Best Average in 1998 for Test

Position	Best Average	Player Name	Team Name
1	10.67	Fazl-e-Akbar	Pakistan
2	12.82	Dion Nash	New Zealand
3	14.00	Dirk Viljoen	Zimbabwe
4	15.40	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
5	15.86	Jason Gillespie	Australia
6	16.10	Simon Doull	New Zealand
7	16.38	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
8	16.44	Dinanath Ramnarine	West Indies
9	17.47	Henry Olonga	Zimbabwe
10	18.47	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
11	18.75	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
12	19.00	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
13	19.39	Anil Kumble	India
14	19.64	Allan Donald	South Africa
15	20.20	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan
16	20.45	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
17	20.67	Jayantha Silva	Sri Lanka
17	20.67	Sachin Tendulkar	India
18	20.76	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
19	21.00	Franklyn Rose	West Indies
20	21.19	Niroshan Bandaratilleke	Sri Lanka
21	21.60	Alex Tudor	England
22	22.00	David Terbrugge	South Africa
23	22.50	Darren Lehmann	Australia
24	22.75	Sourav Ganguly	India
25	22.88	Angus Fraser	England
26	23.00	Ricky Ponting	Australia
27	23.14	Pommie Mbangwa	Zimbabwe
28	23.43	Glenn McGrath	Australia
29	23.53	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
30	25.50	Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
31	26.00	Shayne O'Connor	New Zealand
32	26.20	Stuart MacGill	Australia
33	26.50	Don Anurasiri	Sri Lanka
34	26.59	Javagal Srinath	India
35	27.43	Craig McMillan	New Zealand
36	27.50	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
37	27.68	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
38	28.60	Damien Fleming	Australia
39	28.75	Matthew Nicholson	Australia
40	29.25	Dean Headley	England
41	29.44	Carl Hooper	West Indies
42	29.58	Darren Gough	England
43	29.85	Andy Caddick	England
44	30.33	Alan Mullally	England
45	30.67	Adam Dale	Australia
46	31.43	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
47	31.50	Paul Wiseman	New Zealand
47	31.50	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
47	31.50	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
48	31.83	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
49	32.11	Paul Strang	Zimbabwe
50	33.00	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan
50	33.00	Mohammad Hussain	Pakistan
50	33.00	Peter Such	England
51	33.17	Shane Warne	Australia
52	33.71	Colin Miller	Australia
53	33.82	Paul Adams	South Africa
54	34.12	Lance Klusener	South Africa
55	34.75	Shakil Ahmed	Pakistan
56	35.30	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka
57	35.44	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan
58	35.80	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
59	36.21	Dominic Cork	England
60	36.36	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
61	36.86	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
62	37.00	Michael Bevan	Australia
63	37.10	Nixon McLean	West Indies
64	37.86	Neil Johnson	Zimbabwe
65	38.56	Guy Whittall	Zimbabwe
66	39.25	Steve Waugh	Australia
67	39.50	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
68	39.62	Gavin Robertson	Australia
69	40.00	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka
70	40.13	Michael Kasprowicz	Australia
71	40.33	Paul Reiffel	Australia
72	42.60	Arshad Khan	Pakistan
73	43.14	Venkatapathy Raju	India
74	44.86	Harbhajan Singh	India
75	45.06	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan
76	46.50	Venkatesh Prasad	India
77	46.77	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan
78	49.00	Nathan Astle	New Zealand
78	49.00	Harvinder Singh	India
79	50.00	Ajit Agarkar	India
79	50.00	Ruwan Kalpage	Sri Lanka
80	52.25	Greg Blewett	Australia
81	52.50	Mark Ealham	England
82	54.33	Ian Bishop	West Indies
83	55.33	Kenny Benjamin	West Indies
84	55.67	Adam Huckle	Zimbabwe
85	56.33	Bryan Strang	Zimbabwe
86	57.00	Rajesh Chauhan	India
87	58.00	Ben Hollioake	England
88	58.33	Pat Symcox	South Africa
89	59.50	Robert Croft	England
90	59.75	Mark Ramprakash	England
91	62.57	Phil Tufnell	England
92	63.67	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
93	66.00	Mark Priest	New Zealand
94	66.40	Mark Waugh	Australia
95	79.00	Steve Elworthy	South Africa
96	80.00	Mervyn Dillon	West Indies
96	80.00	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan
97	92.50	Andy Whittall	Zimbabwe
98	99.00	Chris Harris	New Zealand
99	106.00	Ashley Giles	England
100	112.00	Andrew Flintoff	England
101	126.00	Suresh Perera	Sri Lanka
102	154.00	Andy Bichel	Australia
103	192.00	Ian Salisbury	England
104	194.00	Brian McMillan	South Africa
105	225.00	Rawl Lewis	West Indies