Most Balls Faced in 1979 for ODI

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	875	Geoff Boycott	England
2	672	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
3	646	Mike Brearley	England
4	587	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
5	549	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
6	511	Graham Gooch	England
7	418	Allan Border	Australia
8	407	Greg Chappell	Australia
9	398	David Gower	England
10	374	Derek Randall	England
11	368	Kim Hughes	Australia
12	332	John Wright	New Zealand
13	315	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
14	314	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
15	307	Peter Willey	England
16	306	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
17	275	Graham Yallop	Australia
18	247	Majid Khan	Pakistan
19	229	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
20	228	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
21	224	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
22	207	Sir Ian Botham	England
23	206	Gundappa Viswanath	India
24	205	Sunil Gavaskar	India
25	201	Rick Darling	Australia
26	182	Graeme Wood	Australia
27	181	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
27	181	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
28	171	Franklyn Dennis	Canada
29	160	Julien Wiener	Australia
30	158	Collis King	West Indies
31	156	Trevor Laughlin	Australia
32	149	Glenroy Sealy	Canada
33	143	Christopher Chappell	Canada
33	143	Rod Marsh	Australia
34	140	Sunil Wettimuny	Sri Lanka
35	135	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
36	134	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka
37	115	Ian Chappell	Australia
38	113	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
38	113	Bruce Laird	Australia
38	113	Deryck Murray	West Indies
39	109	Bandula Warnapura	Sri Lanka
40	107	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
41	106	Brijesh Patel	India
42	96	Anura Tennekoon	Sri Lanka
43	95	Imran Khan
44	93	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
45	87	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
46	85	David Bairstow	England
46	85	Bob Taylor	England
47	84	Duleep Mendis	Sri Lanka
48	83	Peter Toohey	Australia
49	80	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
50	77	Tariq Javed	Canada
51	73	Phil Edmonds	England
52	68	Bryan Mauricette	Canada
53	66	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
53	66	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
54	62	Doug Walters	Australia
54	62	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
55	58	Dennis Lillee	Australia
56	56	Karsan Ghavri	India
57	55	Kapil Dev	India
57	55	John Vaughan	Canada
57	55	Joel Garner	West Indies
58	53	Brian McKechnie	New Zealand
59	52	Kevin Wright	Australia
60	51	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
61	49	Ray Bright	Australia
62	47	Bob Willis	England
63	45	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
63	45	Gary Cosier	Australia
63	45	Surinder Khanna	India
63	45	Martin Stead	Canada
64	44	Geoff Dymock	Australia
65	43	Bishan Bedi	India
66	41	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
66	41	John Morrison	New Zealand
66	41	Cecil Marshall	Canada
67	38	Wayne Larkins	England
68	37	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
69	35	Stanley De Silva	Sri Lanka
69	35	Chris Old	England
69	35	Mohinder Amarnath	India
70	33	John Maclean	Australia
71	30	Phil Carlson	Australia
72	29	David Hookes	Australia
72	29	Max Walker	Australia
73	28	Sudath Pasqual	Sri Lanka
73	28	Somachandra De Silva	Sri Lanka
74	27	Tony Opatha	Sri Lanka
75	25	Warren Lees	New Zealand
76	23	Rodney Hogg	Australia
76	23	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
76	23	Jitendra Patel	Canada
77	17	John Valentine	Canada
78	16	Ranjan Madugalle	Sri Lanka
78	16	Alan Hurst	Australia
78	16	Jeff Moss	Australia
79	15	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
80	14	John Lever	England
80	14	Cornelius Henry	Canada
81	13	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
82	12	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
83	11	Ajit de Silva	Sri Lanka
83	11	Michael Holding	West Indies
84	9	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
84	9	Graeme Porter	Australia
85	7	Mike Hendrick	England
85	7	Rick McCosker	Australia
86	6	Geoff Miller	England
86	6	Charles Baksh	Canada
87	5	Colin Croft	West Indies
87	5	Derick Parry	West Indies
87	5	Robert Callender	Canada
87	5	Graham Dilley	England
88	3	Gary Troup	New Zealand
88	3	Sunil Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka
89	1	Jeff Thomson	Australia