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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.
TEST
1981
110 entries
1
975
Geoff Boycott
ENG
44 clear of Kim Hughes
2
931
Kim Hughes
AUS
44 off the lead
3
915
Allan Border
AUS
60 off the lead
● LEADS
Geoff Boycott
ENG
975 · 44 ahead of Hughes
↑ IN THE CHASE
2
players sit within 10% of the lead on most runs
★ TOP-10 CUT-OFF
531
The mark at number ten — 100 entries sit below it
● NATION IN FRONT
Australia
13 of the top 50 · 7 teams represented
Most Runs — full list
110 entries, ranked
Table view
1
Geoff Boycott
ENG
975
2
Kim Hughes
AUS
931
3
Allan Border
AUS
915
4
Graham Gooch
ENG
791
5
Graeme Wood
AUS
771
6
David Gower
ENG
767
7
Sir Ian Botham
ENG
629
8
Greg Chappell
AUS
625
9
Sandeep Patil
IND
575
10
Sunil Gavaskar
IND
531
11
Rod Marsh
AUS
464
12
Chris Tavaré
ENG
437
13
Gundappa Viswanath
IND
432
14
Clive Lloyd
WI
431
15
Peter Willey
ENG
423
16
Mike Gatting
ENG
406
17
Dilip Vengsarkar
IND
399
18
Chetan Chauhan
IND
388
19
Graham Yallop
AUS
374
20
Sir Viv Richards
WI
342
21
Syed Kirmani
IND
324
22
Bruce Laird
AUS
314
23
John Dyson
AUS
283
24
Larry Gomes
WI
278
25
Desmond Haynes
WI
263
26
John Reid
NZ
250
27
Kapil Dev
IND
241
28
Dennis Lillee
AUS
233
29
Gordon Greenidge
WI
223
30
Graham Dilley
ENG
222
31
Dirk Wellham
AUS
221
32
Doug Walters
AUS
216
33
Javed Miandad
PAK
205
34
John Wright
NZ
201
35
Wasim Raja
PAK
181
36
Ravi Shastri
IND
178
36
Alan Knott
ENG
178
37
John Emburey
ENG
173
38
Geoff Howarth
NZ
172
39
Martin Kent
AUS
171
40
Zaheer Abbas
PAK
170
41
Mudassar Nazar
PAK
169
42
Everton Mattis
WI
145
43
Mike Brearley
ENG
141
44
Jock Edwards
NZ
133
45
Ray Bright
AUS
127
46
Majid Khan
PAK
121
47
Bruce Edgar
NZ
117
47
David Murray
WI
117
48
Imran Khan
BHR
108
48
Bruce Yardley
AUS
108
49
Kirti Azad
IND
107
50
Keith Fletcher
ENG
106
51
Andy Roberts
NZ
105
52
Michael Holding
WI
93
53
Jeremy Coney
NZ
92
54
Joel Garner
WI
91
55
Jeff Dujon
WI
84
55
Kris Srikkanth
IND
84
56
Yashpal Sharma
IND
83
57
Shivlal Yadav
IND
80
58
Trevor Chappell
AUS
79
59
Roland Butcher
ENG
71
59
Mohsin Khan
HK
71
60
Madan Lal
IND
68
61
Karsan Ghavri
IND
66
61
Paul Allott
ENG
66
61
Bob Taylor
ENG
66
62
Chris Old
ENG
64
63
Paul Downton
ENG
59
64
Wayne Larkins
ENG
58
65
Bob Willis
ENG
57
66
Ian Smith
NZ
56
67
Ijaz Faqih
PAK
55
68
Colin Croft
WI
54
68
Lance Cairns
NZ
54
69
Sarfraz Nawaz
PAK
52
70
Jeff Thomson
AUS
49
71
Tirumalai Srinivasan
IND
48
72
Terry Alderman
AUS
43
73
Mansoor Akhtar
PAK
42
74
Wasim Bari
PAK
40
74
Geoff Lawson
AUS
40
74
Roger Binny
IND
40
75
Rodney Hogg
AUS
37
76
Bob Woolmer
ENG
30
77
Sir Richard Hadlee
NZ
29
78
Derek Underwood
ENG
25
78
Dilip Doshi
IND
25
78
Iqbal Qasim
PAK
25
79
Len Pascoe
AUS
17
80
Brian Rose
ENG
15
80
Malcolm Marshall
WI
15
81
Robin Jackman
ENG
14
82
Paul Parker
ENG
13
83
Geoff Miller
ENG
11
84
Yograj Singh
IND
10
85
Rizwan-uz-Zaman
PAK
8
86
Bill Athey
ENG
7
87
Mike Hendrick
ENG
6
87
Sikander Bakht
PAK
6
88
Mike Whitney
AUS
4
89
John Lever
ENG
3
89
Jim Higgs
AUS
3
90
David Bairstow
ENG
2
90
Martin Snedden
NZ
2
91
John Bracewell
NZ
1
91
Faoud Bacchus
WI
1
91
Graham Stevenson
ENG
1
92
Gary Troup
NZ
0
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