Most Balls Faced – Complete Cricket Stats & Records

This page lists the players with the most balls faced in cricket history. These records highlight the most consistent and impactful performances across different eras.

Position	Most Balls Faced	Player Name	Team Name
1	50817	Sachin Tendulkar	India
1	91	Reg Simpson	England
1	14	Sir Leonard Hutton	England
1	5	Polly Umrigar	India
1	12	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	298	Peter May	England
1	218	Colin McDonald	Australia
1	3	Johnny Wardle	England
1	10	Roy McLean	South Africa
1	691	Trevor Bailey	England
1	867	Colin McDonald	Australia
1	276	Seymour Nurse	West Indies
1	522	Norm O'Neill	Australia
1	362	Ted Dexter	England
1	601	Ted Dexter	England
1	1649	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1090	Geoff Boycott	England
1	1300	Colin Cowdrey	England
1	1740	Ken Barrington	England
1	1636	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1347	John Edrich	England
1	1562	Ian Redpath	Australia
1	2088	John Edrich	England
1	1462	Ian Chappell	Australia
1	2189	Keith Fletcher	England
1	3161	Dennis Amiss	England
1	2417	Ian Chappell	Australia
1	2018	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
1	1967	Mike Brearley	England
1	2655	Geoff Boycott	England
1	3196	Allan Border	Australia
1	2495	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
1	3016	Allan Border	Australia
1	2888	Chris Tavaré	England
1	2419	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
1	3264	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
1	3365	Allan Border	Australia
1	3823	Geoff Marsh	Australia
1	3149	Chris Broad	England
1	2570	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
1	2993	Dean Jones	Australia
1	2995	Graham Gooch	England
1	2805	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
1	3420	David Boon	Australia
1	3758	David Boon	Australia
1	3633	Mike Atherton	England
1	3524	Mike Atherton	England
1	3232	Sachin Tendulkar	India
1	4157	Rahul Dravid	India
1	3196	Mark Waugh	Australia
1	4381	Rahul Dravid	India
1	3989	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	3751	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
1	4428	Rahul Dravid	India
1	3907	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	3593	Rahul Dravid	India
1	3993	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	3862	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	3602	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
1	3476	Gautam Gambhir	India
1	3444	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	3369	Hashim Amla	South Africa
1	3918	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	3810	Alastair Cook	England
1	3550	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
1	4155	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	3573	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
1	3492	Joe Root	England
1	3119	Steven Smith	Australia
1	3778	Virat Kohli	India
1	2912	Joe Root	England
1	1623	Dominic Sibley	England
1	3178	Joe Root	England
1	3499	Babar Azam	Pakistan
1	2861	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
1	2455	Joe Root	England
1	2307	Shubman Gill	India
1	459	Joe Root	England
1	31258	Rahul Dravid	India
1	91	Reg Simpson	England
1	14	Sir Leonard Hutton	England
1	5	Polly Umrigar	India
1	12	Neil Harvey	Australia
1	298	Peter May	England
1	218	Colin McDonald	Australia
1	3	Johnny Wardle	England
1	10	Roy McLean	South Africa
1	691	Trevor Bailey	England
1	867	Colin McDonald	Australia
1	276	Seymour Nurse	West Indies
1	522	Norm O'Neill	Australia
1	362	Ted Dexter	England
1	601	Ted Dexter	England
1	1649	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1090	Geoff Boycott	England
1	1300	Colin Cowdrey	England
1	1740	Ken Barrington	England
1	1636	Bill Lawry	Australia
1	1347	John Edrich	England
1	1562	Ian Redpath	Australia
1	2012	Brian Luckhurst	England
1	1322	Ian Chappell	Australia
1	2047	Keith Fletcher	England
1	3126	Dennis Amiss	England
1	2051	Ian Chappell	Australia
1	1787	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
1	1690	Mike Brearley	England
1	2626	Geoff Boycott	England
1	2778	Allan Border	Australia
1	2157	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
1	2713	Geoff Boycott	England
1	2575	Chris Tavaré	England
1	1926	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
1	2144	Allan Border	Australia
1	2310	Allan Border	Australia
1	2548	Geoff Marsh	Australia
1	1547	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
1	1549	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
1	2766	Mark Taylor	Australia
1	2267	Graham Gooch	England
1	1963	Graham Gooch	England
1	2217	David Boon	Australia
1	3025	David Boon	Australia
1	2829	Mike Atherton	England
1	3098	Mike Atherton	England
1	1689	Alec Stewart	England
1	2664	Rahul Dravid	India
1	2821	Mark Ramprakash	England
