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Most Runs in 1981: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
This page shows players with the most runs during the 1981 season, ranking them by their on-field performances.
ALL FORMATS
1981
127 entries
1
1429
Graeme Wood
AUS
60 clear of Allan Border
2
1369
Allan Border
AUS
60 off the lead
3
1271
Kim Hughes
AUS
158 off the lead
● LEADS
Graeme Wood
AUS
1429 · 60 ahead of Border
↑ IN THE CHASE
1
player sits within 10% of the lead on most runs
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
688
The mark at number ten — 117 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
12 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Runs — full list
127 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Graeme Wood
AUS
1429
2
Allan Border
AUS
1369
3
Kim Hughes
AUS
1271
4
Geoff Boycott
ENG
1088
5
Greg Chappell
AUS
1079
6
Graham Gooch
ENG
949
7
David Gower
ENG
908
8
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
788
9
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
741
10
Sandeep Patil
IND
688
11
Mike Gatting
ENG
684
12
Rod Marsh
AUS
679
13
Clive Lloyd
WI
671
14
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
644
15
John Wright
NZ
579
16
Desmond Haynes
WI
557
17
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
531
18
Peter Willey
ENG
523
19
Bruce Edgar
NZ
507
20
Sir Viv Richards
WI
498
21
Graham Yallop
AUS
485
22
Bruce Laird
AUS
470
23
Chris Tavaré
ENG
437
24
Chetan Chauhan
IND
427
25
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
399
25
Javed Miandad
PAK
399
26
Doug Walters
AUS
393
27
Geoff Howarth
NZ
383
28
Gordon Greenidge
WI
371
29
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
369
30
Syed Kirmani
IND
368
31
Kapil Dev
IND
343
32
Larry Gomes
WI
334
33
John Dyson
AUS
320
34
Dennis Lillee
AUS
301
35
Dirk Wellham
AUS
263
36
John Reid
NZ
250
37
Martin Kent
AUS
249
38
Everton Mattis
WI
231
39
Wasim Raja
PAK
228
40
Graham Dilley
ENG
225
41
Jeremy Coney
NZ
211
42
Yashpal Sharma
IND
207
43
Kirti Azad
IND
199
44
Ravi Shastri
IND
197
44
Majid Khan
PAK
197
45
Jock Edwards
NZ
186
46
Imran Khan
BHR
184
47
Roger Binny
IND
183
48
John Emburey
ENG
178
48
Alan Knott
ENG
178
49
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
173
50
Rick Darling
AUS
162
51
Ray Bright
AUS
145
52
Mike Brearley
ENG
141
53
Trevor Chappell
AUS
137
53
Keith Fletcher
ENG
137
54
Bruce Yardley
AUS
136
55
Andy Roberts
NZ
126
56
Lance Cairns
NZ
124
56
David Murray
WI
124
57
Ian Smith
NZ
120
58
Mohsin Khan
HK
117
59
Ijaz Faqih
PAK
112
60
Michael Holding
WI
104
61
Kris Srikkanth
IND
101
62
Joel Garner
WI
97
63
Karsan Ghavri
IND
95
63
Geoff Lawson
AUS
95
64
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
91
65
Mark Burgess
NZ
90
66
Jeff Dujon
WI
84
67
Shivlal Yadav
IND
80
68
Roland Butcher
ENG
77
69
Faoud Bacchus
WI
76
70
Madan Lal
IND
74
71
Bob Taylor
ENG
66
71
Paul Allott
ENG
66
72
John Parker
NZ
65
72
Chris Old
ENG
65
73
Jeff Thomson
AUS
63
74
Jim Love
ENG
61
75
Malcolm Marshall
WI
60
75
Bob Willis
ENG
60
76
Paul Downton
ENG
59
77
Wayne Larkins
ENG
58
78
Colin Croft
WI
56
78
Mansoor Akhtar
PAK
56
79
Terry Alderman
AUS
53
80
Tirumalai Srinivasan
IND
52
81
Wasim Bari
PAK
44
82
Rodney Hogg
AUS
40
83
Dilip Doshi
IND
32
84
Bob Woolmer
ENG
30
84
Robin Jackman
ENG
30
84
Ashraf Ali
PAK
30
85
Martin Snedden
NZ
27
85
Paul McEwan
NZ
27
86
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
25
86
Derek Underwood
ENG
25
87
David Bairstow
ENG
23
88
Rizwan-uz-Zaman
PAK
22
88
Tahir Naqqash
PAK
22
89
Len Pascoe
AUS
20
90
Shaun Graf
AUS
19
91
Gary Robertson
NZ
17
92
Brian Rose
ENG
15
92
Graham Stevenson
ENG
15
93
Gary Troup
NZ
14
93
Geoff Cook
ENG
14
94
Paul Parker
ENG
13
95
Geoff Humpage
ENG
11
95
Geoff Miller
ENG
11
95
Yograj Singh
IND
11
95
Bharath Reddy
IND
11
96
Sikander Bakht
PAK
9
97
Bill Athey
ENG
7
98
Mike Hendrick
ENG
6
99
Mike Whitney
AUS
4
99
Max Walker
AUS
4
100
Jim Higgs
AUS
3
100
John Lever
ENG
3
101
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
2
101
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
2
102
Brian McKechnie
NZ
1
102
John Bracewell
NZ
1
103
Jack Richards
ENG
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