Best Average – Complete Cricket Stats & Records

This page lists the players with the best average in cricket history. These records highlight the most consistent and impactful performances across different eras.

PositionBest AveragePlayer NameTeam Name
268.00Jacob BethellEngland
360.33Brydon CarseEngland
447.50Ben StokesEngland
538.00William JacksEngland
633.00Mitchell StarcAustralia
732.75Scott BolandAustralia
829.00Marnus LabuschagneAustralia
928.00Beau WebsterAustralia
1023.17Joshua TongueEngland
1025.67Hines JohnsonWest Indies
1123.20Roly JenkinsEngland
1123.00Michael NeserAustralia
1223.00Johnny WardleEngland
1320.00Brian CloseEngland
1418.75Bill JohnstonAustralia
1517.67Frank WorrellWest Indies
1616.89Trevor BaileyEngland
1716.69Sir Alec BedserEngland
1815.67Ray LindwallAustralia
1914.70Alf ValentineWest Indies
1927.50Ian SmithSouth Africa
1926.10Alan ConnollyAustralia
2026.00Barry RichardsSouth Africa
2024.32Peter HeineSouth Africa
2122.13Ian MeckiffAustralia
2123.36Eddie BarlowSouth Africa
2223.00John SnowEngland
2221.80Peter LoaderEngland
2321.29Alan DavidsonAustralia
2322.75Pat TrimbornSouth Africa
2422.56Trevor GoddardSouth Africa
2421.16Trevor BaileyEngland
2519.93Hugh TayfieldSouth Africa
2521.80Doug WaltersAustralia
2620.00Grahame ChevalierSouth Africa
2618.35Fred TruemanEngland
2712.57Johnny WardleEngland
2717.20Peter PollockSouth Africa
2813.58Mike ProcterSouth Africa
2828.55Sir Garry SobersWest Indies
289.75Frank TysonEngland
2926.03Fred TitmusEngland
3023.80David LarterEngland
3123.25Ken MackayAustralia
3221.31Lance GibbsWest Indies
3320.17Peter PollockSouth Africa
3417.53Fred TruemanEngland
3516.89Barry KnightEngland
3529.13Bishan BediIndia
3628.17Vanburn HolderWest Indies
3616.22Charlie GriffithWest Indies
3616.00Khan MohammadPakistan
3715.47Alan DavidsonAustralia
3715.39Jim LakerEngland
3718.83Ken HiggsEngland
3727.00Sir Viv RichardsWest Indies
3826.75Bernard JulienWest Indies
3818.38Geoff ArnoldEngland
3815.21Trevor BaileyEngland
3913.00Ghulam AhmedIndia
3917.53Mike ProcterSouth Africa
3925.96Lance GibbsWest Indies
3922.50John InverarityAustralia
4020.49Dennis LilleeAustralia
4023.07Dennis LilleeAustralia
4017.44Mushtaq MohammadPakistan
4021.64Trevor GoddardSouth Africa
4018.55Jack IversonAustralia
4012.40Denis AtkinsonWest Indies
4110.83Pat CrawfordAustralia
4118.50Geff NobletAustralia
4119.33Peter ParfittEngland
4117.00Jackie du PreezSouth Africa
4121.71Doug WaltersAustralia
4119.25Bishan BediIndia
4219.17Chris OldEngland
4221.46Sir Andy RobertsWest Indies
4216.13Derek UnderwoodEngland
4219.11Eddie BarlowSouth Africa
4217.88Gerry GomezWest Indies
4217.55Malcolm HiltonEngland
4222.57Jack HillAustralia
429.86Neil AdcockSouth Africa
438.77Fazal MahmoodPakistan
4322.98Fred TruemanEngland
4318.50Jim McConnonEngland
4317.50Jack RobertsonEngland
4322.50Fred TruemanEngland
4317.71Fen CresswellNew Zealand
4319.00Motganhalli JaisimhaIndia
4314.83David BrownEngland
4319.29Gary GilmourAustralia
4318.70Bob MassieAustralia
4323.67Akram RazaPakistan
4423.44Chris CairnsNew Zealand
