Most Balls Faced in 1981 for all time

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	3016	Allan Border	Australia
2	2959	Geoff Boycott	England
3	2791	Graeme Wood	Australia
4	2471	Kim Hughes	Australia
5	2197	David Gower	England
6	1845	Graham Gooch	England
7	1758	Greg Chappell	Australia
8	1746	Sunil Gavaskar	India
9	1548	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
10	1407	John Wright	New Zealand
11	1369	Chris Tavaré	England
12	1236	Rod Marsh	Australia
13	1199	Mike Gatting	England
14	1128	Chetan Chauhan	India
15	1117	Gundappa Viswanath	India
16	1112	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
17	1098	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
18	1092	Peter Willey	England
19	1070	Sir Ian Botham	England
20	1058	Graham Yallop	Australia
21	1047	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
22	1030	Bruce Laird	Australia
23	994	Sandeep Patil	India
24	945	John Dyson	Australia
25	891	John Reid	New Zealand
26	858	Syed Kirmani	India
27	851	Larry Gomes	West Indies
28	759	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
29	746	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
30	731	Dennis Lillee	Australia
31	720	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
32	716	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
33	713	Dirk Wellham	Australia
34	686	Doug Walters	Australia
35	664	John Emburey	England
36	661	Ravi Shastri	India
37	637	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
38	631	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
39	591	Everton Mattis	West Indies
40	583	Yashpal Sharma	India
41	533	Trevor Chappell	Australia
42	483	Kapil Dev	India
43	467	Martin Kent	Australia
44	458	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
45	434	Kirti Azad	India
46	433	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
47	431	Graham Dilley	England
48	400	Mike Brearley	England
49	394	Roger Binny	India
50	375	Ray Bright	Australia
51	369	Keith Fletcher	England
52	362	Bruce Yardley	Australia
53	358	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
54	357	Majid Khan	Pakistan
55	344	Shivlal Yadav	India
56	333	Karsan Ghavri	India
57	331	Alan Knott	England
58	324	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
59	311	Imran Khan
60	298	David Murray	West Indies
60	298	Paul Downton	England
61	295	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
62	265	Rick Darling	Australia
63	240	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
64	223	Bob Taylor	England
65	218	Jeff Dujon	West Indies
66	211	Ian Smith	New Zealand
67	209	Tirumalai Srinivasan	India
68	203	Joel Garner	West Indies
69	195	Ijaz Faqih	Pakistan
70	192	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
71	190	Roland Butcher	England
72	174	Terry Alderman	Australia
73	173	Paul Allott	England
73	173	Kris Srikkanth	India
73	173	Mark Burgess	New Zealand
74	171	Madan Lal	India
75	162	Colin Croft	West Indies
76	161	Michael Holding	West Indies
77	157	Geoff Lawson	Australia
78	153	Wayne Larkins	England
79	152	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
80	147	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
81	137	Mansoor Akhtar	Pakistan
82	133	Bob Woolmer	England
83	129	Dilip Doshi	India
84	121	Rodney Hogg	Australia
85	118	Robin Jackman	England
86	112	Bob Willis	England
87	111	Jeff Thomson	Australia
88	107	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
89	100	Jim Love	England
90	92	Chris Old	England
91	89	John Parker	New Zealand
92	85	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
93	84	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
94	83	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
95	70	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
96	69	Derek Underwood	England
97	65	Mike Whitney	Australia
98	61	Yograj Singh	India
99	59	Len Pascoe	Australia
99	59	Bill Athey	England
100	57	Paul McEwan	New Zealand
101	56	David Bairstow	England
102	54	Jim Higgs	Australia
103	49	Paul Parker	England
104	48	Ashraf Ali	Pakistan
105	46	Brian Rose	England
106	44	Geoff Cook	England
107	43	Tahir Naqqash	Pakistan
108	40	Geoff Miller	England
109	39	Graham Stevenson	England
110	38	John Bracewell	New Zealand
111	36	Shaun Graf	Australia
112	27	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
113	24	Geoff Humpage	England
114	21	Max Walker	Australia
115	20	Bharath Reddy	India
115	20	Mike Hendrick	England
116	14	John Lever	England
117	13	Ewen Chatfield	New Zealand
118	12	Brian McKechnie	New Zealand
119	11	Gary Troup	New Zealand
120	10	Gary Robertson	New Zealand
121	8	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
122	1	Jack Richards	England