1	2328	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
1	2714	Mike Atherton	England
1	2596	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
1	3237	Rahul Dravid	India
1	2494	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	2697	Justin Langer	Australia
1	2550	Matthew Hayden	Australia
1	2854	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	2319	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
1	2516	Graeme Smith	South Africa
1	2288	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
1	2794	Sachin Tendulkar	India
1	2559	Rahul Dravid	India
1	2981	Alastair Cook	England
1	2358	Ian Bell	England
1	2608	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	3123	Alastair Cook	England
1	2569	Azhar Ali	Pakistan
1	2573	Steven Smith	Australia
1	2433	Virat Kohli	India
1	1991	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
1	1623	Dominic Sibley	England
1	3004	Joe Root	England
1	2903	Babar Azam	Pakistan
1	2792	Usman Khawaja	Australia
1	2455	Joe Root	England
1	1676	Kannaur Rahul	India
1	288	Jacob Bethell	England
1	21368	Sachin Tendulkar	India
1	119	John Edrich	England
1	276	Keith Stackpole	Australia
1	185	Dennis Amiss	England
1	319	David Lloyd	England
1	534	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
1	288	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
1	277	Mike Brearley	England
1	367	Clive Radley	England
1	875	Geoff Boycott	England
1	767	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
1	1075	Graeme Wood	Australia
1	673	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan
1	1256	David Gower	England
1	1386	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
1	1688	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
1	1309	Sunil Gavaskar	India
1	1903	Chris Broad	England
1	1341	Andrew Jones	New Zealand
1	1514	Geoff Marsh	Australia
1	1489	Dean Jones	Australia
1	1081	Geoff Marsh	Australia
1	1493	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
1	1865	Brian Lara	West Indies
1	1809	David Boon	Australia
1	922	Mark Taylor	Australia
1	1955	Sachin Tendulkar	India
1	1919	Sourav Ganguly	India
1	1903	Sourav Ganguly	India
1	2343	Rahul Dravid	India
1	2004	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
1	1673	Stuart Carlisle	Zimbabwe
1	1675	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
1	1477	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
1	1367	Rahul Dravid	India
1	1463	Rahul Dravid	India
1	1682	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	1795	Matthew Hayden	Australia
1	1333	MS Dhoni	India
1	1477	Ricky Ponting	Australia
1	1291	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh
1	1643	Jonathan Trott	England
1	1496	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	1867	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
1	1432	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
1	1542	Martin Guptill	New Zealand
1	1316	David Warner	Australia
1	1473	Virat Kohli	India
1	1188	Shai Hope	West Indies
1	1726	Shai Hope	West Indies
1	824	Aaron Finch	Australia
1	885	Paul Stirling	Ireland
1	1222	Merwe Erasmus	Namibia
1	1544	Vriitya Aravind	United Arab Emirates
1	819	Kusal Mendis	Sri Lanka
1	846	Joe Root	England
1	319	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand
1	3448	Babar Azam	Pakistan
1	67	Scott Styris	New Zealand
1	105	Graeme Smith	South Africa
1	227	Gautam Gambhir	India
1	156	Salman Butt	Pakistan
1	341	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand
1	358	Umar Akmal	Pakistan
1	135	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan
1	381	Gary Wilson	Ireland
1	387	Collins Obuya	Kenya
1	291	Aaron Finch	Australia
1	304	Jatinder Singh	Oman
1	457	Virat Kohli	India
1	468	Shikhar Dhawan	India
1	294	Babar Azam	Pakistan
1	581	Max O'Dowd	Netherlands
1	287	Kannaur Rahul	India
1	983	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan
1	810	Mohammad Rizwan	Pakistan
1	617	D Ndikubwimana	Rwanda
1	729	O Manishimwe	Rwanda
1	529	Sahibzada Farhan	Pakistan
1	59	Suryakumar Yadav	India
2	53	Glenn Phillips	New Zealand
2	494	Fiaz Ahmed	Bahrain
2	617	D Ndikubwimana	Rwanda
2	588	S Ssesazi	Uganda
2	631	Pathum Silva	Sri Lanka
2	736	Babar Azam	Pakistan
2	279	Dawid Malan	England
2	445	Babar Azam	Pakistan
2	532	Paul Stirling	Ireland
2	259	Marlon Samuels	West Indies
2	378	Rohit Sharma	India
2	245	Ben Cooper	Netherlands
2	288	Virat Kohli	India
2	369	Ed Joyce	England
2	365	Calum MacLeod	Scotland
2	298	Noor Ali Zadran	Afghanistan
2	131	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
2	333	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
2	115	Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe
2	210	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan
2	3126	Paul Stirling	Ireland
2	94	Marcus Trescothick	England
2	58	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	731	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand
2	228	Virat Kohli	India
2	652	Pathum Silva	Sri Lanka
2	1502	Shubman Gill	India
2	1074	Vriitya Aravind	United Arab Emirates
2	600	Harry Tector	Ireland
2	533	Steven Smith	Australia
2	1172	Virat Kohli	India
2	1657	Rohit Sharma	India
2	1300	Rohit Sharma	India
2	1294	Steven Smith	Australia
2	1531	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
2	1391	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
2	1542	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan
2	1322	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka
2	1614	Virat Kohli	India
2	1251	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
2	1400	MS Dhoni	India
2	1169	Virat Kohli	India
2	1698	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	1468	Shahriar Nafees	Bangladesh
2	1417	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	1355	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	1413	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	1604	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
2	1646	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
2	1952	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
2	2325	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	1854	Sachin Tendulkar	India
2	866	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
2	1742	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
2	1550	Mohammad Azharuddin	India
2	1640	Hansie Cronje	South Africa
2	1178	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
2	1434	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan
2	903	Sanjay Manjrekar	India
2	1192	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
2	1159	John Wright	New Zealand
2	1376	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
2	1542	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
2	1329	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
2	1275	Geoff Marsh	Australia
2	1231	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
2	1240	Kepler Wessels	Australia
2	642	Bruce Laird	Australia
2	720	Allan Border	Australia
2	672	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
2	570	Geoff Boycott	England
2	261	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
2	231	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
2	221	Dennis Amiss	England
2	388	Keith Fletcher	England
2	191	John Edrich	England
2	162	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
2	258	Dennis Amiss	England
2	18048	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
2	103	Ian Chappell	Australia
2	1543	Shubman Gill	India
2	279	Joe Root	England
2	1981	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2131	Yashasvi Jaiswal	India
2	2303	Imam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
2	2054	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	1031	Ben Stokes	England
2	1882	Rory Burns	England
2	2525	Jonny Bairstow	England
2	2484	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	2176	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	2311	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
2	2374	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2153	Alastair Cook	England
2	2680	Jonathan Trott	England
2	2295	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
2	2418	Michael Clarke	Australia
2	2182	Simon Katich	Australia
2	2391	Neil McKenzie	South Africa
2	1907	Alastair Cook	England
2	2591	Rahul Dravid	India
2	2518	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	2129	Brian Lara	West Indies
2	2603	Damien Martyn	Australia
2	2668	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
2	2379	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
2	2354	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
2	2115	Steve Waugh	Australia
2	1410	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe
2	2262	Greg Blewett	Australia
2	2737	Nasser Hussain	England
2	2119	Mark Taylor	Australia
2	2085	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
2	2509	Mark Taylor	Australia
2	1918	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	1653	Allan Border	Australia
2	1891	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan
2	2178	David Boon	Australia
2	1474	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
2	1498	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
2	1895	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
2	2320	Allan Border	Australia
2	2031	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
2	1662	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
2	2375	David Gower	England
2	2296	Allan Border	Australia
2	2641	Kim Hughes	Australia
2	1915	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1642	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
2	1621	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	1119	Roy Fredericks	West Indies
