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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 ]
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
Score Team Opponent Venue Date 823/7d (150.0 overs) England Pakistan: Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan, Pakistan: 7 October 2024 659/6d (158.5 overs) New Zealand: Hagley Oval, Christchurch, New Zealand: 3 January 2021 657 (101.0 overs) England: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi, Pakistan: 1 December 2022 648/8d (179.0 overs) Sri Lanka Bangladesh
The next recorded highest score was that of John Small; batting in July 1775 for Hambledon (playing as Hampshire) against Surrey, he scored either 136 or 138 runs. Some online scorecards, such as CricketArchive have recorded the score as 136, [6] while others, along with a contemporary scorecard from the Reading Mercury list it as 138.
Joe Root has scored 52 centuries for England. Joe Root is an English cricketer and former captain of the England Test team. [1] [2] [3] Described by his compatriots Eoin Morgan and Alastair Cook as the "most complete batsman" England has ever produced, [4] [5] Root has played 151 Tests, 171 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 32 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), scoring 36 Test centuries (100 or ...
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 ...
He became the sixteenth English cricketer to score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. [10] [11] His score of 294, against the same team at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, in 2011, is the seventh highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. [12]
That score remained the highest on debut until R. E. Foster scored 287 for England against Australia in 1903. Foster's innings was the highest score in Test cricket until 1930, and remains the highest score amongst Test debutants. [3]