4418.13Derek UnderwoodEngland
4410.50David SteeleEngland
4414.09Ray IllingworthEngland
4422.30Bob CowperAustralia
4418.73Ken HiggsEngland
4415.50Graeme HoleAustralia
4416.44Ray LindwallAustralia
4421.00Denis ComptonEngland
4418.43Ian JohnsonAustralia
447.00Gulabrai RamchandIndia
4422.58Neil AdcockSouth Africa
4419.67Ray IllingworthEngland
4519.45Tony MacGibbonNew Zealand
4522.33Bob SimpsonAustralia
455.00Jack AlabasterNew Zealand
4517.68Frank TysonEngland
4520.63Tony LockEngland
4516.13Keith MillerAustralia
4514.86Jim LakerEngland
4515.25Vic PollardNew Zealand
4521.76Bapu NadkarniIndia
4512.27Trevor GoddardSouth Africa
4517.70Bruce TaylorNew Zealand
4523.00Aaqib JavedPakistan
4520.91Jim HiggsAustralia
4620.82Graham DilleyEngland
4620.56Colin CroftWest Indies
4622.89Sir Curtly AmbroseWest Indies
4621.00Ken EastwoodAustralia
4617.33Erapalli PrasannaIndia
4613.50Clive LloydWest Indies
465.00Robin BynoeWest Indies
4621.25Barry KnightEngland
4615.87Sir Alec BedserEngland
4611.80John TrimWest Indies
4619.09Ray LindwallAustralia
4616.33Keith MillerAustralia
4621.00Brian StathamEngland
4619.29Ian MeckiffAustralia
4717.75Neil AdcockSouth Africa
4718.55Brian StathamEngland
4720.00Lindsay KlineAustralia
4720.79Lance GibbsWest Indies
4717.49Sir Alec BedserEngland
4714.23Gerry GomezWest Indies
4716.00Clifford McWattWest Indies
4711.00Coimbatarao GopinathIndia
4721.21Erapalli PrasannaIndia
4713.20Bruce TaylorNew Zealand
4720.25Terry JennerAustralia
4716.82Geoff ArnoldEngland
4721.44Malcolm MarshallWest Indies
4719.08Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
4719.50Sandeep PatilIndia
4817.69Mohammad NazirPakistan
4819.00Jeremy ConeyNew Zealand
4821.21Craig McDermottAustralia
4819.40Tony DellAustralia
4814.22Bhagwath ChandrasekharIndia
4823.67Clive LloydWest Indies
4819.60Gary BartlettNew Zealand
4811.00Joey CarewWest Indies
4820.56Bishan BediIndia
4814.08Fred TruemanEngland
484.25Michael MelleSouth Africa
4816.09Neil AdcockSouth Africa
4815.80Johnny WardleEngland
4818.03Alan DavidsonAustralia
4820.75Les JacksonEngland
4818.21Tommy GreenhoughEngland
4817.07Fred TruemanEngland
4917.67John ReidNew Zealand
4917.00Intikhab AlamPakistan
4916.75Brian StathamEngland
4920.45Frank CameronNew Zealand
4914.62Ron ArcherAustralia
4913.00Arthur MorrisAustralia
492.00Reg SimpsonEngland
4910.50Gul MohammadIndia
4920.00Bob CottamEngland
4915.10Derek UnderwoodEngland
491.00Peter LashleyWest Indies
4922.75Gary GilmourAustralia
4923.36Kerry O'KeeffeAustralia
4918.90Bob CunisNew Zealand
4921.00Bruce ReidAustralia
4918.69Len PascoeAustralia
4917.29Sylvester ClarkeWest Indies
4920.27Abdul QadirPakistan
5019.03Phil EdmondsEngland
5016.67Greg ChappellAustralia
5016.60Joel GarnerWest Indies
5020.39Phil DeFreitasEngland
5018.57Norman GiffordEngland
5022.74Intikhab AlamPakistan
5023.27Gary GilmourAustralia
5013.40Basil ButcherWest Indies
5019.11Ashley MallettAustralia
509.00Tony LockEngland
5011.00David IronsideSouth Africa
5014.40Esmond KentishWest Indies
5014.50Fazal MahmoodPakistan
