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Middle-order batsman and former captain Joe Root holds several England Test cricket records. Making his Test debut in 2012, as of December 2024 he has scored 12,972 runs – making him the second England player to score 10,000 Test runs. [9] He has made a record 65 half-centuries and 36 centuries, [10] and was one half of the highest England ...
In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13] In taking 10–53 in the second innings he became the first bowler to capture ten wickets in a Test match innings, and his analysis remains the best ...
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 Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by ...
^ Batting second, Cowper shared stands of 212 with Bill Lawry (108) for the third wicket and 172 for the fourth wicket with Doug Walters (60) on the way to a total of 543 for 8 declared (the lowest total to include a Test triple-hundred). England had batted first, scoring 485 including a century for Ken Barrington (115). The match was drawn.
Cricket's 2,553th test match won't be forgotten in a hurry. England set records and reached milestones in compiling an extraordinary 823-7 declared against Pakistan in Multan. It was the fourth ...
England batters have been dismissed without scoring on 54 occasions so far in 2021. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
England won by a record margin of 675 runs. England's first match after the war was in the 1920–21 season against Australia. Still feeling the effects of the war England went down to a series of crushing defeats and suffered their first whitewash losing the series 5–0. Six Australians scored hundreds while Mailey spun out 36 English batsmen.