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Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [1] [2] 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. [3]
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]
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run. [103] Former West Indian fast bowler Courtney Walsh has scored the highest number of ducks in Test cricket with 43, followed by England's Stuart Broad with 39. James Anderson, with 34 scoreless innings, is seventh on the list. [104]
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.
Test ODI T20I Total 1: Sachin Tendulkar ^ 1989–2013 India: 51 49 0 100: 2: Virat Kohli ǂ 2008–2025 India: 30 51 1 82: 3: Ricky Ponting ^ 1995–2012 Australia / World XI: 41 30 0 71: 4: Kumar Sangakkara ^ 2000–2015 Sri Lanka: 38 25 0 63: 5: Jacques Kallis ^ 1995–2014 South Africa: 45 17 0 62: 6: Hashim Amla: 2004–2019 South Africa ...
A batsman scoring a Test triple century is slightly rarer than a bowler taking a Test hat-trick (32 triple centuries versus 46 hat-tricks as of October 2024). [1] [2] No triple centuries have yet been scored in women's Test cricket. [3]
Following the success of the list for Test cricket, the Wisden 100 list for ODI cricket was released on 1 February 2002. The top-rated batting performance was Viv Richards' 189* for West Indies against England at Manchester in 1984. 7 of Richards' innings appeared in the top 100, more than any other batsman.
[30] [38] [39] The innings was the highest individual score in a Test until Garfield Sobers scored 365 not out in 1958; it remains the 6th highest in Tests and is the most runs scored in an innings by an English player. [42] England eventually scored 903, the highest team total in a Test at that time, before Hammond declared the innings closed.