Most Balls Faced in 1979 for all time

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	3196	Allan Border	Australia
2	3009	Kim Hughes	Australia
3	2638	Sunil Gavaskar	India
4	2467	Geoff Boycott	England
5	2456	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
6	2260	Gundappa Viswanath	India
7	1830	Graham Yallop	Australia
8	1701	Mike Brearley	England
9	1668	Chetan Chauhan	India
10	1581	Yashpal Sharma	India
11	1425	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
12	1352	Graham Gooch	England
13	1183	Derek Randall	England
14	1129	David Gower	England
15	1058	Greg Chappell	Australia
16	1032	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
17	1014	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
18	979	Rick Darling	Australia
19	956	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
20	954	Sir Ian Botham	England
21	880	Bob Taylor	England
22	868	Geoff Miller	England
23	852	Bruce Laird	Australia
24	849	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
25	826	Syed Kirmani	India
26	745	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
27	743	Graeme Wood	Australia
28	691	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
29	684	Majid Khan	Pakistan
30	672	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
31	671	Kapil Dev	India
32	657	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
33	638	Kevin Wright	Australia
34	608	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
35	594	Karsan Ghavri	India
36	583	Dav Whatmore	Australia
37	518	Peter Willey	England
38	505	Geoff Dymock	Australia
39	475	Bruce Yardley	Australia
40	473	Imran Khan
41	436	Julien Wiener	Australia
42	433	Rodney Hogg	Australia
43	403	Rod Marsh	Australia
44	393	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
45	348	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
46	343	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
47	332	John Wright	New Zealand
48	320	Jim Higgs	Australia
49	314	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
50	312	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
51	302	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
52	294	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
53	279	Peter Sleep	Australia
54	268	Peter Toohey	Australia
55	261	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
56	256	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
57	253	Bob Willis	England
58	247	Phil Edmonds	England
59	239	Dennis Lillee	Australia
60	233	Deryck Murray	West Indies
60	233	David Bairstow	England
61	228	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
62	223	Graham Dilley	England
63	221	John Emburey	England
64	214	Roger Binny	India
65	198	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
66	184	Collis King	West Indies
67	180	Ray Bright	Australia
68	176	Mohinder Amarnath	India
68	176	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
68	176	Joel Garner	West Indies
69	174	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
70	171	David Hookes	Australia
70	171	Franklyn Dennis	Canada
71	169	Yajurvindra Singh	India
72	167	Shivlal Yadav	India
73	156	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
73	156	Alan Butcher	England
74	152	Jeff Moss	Australia
75	149	Glenroy Sealy	Canada
76	143	Christopher Chappell	Canada
77	141	Alan Hurst	Australia
78	140	Sunil Wettimuny	Sri Lanka
79	134	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka
80	123	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
81	116	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
82	115	Ian Chappell	Australia
83	111	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
84	109	Bandula Warnapura	Sri Lanka
85	108	Dilip Doshi	India
86	106	Brijesh Patel	India
87	102	John Maclean	Australia
88	100	Bharath Reddy	India
89	96	Anura Tennekoon	Sri Lanka
90	93	Phil Carlson	Australia
90	93	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
91	87	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
92	86	Rick McCosker	Australia
93	85	Mike Hendrick	England
94	84	Duleep Mendis	Sri Lanka
95	82	Colin Croft	West Indies
96	80	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
97	77	Tariq Javed	Canada
98	68	Bryan Mauricette	Canada
99	62	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
99	62	Doug Walters	Australia
100	55	John Vaughan	Canada
101	53	Brian McKechnie	New Zealand
102	52	Bishan Bedi	India
103	51	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
104	45	Martin Stead	Canada
104	45	Surinder Khanna	India
104	45	Gary Cosier	Australia
105	42	Michael Holding	West Indies
106	41	John Morrison	New Zealand
106	41	Cecil Marshall	Canada
107	38	Wayne Larkins	England
108	35	Chris Old	England
108	35	Stanley De Silva	Sri Lanka
109	29	Max Walker	Australia
110	28	Jeff Thomson	Australia
110	28	Somachandra De Silva	Sri Lanka
110	28	Sudath Pasqual	Sri Lanka
111	27	Tony Opatha	Sri Lanka
111	27	Derek Underwood	England
112	25	Warren Lees	New Zealand
113	23	Jitendra Patel	Canada
114	22	John Lever	England
114	22	Wayne Clark	Australia
115	17	John Valentine	Canada
116	16	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
116	16	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
117	14	Cornelius Henry	Canada
118	13	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
119	11	Ajit de Silva	Sri Lanka
120	9	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
120	9	Graeme Porter	Australia
121	6	Charles Baksh	Canada
122	5	Robert Callender	Canada
122	5	Derick Parry	West Indies
123	4	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
124	3	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
124	3	Gary Troup	New Zealand
124	3	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
124	3	Sunil Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka
125	0	Dhiraj Parsana	India
125	0	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
125	0	John Parker	New Zealand
125	0	John Reid	New Zealand
125	0	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
125	0	Talat Ali	Pakistan
125	0	David Murray	West Indies
125	0	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
125	0	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
125	0	Basil Williams	West Indies
125	0	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
125	0	Herbert Chang	West Indies
125	0	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
125	0	Larry Gomes	West Indies
125	0	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies
125	0	Anwar Khan	Pakistan
125	0	Vanburn Holder	West Indies