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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 ...
Australian Donald Bradman, widely considered the greatest batsman of all time, [8] [9] holds several personal and partnership records. He scored the most runs in a series, has the most double centuries and was a part of the record 5th wicket partnership.
English batsmen hold four Test wicket partnerships records, all set since 2010. Joe Root and Harry Brook scored 454 for the fourth wicket against Pakistan at Multan in 2024 . [ 174 ] Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow came together in the second Test of the 2015–16 series against South Africa at Newlands Cricket Ground and put together a sixth ...
The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which started on 1 August 2019. [1] [2] It is the premier championship for Test cricket. It is in line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three ...
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.
Considered to be the greatest batsman of all time, he played 52 Tests between 1928 and 1948. [9] He holds the record for the highest Test average of 99.94, has scored the most Test double centuries with 12, the equal most Test triple centuries with 2 and the most runs scored in a series with 974 during the 1930 Ashes series.
It was rated as the best Test innings of all time by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2001. [14] It is also the highest score made by a number 7 batsman, while his 304 against England in 1934 was the highest score made by a number 5 batsman, until January 2012, when Michael Clarke made 329* against the touring Indians. [15] [16]
He is generally considered one of the greatest batsmen of all time, and in 2002 he was honoured by Wisden, who named him as the greatest ODI batsman of all time, [2] [3] and the third greatest Test batsman. [4] After four years, he received the Most Exalted Order of National Hero award in his native Antigua. [5]