Best Strike Rate – Complete Cricket Stats & Records

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

Position	Best Strike Rate	Player Name	Team Name
2	109.20	Jacob Bethell	England
3	82.20	Ben Stokes	England
4	76.50	Scott Boland	Australia
5	70.00	Brydon Carse	England
6	49.44	Mitchell Starc	Australia
7	44.10	William Jacks	England
8	42.00	Beau Webster	Australia
9	41.16	Michael Neser	Australia
10	41.00	Joshua Tongue	England
11	36.00	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
11	52.38	Sir Alec Bedser	England
12	51.00	Johnny Wardle	England
13	48.00	Michael Melle	South Africa
14	46.80	Bill Johnston	Australia
15	42.24	Roly Jenkins	England
16	42.20	Trevor Bailey	England
17	42.00	Frank Worrell	West Indies
18	40.80	Alf Valentine	West Indies
18	72.00	Derek Underwood	England
19	64.71	Ken Shuttleworth	England
19	38.00	Ray Lindwall	Australia
19	65.27	Trevor Bailey	England
20	60.67	Neil Adcock	South Africa
20	36.00	Brian Close	England
20	64.26	Alan Connolly	Australia
21	55.80	Pat Trimborn	South Africa
21	56.52	Peter Loader	England
22	50.23	Hugh Tayfield	South Africa
22	51.27	Eddie Barlow	South Africa
23	50.52	Grahame Chevalier	South Africa
23	49.64	Peter Heine	South Africa
24	45.64	Fred Trueman	England
24	45.84	Peter Pollock	South Africa
25	40.63	John Snow	England
25	42.75	Ian Meckiff	Australia
26	42.34	Alan Davidson	Australia
26	58.84	Graham McKenzie	Australia
26	39.90	Doug Walters	Australia
27	32.91	Mike Procter	South Africa
27	58.13	Bob Simpson	Australia
27	30.37	Johnny Wardle	England
28	57.44	Lance Gibbs	West Indies
28	30.00	Frank Tyson	England
29	54.00	Eddie Barlow	South Africa
30	53.40	Ken Mackay	Australia
31	52.27	Barry Knight	England
32	42.77	Fred Trueman	England
33	41.91	Charlie Griffith	West Indies
34	36.84	Alan Davidson	Australia
34	48.00	Clive van Ryneveld	South Africa
34	51.43	Karsan Ghavri	India
35	51.00	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
35	47.50	Pat Crawford	Australia
35	28.60	Peter Pollock	South Africa
36	43.24	Trevor Bailey	England
36	50.84	Jeff Thomson	Australia
36	48.12	Alan Connolly	Australia
37	54.00	Murray Chapple	New Zealand
37	48.00	Jackie du Preez	South Africa
37	48.43	Tony Greig	England
37	34.62	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
38	34.40	Vinoo Mankad	India
38	47.79	Peter Lever	England
38	46.50	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
38	53.33	Ken Higgs	England
39	52.09	Neil Hawke	Australia
39	45.43	Syed Abid Ali	India
39	44.43	Dennis Lillee	Australia
39	29.58	Ghulam Ahmed	India
40	28.29	Neil Adcock	South Africa
40	47.67	Jack Iverson	Australia
40	38.00	Sir Andy Roberts	West Indies
40	44.87	Eddie Barlow	South Africa
40	44.40	Charlie Griffith	West Indies
41	43.68	Mike Procter	South Africa
41	39.60	Bruce Taylor	New Zealand
41	36.43	Doug Walters	Australia
41	51.38	John Snow	England
41	47.57	Jim Laker	England
41	36.00	Anwar Hussain	Pakistan
41	24.00	Gulabrai Ramchand	India
42	35.17	Gerry Gomez	West Indies
42	43.25	Doug Ring	Australia
42	50.76	Jaswick Taylor	West Indies
42	56.00	Johnny Martin	Australia
42	34.20	David Steele	England
42	37.50	Vic Pollard	New Zealand
42	42.73	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
42	50.63	Ashley Mallett	Australia
42	49.63	David Lawrence	England
43	49.03	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
43	50.00	Erapalli Prasanna	India
43	54.64	Eric Freeman	Australia
43	18.00	Joey Carew	West Indies
43	36.00	David Brown	England
43	31.13	Gary Gilmour	Australia
43	54.06	Brian Statham	England
43	50.54	Ian Meckiff	Australia
43	41.50	Keith Miller	Australia
43	50.75	Ray Lindwall	Australia
43	33.80	Richie Benaud	Australia
43	46.00	Jeffrey Stollmeyer	West Indies
