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Sachin Tendulkar holds multiple records—most appearances (200 matches), most runs (15,921) and highest numbers of both centuries (51) and half-centuries (68). [6] In terms of innings , West Indian Brian Lara , Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara are the fastest (195) to reach the 10,000 run mark, while Australia's Steve Waugh is the slowest ...
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 ]
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]
The highest individual score made by an overseas player is 244 not out, scored by Englishman Alastair Cook in 2017. Don Bradman has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with 9, while the most by an overseas player is 5, scored by Jack Hobbs. [4] The first ODI century scored at the MCG was in 1979 by the Englishman David Gower.
He was the seventh Australian batsman to score a triple century, and the fourth to do so at an Australian ground. This score saw Warner surpass Sir Donald Bradman (334) and Mark Taylor (334*) to hold the second highest Test score by an Australian batsman, behind only Matthew Hayden.
It is also the third highest individual score by a West Indian batsman. [18] The 117 he made against Bangladesh in 1999 is the fifth fastest century in ODI cricket. It was made in 45 balls at a strike rate of 188.70, reaching the boundary on eighteen occasions and clearing it on four. [19]
The next recorded highest score was that of John Small; batting in July 1775 for Hambledon (playing as Hampshire) against Surrey, he scored either 136 or 138 runs. Some online scorecards, such as CricketArchive have recorded the score as 136, [6] while others, along with a contemporary scorecard from the Reading Mercury list it as 138.
The highest score at the ground, 329 not out, was achieved by the Australian Michael Clarke on 5 January 2012 when he declared the Australian innings at 659/4. R. E. Foster 287 and Brian Lara 277 hold the 2nd and 3rd highest scores, respectively. Ricky Ponting has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with 6. [3]