5019.29Jack AlabasterNew Zealand
5017.06Fazal MahmoodPakistan
5015.19Sir Wes HallWest Indies
5116.17Ted DexterEngland
5114.21Alan DavidsonAustralia
5110.00Pankaj RoyIndia
5119.20Mohammad MunafPakistan
5112.14John WatkinsSouth Africa
516.00Jeffrey StollmeyerWest Indies
5119.00Dayle HadleeNew Zealand
5112.13Bob SimpsonAustralia
5122.64Keith BoyceWest Indies
5123.00Karsan GhavriIndia
5118.33Saleem AltafPakistan
5118.14Waqar YounisPakistan
5116.33Madan LalIndia
5118.89Colin CroftWest Indies
5114.67Alvin KallicharranWest Indies
5215.69Lance CairnsNew Zealand
5221.71Wasim RajaPakistan
5218.72Bob WillisEngland
5212.80Rodney HoggAustralia
524.00Clayton LambertWest Indies
5216.00Ross MorganNew Zealand
5221.43Erapalli PrasannaIndia
5222.42Vanburn HolderWest Indies
529.00Keith ThomsonNew Zealand
5218.00Saleem AltafPakistan
5212.00Geoff RaboneNew Zealand
5216.75Goofy LawrenceSouth Africa
527.00Geoff PullarEngland
5216.00Jim BurkeAustralia
5213.38Jim LakerEngland
5310.66Tony LockEngland
5314.07Lindsay KlineAustralia
5315.09Peter PollockSouth Africa
5320.57Sir Garry SobersWest Indies
5317.67Laurie MayneAustralia
530.00Bruce MurrayNew Zealand
5319.50Mike ShrimptonNew Zealand
5322.12Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
5323.17Bev CongdonNew Zealand
5320.98Bob WillisEngland
5315.10Richard CollingeNew Zealand
5320.00Rumesh RatnayakeSri Lanka
534.00Desmond HaynesWest Indies
5318.50Chris OldEngland
5315.11John BracewellNew Zealand
5415.07Michael HoldingWest Indies
5418.20Sir Ian BothamEngland
542.00Azhar KhanPakistan
5419.49Ian BishopWest Indies
5417.87Malcolm MarshallWest Indies
5415.00Brian LuckhurstEngland
5420.71Mike HendrickEngland
5422.75Greg ChappellAustralia
5418.95Mushtaq MohammadPakistan
5421.19Sir Andy RobertsWest Indies
5416.08Pervez SajjadPakistan
5420.42Lance GibbsWest Indies
5413.40Bapu NadkarniIndia
5413.44Sonny RamadhinWest Indies
5510.60Brian CloseEngland
5510.00Mike SmithEngland
5519.44Goofy LawrenceSouth Africa
5515.50Ajit PaiIndia
5517.00John JamesonEngland
5522.20Intikhab AlamPakistan
5520.63Karsan GhavriIndia
5510.00Ian ChappellAustralia
5518.76Max WalkerAustralia
5518.00Ijaz AhmedPakistan
5516.78Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
5517.58Andy RobertsNew Zealand
5621.89Wasim RajaPakistan
5620.48Colin CroftWest Indies
5615.00Joel GarnerWest Indies
5616.68Arshad AyubIndia
5617.37Terry AldermanAustralia
5618.17Ashley MallettAustralia
5622.19Jeff ThomsonAustralia
5616.08Jeff ThomsonAustralia
5613.82Derek UnderwoodEngland
5627.08Peter PollockSouth Africa
5617.82Sydney BurkeSouth Africa
565.00Peter RichardsonEngland
568.86Jasubhai PatelIndia
5716.44Neil AdcockSouth Africa
5725.00Saeed AhmedPakistan
578.00Shafqat RanaPakistan
5722.00Mark BurgessNew Zealand
5720.20Sir Ian BothamEngland
579.33Ian ChappellAustralia
5715.20Doug WaltersAustralia
5723.63Rumesh RatnayakeSri Lanka
5716.67Sanjeev SharmaIndia
5717.04Waqar YounisPakistan
5721.83Sikander BakhtPakistan
5711.00Rodney HoggAustralia
585.00Surinder AmarnathIndia
5820.74Sir Ian BothamEngland
5816.21Wasim AkramPakistan
