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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]
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Kevin Pietersen has scored 32 centuries for England.. Kevin Pietersen is a retired English cricketer and former captain of the England cricket team. [1] He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches, on twenty-three and nine occasions respectively. [2]
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.
In May 2015, Cook became England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, when he went past Graham Gooch's tally of 8900 runs. As of September 2018, he ranks equal tenth among players with most Test centuries, [15] and top of the equivalent list for England. [16] His 38 centuries across all formats is the highest by an English cricketer.
The highest score made at the ground, 311 from 740 deliveries, was achieved by Bob Simpson against England in 1964. It was during the same match that Ken Barrington's score for 256 set the record of the highest innings by an Englishman and remains the second highest overall. Only three other batsman have achieved the feat of scoring a double ...