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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]
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 ...
This is a list of England Test cricketers. A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match ...
List of highest individual scores in ODIs; List of highest individual scores in cricket; List of Test cricket records; List of Test cricket triple centuries; List of Test cricket records at the Adelaide Oval; List of players who have scored 2,000 or more runs in Twenty20 International cricket
List of cricketers who have taken two five-wicket hauls on Test debut; List of cricketers who scored a century in their hundredth Test; List of Ireland Test cricket records; List of New Zealand Test cricket records; List of players who have scored 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket; List of South Africa Test cricket records; List of Sri Lanka ...
The first Test triple century was achieved by Andy Sandham of England against the West Indies in 1930 in the first Test series hosted in the West Indies. [4] The quickest Test triple-century was scored in 4 hours 48 minutes, by Wally Hammond for England against New Zealand at Auckland in 1932–33. [1]
This also took him past 3,000 Test runs. During the third Test Root made scores of 4 and 6 in England's collapse and England succumbed to a 2–0 series loss. Root finished the series with 287 runs, England's second highest run scorer. Having been reinstated into the ODI squad, Root batted at number 3 in the first ODI however he was out for 0.