Best Averages in 2008 for all time

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	170 / 2	Fawad Alam	Pakistan
2	582 / 7	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka
3	1508 / 19	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
4	79 / 1	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
5	223 / 3	FA Klokker
6	2152 / 32	Graeme Smith	South Africa
7	197 / 3	Tim McIntosh	New Zealand
8	900 / 14	Ashwell Prince	South Africa
9	122 / 2	Chris Douglas	Bermuda
10	1073 / 18	Neil McKenzie	South Africa
11	712 / 12	Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa
12	592 / 10	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
13	972 / 17	Andrew Strauss	England
14	512 / 9	Malinda Warnapura	Sri Lanka
15	1021 / 18	Simon Katich	Australia
16	793 / 14	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
17	2262 / 40	Gautam Gambhir	India
18	1235 / 22	Chris Gayle	West Indies
19	949 / 17	Younis Khan	Pakistan
20	2355 / 43	Virender Sehwag	India
21	1529 / 28	Hashim Amla	South Africa
22	1020 / 19	Salman Butt	Pakistan
23	104 / 2	Brad Hodge	Australia
24	362 / 7	Shaun Marsh	Australia
24	1086 / 21	VVS Laxman	India
25	1556 / 31	AB de Villiers	South Africa
26	398 / 8	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand
27	149 / 3	Khurram Manzoor	Pakistan
28	99 / 2	Kyle Coetzer	Scotland
29	1523 / 31	Sachin Tendulkar	India
30	1522 / 31	Michael Hussey	Australia
31	245 / 5	Matthew Bell	New Zealand
32	1761 / 36	Kevin Pietersen	England
33	96 / 2	Yusuf Pathan	India
33	48 / 1	Muhammad Butt
33	96 / 2	Amjad Ali	United Arab Emirates
34	1097 / 23	Andrew Symonds	Australia
35	1571 / 33	Michael Clarke	Australia
36	1739 / 37	MS Dhoni	India
37	656 / 14	Owais Shah	England
38	277 / 6	Darron Reekers	Netherlands
39	230 / 5	James Marshall	New Zealand
40	680 / 15	Suresh Raina	India
41	311 / 7	Rizwan Cheema	Canada
42	1149 / 26	Yuvraj Singh	India
43	786 / 18	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan
43	131 / 3	Ryan ten Doeschate	Netherlands
44	783 / 18	Sourav Ganguly	India
45	343 / 8	Nasir Jamshed	Pakistan
46	1064 / 25	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies
47	807 / 19	Jacob Oram	New Zealand
48	209 / 5	Jehan Mubarak	Sri Lanka
49	250 / 6	Brendan Nash	West Indies
50	498 / 12	Andrew Flintoff	England
51	1312 / 32	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
52	204 / 5	Sean Williams	Zimbabwe
53	815 / 20	Jesse Ryder	New Zealand
54	1460 / 36	Ricky Ponting	Australia
55	1376 / 34	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
56	80 / 2	Khurram Khan	United Arab Emirates
57	1398 / 35	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
58	79 / 2	Navdeep Poonia	Scotland
59	1222 / 31	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
60	850 / 22	Matthew Hayden	Australia
61	575 / 15	Xavier Marshall	West Indies
62	1493 / 39	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand
63	38 / 1	Peter Connell	Ireland
64	150 / 4	Seren Waters	Kenya
65	1272 / 34	Ian Bell	England
66	112 / 3	Luke Ronchi	New Zealand
67	1114 / 30	Paul Collingwood	England
