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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.
Martin Guptill is the highest individual scorer in any ICC tournament with 237 runs, the second highest individual score. The earliest match now recognized as an ODI was played between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground in January 1971; [5] since then there have been over 4,000 ODIs. [6]
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]
The highest individual score in first-class cricket is 501* scored by Brian Lara for Warwickshire in 1994. There have been ten other scores of 400 or more, including another by Lara and two by Bill Ponsford.
Highest individual score [ edit ] During the quarter finals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup , New Zealand's Martin Guptill posted the second highest individual ODI innings score and the highest World Cup score of 237 not out against the West Indies at Wellington Regional Stadium . [ 69 ]
The first test of the South Africa's tour of India in 2008 saw Virender Sehwag score his second triple century and record India's highest Individual score. [73] Virender Sehwag holds the top two highest individual score for India. [73]
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]
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