Best Average in 2026: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

The best average in 2026 highlights the top performers of the season based on official match data.

Position	Best Average	Player Name	Team Name
1	5.33	Josh Little	Ireland
2	7.00	Gerald Coetzee	South Africa
3	8.44	Shadley Schalkwyk	United States of America
4	9.00	Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan
5	9.50	Joe Root	England
6	10.00	Paul van Meekeren	Netherlands
6	10.00	Salman Agha	Pakistan
7	11.00	Tilak Varma	India
7	11.00	Ottneil Baartman	South Africa
8	11.29	Mohammad Mirza	Pakistan
9	11.86	Merwe Erasmus	Namibia
10	12.00	Harmeet Baddhan	United States of America
10	12.00	Rohit Paudel	Nepal
11	12.20	Mohammad Wasim	Pakistan
12	12.42	Rachin Ravindra	New Zealand
13	12.60	Saim Ayub	Pakistan
14	13.50	George Dockrell	Ireland
15	13.56	Michael Leask	Scotland
16	14.46	Blessing Muzarabani	Zimbabwe
17	14.50	Adam Zampa	Australia
17	14.50	Kamindu Mendis	Sri Lanka
18	15.22	Azmatullah Omarzai	Afghanistan
19	15.33	Kiribathgala Dharmasena	Sri Lanka
20	16.00	Rinku Singh	India
20	16.00	Sompal Kami	Nepal
21	16.38	Abrar Ahmed	Pakistan
22	17.00	Lungi Ngidi	South Africa
23	17.17	George Linde	South Africa
24	17.30	Gudakesh Motie	West Indies
25	17.38	Corbin Bosch	South Africa
26	17.56	Jasprit Bumrah	India
27	17.74	Adil Rashid	England
28	17.75	Matheesha Pathirana	Sri Lanka
29	17.80	Aryan Dutt	Netherlands
30	17.83	Rashid Khan	Afghanistan
31	18.29	Muhammad Siddique	United Arab Emirates
32	18.40	Nathan Ellis	Australia
33	18.67	Axar Patel	India
34	19.57	Shaheen Afridi	Pakistan
35	19.60	Bas Leede	Netherlands
35	19.60	Brad Evans	Zimbabwe
36	19.75	Marcus Stoinis	Australia
37	20.00	Nosthusha Kenjige	United States of America
38	20.07	Jamie Overton	England
39	20.43	Logan van Beek	Netherlands
40	21.00	Richard Ngarava	Zimbabwe
41	21.27	Dushmantha Chameera	Sri Lanka
42	21.50	Glenn Maxwell	Australia
43	21.60	Dhananjaya de Silva	Sri Lanka
44	21.94	Varun Vinod	India
45	22.23	Keshav Maharaj	South Africa
46	22.25	Shakeel Ahmed	Oman
46	22.25	Bradley Currie	Scotland
47	22.33	Ravi Bishnoi	India
48	22.40	Lokumarakkalage Madushanka	Sri Lanka
49	22.44	Liam Dawson	England
50	23.00	Michael Neser	Australia
50	23.00	Mujeeb Ur Rahman	Afghanistan
50	23.00	Marco Jansen	South Africa
51	23.17	Joshua Tongue	England
52	23.50	Ryan Burl	Zimbabwe
53	24.00	Jack Brassell	Namibia
54	24.25	Arshdeep Singh	India
55	24.29	Matthew Forde	West Indies
56	24.42	Morawakage Theekshana	Sri Lanka
57	24.50	Romario Shepherd	West Indies
58	25.00	Shamar Joseph	West Indies
58	25.00	Muhammad Jawadullah	United Arab Emirates
59	25.23	Matt Henry	New Zealand
60	25.50	Mohammed Siraj	India
61	25.63	Shivam Dube	India
62	25.79	William Jacks	England
63	26.11	Akeal Hosein	West Indies
64	27.25	Barry McCarthy	Ireland
65	27.33	Pramod Liyanagamage	Sri Lanka
66	28.00	Jofra Archer	England
66	28.00	Beau Webster	Australia
67	28.20	Jason Holder	West Indies
