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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 ...
Donald Bradman, holder of several Test batting records including highest batting average Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test cricket Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket George Lohmann, the holder of best bowling average in Test cricket
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 ...
His 970-minute innings is the longest in Test cricket and was the only instance of a Test triple century scored in a team's second innings until Brendon McCullum's in 2014. Pakistan had followed on, having scored 106 in the first innings in reply to West Indies' 579 for 9 declared, including centuries for Conrad Hunte (142) and Everton Weekes ...
The fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval saw England win by an innings and 579 runs, the largest victory by an innings in Test cricket history. The largest victory for India, which is the 12th largest, is their win against West Indies in the first Test of the 2018–19 tour at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium , where the ...
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]
Ricky Ponting (pictured) has scored the most Test runs (13,378), the most centuries (41) and the most fours (1,509) for Australia. [87] [96] [97] A century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings. [98] Tendulkar has also scored the most centuries in Test cricket with 51.
Sachin Tendulkar played for India, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, [1] [2] he is the most prolific run-scorer in international cricket. [3] Tendulkar has scored the highest number of centuries (100 or more runs) in Test matches and One Day International (ODI) matches organised by the International Cricket Council ...