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	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
2	2131	Yashasvi Jaiswal	India
2	1543	Shubman Gill	India
2	279	Joe Root	England
2	1981	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2303	Imam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
2	2054	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	1882	Rory Burns	England
2	1031	Ben Stokes	England
2	2176	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	2484	Cheteshwar Pujara	India
2	2525	Jonny Bairstow	England
2	2311	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka
2	2374	Steven Smith	Australia
2	2153	Alastair Cook	England
2	2418	Michael Clarke	Australia
2	2295	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
2	2680	Jonathan Trott	England
2	2391	Neil McKenzie	South Africa
2	2182	Simon Katich	Australia
2	1907	Alastair Cook	England
2	2518	Ricky Ponting	Australia
2	2603	Damien Martyn	Australia
2	2591	Rahul Dravid	India
2	2129	Brian Lara	West Indies
2	2668	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
2	2379	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
2	2354	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
2	2737	Nasser Hussain	England
2	2115	Steve Waugh	Australia
2	2262	Greg Blewett	Australia
2	1410	Grant Flower	Zimbabwe
2	2085	Jimmy Adams	West Indies
2	2119	Mark Taylor	Australia
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	2375	David Gower	England
2	1895	Martin Crowe	New Zealand
2	2320	Allan Border	Australia
2	1662	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan
2	2031	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
2	2296	Allan Border	Australia
2	1915	Geoff Boycott	England
2	2641	Kim Hughes	Australia
2	1642	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand
2	1119	Roy Fredericks	West Indies
2	1621	Greg Chappell	Australia
2	1896	John Edrich	England
2	2032	Tony Greig	England
2	1188	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1969	John Edrich	England
2	1294	Tony Greig	England
2	960	Graeme Pollock	South Africa
2	1117	Geoff Boycott	England
2	1543	John Edrich	England
2	1084	Nawab of Pataudi	India
2	905	John Edrich	England
2	1205	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
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	8	Peter May	England
2	854	Tom Graveney	England
2	475	Peter May	England
2	2	Collie Smith	West Indies
2	200	Denis Compton	England
2	261	Colin Cowdrey	England
2	29437	Sachin Tendulkar	India
2	4	Sir Everton Weekes	West Indies
2	8	Keith Miller	Australia
2	9	Jack Ikin	England
2	30	Gilbert Parkhouse	England
3	11	Jack Moroney	Australia
3	28903	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
3	4	Eric Rowan	South Africa
3	2	Bill Johnston	Australia
3	233	Neil Harvey	Australia
3	7	Graeme Hole	Australia
3	0	Neil Adcock	South Africa
3	188	Peter May	England
3	466	Neil Harvey	Australia
3	3	Peter Heine	South Africa
3	743	Colin Cowdrey	England
3	350	Brian Booth	Australia
3	468	Sir Garry Sobers	West Indies
3	242	Gerry Alexander	West Indies
3	1388	Brian Booth	Australia
3	566	Sir Conrad Hunte	West Indies
3	827	Bill Lawry	Australia
3	1116	Tom Graveney	England
3	1013	Tom Graveney	England
3	928	Phil Sharpe	England
3	1507	Ian Chappell	Australia
3	933	Doug Walters	Australia
3	1283	Greg Chappell	Australia
3	1820	Geoff Boycott	England
3	1182	Dennis Amiss	England
3	1930	Keith Fletcher	England
3	1519	Greg Chappell	Australia
3	1517	Sunil Gavaskar	India
3	1509	David Gower	England
3	939	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
3	2433	Sunil Gavaskar	India
3	1830	Greg Chappell	Australia
3	2010	Kim Hughes	Australia
3	1856	John Dyson	Australia
3	1541	Sunil Gavaskar	India
3	1878	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
3	1888	Greg Ritchie	Australia
3	1379	Mike Gatting	England
3	1906	David Boon	Australia
3	1473	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
3	1927	Dean Jones	Australia
3	1846	Mike Atherton	England
3	1911	David Boon	Australia
3	1447	Mark Taylor	Australia
3	2077	Steve Waugh	Australia
3	1788	David Boon	Australia
3	2086	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
3	1277	Sachin Tendulkar	India
3	2098	Steve Waugh	Australia
3	2040	Michael Slater	Australia
3	2599	Alec Stewart	England
3	2149	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan
3	2321	Rahul Dravid	India
3	2568	Sachin Tendulkar	India
3	2095	Mark Butcher	England
3	2540	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
3	2569	Paul Collingwood	England
3	2146	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
3	2279	Michael Clarke	Australia
3	1777	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