5823.13Ian BishopWest Indies
5814.83Iqbal QasimPakistan
5820.74Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
586.00John BenaudAustralia
5818.40Majid KhanPakistan
5821.00David HolfordWest Indies
5824.46Graham McKenzieAustralia
5816.11David LarterEngland
5915.74Sir Wes HallWest Indies
5918.30Brian StathamEngland
5924.25Ramakant DesaiIndia
5920.38Michael HoldingWest Indies
5918.29Dennis LilleeAustralia
5919.25Peter TaylorAustralia
5918.63Courtney WalshWest Indies
5921.34Terry AldermanAustralia
5914.61Narendra HirwaniIndia
5916.06Sir Curtly AmbroseWest Indies
5920.00Javed MiandadPakistan
6019.91Joel GarnerWest Indies
6017.88Vinothen JohnSri Lanka
6013.64Venkatapathy RajuIndia
6020.48Courtney WalshWest Indies
6018.36Tauseef AhmedPakistan
6022.00Mohsin KamalPakistan
6013.00Saleem MalikPakistan
6018.84Courtney WalshWest Indies
6012.83Mick MaloneAustralia
6020.00Bishan BediIndia
6023.47Fred TruemanEngland
6016.55Frank TysonEngland
6013.27John ReidNew Zealand
6112.00Butch WhiteEngland
6116.33Jasubhai PatelIndia
6123.17John ReidNew Zealand
6116.83Max WalkerAustralia
6118.75Tony GrayWest Indies
6119.33Saliya AhangamaSri Lanka
6117.40Malcolm MarshallWest Indies
6113.39Bruce ReidAustralia
6112.60Roger HarperWest Indies
6119.80Peter SleepAustralia
6116.50Bob WillisEngland
6119.50Greg ChappellAustralia
6217.85John EmbureyEngland
6216.18Nick CookEngland
6220.00Keith FletcherEngland
6219.75Mudassar NazarPakistan
6218.80Winston DavisWest Indies
629.67Shoaib MohammadPakistan
6216.21Tony GrayWest Indies
6218.40Gladstone SmallEngland
627.00John LeverEngland
6222.62David AllenEngland
6216.00Vijay ManjrekarIndia
629.14Lester KingWest Indies
6315.93Khan MohammadPakistan
6322.00Peter van der MerweSouth Africa
636.00Aamer MalikPakistan
6317.08Joel GarnerWest Indies
6318.00Steve WaughAustralia
6316.15Joel GarnerWest Indies
6319.36Allan BorderAustralia
6319.00Billy BarnesEngland
6316.00Yashpal SharmaIndia
6317.38EhteshamuddinPakistan
6317.03Tim SoutheeNew Zealand
6416.89Nayeem HasanBangladesh
6417.04Mike HendrickEngland
6415.81Imran KhanPakistan
6418.23Michael HoldingWest Indies
6417.60Asanka GurusinhaSri Lanka
6416.00Madan LalIndia
6417.44Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
6415.75Roger BinnyIndia
6419.65Bapu NadkarniIndia
6415.72Bob AppleyardEngland
6515.16Zulfiqar AhmedPakistan
6516.86Arif ButtPakistan
6515.14Tony DodemaideAustralia
6517.33Tauseef AhmedPakistan
6515.83Clyde ButtsWest Indies
6516.65Malcolm MarshallWest Indies
6516.14Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
6515.50Chris SmithEngland
6517.00Gundappa ViswanathIndia
6516.67Lutho SipamlaSouth Africa
6616.57Josh HazlewoodAustralia
6613.29Imran KhanPakistan
6613.00Syed KirmaniIndia
6616.56Mike WhitneyAustralia
6615.00Peter WilleyEngland
6615.94Imran KhanPakistan
668.00Manzoor ElahiPakistan
6612.00Jim LakerEngland
678.00Sir Everton WeekesWest Indies
6714.21Imran KhanPakistan
677.00Rizwan-uz-ZamanPakistan
6710.88Richard EllisonEngland
6713.00Rizwan-uz-ZamanPakistan
6711.43Jeff ThomsonAustralia
