Most Balls Faced in 1978: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the most balls faced in 1978, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	2626	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1642	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
3	1509	David Gower	England
4	1368	Clive Radley	England
5	1286	Graham Roope	England
6	1212	Sir Ian Botham	England
7	1137	Bob Taylor	England
8	1074	Geoff Miller	England
9	1073	Mike Brearley	England
10	926	Graham Gooch	England
11	908	Derek Randall	England
11	908	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
12	898	Sunil Gavaskar	India
13	873	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
14	859	John Wright	New Zealand
15	769	Kim Hughes	Australia
16	716	John Parker	New Zealand
17	714	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
18	676	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
19	674	Graeme Wood	Australia
20	629	Robert Anderson	New Zealand
21	620	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
22	612	Peter Toohey	Australia
23	582	Graham Yallop	Australia
24	581	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
25	560	Chetan Chauhan	India
26	482	Gundappa Viswanath	India
27	465	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
28	451	Phil Edmonds	England
29	440	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
30	425	Bob Simpson	Australia
31	422	Bob Willis	England
32	417	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
33	401	Gary Cosier	Australia
34	389	Brian Rose	England
35	351	Rick Darling	Australia
36	315	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
37	296	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
38	293	Syed Kirmani	India
39	288	John Maclean	Australia
40	281	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
41	264	Karsan Ghavri	India
42	262	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
43	258	David Murray	West Indies
44	250	Chris Old	England
45	239	Richard Collinge	New Zealand
46	217	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
47	213	John Lever	England
48	203	Rodney Hogg	Australia
49	185	Mohinder Amarnath	India
49	185	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
50	182	Geoff Cope	England
51	178	Kapil Dev	India
52	173	Bruce Yardley	Australia
53	165	John Dyson	Australia
54	156	Shafiq Ahmed	Pakistan
55	147	Talat Ali	Pakistan
56	134	Geoff Dymock	Australia
57	127	Allan Border	Australia
58	126	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
58	126	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
59	119	Basil Williams	West Indies
60	117	Larry Gomes	West Indies
60	117	Erapalli Prasanna	India
61	114	Derick Parry	West Indies
62	113	Mike Hendrick	England
63	97	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
64	95	Steve Rixon	Australia
65	90	Liaqat Ali	Pakistan
66	87	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
67	85	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
68	81	John Emburey	England
69	77	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
70	72	Mike Gatting	England
71	65	Jeff Thomson	Australia
72	52	Barry Wood	England
73	50	Warren Lees	New Zealand
74	48	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
75	46	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
76	44	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
77	41	Craig Serjeant	Australia
78	38	Bishan Bedi	India
79	29	Jim Higgs	Australia
80	25	Wayne Clark	Australia
81	23	Alan Hurst	Australia
81	23	Ashok Mankad	India
82	21	Dayle Hadlee	New Zealand
82	21	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
83	20	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
83	20	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
84	18	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
85	15	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
86	11	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
87	8	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
88	6	Sam Gannon	Australia
89	4	Tony Mann	Australia
89	4	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
90	0	Surinder Amarnath	India
90	0	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
90	0	David Ogilvie	Australia
90	0	Ian Callen	Australia
90	0	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
90	0	Colin Croft	West Indies
90	0	Joel Garner	West Indies
90	0	Irvine Shillingford	West Indies
90	0	Richard Austin	West Indies
90	0	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
90	0	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
90	0	Imran Khan
90	0	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
90	0	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
90	0	Deryck Murray	West Indies
90	0	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
90	0	Maurice Foster	West Indies
90	0	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
90	0	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
90	0	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
90	0	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
90	0	Majid Khan	Pakistan