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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 ]
Don Bradman is the only player in the world to have scored 5000 runs against a single opposition: 5028 runs against England. [12] In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13]
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 ...
This also took him past 3,000 Test runs. During the third Test Root made scores of 4 and 6 in England's collapse and England succumbed to a 2–0 series loss. Root finished the series with 287 runs, England's second highest run scorer. Having been reinstated into the ODI squad, Root batted at number 3 in the first ODI however he was out for 0.
This is a list of England Test cricketers. A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match ...
Lara's 400 not out against England in 2004, his second Test triple-century, is the highest score in Test cricket and the only instance of a Test quadruple century; Lara is also the only player to have surpassed 350 twice. Bradman also scored 299 not out against South Africa in 1932.
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 ...
Denis Compton (Middlesex & England) 1947: 3,539 runs (52 innings, average 80.43) Bill Edrich (Middlesex & England) 1947 3,518 runs (61 innings, average 66.37) Tom Hayward (Surrey and England) 1906: 3,429 runs (56 innings, average 68.58) Len Hutton (Yorkshire and England) 1949: 3,352 runs (59 innings, average 60.94) Frank Woolley (Kent and ...