGill	Australia
95	76 / 3	Naimur Rahman	Bangladesh
96	622 / 25	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
97	323 / 13	Adam Bacher	South Africa
98	370 / 15	Stuart Williams	Zimbabwe
99	98 / 4	David Williams	West Indies
99	49 / 2	Hasan Raza	Pakistan
100	414 / 17	Roshan Mahanama	Sri Lanka
101	73 / 3	Minhajul Abedin	Bangladesh
102	121 / 5	Mohammad Hussain	Pakistan
103	48 / 2	Manzoor Akhtar	Pakistan
103	24 / 1	Gary Brent	Zimbabwe
104	71 / 3	Steve James	England
105	236 / 10	Robert Croft	England
106	93 / 4	Ian Harvey	Australia
106	186 / 8	Upul Chandana	Sri Lanka
107	418 / 18	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
108	551 / 24	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
109	549 / 24	Craig Wishart	Zimbabwe
110	477 / 21	Guy Whittall	Zimbabwe
111	465 / 21	Shahid Afridi
112	265 / 12	Hrishikesh Kanitkar	India
113	306 / 14	Bryan Young	New Zealand
114	87 / 4	Andrew Hudson	South Africa
115	65 / 3	Avishka Gunawardene	Sri Lanka
116	108 / 5	Ali Brown	England
117	512 / 24	Nayan Mongia	India
118	187 / 9	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
119	186 / 9	Gerhardus Liebenberg	South Africa
119	124 / 6	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
120	247 / 12	Tom Moody	Australia
121	82 / 4	Adam Huckle	Zimbabwe
122	81 / 4	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan
123	161 / 8	HD Ackerman	South Africa
124	258 / 13	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
125	217 / 11	Anil Kumble	India
126	59 / 3	Ruwan Kalpage	Sri Lanka
127	427 / 22	Mark Boucher	South Africa
128	19 / 1	Dinanath Ramnarine	West Indies
129	113 / 6	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
130	188 / 10	Shane Warne	Australia
131	93 / 5	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan
132	130 / 7	Jack Russell	England
133	184 / 10	Javagal Srinath	India
134	55 / 3	Dougie Brown	England
135	73 / 4	Rawl Lewis	West Indies
136	36 / 2	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka
136	198 / 11	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka
136	36 / 2	John Rennie	Zimbabwe
136	54 / 3	Jatin Paranjpe	India
137	161 / 9	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
138	212 / 12	Mark Ealham	England
139	69 / 4	Junior Murray	West Indies
140	51 / 3	Thomas Odoyo	Kenya
140	17 / 1	Alex Tait	New Zealand
140	17 / 1	Andrew Flintoff	England
141	248 / 15	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
142	33 / 2	Daren Ganga	West Indies
142	132 / 8	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
143	97 / 6	Matthew Fleming	England
144	80 / 5	Eddo Brandes	Zimbabwe
145	79 / 5	Akram Khan	Bangladesh
146	125 / 8	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
147	62 / 4	Kennedy Otieno	Kenya
147	31 / 2	Brad Young	Australia
148	123 / 8	Greg Blewett	Australia
149	61 / 4	Nikhil Chopra	India
149	61 / 4	Ali Naqvi	Pakistan
149	61 / 4	Dirk Viljoen	Zimbabwe
150	76 / 5	Phil Simmons	West Indies
151	30 / 2	Tony Suji	Kenya
151	105 / 7	Rashid Latif	Pakistan
151	15 / 1	Shayne O'Connor	New Zealand
151	15 / 1	Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh
151	45 / 3	Simon Doull	New Zealand
152	133 / 9	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
