| Player | Team | Mat | From | Until |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Border | Australia | 93 | 7 Dec 1984 | 25 Mar 1994 |
| RT Ponting | Australia | 73 | 3 Nov 2004 | 26 Dec 2010 |
| SP Fleming | New Zealand | 65 | 1 Jul 1999 | 15 Dec 2006 |
| AN Cook | England | 57 | 15 Nov 2012 | 16 Dec 2016 |
| MA Atherton | England | 52 | 5 Aug 1993 | 20 Mar 1998 |
| MA Taylor | Australia | 50 | 28 Sep 1994 | 2 Jan 1999 |
| GC Smith | South Africa | 40 | 16 Dec 2009 | 1 Mar 2014 |
| GS Sobers | West Indies | 39 | 3 Mar 1965 | 20 Apr 1972 |
| JE Root | England | 39 | 6 Jul 2017 | 24 Jan 2020 |
| ST Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka | 38 | 9 Sep 1999 | 8 Nov 2002 |
| M Azharuddin | India | 37 | 2 Feb 1990 | 4 Jul 1996 |
| GC Smith | South Africa | 36 | 24 Apr 2003 | 24 Mar 2006 |
| PBH May | England | 35 | 9 Jun 1955 | 2 Jul 1959 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 35 | 30 Jun 2012 | 17 Nov 2016 |
| JR Reid | New Zealand | 34 | 18 Feb 1956 | 8 Jul 1965 |
| KC Brathwaite | West Indies | 34 | 3 Feb 2021 | 25 Jan 2025 |
| SC Ganguly | India | 33 | 10 Nov 2000 | 8 Oct 2003 |
| DL Vettori | New Zealand | 32 | 8 Nov 2007 | 15 Jan 2011 |
| BB McCullum | New Zealand | 31 | 2 Jan 2013 | 20 Feb 2016 |
| AD Mathews | Sri Lanka | 31 | 8 Mar 2013 | 13 Aug 2016 |
| SPD Smith | Australia | 31 | 5 Nov 2015 | 22 Mar 2018 |
| IM Chappell | Australia | 30 | 12 Feb 1971 | 28 Aug 1975 |
| SR Waugh | Australia | 30 | 23 Aug 2001 | 2 Jan 2004 |
| DJG Sammy | West Indies | 30 | 15 Nov 2010 | 19 Dec 2013 |
| CH Lloyd | West Indies | 29 | 22 Nov 1974 | 17 Mar 1978 |
| GC Smith | South Africa | 29 | 15 Dec 2006 | 6 Mar 2009 |
| AJ Strauss | England | 29 | 27 May 2010 | 16 Aug 2012 |
| A Ranatunga | Sri Lanka | 28 | 17 Aug 1992 | 26 Dec 1995 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | Sri Lanka | 28 | 28 Feb 2006 | 1 Mar 2009 |
| MS Dhoni | India | 27 | 24 Jan 2010 | 13 Jan 2012 |
| Mushfiqur Rahim | Bangladesh | 27 | 21 Oct 2011 | 12 Jan 2017 |
| WJ Cronje | South Africa | 26 | 25 Nov 1994 | 30 Jan 1998 |
| WJ Cronje | South Africa | 26 | 26 Feb 1998 | 2 Mar 2000 |
| BA Stokes | England | 26 | 2 Jun 2022 | 26 Jul 2024 |
| WM Woodfull | Australia | 25 | 13 Jun 1930 | 18 Aug 1934 |
| R Illingworth | England | 25 | 12 Jun 1969 | 10 Aug 1972 |
| DI Gower | England | 25 | 12 Mar 1984 | 5 Jun 1986 |
| V Kohli | India | 25 | 6 Jan 2015 | 16 Mar 2017 |
| KS Williamson | New Zealand | 25 | 8 Oct 2016 | 26 Dec 2019 |
| JE Root | England | 25 | 16 Jul 2020 | 24 Mar 2022 |
| MJ Clarke | Australia | 24 | 3 Jan 2011 | 14 Mar 2013 |
| AH Kardar | Pakistan | 23 | 16 Oct 1952 | 26 Mar 1958 |
| CH Lloyd | West Indies | 23 | 24 Nov 1980 | 2 Mar 1984 |
| MW Gatting | England | 23 | 19 Jun 1986 | 2 Jun 1988 |
| N Hussain | England | 23 | 16 Aug 2001 | 24 Jul 2003 |
| TD Paine | Australia | 23 | 30 Mar 2018 | 15 Jan 2021 |
| BS Bedi | India | 22 | 5 Feb 1976 | 14 Nov 1978 |
| SM Gavaskar | India | 22 | 2 Jan 1981 | 30 Jan 1983 |
| A Ranatunga | Sri Lanka | 22 | 11 Sep 1996 | 24 Feb 1999 |
| CL Hooper | West Indies | 22 | 9 Mar 2001 | 30 Oct 2002 |
| BC Lara | West Indies | 22 | 10 Apr 2003 | 19 Aug 2004 |