68	371 / 10	Phil Jaques	Australia
69	74 / 2	Murali Vijay	India
70	256 / 7	Matt Prior	England
71	640 / 18	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
72	454 / 13	Tatenda Taibu	Zimbabwe
73	977 / 28	Alastair Cook	England
74	277 / 8	Ryan Watson	Scotland
75	274 / 8	Eric Szwarczynski	Netherlands
75	137 / 4	David Hussey	Australia
76	34 / 1	Najeeb Amar	Hong Kong
77	779 / 23	Brad Haddin	Australia
78	235 / 7	Cameron White	Australia
79	134 / 4	Patrick Browne	West Indies
80	832 / 25	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
81	665 / 20	Chamara Kapugedera	Sri Lanka
82	165 / 5	Qasim Sheikh	Scotland
83	230 / 7	Kevin O'Brien	Ireland
84	838 / 26	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
85	805 / 25	Rahul Dravid	India
86	1249 / 39	Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh
87	159 / 5	Virat Kohli	India
88	724 / 23	Mark Boucher	South Africa
89	94 / 3	Dimitri Mascarenhas	England
90	125 / 4	Albie Morkel	South Africa
91	31 / 1	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
91	31 / 1	Mark Gillespie	New Zealand
92	493 / 16	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe
93	367 / 12	Kamran Akmal	Pakistan
94	243 / 8	Gavin Hamilton	England
95	455 / 15	Shane Watson	Australia
96	181 / 6	Brad Hogg	Australia
97	241 / 8	Tom de Grooth	Netherlands
98	326 / 11	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
99	385 / 13	Marlon Samuels	West Indies
100	59 / 2	Edgar Schiferli	Netherlands
101	323 / 11	Mahela Udawatte	Sri Lanka
102	439 / 15	Adam Gilchrist	Australia
103	204 / 7	Phil Mustard	England
103	204 / 7	Alex Obanda	Kenya
104	495 / 17	Shahriar Nafees	Bangladesh
105	232 / 8	Colin Smith	Scotland
106	1064 / 37	Jamie How	New Zealand
107	458 / 16	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
108	285 / 10	Abdool Samad	Canada
108	627 / 22	Daniel Flynn	New Zealand
109	283 / 10	Devon Smith	West Indies
110	505 / 18	Stuart Broad	England
111	28 / 1	Loots Bosman	South Africa
111	56 / 2	Ryan Haire	Ireland
112	363 / 13	Michael Vaughan	England
113	139 / 5	Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe
114	250 / 9	Steve Tikolo	Kenya
115	166 / 6	Jekon Edness	Bermuda
116	662 / 24	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies
117	826 / 30	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh
118	272 / 10	Gary Wilson	Ireland
119	407 / 15	Jerome Taylor	West Indies
120	27 / 1	Dwayne Leverock	Bermuda
120	297 / 11	Ravi Bopara	England
120	540 / 20	Rohit Sharma	India
120	27 / 1	Pragyan Ojha	India
121	320 / 12	Scott Styris	New Zealand
122	213 / 8	Mehrab Hossain jnr	Bangladesh
123	982 / 37	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh
124	53 / 2	Bazid Khan	Pakistan
125	370 / 14	Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka
126	211 / 8	Steven Outerbridge	Bermuda
127	79 / 3	Leon Johnson	West Indies
128	497 / 19	Raqibul Hasan	Bangladesh
129	26 / 1	Zain Abbas	Hong Kong
129	130 / 5	Grant Elliott	New Zealand
130	155 / 6	Kaushalya Weeraratne	Sri Lanka
131	206 / 8	Alok Kapali	Bangladesh
