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               Test   1st-class
Diff     Ms    Avrge    Avrge
25.39    25    24.42    49.81    Asif Mujtaba (Pak)
22.18    65    31.32    53.50    GA Hick (Eng)
20.90    52    27.32    48.22    MR Ramprakash (Eng)
20.22    39    22.65    42.87    Madan Lal (Ind)
18.99    35    46.00    64.99    WM Woodfull (Aus)
18.04    26    32.18    50.22    CB Fry (Eng)
17.97    37    37.14    55.11    SV Manjrekar (Ind)
16.96    29    48.22    65.18    WH Ponsford (Aus)
16.49    31    24.14    40.63    SC Williams (WI)
15.96    37    31.07    47.03    AL Wadekar (Ind)
15.56    25    18.44    34.00    RA Harper (WI)

Other players with a difference of 10 percentage points (25 Tests):

England - JM Brearley, JP Crawley, MW Gatting, AJ Lamb, DR Pringle and
MJK Smith

Australia - R Benaud, GS Blewett, J Dyson, AL Hassett, GRA Langley,
DS Lehmann, KD Mackay, KR Miller, MA Noble, AP Sheahan and ME Waugh

South Africa - HH Dippenaar, AW Nourse and KG Viljoen

West Indies - KLT Arthurton, D Ganga, GE Gomez, CL Hooper and
PV Simmons

New Zealand - JJ Crowe, MD Crowe, MJ Horne, JM Parker, KR Rutherford
and MS Sinclair

India - RMH Binny, AD Gaekwad, VS Hazare, VVS Laxman, Maninder Singh,
VL Manjrekar, NR Mongia, RG Nadkarni, GS Ramchand, PR Umrigar,
DB Vengsarkar and Yashpal Sharma

Pakistan - Nasim-ul-Ghani

Sri Lanka - RP Arnold, MS Atapattu, HDPK Dharmansena and
RS Kaluwitharana

B. Players whose Test batting averages were at least 5 percentage
points higher than their first-class averages (qualification - at least
25 Tests):

              Test   1st-class
Diff    Ms    Avrge    Avrge
13.04   82    58.67    45.63    KF Barrington (Eng)
 9.24   58    40.43    31.19    AW Greig (Eng)
 9.14   44    49.27    40.13    KC Sangakkara (SL)
 8.71   54    60.73    50.02    H Sutcliffe (Eng)
 8.52   28    43.86    35.34    G Pullar (Eng)
 7.57   59    43.00    35.43    ME Trescothick (Eng)
 7.12   62    47.89    40.75    ER Dexter (Eng)
 6.70   39    25.50    18.80    DA Allen (Eng)
 6.58   30    45.74    39.16    EJ Barlow (SAf)
 6.55   65    52.67    46.12    AC Gilchrist (Aus)
 6.24   61    56.94    50.70    JB Hobbs (Eng)
 6.21   28    39.69    33.48    MH Denness (Eng)
 6.16   28    35.59    29.43    RW Barber (Eng)
 5.98   30    43.55    37.57    LG Rowe (WI)
 5.70   55    44.20    38.50    MP Vaughan (Eng)
 5.56   41    46.06    40.50    M Leyland (Eng)

aslam
GO PACERS!!!

I'd expect Michael Bevan and David Hookes to feature high on the list.
(Just checked... Hookes' difference is <10, which surprised me. Bevan,
OTOH, might top the list).

--
Peter