44	44.25	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
44	48.00	Matt Poore	New Zealand
44	31.84	Keith Miller	Australia
44	39.00	Graeme Hole	Australia
44	49.74	Jim Laker	England
44	54.00	Geoff Griffin	South Africa
44	30.00	Robin Bynoe	West Indies
44	48.06	Dennis Lillee	Australia
44	47.00	Mike Shrimpton	New Zealand
44	51.00	David Renneberg	Australia
44	48.22	Phil DeFreitas	England
45	47.93	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
45	54.18	Bruce Yardley	Australia
45	50.13	John Snow	England
45	46.73	Dennis Lillee	Australia
45	47.00	Chris Old	England
45	52.20	Fred Trueman	England
45	49.22	Roy Gilchrist	West Indies
45	58.56	Alan Davidson	Australia
45	27.90	Gul Mohammad	India
45	32.22	Frank Worrell	West Indies
45	45.75	Tony Lock	England
45	42.48	Bill Johnston	Australia
46	40.60	Sir Alec Bedser	England
46	42.00	John Watkins	South Africa
46	26.40	John Trim	West Indies
46	25.85	Fred Trueman	England
46	55.32	Mohammad Munaf	Pakistan
46	47.25	Brian Statham	England
46	49.33	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
46	46.29	Bob Willis	England
46	45.60	Max Walker	Australia
46	49.05	Erapalli Prasanna	India
46	53.75	Sir Ian Botham	England
46	45.00	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan
47	43.20	Steve Watkin	England
47	49.42	Terry Alderman	Australia
47	45.75	Mohammad Nazir	Pakistan
47	40.02	Bob Cunis	New Zealand
47	42.90	Gary Bartlett	New Zealand
47	52.93	Dick Motz	New Zealand
47	42.08	Geoff Arnold	England
47	52.50	Bob Willis	England
47	44.01	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
47	43.63	Alan Davidson	Australia
47	53.15	Goofy Lawrence	South Africa
47	48.00	Bob Simpson	Australia
47	48.65	John Reid	New Zealand
47	24.00	Jeffrey Stollmeyer	West Indies
47	24.00	Cyril Washbrook	England
47	39.45	Fred Trueman	England
47	41.82	Ron Archer	Australia
48	39.00	Jim Laker	England
48	41.74	Geoff Rabone	New Zealand
48	22.20	Ray Emery	New Zealand
48	19.50	Michael Melle	South Africa
48	47.20	Vasant Ranjane	India
48	49.85	Frank Cameron	New Zealand
48	39.26	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
48	41.95	Alan Davidson	Australia
48	47.57	Lindsay Kline	Australia
48	42.60	David O'Sullivan	New Zealand
48	50.57	Erapalli Prasanna	India
48	43.80	Sir Ian Botham	England
48	50.57	Bruce Taylor	New Zealand
48	36.00	Ross Morgan	New Zealand
48	40.23	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
48	42.00	Bob Barber	England
48	42.00	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
48	43.50	Madan Lal	India
48	43.03	Craig McDermott	Australia
49	39.33	Chris Cairns	New Zealand
49	41.51	Jim Higgs	Australia
49	43.02	Colin Croft	West Indies
49	33.96	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
49	40.08	Basil Butcher	West Indies
49	50.54	David Brown	England
49	43.29	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
49	38.18	Bruce Taylor	New Zealand
49	49.66	Intikhab Alam	Pakistan
49	42.00	Karsan Ghavri	India
49	47.04	Brian Statham	England
49	18.00	Pankaj Roy	India
49	39.00	Neil Adcock	South Africa
49	49.20	Fred Trueman	England
49	43.96	Sydney Burke	South Africa
49	13.95	Tony Lock	England
49	12.00	Reg Simpson	England
49	41.25	Khan Mohammad	Pakistan
49	36.00	Neil Adcock	South Africa
50	29.63	David Ironside	South Africa
50	41.13	Bob Appleyard	England
50	43.65	Fred Trueman	England
50	48.00	Mike Smith	England
50	37.71	Tony Lock	England
50	12.00	Geoff Pullar	England
50	46.87	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
50	44.68	Keith Boyce	West Indies
50	36.40	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
50	39.00	Bryan Andrews	New Zealand
50	42.75	Karsan Ghavri	India
50	49.59	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
50	50.00	Laurie Mayne	Australia