68	28.50	Frederick Klaassen	Netherlands
69	28.77	Hardik Pandya	India
70	29.00	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
70	29.00	Saad Zafar	Canada
70	29.00	Syed Kaleem	Oman
71	29.67	Munasinghe Hemantha	Sri Lanka
72	30.17	James Neesham	New Zealand
73	30.25	Lockie Ferguson	New Zealand
74	30.80	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka
75	31.00	Luke Wood	England
76	31.18	Sam Curran	England
77	32.00	Jeffrey Vandersay	Sri Lanka
77	32.00	Kyle Klein	Netherlands
78	32.75	Scott Boland	Australia
79	33.00	Mitchell Starc	Australia
80	33.45	Kyle Jamieson	New Zealand
81	33.50	Dunith Wellalage	Sri Lanka
82	34.00	Shadab Khan	Pakistan
83	34.67	Matthew Humphreys	Ireland
83	34.67	Ansh Patel	Canada
84	34.80	Roston Chase	West Indies
85	35.00	Jay Odedra	Oman
85	35.00	Oliver Davidson	Scotland
86	35.50	Xavier Bartlett	Australia
86	35.50	Naseem Shah	Pakistan
87	35.67	Sufyan Mehmood	Oman
88	36.00	Jan Loftie-Eaton	Namibia
88	36.00	Sikandar Raza	Zimbabwe
89	36.33	Muralikrishna Krishna	India
90	36.50	Rehan Ahmed	England
91	37.00	Fazalhaq Farooqi	Afghanistan
91	37.00	JJ Smuts	South Africa
91	37.00	Muhammad Khan	United States of America
92	37.67	Mark Adair	Ireland
93	37.75	Kuldeep Yadav	India
94	38.00	Harry Tector	Ireland
94	38.00	Muhammad Farooq	United Arab Emirates
95	38.67	Anrich Nortje	South Africa
96	39.11	Jacob Duffy	New Zealand
97	40.00	Tinotenda Maposa	Zimbabwe
98	40.63	Harshit Rana	India
99	41.00	Ben Shikongo	Namibia
100	41.67	Graeme Cremer	Zimbabwe
101	43.00	Brad Wheal	Scotland
101	43.00	Abhishek Sharma	India
102	44.25	Jaskaran Buttar	Canada
103	44.50	Dipendra Airee	Nepal
104	45.00	Faheem Ashraf	Pakistan
105	45.60	Ish Sodhi	New Zealand
106	46.00	Safyaan Sharif	Scotland
107	46.38	Mitchell Santner	New Zealand
108	47.50	Ben Stokes	England
109	47.83	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa
110	48.00	Brandon McMullen	Scotland
111	49.00	Gareth Delany	Ireland
112	49.50	Zakary Foulkes	New Zealand
112	49.50	Jiten Ramanandi	Oman
113	50.00	Cole McConchie	New Zealand
114	53.00	Matthew Kuhnemann	Australia
115	55.00	Adithya Ashok	New Zealand
116	60.00	Kwena Maphaka	South Africa
117	60.33	Brydon Carse	England
118	64.00	Aiden Markram	South Africa
119	64.50	Dilon Heyliger	Canada
120	68.00	Bernard Scholtz	Namibia
121	70.00	Mark Watt	Scotland
122	71.00	Cameron Green	Australia
123	86.00	Glenn Phillips	New Zealand
123	86.00	Asitha Fernando	Sri Lanka
123	86.00	Roelof van der Merwe	Netherlands
124	88.00	Dilpreet Bajwa	Canada
125	90.00	Kaleem Rehman	Canada
125	90.00	Michael Bracewell	New Zealand
126	92.00	Saurabh Netravalkar	United States of America
127	94.00	Wellington Masakadza	Zimbabwe
128	103.00	Kariyawasam Asalanka	Sri Lanka
129	110.00	Kushal Bhurtel	Nepal
130	122.00	Haider Ali	Pakistan
131	123.00	Sandeep Lamichhane	Nepal
132	146.00	Johannes Smit	Namibia
133	148.00	Jacob Bethell	England
134	156.00	Ruben Trumpelmann	Namibia