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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]
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).
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 ...
New Zealand vs England 1st Test tips. Joe Root and Ben Duckett over three fours in the first innings - 19/10 William Hill. Harry Brook to be named player of the match - 10/1 William Hill. The ...
The highest successful chase in Test history is 418. And when it all comes out in the wash, after 17 Tests in 2024, England have won nine and lost eight. The England men’s Test cricket team.
Harry Brook became the sixth England player to score a Test triple century, [38] which, coming off 310 balls, was the second-fastest in Test history. [39] England recorded the fourth-highest total in Tests. [40] Pakistan's first innings total was the only one over 500 by a team that went on to lose a Test match by an innings. [41] [42] Abrar ...
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.
Although England lost the five-match series 3–2, Brook top-scored in the series with 312 runs. [48] In the first Test of the 2024 England tour of Pakistan, Brook hit his highest first-class (and therefore Test) score of 317 equalling the score Chris Gayle of the West Indies made against South Africa in 2005.