50	30.00	Ken Eastwood	Australia
50	32.25	Bob Simpson	Australia
50	42.00	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
50	40.00	Geoff Lawson	Australia
50	38.49	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
51	2.40	Clayton Lambert	West Indies
51	52.00	Ranjith Madurasinghe	Sri Lanka
51	40.88	Len Pascoe	Australia
51	36.80	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
51	24.00	Brian Luckhurst	England
51	48.73	Derek Underwood	England
51	19.80	Keith Thomson	New Zealand
51	44.27	Karsan Ghavri	India
51	40.80	David Holford	West Indies
51	38.62	Gary Gilmour	Australia
51	40.91	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
51	46.09	Jim Laker	England
51	36.00	Alimuddin	Pakistan
51	47.45	Dick Motz	New Zealand
51	43.31	Goofy Lawrence	South Africa
51	27.86	Frank Tyson	England
51	25.50	Arthur Morris	Australia
52	18.00	Denis Compton	England
52	24.00	Clifford McWatt	West Indies
52	41.62	Peter Pollock	South Africa
52	41.14	Tiger Lance	South Africa
52	45.00	Jim Burke	Australia
52	40.70	Ashley Mallett	Australia
52	37.91	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
52	42.56	John Snow	England
52	44.03	Bob Willis	England
52	40.73	Bob Willis	England
52	6.00	Bruce Murray	New Zealand
52	48.60	Prof Edwards	West Indies
52	18.00	Ian Chappell	Australia
52	36.12	Rodney Hogg	Australia
52	36.54	Michael Holding	West Indies
52	50.16	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
53	48.03	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
53	41.21	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
53	30.00	Taslim Arif	Pakistan
53	34.50	Paul Allott	England
53	48.18	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
53	41.88	Jeff Thomson	Australia
53	39.40	Colin Croft	West Indies
53	32.51	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
53	40.00	Dennis Lillee	Australia
53	37.50	Gary Gilmour	Australia
53	44.83	Fazal Mahmood	Pakistan
53	37.11	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
53	38.14	Jack Alabaster	New Zealand
54	18.00	Peter Richardson	England
54	30.73	David Larter	England
54	44.28	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
54	35.52	Doug Walters	Australia
54	29.47	Jeff Thomson	Australia
54	38.51	Sam Gannon	Australia
54	38.06	Gary Gilmour	Australia
54	37.57	Sir Ian Botham	England
54	45.32	Eric Freeman	Australia
54	18.00	Azhar Khan	Pakistan
54	40.54	Phil Newport	England
54	41.40	Tony Dodemaide	Australia
54	46.53	Terry Alderman	Australia
55	55.20	Peter Sleep	Australia
55	41.25	Peter Taylor	Australia
55	39.50	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
55	43.18	Ian Bishop	West Indies
55	12.00	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
55	44.10	Alan Ward	England
55	36.73	Colin Croft	West Indies
55	36.00	Alan Ward	England
55	38.16	Wayne Clark	Australia
55	21.00	Mike Shrimpton	New Zealand
55	20.00	Ian Chappell	Australia
55	44.20	John Reid	New Zealand
55	27.43	Lester King	West Indies
55	63.44	Alan Connolly	Australia
56	14.40	Butch White	England
56	26.10	Jasubhai Patel	India
56	12.00	John Benaud	Australia
56	33.60	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
56	30.30	Max Walker	Australia
56	32.10	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
56	30.00	Shafqat Rana	Pakistan
56	63.00	Saeed Ahmed	Pakistan
56	43.00	Rumesh Ratnayake	Sri Lanka
56	40.03	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
56	51.74	Terry Alderman	Australia
56	34.80	Roger Harper	West Indies
57	33.68	Imran Khan	Pakistan
57	51.38	Ian Bishop	West Indies
57	42.00	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
57	38.50	Joel Garner	West Indies
57	62.50	Bob Blair	New Zealand
57	28.66	Joel Garner	West Indies
57	50.40	John Emburey	England
