Best Averages in 2008 for Test

Position	Best Averages	Player Name	Team Name
1	909 / 7	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
2	217 / 2	Jean-Paul Duminy	South Africa
3	582 / 7	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka
4	1656 / 22	Graeme Smith	South Africa
5	1134 / 16	Gautam Gambhir	India
6	197 / 3	Tim McIntosh	New Zealand
7	655 / 10	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
8	900 / 14	Ashwell Prince	South Africa
9	1061 / 17	AB de Villiers	South Africa
10	482 / 8	Malinda Warnapura	Sri Lanka
11	1073 / 18	Neil McKenzie	South Africa
12	535 / 9	Chris Gayle	West Indies
13	762 / 13	Andrew Symonds	Australia
14	1462 / 25	Virender Sehwag	India
15	972 / 17	Andrew Strauss	England
16	1021 / 18	Simon Katich	Australia
17	1063 / 19	Michael Clarke	Australia
18	1161 / 21	Hashim Amla	South Africa
19	162 / 3	Brendan Nash	West Indies
20	1086 / 21	VVS Laxman	India
21	256 / 5	Yuvraj Singh	India
22	1015 / 20	Kevin Pietersen	England
23	1063 / 21	Sachin Tendulkar	India
24	398 / 8	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand
25	444 / 9	Jesse Ryder	New Zealand
26	1182 / 24	Ricky Ponting	Australia
27	147 / 3	Irfan Pathan	India
27	245 / 5	Matthew Bell	New Zealand
28	96 / 2	Brad Hogg	Australia
29	94 / 2	Brad Hodge	Australia
30	606 / 13	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies
31	900 / 20	Michael Hussey	Australia
32	358 / 8	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
33	89 / 2	Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka
34	88 / 2	Matt Prior	England
35	783 / 18	Sourav Ganguly	India
36	471 / 11	Daniel Flynn	New Zealand
37	636 / 15	Paul Collingwood	England
38	405 / 10	Jacob Oram	New Zealand
39	676 / 17	Ian Bell	England
40	434 / 11	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
41	552 / 14	Matthew Hayden	Australia
42	235 / 6	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka
43	818 / 21	Ross Taylor	New Zealand
44	698 / 18	Brad Haddin	Australia
45	672 / 18	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand
46	633 / 17	MS Dhoni	India
47	371 / 10	Phil Jaques	Australia
47	371 / 10	Stuart Broad	England
48	74 / 2	Murali Vijay	India
48	407 / 11	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies
49	110 / 3	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh
50	764 / 21	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand
51	758 / 21	Alastair Cook	England
52	528 / 16	Mark Boucher	South Africa
53	226 / 7	Xavier Marshall	West Indies
54	805 / 25	Rahul Dravid	India
55	414 / 13	Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh
56	665 / 21	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
57	305 / 10	Jerome Taylor	West Indies
58	119 / 4	Aftab Ahmed	Bangladesh
59	118 / 4	Ishant Sharma	India
60	206 / 7	Mehrab Hossain jnr	Bangladesh
61	146 / 5	Cameron White	Australia
62	371 / 13	Tim Ambrose	England
63	197 / 7	Andrew Flintoff	England
64	363 / 13	Michael Vaughan	England
65	640 / 23	Jamie How	New Zealand
66	108 / 4	Tim Southee	New Zealand
66	27 / 1	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
67	161 / 6	Devon Smith	West Indies
68	80 / 3	Darren Sammy	West Indies
69	394 / 15	Tamim Iqbal	Bangladesh
70	209 / 8	Marlon Samuels	West Indies
71	52 / 2	James Marshall	New Zealand
72	360 / 14	Mitchell Johnson	Australia
73	357 / 14	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh
74	203 / 8	Shahriar Nafees	Bangladesh
75	377 / 15	Junaid Siddique	Bangladesh
76	50 / 2	Sreesanth	India
76	25 / 1	Mark Gillespie	New Zealand
76	25 / 1	Johan Botha	South Africa
77	299 / 12	Aaron Redmond	New Zealand
78	142 / 6	Prasanna Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
78	71 / 3	Jason Krejza	Australia
79	47 / 2	Ryan Hinds	West Indies
80	410 / 18	Harbhajan Singh	India
81	131 / 6	James Anderson	England
82	87 / 4	Peter Fulton	New Zealand
83	342 / 16	Brett Lee	Australia
84	272 / 13	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh
85	165 / 8	Paul Harris	South Africa
86	176 / 9	Shane Watson	Australia
87	156 / 8	Wasim Jaffer	India
87	39 / 2	Dhammika Prasad	Sri Lanka
87	78 / 4	Raqibul Hasan	Bangladesh
88	154 / 8	Runako Morton	West Indies
89	57 / 3	Steve Harmison	England
90	243 / 13	Denesh Ramdin	West Indies
91	92 / 5	Adam Gilchrist	Australia
92	147 / 8	Mathew Sinclair	New Zealand
93	127 / 7	Sewnarine Chattergoon	West Indies
94	163 / 9	Dale Steyn	South Africa
95	196 / 11	Michael Vandort	Sri Lanka
96	231 / 13	Anil Kumble	India
97	52 / 3	Peter Siddle	Australia
98	238 / 14	Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh
98	51 / 3	RP Singh	India
99	145 / 9	Zaheer Khan	India
100	95 / 6	Ryan Sidebottom	England
101	47 / 3	Craig Cumming	New Zealand
102	73 / 5	Stuart Clark	Australia
103	42 / 3	Amit Mishra	India
103	14 / 1	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka
104	167 / 12	Kyle Mills	New Zealand
105	55 / 4	Brenton Parchment	West Indies
105	55 / 4	Sulieman Benn	West Indies
106	27 / 2	Gareth Hopkins	New Zealand
107	26 / 2	Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh
108	135 / 11	Morne Morkel	South Africa
109	73 / 6	Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh
110	24 / 2	Mohammad Rafique	Bangladesh
110	96 / 8	Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh
110	36 / 3	Dinesh Karthik	India
110	60 / 5	Fidel Edwards	West Indies
111	71 / 6	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh
112	118 / 10	Daren Powell	West Indies
113	44 / 4	Naeem Islam	Bangladesh
114	42 / 4	Jeetan Patel	New Zealand
114	21 / 2	Darren Pattinson	England
115	10 / 1	Beau Casson	Australia
116	39 / 4	Daren Ganga	West Indies
117	19 / 2	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka
117	19 / 2	Chris Rogers	Australia
118	27 / 3	Grant Elliott	New Zealand
118	9 / 1	James Franklin	New Zealand
119	25 / 3	Thilan Thushara	Sri Lanka
120	31 / 4	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa
121	14 / 2	Parthiv Patel	India
122	12 / 2	Shaun Tait	Australia
122	12 / 2	Andre Nel	South Africa
122	24 / 4	Chris Martin	New Zealand
122	6 / 1	Nuwan Kulasekara	Sri Lanka
122	12 / 2	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
123	16 / 3	Nathan Hauritz	Australia
123	48 / 9	Monty Panesar	England
124	37 / 9	Iain O'Brien	New Zealand
125	4 / 1	Robin Peterson	South Africa
125	4 / 1	Piyush Chawla	India
126	11 / 3	Graeme Swann	England
127	14 / 4	Sajedul Islam	Bangladesh
128	6 / 2	Matthew Hoggard	England
129	5 / 2	Mahbubul Alam	Bangladesh
130	2 / 1	Stuart MacGill	Australia
131	1 / 1	Rawl Lewis	West Indies