6720.62Joel GarnerWest Indies
6715.40Mohammed SirajIndia
6815.20Ishant SharmaIndia
6820.15Malcolm MarshallWest Indies
686.00David HookesAustralia
6811.06Carl RackemannAustralia
6812.60Joey PalmerAustralia
6812.14Kosala KuruppuarachchiSri Lanka
682.00Sir Leonard HuttonEngland
6921.50Neil MallenderEngland
6910.33Charles LeslieEngland
6910.00Saleem MalikPakistan
6919.57Laxman SivaramakrishnanIndia
6915.10Suranga LakmalSri Lanka
7014.76Stuart BroadEngland
7019.50Zaheer AbbasPakistan
709.50George GiffenAustralia
7021.00Brian McMillanSouth Africa
7019.00Graham DowlingNew Zealand
7118.00Chandu BordeIndia
7119.71Allan DonaldSouth Africa
712.00David GowerEngland
7119.47Michael HoldingWest Indies
7114.44Kyle JamiesonNew Zealand
7214.00Haris SohailPakistan
7219.13Dennis LilleeAustralia
7219.63Richard SnellSouth Africa
7217.50Ray IllingworthEngland
7316.83Asif IqbalUnited Arab Emirates
7319.25Jimmy AdamsWest Indies
7313.20Sir Richard HadleeNew Zealand
7319.00Chanaka WelegedaraSri Lanka
7417.50Glenn McGrathAustralia
7412.00Allan LambEngland
7418.80Graham GoochEngland
7416.00Tony WhiteWest Indies
7515.20Ken BarringtonEngland
758.00Chris SmithEngland
7518.33Saleem JaffarPakistan
7517.48Dale SteynSouth Africa
7622.67Rawl LewisWest Indies
7617.33Andrew HallSouth Africa
767.00Saleem MalikPakistan
7616.35Sir Curtly AmbroseWest Indies
7621.20Aravinda de SilvaSri Lanka
7611.00Nasim-ul-GhaniPakistan
7720.71Maninder SinghIndia
7715.67Subroto BanerjeeIndia
7721.58Iain O'BrienNew Zealand
7717.29Brett LeeAustralia
7815.75Sujeewa de SilvaSri Lanka
7820.67Aaron RedmondNew Zealand
7814.00Kapila WijegunawardeneSri Lanka
7818.45Ian BishopWest Indies
7823.19Adam HuckleZimbabwe
7923.18Hansie CronjeSouth Africa
7918.00Javagal SrinathIndia
7921.67Paul StrangZimbabwe
7914.78Darren SammyWest Indies
7920.26Ryan SidebottomEngland
8014.50Mehrab Hossain jnrBangladesh
8020.01Dale SteynSouth Africa
8021.29Waqar YounisPakistan
8016.71Craig MatthewsSouth Africa
8020.38Chaminda VaasSri Lanka
8017.75Chris SilverwoodEngland
8021.38Glenn McGrathAustralia
8021.80Stuart MacGillAustralia
8121.60Makhaya NtiniSouth Africa
8110.00Yuvraj SinghIndia
8117.53Glenn McGrathAustralia
8121.29Brett SchultzSouth Africa
8116.38Angus FraserEngland
8120.00Joey BenjaminEngland
8119.82Mushtaq AhmedPakistan
8120.00Jacob OramNew Zealand
8121.82Dale SteynSouth Africa
8221.36Imran TahirSouth Africa
8218.38Ajantha MendisSri Lanka
8217.23Fanie de VilliersSouth Africa
8219.96Sir Curtly AmbroseWest Indies
8216.30Brett SchultzSouth Africa
8221.00Michael BevanAustralia
8217.10Simon DoullNew Zealand
8220.00Daren GangaWest Indies
827.00VVS LaxmanIndia
8318.64Kyle MillsNew Zealand
8317.07Bryan StrangZimbabwe
8316.00Steve WaughAustralia
8320.63Jason GillespieAustralia
8319.44Venkatapathy RajuIndia
8316.09Sir Curtly AmbroseWest Indies
8317.00Shaun PollockSouth Africa
8320.73Shoaib MalikPakistan
8322.08Vernon PhilanderSouth Africa
8421.35Mohammad AbbasPakistan
8420.06Steven FinnEngland
8415.67Robin PetersonSouth Africa
8417.00Steve WaughAustralia
8418.20Shane WarneAustralia