132	205 / 8	Ashish Bagai	Canada
133	128 / 5	Karun Jethi	Canada
134	102 / 4	Kyle McCallan	Ireland
135	101 / 4	Harvir Baidwan	Canada
136	251 / 10	Aftab Ahmed	Bangladesh
137	25 / 1	Irfan Ahmed	Hong Kong
138	299 / 12	Aaron Redmond	New Zealand
139	396 / 16	Irfan Pathan	India
140	146 / 6	Naeem Islam	Bangladesh
140	73 / 3	Paul Stirling	Ireland
141	316 / 13	Andre Botha	Ireland
142	243 / 10	Niall O'Brien	Ireland
143	581 / 24	Junaid Siddique	Bangladesh
144	410 / 17	Sewnarine Chattergoon	West Indies
145	24 / 1	Alviro Petersen	South Africa
145	336 / 14	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh
145	24 / 1	Johann Louw	South Africa
145	24 / 1	Paul Hitchcock	New Zealand
146	167 / 7	Shawn Findlay	West Indies
147	381 / 16	Tim Ambrose	England
148	71 / 3	Jason Krejza	Australia
148	142 / 6	Prasanna Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
149	47 / 2	Ryan Hinds	West Indies
149	47 / 2	Arshad Ali	United Arab Emirates
150	281 / 12	Mahmudullah	Bangladesh
151	398 / 17	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
152	163 / 7	Keith Dabengwa	Zimbabwe
153	116 / 5	Samit Patel	England
154	138 / 6	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka
155	114 / 5	Peter Borren	Netherlands
156	204 / 9	Andrew White	Ireland
157	45 / 2	Tabarak Dar	Hong Kong
158	134 / 6	Ishant Sharma	India
159	44 / 2	Gary Brent	Zimbabwe
159	44 / 2	Rawl Lewis	West Indies
160	65 / 3	Shoaib Khan	Oman
161	259 / 12	James Hopes	Australia
162	234 / 11	Luke Wright	England
163	276 / 13	Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka
164	42 / 2	Regis Chakabva	Zimbabwe
164	315 / 15	Shahid Afridi
165	434 / 21	Brett Lee	Australia
166	165 / 8	Paul Harris	South Africa
167	554 / 27	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh
168	41 / 2	Jamie Atkinson	Hong Kong
169	162 / 8	Irving Romaine	Bermuda
170	182 / 9	Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka
171	161 / 8	Alex Cusack	Ireland
172	20 / 1	Dave Langford-Smith	Ireland
172	20 / 1	David Hemp	Bermuda
172	20 / 1	Dolar Mahmud	Bangladesh
172	20 / 1	Munaf Patel	India
173	279 / 14	Chamu Chibhabha	Zimbabwe
174	219 / 11	Sunil Dhaniram	Canada
175	119 / 6	Chris Foggo	Bermuda
176	39 / 2	S Badrinath	India
176	156 / 8	Wasim Jaffer	India
177	58 / 3	Trent Johnston	Ireland
178	154 / 8	Tim Southee	New Zealand
179	230 / 12	Darren Sammy	West Indies
180	76 / 4	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka
180	38 / 2	Eion Katchay	Canada
180	76 / 4	Prosper Utseya	Zimbabwe
180	38 / 2	Iftikhar Anjum	Pakistan
180	19 / 1	Khalid Latif	Pakistan
181	374 / 20	Kyle Mills	New Zealand
182	260 / 14	Runako Morton	West Indies
183	74 / 4	Neil McCallum	Scotland
184	147 / 8	Mathew Sinclair	New Zealand
185	383 / 21	Denesh Ramdin	West Indies
186	127 / 7	Dhiman Ghosh	Bangladesh
187	72 / 4	Geoff Barnett	Canada
187	180 / 10	Robin Uthappa	India
187	162 / 9	Jimmy Kamande	Kenya
188	196 / 11	Michael Vandort	Sri Lanka
189	178 / 10	Dale Steyn	South Africa
189	89 / 5	Justin Ontong	South Africa
190	231 / 13	Anil Kumble	India
191	52 / 3	Peter Siddle	Australia
