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Australi's Alex Carey has effected the most number of dismissals in this tournament. 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 ...
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 ...
When he made 334—his first triple century—against England in the 1930 Ashes, Bradman scored 309 of those runs on 11 July 1930, which remains as the highest number of runs scored by a single batsman in one day. [10] It was the highest individual Test score until Wally Hammond scored 336 in 1933. [11]
The greatest winning margin by runs in Test cricket was England's victory over Australia by 675 runs in the first Test of the 1928–29 Ashes series. The largest victory recorded by West Indies, which is the seventh largest victory, is the third Test of the 1976 tour by 425 runs against England at Old Trafford , Manchester .
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. ^
In their response, Beauclerk's large innings helped his side to a total of 265 runs, and a lead of 211 runs. Montpelier conceded defeat after scoring 74 runs for the loss of seven wickets in their second innings. [11] Having moved from 107 runs to 170 runs in increments, the record then leapt to 278 runs in 1820.
[5] Lara scored a Test century for the first time in his fifth Test match in 1993 against Australia. [6] His score of 277 in that match is the fourth-highest maiden century in Test history. [7] The 375 he made against England in 1994 was the highest individual Test score for nine years, until Matthew Hayden surpassed it in 2003. [8]