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Most Balls Faced in 1981: Top Performers, Rankings & Full Stats
This page shows players with the most balls faced during the 1981 season, ranking them by their on-field performances.
ODI
1981
107 entries
1
1075
Graeme Wood
AUS
355 clear of Allan Border
2
720
Allan Border
AUS
355 off the lead
3
669
John Wright
NZ
406 off the lead
● LEADS
Graeme Wood
AUS
1075 · 355 ahead of Border
↑ IN THE CHASE
0
players within 10% of the lead — Wood is out on their own
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
374
The mark at number ten — 97 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
13 of the top 50 · 8 teams represented
Most Balls Faced — full list
107 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Graeme Wood
AUS
1075
2
Allan Border
AUS
720
3
John Wright
NZ
669
4
Bruce Edgar
NZ
635
5
Greg Chappell
AUS
608
6
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
508
7
Kim Hughes
AUS
461
8
Desmond Haynes
WI
445
9
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
380
10
Mike Gatting
ENG
374
11
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
338
12
Clive Lloyd
WI
298
13
Roger Binny
IND
284
14
Graham Gooch
ENG
282
14
Geoff Howarth
NZ
282
15
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
266
16
Rick Darling
AUS
265
17
Doug Walters
AUS
256
18
Javed Miandad
PAK
255
19
David Gower
ENG
254
20
Gordon Greenidge
WI
250
21
Geoff Boycott
ENG
246
21
Bruce Laird
AUS
246
22
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
229
23
Graham Yallop
AUS
222
24
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
218
25
Rod Marsh
AUS
213
26
Yashpal Sharma
IND
209
27
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
191
28
Everton Mattis
WI
190
29
Mark Burgess
NZ
173
30
Sir Viv Richards
WI
169
31
Sandeep Patil
IND
164
32
Jeremy Coney
NZ
158
33
Peter Willey
ENG
143
34
Kirti Azad
IND
142
35
Kapil Dev
IND
139
36
Faoud Bacchus
WI
136
36
Larry Gomes
WI
136
37
Mohsin Khan
HK
135
38
Martin Kent
AUS
133
39
Imran Khan
BHR
121
40
Trevor Chappell
AUS
115
41
John Dyson
AUS
109
42
Keith Fletcher
ENG
105
43
Majid Khan
PAK
103
44
Chetan Chauhan
IND
101
45
Ijaz Faqih
PAK
100
45
Jim Love
ENG
100
46
Dennis Lillee
AUS
93
47
Syed Kirmani
IND
89
47
John Parker
NZ
89
48
Ian Smith
NZ
86
49
Lance Cairns
NZ
85
50
Wasim Raja
PAK
81
51
Jock Edwards
NZ
75
52
Dirk Wellham
AUS
69
53
Malcolm Marshall
WI
60
54
Geoff Lawson
AUS
59
55
Bruce Yardley
AUS
58
56
Paul McEwan
NZ
57
57
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
55
58
Karsan Ghavri
IND
54
59
David Bairstow
ENG
52
59
Rizwan-uz-Zaman
PAK
52
60
Ashraf Ali
PAK
48
61
Martin Snedden
NZ
45
62
Geoff Cook
ENG
44
63
Tahir Naqqash
PAK
43
64
Kris Srikkanth
IND
40
65
Shaun Graf
AUS
36
66
Andy Roberts
NZ
35
67
Graham Stevenson
ENG
32
68
Roland Butcher
ENG
30
69
Ravi Shastri
IND
28
69
Jeff Thomson
AUS
28
69
Joel Garner
WI
28
70
David Murray
WI
26
70
Mansoor Akhtar
PAK
26
71
Robin Jackman
ENG
25
72
Geoff Humpage
ENG
24
73
Tirumalai Srinivasan
IND
23
74
Michael Holding
WI
22
75
Max Walker
AUS
21
75
John Emburey
ENG
21
76
Ray Bright
AUS
20
76
Bharath Reddy
IND
20
77
Terry Alderman
AUS
18
78
Madan Lal
IND
17
78
Rodney Hogg
AUS
17
79
Ewen Chatfield
NZ
13
79
Sikander Bakht
PAK
13
80
Brian McKechnie
NZ
12
81
Yograj Singh
IND
11
82
Dilip Doshi
IND
10
82
Len Pascoe
AUS
10
82
Gary Robertson
NZ
10
83
Gary Troup
NZ
9
84
Bob Willis
ENG
8
84
Colin Croft
WI
8
84
Alvin Kallicharran
WI
8
85
Jeff Dujon
WI
7
86
Graham Dilley
ENG
5
87
Mike Hendrick
ENG
4
87
Wasim Bari
PAK
4
88
Chris Old
ENG
3
89
Jack Richards
ENG
1
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