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Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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. [ 3 ]
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 duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run. [103] Former West Indian fast bowler Courtney Walsh has scored the highest number of ducks in Test cricket with 43, followed by England's Stuart Broad with 39. James Anderson, with 34 scoreless innings, is seventh on the list. [104]
3 18 2 23 Justin Langer: 1993–2007 Australia: 23 0 – 23 VVS Laxman: 1996–2012 India: 17 6 – 23 66: Azhar Ali: 2010–2022 Pakistan: 19 3 0 22 Colin Cowdrey: 1954–1975 England: 22 0 – 22 Wally Hammond ^ 1927–1947 England: 22 – – 22 Michael Hussey: 2004–2013 Australia: 19 3 0 22 Ijaz Ahmed: 1986–2001 Pakistan: 12 10 – 22 ...
A batsman scoring a Test triple century is slightly rarer than a bowler taking a Test hat-trick (32 triple centuries versus 46 hat-tricks as of October 2024). [1] [2] No triple centuries have yet been scored in women's Test cricket. [3]
An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match, a feat which is called "Twin centuries," is considered a "milestone" by critics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Players from all teams that are full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) except Ireland and Afghanistan have scored centuries in both innings of a Test.
Warner has been one of the most successful overseas batsmen in the Indian Premier League, scoring over 6,000 runs and winning the Orange Cap award for the highest scoring batter in a season three times. [18] [19] Warner was signed by Delhi Daredevils in 2009, playing for the team until 2013. [20]