| Player | Runs | Team | Opposition | Ground | Match Date | Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GS Sobers | 365* | West Indies | v Pakistan | Kingston | 26 Feb 1958 | Test # 450 |
| RB Simpson | 311 | Australia | v England | Manchester | 23 Jul 1964 | Test # 564 |
| KK Nair | 303* | India | v England | Chennai | 16 Dec 2016 | Test # 2241 |
| RE Foster | 287 | England | v Australia | Sydney | 11 Dec 1903 | Test # 78 |
| BC Lara | 277 | West Indies | v Australia | Sydney | 2 Jan 1993 | Test # 1208 |
| Zaheer Abbas | 274 | Pakistan | v England | Birmingham | 3 Jun 1971 | Test # 687 |
| Z Crawley | 267 | England | v Pakistan | Southampton | 21 Aug 2020 | Test # 2393 |
| RB Kanhai | 256 | West Indies | v India | Eden Gardens | 31 Dec 1958 | Test # 463 |
| DJ McGlew | 255* | South Africa | v New Zealand | Wellington | 6 Mar 1953 | Test # 368 |
| WR Hammond | 251 | England | v Australia | Sydney | 14 Dec 1928 | Test # 177 |
| SFAF Bacchus | 250 | West Indies | v India | Kanpur | 2 Feb 1979 | Test # 845 |
| R Ravindra | 240 | New Zealand | v South Africa | Mount Maunganui | 4 Feb 2024 | Test # 2528 |
| SG Barnes | 234 | Australia | v England | Sydney | 13 Dec 1946 | Test # 280 |
| AD Nourse | 231 | South Africa | v Australia | Johannesburg | 24 Dec 1935 | Test # 248 |
| VG Kambli | 224 | India | v England | Wankhede | 19 Feb 1993 | Test # 1214 |
| JA Rudolph | 222* | South Africa | v Bangladesh | Chattogram | 24 Apr 2003 | Test # 1640 |
| RWT Key | 221 | England | v West Indies | Lord's | 22 Jul 2004 | Test # 1707 |
| WJ Edrich | 219 | England | v South Africa | Durban | 3 Mar 1939 | Test # 271 |
| DS Atkinson | 219 | West Indies | v Australia | Bridgetown | 14 May 1955 | Test # 406 |
| E Paynter | 216* | England | v Australia | Nottingham | 10 Jun 1938 | Test # 263 |
| MA Agarwal | 215 | India | v South Africa | Visakhapatnam | 2 Oct 2019 | Test # 2363 |
| D Lloyd | 214* | England | v India | Birmingham | 4 Jul 1974 | Test # 741 |
| LG Rowe | 214 | West Indies | v New Zealand | Kingston | 16 Feb 1972 | Test # 693 |
| MS Sinclair | 214 | New Zealand | v West Indies | Wellington | 26 Dec 1999 | Test # 1478 |
| HH Gibbs | 211* | South Africa | v New Zealand | Christchurch | 11 Mar 1999 | Test # 1449 |
| Taslim Arif | 210* | Pakistan | v Australia | Faisalabad | 6 Mar 1980 | Test # 878 |
| KR Mayers | 210* | West Indies | v Bangladesh | Chattogram | 3 Feb 2021 | Test # 2407 |
| DM Jones | 210 | Australia | v India | Chennai | 18 Sep 1986 | Test # 1052 |
| Imtiaz Ahmed | 209 | Pakistan | v New Zealand | Lahore | 26 Oct 1955 | Test # 414 |
| SL Campbell | 208 | West Indies | v New Zealand | Bridgetown | 19 Apr 1996 | Test # 1325 |
| T Chanderpaul | 207* | West Indies | v Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 4 Feb 2023 | Test # 2489 |
| MP Donnelly | 206 | New Zealand | v England | Lord's | 25 Jun 1949 | Test # 315 |
| Aamer Sohail | 205 | Pakistan | v England | Manchester | 2 Jul 1992 | Test # 1191 |
| KNM Fernando | 205 | Sri Lanka | v Ireland | Galle | 24 Apr 2023 | Test # 2503 |
| BJ Hodge | 203* | Australia | v South Africa | W.A.C.A | 16 Dec 2005 | Test # 1777 |
| DSBP Kuruppu | 201* | Sri Lanka | v New Zealand | Colombo (CCC) | 16 Apr 1987 | Test # 1074 |
| GW Flower | 201* | Zimbabwe | v Pakistan | Harare | 31 Jan 1995 | Test # 1285 |
| JN Gillespie | 201* | Australia | v Bangladesh | Chattogram | 16 Apr 2006 | Test # 1799 |
| SE Gregory | 201 | Australia | v England | Sydney | 14 Dec 1894 | Test # 42 |
| SM Nurse | 201 | West Indies | v Australia | Bridgetown | 5 May 1965 | Test # 589 |
| DN Sardesai | 200* | India | v New Zealand | Brabourne | 12 Mar 1965 | Test # 582 |
| Hashmatullah Shahidi | 200* | Afghanistan | v Zimbabwe | Abu Dhabi | 10 Mar 2021 | Test # 2415 |
| GC Smith | 200 | South Africa | v Bangladesh | East London | 18 Oct 2002 | Test # 1619 |
| DP Conway | 200 | New Zealand | v England | Lord's | 2 Jun 2021 | Test # 2422 |
Records include the following recent matches:
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Galle, ICC World Test Championship 1st Test, Jun 17-21, 2025 [Test # 2586]
England v Zimbabwe at Nottingham, Only Test, May 22-24, 2025 [Test # 2584]
Bangladesh v Zimbabwe at Chattogram, 2nd Test, Apr 28-30, 2025 [Test # 2583]