3	2165	Andrew Strauss	England
3	2354	Hashim Amla	South Africa
3	1961	Darren Bravo	West Indies
3	2301	Jonathan Trott	England
3	2121	Joe Root	England
3	2174	Joe Root	England
3	1977	Younis Khan	Pakistan
3	2447	Alastair Cook	England
3	2304	Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka
3	1872	Kusal Mendis	Sri Lanka
3	1837	Joe Root	England
3	1880	Rohit Sharma	India
3	1020	Zak Crawley	England
3	2107	Steven Smith	Australia
3	1861	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
3	1851	Marnus Labuschagne	Australia
3	1429	Ravindra Jadeja	India
3	232	Steven Smith	Australia
4	1636	Rachin Ravindra	New Zealand
4	201	Travis Head	Australia
4	1395	Joe Root	England
4	1486	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
4	2101	Usman Khawaja	Australia
4	1786	Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies
4	930	Jos Buttler	England
4	1715	Steven Smith	Australia
4	1782	Joe Root	England
4	2235	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka
4	2433	Joe Root	England
4	1973	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka
4	1955	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
4	2098	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
4	1938	Michael Clarke	Australia
4	2350	Alastair Cook	England
4	2115	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka
4	1876	Taufeeq Umar	Pakistan
4	2234	Gautam Gambhir	India
4	1767	Sourav Ganguly	India
4	2117	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
4	2290	Alastair Cook	England
4	1960	Michael Vaughan	England
4	2226	Rahul Dravid	India
4	2422	Michael Vaughan	England
4	2188	Shiv Sunder Das	India
4	2143	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe
4	2475	Mark Taylor	Australia
4	2038	Rahul Dravid	India
4	2075	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka
4	1238	Sherwin Campbell	West Indies
4	1964	Steve Waugh	Australia
4	1756	Alec Stewart	England
4	2039	Allan Border	Australia
4	1390	Alec Stewart	England
4	1765	Mark Taylor	Australia
4	1743	Robin Smith	England
4	1903	Allan Border	Australia
4	1469	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
4	1339	John Wright	New Zealand
4	1785	David Gower	England
4	1573	Mike Gatting	England
4	1852	Allan Lamb	England
4	1211	Graham Yallop	Australia
4	1807	Mohsin Khan	Hong Kong
4	1943	David Gower	England
4	1643	Allan Border	Australia
4	2390	Dilip Vengsarkar	India
4	1368	Clive Radley	England
4	1490	Geoff Boycott	England
4	1449	Rick McCosker	Australia
4	852	Greg Chappell	Australia
4	1691	Mike Denness	England
4	1021	Tony Greig	England
4	1707	Basil D'Oliveira	England
4	949	Keith Stackpole	Australia
4	906	Roy Fredericks	West Indies
4	930	Eddie Barlow	South Africa
4	1229	Doug Walters	Australia
4	922	Seymour Nurse	West Indies
4	781	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan
4	1204	Ken Barrington	England
4	695	Doug Walters	Australia
4	526	Micky Stewart	England
4	347	Bill Lawry	Australia
4	397	Colin McDonald	Australia
4	719	Peter May	England
4	230	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
4	400	Colin Cowdrey	England
4	2	Denis Compton	England
4	182	Trevor Bailey	England
4	4	Johnny Wardle	England
4	173	Jim Burke	Australia
4	1	John Waite	South Africa
4	3	Allan Rae	West Indies
4	27395	Shiv Chanderpaul	West Indies
4	10	Arthur Morris	Australia
5	27002	Allan Border	Australia
5	3	Eric Hollies	England
5	2	Denis Compton	England
5	3	Reg Simpson	England
5	157	Tom Graveney	England
5	162	Sir Leonard Hutton	England
5	1	Neil Adcock	South Africa
5	343	Norm O'Neill	Australia
5	212	Raman Subba Row	England
5	454	Peter Richardson	England
5	389	Peter Burge	Australia
5	266	Tom Graveney	England
5	438	Basil Butcher	West Indies
5	1176	Ian Redpath	Australia
5	458	Graeme Pollock	South Africa
5	771	Ajit Wadekar	India
5	906	Jim Parks	England
5	1010	Colin Cowdrey	England
5	906	Bill Lawry	Australia
5	837	Basil Butcher	West Indies
5	1675	Ray Illingworth	England
5	759	Glenn Turner	New Zealand
5	990	Bev Congdon	New Zealand
5	1656	Alan Knott	England
5	840	David Steele	England
5	1344	Ian Redpath	Australia
5	1286	Graham Roope	England
5	1460	Tony Greig	England
5	2054	Gundappa Viswanath	India
5	1351	Javed Miandad	Pakistan
5	1716	Graeme Wood	Australia
5	1747	Sir Ian Botham	England
5	1198	Allan Border	Australia
5	1519	David Gower	England
5	1823	Larry Gomes	West Indies
5	1629	Sunil Gavaskar	India
5	1250	Saleem Malik	Pakistan
5	1373	Jeff Dujon	West Indies
5	1647	John Wright	New Zealand
5	1686	Sir Richie Richardson	West Indies
5	1352	John Wright	New Zealand
5	1631	Desmond Haynes	West Indies
5	1591	Graham Gooch	England
5	1744	Graeme Hick	England
5	1224	Mike Atherton	England
5	1754	Graham Thorpe	England
5	1969	Sachin Tendulkar	India