2	1896	John Edrich	England
2	2032	Tony Greig	England
2	1188	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1294	Tony Greig	England
2	960	Graeme Pollock	South Africa
2	1969	John Edrich	England
2	1117	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1543	John Edrich	England
2	1084	Nawab of Pataudi	India
2	1205	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
2	905	John Edrich	England
2	1572	Bob Simpson	Australia
2	354	Colin Cowdrey	England
2	574	Brian Close	England
2	254	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
2	512	Bob Simpson	Australia
2	854	Tom Graveney	England
2	475	Peter May	England
2	8	Peter May	England
2	2	Collie Smith	West Indies
2	261	Colin Cowdrey	England
2	200	Denis Compton	England
2	4	Sir Everton Weekes	West Indies
2	8	Keith Miller	Australia
2	30	Gilbert Parkhouse	England
2	9	Jack Ikin	England
2	348	Daryl Mitchell	New Zealand
2	29437	Sachin Tendulkar	India
2	2241	Joe Root	England
2	2301	Yashasvi Jaiswal	India
2	2531	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2792	Usman Khawaja	Australia
2	2265	Rohit Sharma	India
2	1266	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
2	2711	Virat Kohli	India
2	2916	Joe Root	England
2	3058	Virat Kohli	India
2	3272	Steven Smith	Australia
2	3799	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
2	3362	Steven Smith	Australia
2	3280	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
2	3197	Ian Bell	England
2	3259	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
2	3173	Jonathan Trott	England
2	3281	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
2	3098	Graeme Smith	South Africa
2	3465	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	3846	Rahul Dravid	India
2	3240	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
2	3526	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
2	3185	Brian Lara	West Indies
2	3498	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
2	3394	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
2	3928	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
2	3964	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	3084	Alec Stewart	England
2	3730	Sourav Ganguly	India
2	2811	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan
2	3041	Mark Taylor	Australia
2	3597	David Boon	Australia
2	3563	Mark Taylor	Australia
2	2316	Andrew Jones	New Zealand
2	2510	David Boon	Australia
2	2443	Robin Smith	England
2	2959	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
2	2563	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
2	2520	John Wright	New Zealand
2	3128	Allan Border	Australia
2	2373	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
2	2638	David Gower	England
2	2349	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
2	2850	Allan Border	Australia
2	2959	Geoff Boycott	England
2	3009	Kim Hughes	Australia
2	2485	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1759	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
2	1842	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	1911	John Edrich	England
2	1169	Roy Fredericks	West Indies
2	1367	Dennis Amiss	England
2	2099	Tony Greig	England
2	2012	Brian Luckhurst	England
2	1449	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	1117	Geoff Boycott	England
2	960	Graeme Pollock	South Africa
2	1543	John Edrich	England
2	1084	Nawab of Pataudi	India
2	1205	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
2	905	John Edrich	England
2	574	Brian Close	England
2	1572	Bob Simpson	Australia
2	354	Colin Cowdrey	England
2	254	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
2	512	Bob Simpson	Australia
2	475	Peter May	England
2	854	Tom Graveney	England
2	2	Collie Smith	West Indies
2	8	Peter May	England
2	200	Denis Compton	England
2	261	Colin Cowdrey	England
2	4	Sir Everton Weekes	West Indies
2	8	Keith Miller	Australia
2	9	Jack Ikin	England
2	30	Gilbert Parkhouse	England
2	46564	Rahul Dravid	India
3	45346	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
3	11	Jack Moroney	Australia
3	4	Eric Rowan	South Africa
3	2	Bill Johnston	Australia
3	7	Graeme Hole	Australia
3	233	Neil Harvey	Australia
3	0	Neil Adcock	South Africa
3	188	Peter May	England
3	3	Peter Heine	South Africa
3	466	Neil Harvey	Australia
3	743	Colin Cowdrey	England
3	242	Gerry Alexander	West Indies
3	468	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
3	350	Brian Booth	Australia
3	566	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
3	1388	Brian Booth	Australia
3	827	Bill Lawry	Australia
3	1116	Tom Graveney	England
3	928	Phil Sharpe	England
3	1013	Tom Graveney	England
3	1507	Ian Chappell	Australia
3	933	Doug Walters	Australia
3	1370	Tony Greig	England
3	1857	Geoff Boycott	England
3	1315	Geoff Boycott	England
3	2074	Keith Fletcher	England
3	1822	Greg Chappell	Australia
3	1517	Sunil Gavaskar	India