57	30.00	John Parker	New Zealand
57	28.27	Dennis Lillee	Australia
57	19.20	Brian Close	England
57	53.54	Khan Mohammad	Pakistan
58	51.77	Jim Laker	England
58	60.00	Nawab of Pataudi	India
58	48.33	Roger Binny	India
58	27.11	Rodney Hogg	Australia
58	26.86	Jeff Thomson	Australia
58	33.58	Narendra Hirwani	India
58	37.08	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
58	39.94	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
58	50.79	Courtney Walsh	West Indies
59	38.64	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
59	49.50	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
59	33.30	Kaushik Amalean	Sri Lanka
59	36.83	Roger Binny	India
59	41.83	Wayne Daniel	West Indies
59	44.00	Neil Foster	England
59	41.00	Madan Lal	India
59	9.00	Surinder Amarnath	India
59	47.96	Alan Hurst	Australia
59	21.84	John Lever	England
59	54.75	Ramakant Desai	India
59	51.18	Ray Lindwall	Australia
60	51.02	Brian Statham	England
60	52.21	Graham McKenzie	Australia
60	47.88	Kapil Dev	India
60	43.50	Mohsin Kamal	Pakistan
60	41.81	Bob Willis	England
60	40.45	Patrick Patterson	West Indies
60	36.75	Tony Gray	West Indies
60	28.92	Winston Davis	West Indies
60	48.00	Vivek Razdan	India
60	31.00	Bruce Reid	Australia
61	42.65	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
61	24.00	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan
61	40.33	Imran Khan	Pakistan
61	34.32	Chetan Sharma	India
61	37.64	Imran Khan	Pakistan
61	42.49	Imran Khan	Pakistan
61	46.80	Ian Greig	England
61	46.09	Sir Ian Botham	England
61	50.94	Peter Pollock	South Africa
61	44.67	Bob Appleyard	England
62	37.95	Frank Tyson	England
62	46.91	Fred Trueman	England
62	46.62	Bob Willis	England
62	41.80	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
62	42.30	Derek Stirling	New Zealand
62	36.00	Chris Smith	England
62	39.53	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
62	30.00	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
62	40.80	Rumesh Ratnayake	Sri Lanka
63	33.33	Mike Whitney	Australia
63	18.00	Manzoor Elahi	Pakistan
63	33.90	Vinothen John	Sri Lanka
63	40.24	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
63	38.40	Michael Holding	West Indies
63	40.93	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
63	42.00	Vic Marks	England
63	36.00	Tom Graveney	England
63	36.00	Jim Parks	England
64	24.00	John Holt	West Indies
64	22.97	Arif Butt	Pakistan
64	39.20	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
64	39.21	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
64	22.71	Jeff Thomson	Australia
64	36.40	Kaushik Amalean	Sri Lanka
64	37.74	Winston Davis	West Indies
64	45.52	Dennis Lillee	Australia
64	29.16	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
64	38.40	Wiaan Mulder	South Africa
65	38.30	Beuran Hendricks	South Africa
65	44.40	Graham Dilley	England
65	37.71	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
65	34.60	Joel Garner	West Indies
65	19.50	Carl Rackemann	Australia
65	37.93	Imran Khan	Pakistan
65	37.80	Gundappa Viswanath	India
65	13.20	Sir Everton Weekes	West Indies
66	3.60	Sir Leonard Hutton	England
66	18.60	Syed Kirmani	India
66	36.00	Keith Fletcher	England
66	24.00	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
66	25.50	Asanka Gurusinha	Sri Lanka
66	33.00	Steve Waugh	Australia
66	44.38	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
66	38.23	Stuart Broad	England
67	38.21	Kyle Jamieson	New Zealand
67	43.45	Michael Holding	West Indies
67	18.00	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
67	26.65	Richard Ellison	England
67	24.00	Peter Willey	England
67	34.00	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
68	12.00	Yashpal Sharma	India