5	2354	Mike Atherton	England
5	1928	Sachin Tendulkar	India
5	2082	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan
5	2197	Nasser Hussain	England
5	2166	Brian Lara	West Indies
5	1834	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa
5	2100	Jacques Rudolph	South Africa
5	2193	Ricky Ponting	Australia
5	2099	Marcus Trescothick	England
5	1652	Kevin Pietersen	England
5	2232	Andrew Strauss	England
5	1984	Alastair Cook	England
5	1835	Alastair Cook	England
5	2218	Jacques Kallis	South Africa
5	1806	Hashim Amla	South Africa
5	1731	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
5	1913	Steven Smith	Australia
5	2011	Virat Kohli	India
5	1742	Adam Voges	Australia
5	2218	Dean Elgar	South Africa
5	1697	Dean Elgar	South Africa
5	1567	Joe Denly	England
5	911	Kane Williamson	New Zealand
5	1623	Nkrumah Bonner	West Indies
5	2018	Abdullah Shafique	Pakistan
5	1226	Virat Kohli	India
5	1582	Kamindu Mendis	Sri Lanka
5	1126	Yashasvi Jaiswal	India
5	145	Harry Brook	England
6	117	Jamie Smith	England
6	1124	Devon Conway	New Zealand
6	1443	Ollie Pope	England
6	1779	Litton Das	Bangladesh
6	1216	Travis Head	Australia
6	1618	Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka
6	843	Ollie Pope	England
6	1559	Ben Stokes	England
6	1689	Usman Khawaja	Australia
6	1831	Alastair Cook	England
6	1614	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka
6	2004	Moeen Ali	England
6	1692	Ian Bell	England
6	1900	Murali Vijay	India
6	1683	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan
6	1906	Michael Hussey	Australia
6	1829	Azhar Ali	Pakistan
6	1979	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
6	1562	Wasim Jaffer	India
6	2104	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka
6	2136	VVS Laxman	India
6	1884	AB de Villiers	South Africa
6	1943	Graham Thorpe	England
6	1825	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
6	2075	Neil McKenzie	South Africa
6	2170	VVS Laxman	India
6	1946	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka
6	1835	Greg Blewett	Australia
6	2318	Gary Kirsten	South Africa
6	1947	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka
6	1205	Nasser Hussain	England
6	1722	Michael Slater	Australia
6	1702	Michael Slater	Australia
6	1571	Mike Atherton	England
6	1325	Andrew Jones	New Zealand
6	1387	Robin Smith	England
6	1568	Allan Lamb	England
6	1671	Sanjay Manjrekar	India
6	1361	John Wright	New Zealand
6	1246	Chris Broad	England
6	1611	Graham Gooch	England
6	1460	Tim Robinson	England
6	1796	David Gower	England
6	1188	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand
6	1661	Kim Hughes	Australia
6	1563	Graham Gooch	England
6	1333	Sir Viv Richards	West Indies
6	1668	Chetan Chauhan	India
6	1212	Sir Ian Botham	England
6	1455	Rick McCosker	Australia
6	837	Alvin Kallicharran	West Indies
6	1343	Keith Fletcher	England
6	1580	Ian Redpath	Australia
6	861	Graham Roope	England
6	713	John Edrich	England
6	1403	Alan Knott	England
6	859	Keith Stackpole	Australia
6	815	Ken Barrington	England
6	688	Geoff Boycott	England
6	994	Bob Cowper	Australia
6	778	Doug Walters	Australia
6	386	Ken Barrington	England
6	1135	Peter Burge	Australia
6	310	Rohan Kanhai	West Indies
6	380	Joe Solomon	West Indies
6	249	David Sheppard	England
6	157	Roy McLean	South Africa
6	0	Chris Duckworth	South Africa
6	440	Jim Burke	Australia
6	329	Jim Burke	Australia
6	136	Bill Edrich	England
6	80	Keith Miller	Australia
6	2	Roy McLean	South Africa
6	1	Sonny Ramadhin	West Indies
6	1	Denis Compton	England
6	26562	Alastair Cook	England
7	24242	Joe Root	England
7	0	Doug Wright	England
7	1	John Waite	South Africa
7	108	Ron Archer	Australia
7	76	Bill Watson	Australia
7	312	Colin McDonald	Australia
7	149	Mike Smith	England
7	366	Ted Dexter	England
7	360	Gerry Alexander	West Indies
7	294	Fred Titmus	England
7	187	Peter Parfitt	England
7	383	Tony Pithey	South Africa
7	1064	Geoff Boycott	England
7	923	Geoff Boycott	England
7	672	Basil D'Oliveira	England
7	812	Basil Butcher	West Indies
7	636	Clive Lloyd	West Indies
7	854	Barry Richards	South Africa
7	906	Keith Stackpole	Australia
7	648	Ross Edwards	Australia
7	728	Gundappa Viswanath	India
7	1445	Geoff Boycott	England
7	1134	Mike Denness	England
7	785	Ian Redpath	Australia
7	1193	Doug Walters	Australia
7	1137	Bob Taylor	England
7	1480	Sunil Gavaskar	India
7	1208	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
7	1592	Geoff Boycott	England
7	1525	Allan Border	Australia
7	1023	Mohinder Amarnath	India
7	1567	Graeme Fowler	England
7	1603	Mike Gatting	England
7	1457	John Wright	New Zealand
7	1213	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies
7	1311	Graham Gooch	England
7	1511	Trevor Franklin	New Zealand