192	121 / 7	Ramesh David	Canada
193	69 / 4	David Obuya	Kenya
194	532 / 31	Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh
195	51 / 3	Eoin Morgan	England
195	493 / 29	Harbhajan Singh	India
195	51 / 3	Ragheb Aga	Kenya
195	170 / 10	Thomas Odoyo	Kenya
195	51 / 3	Thilina Kandamby	Sri Lanka
195	85 / 5	Richie Berrington	Scotland
196	101 / 6	Daan van Bunge	Netherlands
197	234 / 14	Elton Chigumbura	Zimbabwe
198	50 / 3	Andrew Poynter	Ireland
199	83 / 5	Rodney Trott	Bermuda
200	33 / 2	Vernon Philander	South Africa
200	132 / 8	Nazimuddin	Bangladesh
201	131 / 8	Reinhardt Strydom	Ireland
202	212 / 13	William Porterfield	Ireland
203	81 / 5	Stuart Clark	Australia
204	129 / 8	Kennedy Otieno	Kenya
205	16 / 1	Collins Obuya	Kenya
205	16 / 1	Maurits Jonkman	Netherlands
205	64 / 4	Andre Fletcher	West Indies
205	128 / 8	Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh
205	16 / 1	Roy Lamsam	Hong Kong
206	159 / 10	Vusi Sibanda	Zimbabwe
207	63 / 4	Steve Harmison	England
208	110 / 7	Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan
209	47 / 3	Craig Cumming	New Zealand
209	47 / 3	Dhammika Prasad	Sri Lanka
210	124 / 8	Ryan Sidebottom	England
211	137 / 9	Brenton Parchment	West Indies
212	91 / 6	Sulieman Benn	West Indies
212	91 / 6	Fidel Edwards	West Indies
213	151 / 10	James Anderson	England
214	15 / 1	Gary Kidd	Ireland
215	104 / 7	Johan Botha	South Africa
216	59 / 4	Sreesanth	India
216	59 / 4	Gareth Hopkins	New Zealand
216	59 / 4	Kieron Pollard	West Indies
217	44 / 3	John Davison	Canada
218	29 / 2	Saqib Ali	United Arab Emirates
218	29 / 2	Gregor Maiden	Scotland
219	28 / 2	Geert-Maarten Mol	Netherlands
219	14 / 1	Indika Batuwitarachchi	United Arab Emirates
219	28 / 2	Cephas Zhuwao	Zimbabwe
219	154 / 11	Stuart Matsikenyeri	Zimbabwe
219	42 / 3	Balaji Rao	Canada
219	14 / 1	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
219	42 / 3	Amit Mishra	India
220	149 / 11	Morris Ouma	Kenya
221	27 / 2	Umar Bhatti	Canada
222	106 / 8	Peter Fulton	New Zealand
223	26 / 2	Sarfraz Ahmed	Pakistan
223	26 / 2	Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh
223	39 / 3	Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka
223	39 / 3	Henk-Jan Mol	Netherlands
223	26 / 2	Mohammad Tauqir	United Arab Emirates
224	164 / 13	Zaheer Khan	India
225	25 / 2	Nikita Miller	West Indies
225	25 / 2	Lionel Cann	Bermuda
225	25 / 2	Sanjayan Thuraisingam	Canada
226	147 / 12	Morne Morkel	South Africa
227	73 / 6	Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh
228	24 / 2	Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh
228	12 / 1	Craig Wright	Scotland
229	59 / 5	RP Singh	India
230	23 / 2	Gordon Drummond	Scotland
230	46 / 4	Zeeshan Ali	Hong Kong
231	34 / 3	Oliver Pitcher	Bermuda
232	157 / 14	Daren Powell	West Indies
233	44 / 4	Dinesh Karthik	India
234	98 / 9	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh
235	21 / 2	Darren Pattinson	England
235	21 / 2	Ryan Steede	Bermuda
235	21 / 2	Fraser Watts	Scotland
236	31 / 3	James Franklin	New Zealand
236	31 / 3	Umar Gul	Pakistan
