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West Indies batsman Brian Lara has the highest individual score in Test cricket: he scored 400 not out against England in 2004 to surpass the innings of 380 by Matthew Hayden six months earlier. Lara had held the record before Hayden, with a score of 375 against England 10 years earlier. [16]
Records for early cricket matches are incomplete and often non-existent, especially for very minor matches, but cricket historians have still attempted to trace the history of the "highest single innings score by a batsman in any class of cricket". [1] John Minshull scored the first recorded century in 1769, scoring 107 runs.
A double century is a score of 200 or more runs in a single innings. Bradman holds the Test record for the most double centuries scored with twelve, one ahead of Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara who finished his career with eleven. In third is Brian Lara of the West Indies with nine.
Len Hutton's score of 364 runs against Australia during the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval is the sixth highest individual score in Test cricket and the highest by an England player. Wally Hammond's 336, scored against New Zealand in 1933, is the third highest not out Test innings and the ninth highest overall. [84]
His 970-minute innings is the longest in Test cricket and was the only instance of a Test triple century scored in a team's second innings until Brendon McCullum's in 2014. Pakistan had followed on, having scored 106 in the first innings in reply to West Indies' 579 for 9 declared, including centuries for Conrad Hunte (142) and Everton Weekes ...
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
A triple century is a score of 300 or more runs in a single innings. Sehwag holds the equal Test record for the most triple centuries scored with two, along with Australia's Don Bradman and West Indians Chris Gayle and Brian Lara. [101] Karun Nair is the only other Indian who has scored a single Test triple century as of January 2020.
Australia's Nathan Lyon has taken most wickets, most five-fer in an innings and ten-fer in a match. Australia's Alex Carey has effected the most number of dismissals in this tournament. The ICC World Test Championship , also referred to as the Test World Cup , is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council ...