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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]
Beaumont is now one run from levelling the highest score for England in Test match cricket. England 400-5 (106), Jones 8, Beaumont 182, Brown 1-73 (16) (trail by 73) 15:17 , Ben Fleming
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.
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 ...
Only once has a score of 400+ in the first innings of a Lord’s Test resulted in defeat - while it didn’t turn out as badly as England might have feared given the situation two and a half ...
The Leeds Test is must win for England having fallen 2-0 behind after defeat at Lord’s on Sunday. Follow all the live action below from Headingley as England face Australia: England vs Australia
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
A couple of jaunty reverse scoops and reverse sweeps, but otherwise it has been conventional Test batting of the very highest quality. 30 Test hundreds. (PA Wire) England 366/8 (75.2), Ollie ...