237	51 / 5	Jeetan Patel	New Zealand
238	10 / 1	Beau Casson	Australia
238	10 / 1	Amjad Javed	United Arab Emirates
239	39 / 4	Daren Ganga	West Indies
239	39 / 4	Carlton Baugh	West Indies
240	97 / 10	Farhad Reza	Bangladesh
241	58 / 6	Nehemiah Odhiambo	Kenya
242	48 / 5	Timycen Maruma	Zimbabwe
242	48 / 5	Mohammad Iqbal	Canada
243	67 / 7	Oronde Bascome	Bermuda
244	19 / 2	Sami Faridi	Canada
244	19 / 2	Chris Rogers	Australia
244	19 / 2	Jeevantha Kulatunga	Sri Lanka
245	92 / 10	Graeme Swann	England
246	18 / 2	Munir Dar	Hong Kong
246	9 / 1	William Perkins	West Indies
246	9 / 1	Rizwan Mahmood
246	27 / 3	E Ul Haq
246	36 / 4	John Blain	Scotland
247	35 / 4	Andre Nel	South Africa
248	26 / 3	Ian Billcliff	Canada
249	17 / 2	Nathan Bracken	Australia
249	17 / 2	Zeeshan Siddiqui	Oman
250	33 / 4	Jeroen Smits	Netherlands
251	49 / 6	Ashif Mulla	Canada
252	8 / 1	Trevin Bastiampillai	Canada
252	8 / 1	Skhawat Ali	Hong Kong
252	32 / 4	George O'Brien	Bermuda
252	24 / 3	Peter Ongondo	Kenya
253	31 / 4	Chris Martin	New Zealand
254	68 / 9	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
255	22 / 3	Qaiser Ali	Canada
255	22 / 3	Zubin Surkari	Canada
256	29 / 4	Hiren Varaiya	Kenya
257	7 / 1	Vikrant Shetty	United Arab Emirates
257	7 / 1	Shadeep Silva	United Arab Emirates
257	7 / 1	Abzal Dean	Canada
257	14 / 2	Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka
257	14 / 2	Parthiv Patel	India
257	35 / 5	Praveen Kumar	India
258	33 / 5	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
259	32 / 5	Mudassar Bukhari	Netherlands
260	19 / 3	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka
261	31 / 5	James Celestine	Bermuda
262	12 / 2	Piyush Chawla	India
262	12 / 2	Shaun Tait	Australia
262	18 / 3	Rakep Patel	Kenya
263	16 / 3	Nathan Hauritz	Australia
263	48 / 9	Monty Panesar	England
264	15 / 3	Mosharraf Hossain	Bangladesh
264	5 / 1	Rajesh Bhudia	Kenya
264	15 / 3	Tony Suji	Kenya
264	5 / 1	Naumanullah	Pakistan
264	5 / 1	Mansoor Amjad	Pakistan
264	10 / 2	Dewald Nel	Scotland
264	5 / 1	Nizel Fernandes	United Arab Emirates
265	14 / 3	Dilruwan Perera	Sri Lanka
266	9 / 2	Tawanda Mupariwa	Zimbabwe
267	37 / 9	Iain O'Brien	New Zealand
268	4 / 1	Wahab Riaz	Pakistan
268	8 / 2	Syed Rasel	Bangladesh
268	4 / 1	Ruvindu Gunasekera	Canada
268	8 / 2	Hussain Butt	Hong Kong
268	28 / 7	Ray Price	Zimbabwe
268	4 / 1	Robin Peterson	South Africa
268	4 / 1	M Shahbaz Butt
268	4 / 1	Phil Eaglestone	Ireland
269	14 / 4	Sajedul Islam	Bangladesh
270	3 / 1	Chris Tremlett	England
270	6 / 2	Matthew Hoggard	England
270	3 / 1	Courtney Kruger	Hong Kong
270	3 / 1	Lameck Onyango	Kenya
271	5 / 2	Mahbubul Alam	Bangladesh
272	2 / 1	Michael Mason	New Zealand
272	2 / 1	Manoj Tiwary	India
272	2 / 1	Stuart MacGill	Australia
272	2 / 1	Nadeem Ahmed	Hong Kong
272	4 / 2	Henry Osinde	Canada
272	2 / 1	Lionel Baker	West Indies
272	2 / 1	Greg Thompson	Ireland
272	2 / 1	Majid Haq	Scotland
273	3 / 2	Ravi Rampaul	West Indies
274	1 / 1	Tamauri Tucker	Bermuda
274	1 / 1	Boyd Rankin	England
274	1 / 1	Alawi Shukri	United Arab Emirates