Most Balls Faced in 1979: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats

Here is the complete breakdown of the most balls faced in 1979, featuring the most impactful players of the year.

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	2778	Allan Border	Australia
2	2641	Kim Hughes	Australia
3	2433	Sunil Gavaskar	India
4	2390	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
5	2054	Gundappa Viswanath	India
6	1668	Chetan Chauhan	India
7	1592	Geoff Boycott	England
8	1581	Yashpal Sharma	India
9	1555	Graham Yallop	Australia
10	1119	Andrew Hilditch	Australia
11	1055	Mike Brearley	England
12	981	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
13	862	Geoff Miller	England
14	841	Graham Gooch	England
15	833	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan
16	826	Syed Kirmani	India
17	809	Derek Randall	England
18	795	Bob Taylor	England
19	778	Rick Darling	Australia
20	747	Sir Ian Botham	England
21	739	Bruce Laird	Australia
22	731	David Gower	England
23	679	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
24	651	Greg Chappell	Australia
25	616	Kapil Dev	India
26	586	Kevin Wright	Australia
27	583	Dav Whatmore	Australia
28	571	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
29	561	Graeme Wood	Australia
30	538	Karsan Ghavri	India
31	521	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
32	475	Bruce Yardley	Australia
33	461	Geoff Dymock	Australia
34	437	Majid Khan	Pakistan
35	410	Rodney Hogg	Australia
36	378	Imran Khan
37	369	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
38	342	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
39	320	Jim Higgs	Australia
40	312	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan
41	303	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
42	280	Anshuman Gaekwad	India
43	279	Peter Sleep	Australia
44	276	Julien Wiener	Australia
45	261	Abdul Qadir	Pakistan
46	260	Rod Marsh	Australia
47	221	John Emburey	England
48	218	Graham Dilley	England
49	214	Roger Binny	India
50	211	Peter Willey	England
51	206	Bob Willis	England
52	195	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies
53	185	Peter Toohey	Australia
54	183	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
55	181	Dennis Lillee	Australia
56	177	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
57	174	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
57	174	Phil Edmonds	England
58	169	Yajurvindra Singh	India
59	167	Shivlal Yadav	India
60	156	Alan Butcher	England
61	148	David Bairstow	England
62	142	David Hookes	Australia
63	141	Mohinder Amarnath	India
64	136	Jeff Moss	Australia
65	131	Ray Bright	Australia
66	125	Alan Hurst	Australia
67	123	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
68	121	Joel Garner	West Indies
68	121	Haroon Rasheed	Pakistan
69	120	Deryck Murray	West Indies
70	114	Sadiq Mohammad	Pakistan
71	113	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
72	111	Bobjee Narasimha Rao	India
73	110	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
74	108	Dilip Doshi	India
75	100	Bharath Reddy	India
76	93	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
77	82	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India
78	79	Rick McCosker	Australia
79	78	Mike Hendrick	England
80	77	Colin Croft	West Indies
81	69	John Maclean	Australia
82	63	Phil Carlson	Australia
83	51	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
84	31	Michael Holding	West Indies
85	27	Derek Underwood	England
85	27	Jeff Thomson	Australia
86	26	Collis King	West Indies
87	22	Wayne Clark	Australia
88	16	Ehteshamuddin	Pakistan
89	9	Bishan Bedi	India
90	8	John Lever	England
91	4	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
92	3	Alvin Greenidge	West Indies
92	3	Bhagwath Chandrasekhar	India
93	0	Dhiraj Parsana	India
93	0	John Reid	New Zealand
93	0	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
93	0	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
93	0	John Parker	New Zealand
93	0	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
93	0	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
93	0	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
93	0	David Murray	West Indies
93	0	Norbert Phillip	West Indies
93	0	Sew Shivnarine	West Indies
93	0	Basil Williams	West Indies
93	0	Derick Parry	West Indies
93	0	Sylvester Clarke	West Indies
93	0	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
93	0	Herbert Chang	West Indies
93	0	Warren Lees	New Zealand
93	0	Gary Troup	New Zealand
93	0	Stephen Boock	New Zealand
93	0	John Wright	New Zealand
93	0	Brendon Bracewell	New Zealand
93	0	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
93	0	Talat Ali	Pakistan
93	0	Anwar Khan	Pakistan
93	0	Larry Gomes	West Indies
93	0	Vanburn Holder	West Indies
93	0	Raphick Jumadeen	West Indies