68	30.00	George Giffen	Australia
68	21.26	Kosala Kuruppuarachchi	Sri Lanka
68	18.00	David Hookes	Australia
68	42.60	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
68	37.50	Tim Southee	New Zealand
69	36.00	Fawad Alam	Pakistan
69	41.40	Craig McDermott	Australia
69	22.00	Charles Leslie	England
70	12.00	David Gower	England
70	38.91	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
70	48.48	Asif Iqbal	United Arab Emirates
70	33.90	Shadab Khan	Pakistan
71	33.00	Haris Sohail	Pakistan
71	47.57	Sir Wes Hall	West Indies
71	36.00	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
72	30.00	Chris Smith	England
72	47.50	Barry Knight	England
72	27.84	Ishant Sharma	India
73	21.00	Lutho Sipamla	South Africa
73	45.60	Brian Statham	England
73	12.00	Allan Lamb	England
73	36.00	Sujeewa de Silva	Sri Lanka
74	35.04	Brett Lee	Australia
74	45.00	Nasim-ul-Ghani	Pakistan
75	43.20	Norm O'Neill	Australia
75	33.00	Chanaka Welegedara	Sri Lanka
75	45.17	Ryan Sidebottom	England
75	43.45	Aamer Nazir	Pakistan
75	46.17	Darren Gough	England
75	47.31	Devon Malcolm	England
76	45.75	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
76	45.00	Ben Hollioake	England
76	43.32	Anil Kumble	India
76	32.87	Darren Sammy	West Indies
76	44.13	Dhammika Prasad	Sri Lanka
76	36.00	Graham Dowling	New Zealand
77	30.00	Chandu Borde	India
77	42.12	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh
77	30.00	Andrew Hall	South Africa
77	42.82	Chris Lewis	England
77	44.57	Brett Schultz	South Africa
77	52.94	Merv Hughes	Australia
77	45.43	Michael Owens	New Zealand
78	45.00	Allan Donald	South Africa
78	50.76	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
78	48.48	Venkatapathy Raju	India
78	44.02	Adam Huckle	Zimbabwe
78	42.64	Mushtaq Ahmed	Pakistan
78	29.58	Dale Steyn	South Africa
78	40.80	Rawl Lewis	West Indies
78	18.60	Ken Barrington	England
79	27.00	Yuvraj Singh	India
79	46.29	Mohsin Kamal	Pakistan
79	41.02	Fanie de Villiers	South Africa
79	42.00	Mike Atherton	England
79	43.80	Mark Ealham	England
79	50.40	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
79	44.70	Neil Mallender	England
79	37.55	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka
80	39.98	Milinda Siriwardana	Sri Lanka
80	45.33	Damien Fleming	Australia
80	49.71	Craig Matthews	South Africa
80	41.49	Kapila Wijegunawardene	Sri Lanka
80	40.13	Paul Adams	South Africa
80	38.96	Jason Gillespie	Australia
80	40.00	Steve Waugh	Australia
80	35.75	Dale Steyn	South Africa
80	22.50	Mehrab Hossain jnr	Bangladesh
80	42.00	Aftab Ahmed	Bangladesh
81	39.09	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka
81	12.00	VVS Laxman	India
81	33.60	Shaun Pollock	South Africa
81	37.80	Simon Doull	New Zealand
81	36.72	Heath Streak	Zimbabwe
81	42.13	Simon Doull	New Zealand
81	38.27	Wasim Akram	Pakistan
81	44.98	Sir Curtly Ambrose	West Indies
81	39.48	Waqar Younis	Pakistan
81	39.12	Mitchell Marsh	Australia
82	36.65	Ravindra Jadeja	India
82	39.70	Steven Finn	England
82	42.30	Morne Morkel	South Africa
82	36.00	Subroto Banerjee	India
82	44.55	Ian Bishop	West Indies
82	42.00	Joey Benjamin	England
82	36.00	Charlie Lock	Zimbabwe
82	37.50	Chris Silverwood	England
82	38.09	Michael Bevan	Australia
82	29.00	Robin Peterson	South Africa
82	37.65	Stuart MacGill	Australia
83	37.24	Kyle Mills	New Zealand
83	28.80	Monde Zondeki	South Africa
83	40.70	Ravindra Pushpakumara	Sri Lanka
83	31.00	Narendra Hirwani	India
83	36.00	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
83	33.00	Patterson Thompson	West Indies
83	37.85	Winston Benjamin	West Indies
83	25.50	Richard Snell	South Africa
83	39.60	Haris Sohail	Pakistan
83	39.66	Zaheer Khan	India
83	36.35	Ravichandran Ashwin	India
84	36.30	Mahmudullah	Bangladesh