| Rank |
Player |
Country |
Rating |
Career average |
(Career best Rating) |
| 1 | C.E.L.Ambrose | WI | 877 | 21.16 | (916 v Eng at Port of Spain 1994) |
| 2 | A.A.Donald | SA | 868 | 22.49 | (885 v SL at Centurion 1998) |
| 3 | G.D.McGrath | Aus | 808 | 23.49 | (883 v WI at Adelaide 1997) |
| 4 | S.K.Warne | Aus | 756 | 24.77 | (910 v Eng at Melbourne 1994) |
| 5 | S.M.Pollock | SA | 751 | 23.96 | (850 v Pak at Durban 1998) |
| 6 | A.Kumble | Ind | 748 | 28.43 | (906 v SL at Bangalore 1994) |
| 7= | Waqar Younis | Pak | 746 | 21.52 | (914 v Zim at Rawalpindi 1993) |
| 7= | Mushtaq Ahmed | Pak | 746 | 27.66 | (822 v NZ at Rawalpindi 1996) |
| 9 | Wasim Akram | Pak | 742 | 22.59 | (828 v Aus at Karachi I 1994) |
| 10 | M.Muralitharan | SL | 714 | 28.04 | (714 v NZ at Colombo 1998) |