153	44 / 3	Matthew Elliott	Australia
154	29 / 2	Brendon Julian	Australia
154	29 / 2	Ian Austin	England
155	86 / 6	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
156	186 / 13	Ajit Agarkar	India
157	114 / 8	Damien Martyn	Australia
158	28 / 2	Chris Adams	England
158	14 / 1	Asif Mahmood	Pakistan
158	14 / 1	Akhtar Sarfraz	Pakistan
159	69 / 5	Ben Hollioake	England
160	55 / 4	Paul Wiseman	New Zealand
161	189 / 14	Craig Evans	Zimbabwe
162	79 / 6	Sherwin Campbell	West Indies
163	26 / 2	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
164	167 / 13	Allan Donald	South Africa
165	152 / 12	Dominic Cork	England
166	100 / 8	Nixon McLean	West Indies
167	61 / 5	Stuart Law	Australia
168	182 / 15	Andy Whittall	Zimbabwe
169	24 / 2	Ashley Giles	England
170	23 / 2	Mervyn Dillon	West Indies
171	57 / 5	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
171	57 / 5	Paul Reiffel	Australia
172	11 / 1	Jason Gillespie	Australia
172	165 / 15	Angus Fraser	England
172	22 / 2	Sanwar Hossain	Bangladesh
172	66 / 6	Craig Spearman	New Zealand
172	33 / 3	David Richardson	South Africa
173	54 / 5	Sunil Joshi	India
174	21 / 2	Jimmy Maher	Australia
174	42 / 4	Glenn McGrath	Australia
174	21 / 2	Javed Omar	Bangladesh
174	21 / 2	Chandika Hathurusingha	Sri Lanka
175	52 / 5	Niroshan Bandaratilleke	Sri Lanka
176	31 / 3	Khaled Mashud	Bangladesh
177	20 / 2	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka
177	10 / 1	Shariful Haque	Bangladesh
178	29 / 3	Ian Salisbury	England
179	38 / 4	Mark Priest	New Zealand
180	9 / 1	Floyd Reifer	West Indies
180	45 / 5	Paul Adams	South Africa
181	26 / 3	Trevor Madondo	Zimbabwe
182	17 / 2	Colin Miller	Australia
183	116 / 14	Darren Gough	England
184	89 / 11	Dean Headley	England
185	8 / 1	Debasis Mohanty	India
185	8 / 1	Saba Karim	India
185	8 / 1	Rahul Sanghvi	India
185	8 / 1	Sanjay Raul	India
185	24 / 3	Aasif Karim	Kenya
185	16 / 2	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
186	30 / 4	Harbhajan Singh	India
186	15 / 2	Mohammad Zahid	Pakistan
187	59 / 8	Venkatesh Prasad	India
188	22 / 3	Matthew Bell	New Zealand
188	22 / 3	Alan Mullally	England
189	7 / 1	Fazl-e-Akbar	Pakistan
189	14 / 2	Matthew Nicholson	Australia
189	7 / 1	Reon King	West Indies
189	7 / 1	Kenny Benjamin	West Indies
190	34 / 5	Hasibul Hossain	Bangladesh
191	19 / 3	Andy Caddick	England
192	12 / 2	Sairaj Bahutule	India
192	6 / 1	Mehrab Hossain	Bangladesh
192	12 / 2	Warren Hegg	England
193	11 / 2	Phil Tufnell	England
193	11 / 2	Adam Dale	Australia
193	11 / 2	Martin Suji	Kenya
194	5 / 1	Naveed Nawaz	Sri Lanka
194	5 / 1	Kabir Khan	Pakistan
195	4 / 1	Enamul Haque	Bangladesh
195	4 / 1	Paul Wilson	Australia
195	4 / 1	Harvinder Singh	India
195	16 / 4	Henry Olonga	Zimbabwe
196	27 / 7	Pommie Mbangwa	Zimbabwe
197	7 / 2	Venkatapathy Raju	India
198	3 / 1	Rajesh Chauhan	India
198	3 / 1	Geoff Allott	New Zealand
198	3 / 1	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan
198	3 / 1	Joseph Angara	Kenya
198	3 / 1	Azam Khan	Pakistan
198	3 / 1	Russel Arnold	Sri Lanka
199	5 / 2	Peter Martin	England
200	2 / 1	Lameck Onyango	Kenya
201	1 / 1	Laurie Williams	West Indies
201	1 / 1	Darren Maddy	England
201	1 / 1	Shahriar Hossain	Bangladesh
201	1 / 1	Shakil Ahmed	Pakistan