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Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 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. [ 3 ]
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]
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run. [103] Former West Indian fast bowler Courtney Walsh has scored the highest number of ducks in Test cricket with 43, followed by England's Stuart Broad with 39. James Anderson, with 34 scoreless innings, is seventh on the list. [104]
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.
A batsman scoring a Test triple century is slightly rarer than a bowler taking a Test hat-trick (32 triple centuries versus 46 hat-tricks as of October 2024). [1] [2] No triple centuries have yet been scored in women's Test cricket. [3]
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out, usually given to two decimal places.. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player ...
He played a crucial innings in the final match of the series, anchoring England's innings with 93 as they set Sri Lanka 325 to win, and England won the game by 122 runs, to win the series 3–0. In the second Test of the series against Pakistan, Root scored 254, the highest total of his Test career and the second-highest of any English player ...
In the sport of cricket, a batsman is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket , the highest form of the game below international level , a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions.