| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| RB Kanhai | 256 | West Indies | v India | Kolkata | 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 | |
| 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 | Mumbai | 19 Feb 1993 | Test # 1214 | |
| JA Rudolph | 222* | South Africa | v Bangladesh | Chittagong (MAA) | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| BJ Hodge | 203* | Australia | v South Africa | Perth | 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 | Chittagong (ZACS) | 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 | Mumbai (BS) | 12 Mar 1965 | Test # 582 | |
| GC Smith | 200 | South Africa | v Bangladesh | East London | 18 Oct 2002 | Test # 1619 |
Records include the following recent matches:
India v Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad, 1st Test, Nov 16-20, 2009 [Test # 1933]
Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (SSC), 2nd Test, Aug 26-30, 2009 [Test # 1932]
England v Australia at The Oval, 5th Test, Aug 20-23, 2009 [Test # 1931]
Statsguru Trivia
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- Only one player has scored more than 1000 runs in Tests without making a single 50-plus score. Name him. (Ajai Banerji, India)
- How many batsmen have scored 150 or more in the fourth innings of a successful run-chase in Tests? (Navathej Katragadda, India)
Did you know?
The Dunedin Test between New Zealand and Pakistan will be the first time a Test match will be hosted in that country in November. The earliest New Zealand had hosted a Test before this was on December 7, when Sri Lanka played a Test in Christchurch in 2006. The match finished inside three days.
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