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England's Joe Root is the fastest in terms of time span, taking 9 years and 174 days, while West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul's time span of 18 years and 37 days is the slowest among all. Joe Root and Alastair Cook share the record for the youngest player to score 10,000 runs, both reaching this milestone at the age of 31 years and 157 days. [9]
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 .
Middle-order batsman and former captain Joe Root holds several England Test cricket records. Making his Test debut in 2012, as of December 2024 he has scored 12,972 runs – making him the second England player to score 10,000 Test runs. [9] He has made a record 65 half-centuries and 36 centuries, [10] and was one half of the highest England ...
Across all three formats, 9 players have scored 50 or more centuries, 5 have scored 60 or more centuries and 3 have scored 70 or more centuries, 2 have scored 80 or more centuries in their respective international careers. Only one cricketer has scored 100 centuries.
The match is generally considered to be of first-class standard, and is the last time that the overall record was scored in first-class cricket. [12] Ward's record was broken in 1837 in a match between two village teams. Playing in a single-innings one-day match, Alfred Adams opened the innings for Saffron Walden against Bishop's Stortford ...
Hutton hit 344 runs in the Test series at an average of 44.00; [32] in all first-class matches, he scored eleven centuries and totalled 2,585 runs at an average 64.62, [19] although his achievements that season were overshadowed by those of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, who both broke the previous record for most runs scored in a season.
denotes that the total was the highest Test match score at the time. (c) denotes that the batsman was captain. Innings: denotes which of the team's batting innings the triple century was scored in. Test: denotes the number of the Test match played in that series. Date: denotes the date the match started on. ^ denotes that the total was the ...
As a result of this, coupled with there only being a small number of Tests being played, there are many early cricketers with Test records of only a few matches. The key players who had their Test debut during this period include the great professional all-rounders George Ulyett (11), who played 25 Tests, and Billy Barnes (21), who played 21.