Most Balls Faced in 1981 for Test

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	2713	Geoff Boycott	England
2	2296	Allan Border	Australia
3	2010	Kim Hughes	Australia
4	1943	David Gower	England
5	1716	Graeme Wood	Australia
6	1563	Graham Gooch	England
7	1480	Sunil Gavaskar	India
8	1369	Chris Tavaré	England
9	1150	Greg Chappell	Australia
10	1040	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
11	1027	Chetan Chauhan	India
12	1023	Rod Marsh	Australia
13	949	Peter Willey	England
14	926	Gundappa Viswanath	India
15	891	John Reid	New Zealand
16	841	Sir Ian Botham	England
17	836	Graham Yallop	Australia
17	836	John Dyson	Australia
18	830	Sandeep Patil	India
19	825	Mike Gatting	England
20	800	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
21	784	Bruce Laird	Australia
22	769	Syed Kirmani	India
23	738	John Wright	New Zealand
24	715	Larry Gomes	West Indies
25	667	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
26	644	Dirk Wellham	Australia
27	643	John Emburey	England
28	638	Dennis Lillee	Australia
29	633	Ravi Shastri	India
30	577	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
31	470	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
32	434	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
33	430	Doug Walters	Australia
34	426	Graham Dilley	England
35	418	Trevor Chappell	Australia
36	412	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
37	401	Everton Mattis	West Indies
38	400	Mike Brearley	England
39	382	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
40	379	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
41	374	Yashpal Sharma	India
42	355	Ray Bright	Australia
43	352	Wasim Raja	Pakistan
44	344	Shivlal Yadav	India
44	344	Kapil Dev	India
45	334	Martin Kent	Australia
46	331	Alan Knott	England
47	304	Bruce Yardley	Australia
48	300	Jeremy Coney	New Zealand
49	298	Paul Downton	England
50	293	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
51	292	Kirti Azad	India
52	279	Karsan Ghavri	India
53	272	David Murray	West Indies
54	264	Keith Fletcher	England
55	254	Majid Khan	Pakistan
56	249	Jock Edwards	New Zealand
57	223	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
57	223	Bob Taylor	England
58	211	Jeff Dujon	West Indies
59	205	Andy Roberts	New Zealand
60	190	Imran Khan
61	186	Tirumalai Srinivasan	India
62	175	Joel Garner	West Indies
63	173	Paul Allott	England
64	160	Roland Butcher	England
65	156	Terry Alderman	Australia
66	154	Madan Lal	India
66	154	Colin Croft	West Indies
67	153	Wayne Larkins	England
68	139	Michael Holding	West Indies
69	133	Bob Woolmer	England
69	133	Kris Srikkanth	India
70	125	Ian Smith	New Zealand
71	119	Dilip Doshi	India
72	111	Mansoor Akhtar	Pakistan
73	110	Roger Binny	India
74	107	Lance Cairns	New Zealand
75	104	Bob Willis	England
75	104	Rodney Hogg	Australia
76	98	Geoff Lawson	Australia
77	97	Sarfraz Nawaz	Pakistan
78	95	Ijaz Faqih	Pakistan
79	93	Robin Jackman	England
80	89	Chris Old	England
81	83	Jeff Thomson	Australia
81	83	Iqbal Qasim	Pakistan
82	81	Wasim Bari	Pakistan
83	77	Sir Richard Hadlee	New Zealand
84	69	Derek Underwood	England
85	65	Mike Whitney	Australia
86	59	Bill Athey	England
87	54	Jim Higgs	Australia
88	50	Yograj Singh	India
89	49	Len Pascoe	Australia
89	49	Paul Parker	England
90	47	Malcolm Marshall	West Indies
91	46	Brian Rose	England
92	40	Geoff Miller	England
93	38	John Bracewell	New Zealand
94	32	Rizwan-uz-Zaman	Pakistan
95	25	Martin Snedden	New Zealand
96	16	Mike Hendrick	England
97	14	John Lever	England
97	14	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan
98	11	Faoud Bacchus	West Indies
99	7	Graham Stevenson	England
100	4	David Bairstow	England
101	2	Gary Troup	New Zealand