Most Balls Faced in 1978 for all time

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	2655	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1759	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
3	1757	David Gower	England
4	1735	Clive Radley	England
5	1473	Graham Roope	England
6	1270	Sir Ian Botham	England
7	1218	Mike Brearley	England
8	1163	Bob Taylor	England
9	1134	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
10	1096	Geoff Miller	England
11	1057	Graham Gooch	England
12	1025	Derek Randall	England
13	959	John Wright	New Zealand
14	917	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
15	907	Sunil Gavaskar	India
16	811	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
17	790	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
18	769	Kim Hughes	Australia
19	732	John Parker	New Zealand
20	731	Graeme Wood	Australia
21	730	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
22	662	Peter Toohey	Australia
23	654	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
24	653	Robert Anderson	New Zealand
25	606	Graham Yallop	Australia
26	599	Chetan Chauhan	India
27	540	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
28	518	Gundappa Viswanath	India
29	502	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
30	495	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
31	479	Gary Cosier	Australia
32	478	Bob Simpson	Australia
33	456	Phil Edmonds	England
34	422	Bob Willis	England
35	420	Rick Darling	Australia
36	389	Brian Rose	England
37	377	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
38	361	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
39	331	Mohinder Amarnath	India
40	310	Syed Kirmani	India
41	304	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
42	298	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
43	294	Chris Old	England
44	288	John Maclean	Australia
45	280	Karsan Ghavri	India
46	279	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
47	270	David Murray	West Indies
48	254	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
49	237	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
50	225	John Lever	England
51	206	Kapil Dev	India
52	203	Rodney Hogg	Australia
53	193	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
53	193	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
54	185	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
54	185	Bruce Yardley	Australia
55	183	Geoff Cope	England
56	171	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan
57	165	John Dyson	Australia
58	162	Barry Wood	England
59	147	Steve Rixon	Australia
59	147	Talat Ali	Pakistan
60	136	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
61	134	Geoff Dymock	Australia
62	132	Larry Gomes	West Indies
63	131	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
63	131	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
64	127	Allan Border	Australia
65	121	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan
65	121	Derick Parry	West Indies
66	119	Basil Williams	West Indies
66	119	Majid Khan	Pakistan
66	119	Surinder Amarnath	India
67	117	Erapalli Prasanna	India
67	117	Mike Hendrick	England
68	104	Mike Gatting	England
69	102	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
70	87	Deryck Murray	West Indies
71	81	John Emburey	England
72	77	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
73	73	Azmat Rana	Pakistan
73	73	Craig Serjeant	Australia
74	72	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
75	67	Hasan Jamil	Pakistan
76	66	Jeff Thomson	Australia
77	61	David Lloyd	England
78	53	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
79	51	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
80	50	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
80	50	Warren Lees	New Zealand
81	48	Bishan Bedi	India
82	47	Arshad Pervez	Pakistan
83	44	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
84	43	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
85	41	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
86	38	Irvine Shillingford	West Indies
87	30	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
88	29	Jim Higgs	Australia
89	26	Yashpal Sharma	India
90	25	Wayne Clark	Australia
91	23	Alan Hurst	Australia
91	23	Ashok Mankad	India
92	21	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
92	21	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
92	21	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
93	20	Imran Khan
93	20	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
94	18	Joel Garner	West Indies
94	18	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
95	15	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
96	13	Richard Austin	West Indies
96	13	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
97	12	Wayne Daniel	West Indies
98	9	Ian Callen	Australia
99	8	Naeem Ahmed	Pakistan
100	7	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
101	6	Sam Gannon	Australia
101	6	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
102	5	Colin Croft	West Indies
103	4	Tony Mann	Australia
104	0	David Ogilvie	Australia
104	0	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
104	0	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
104	0	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
104	0	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
104	0	Maurice Foster	West Indies