| Nawab of Pataudi | India | 21 | 23 Mar 1962 | 13 Jul 1967 |
| SM Pollock | South Africa | 21 | 20 Jul 2000 | 2 Jan 2002 |
| MS Dhoni | India | 21 | 23 Aug 2012 | 15 Aug 2014 |
| JO Holder | West Indies | 21 | 14 Oct 2015 | 1 Dec 2017 |
| V Kohli | India | 21 | 1 Aug 2018 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| MJK Smith | England | 20 | 4 Dec 1964 | 2 Jun 1966 |
| WM Lawry | Australia | 20 | 22 Aug 1968 | 29 Jan 1971 |
| JM Brearley | England | 20 | 1 Jun 1978 | 15 Feb 1980 |
| N Kapil Dev | India | 20 | 30 Aug 1985 | 13 Mar 1987 |
| Babar Azam | Pakistan | 20 | 26 Jan 2021 | 24 Jul 2023 |
| FDM Karunaratne | Sri Lanka | 20 | 21 Mar 2021 | 24 Jul 2023 |
| WR Hammond | England | 19 | 10 Jun 1938 | 31 Jan 1947 |
| R Benaud | Australia | 19 | 5 Dec 1958 | 8 Jun 1961 |
| RB Simpson | Australia | 19 | 1 Jan 1964 | 14 May 1965 |
| GT Dowling | New Zealand | 19 | 22 Feb 1968 | 9 Mar 1972 |
| GP Howarth | New Zealand | 19 | 26 Dec 1980 | 24 Mar 1984 |
| IVA Richards | West Indies | 19 | 29 Mar 1985 | 11 Jan 1988 |
| GA Gooch | England | 19 | 26 Dec 1990 | 29 Jan 1993 |
| ADR Campbell | Zimbabwe | 19 | 11 Sep 1996 | 29 Oct 1999 |
| SR Waugh | Australia | 19 | 5 Mar 1999 | 1 Dec 2000 |
| RG Sharma | India | 19 | 9 Feb 2023 | 1 Nov 2024 |
| HW Taylor | South Africa | 18 | 13 Dec 1913 | 16 Aug 1924 |
| FCM Alexander | West Indies | 18 | 17 Jan 1958 | 25 Mar 1960 |
| LRD Mendis | Sri Lanka | 18 | 22 Apr 1983 | 16 Apr 1987 |
| MP Vaughan | England | 18 | 3 Jun 2004 | 8 Sep 2005 |
| R Dravid | India | 18 | 13 Jan 2006 | 9 Aug 2007 |
| MP Vaughan | England | 18 | 25 May 2007 | 30 Jul 2008 |
| PJ Cummins | Australia | 18 | 7 Jun 2023 | 3 Jan 2025 |
| BE Congdon | New Zealand | 17 | 23 Mar 1972 | 28 Feb 1975 |
| GS Chappell | Australia | 17 | 28 Nov 1975 | 25 Aug 1977 |
| IVA Richards | West Indies | 17 | 14 Apr 1988 | 24 Feb 1990 |
| KR Rutherford | New Zealand | 17 | 26 Nov 1993 | 18 Mar 1995 |
| SR Tendulkar | India | 17 | 10 Oct 1996 | 3 Dec 1997 |
| BC Lara | West Indies | 17 | 29 Jan 1998 | 26 Dec 1999 |
| MS Atapattu | Sri Lanka | 17 | 6 May 2004 | 18 Dec 2005 |
| Mominul Haque | Bangladesh | 17 | 14 Nov 2019 | 23 May 2022 |
| AL Wadekar | India | 16 | 18 Feb 1971 | 4 Jul 1974 |
| GS Chappell | Australia | 16 | 1 Dec 1979 | 7 Feb 1981 |
| Imran Khan | Pakistan | 16 | 23 Feb 1986 | 6 Aug 1987 |
| Waqar Younis | Pakistan | 16 | 17 May 2001 | 2 Jan 2003 |
| AJ Strauss | England | 16 | 4 Feb 2009 | 14 Jan 2010 |
| MJ Clarke | Australia | 16 | 10 Jul 2013 | 9 Dec 2014 |
| Shan Masood | Pakistan | 16* | 14 Dec 2023 | 16 May 2026 |
| DG Bradman | Australia | 15 | 29 Nov 1946 | 14 Aug 1948 |
| AD Nourse | South Africa | 15 | 16 Dec 1948 | 16 Aug 1951 |
| JDC Goddard | West Indies | 15 | 3 Mar 1948 | 31 Dec 1951 |
| L Hutton | England | 15 | 5 Jun 1952 | 10 Jun 1954 |
| IWG Johnson | Australia | 15 | 31 Dec 1954 | 19 Oct 1956 |
| ER Dexter | England | 15 | 26 Jul 1962 | 22 Aug 1963 |
| FMM Worrell | West Indies | 15 | 9 Dec 1960 | 22 Aug 1963 |
| Nawab of Pataudi | India | 15 | 30 Dec 1967 | 24 Dec 1969 |
| SP Fleming | New Zealand | 15 | 14 Feb 1997 | 2 Jan 1999 |
| JC Adams | West Indies | 15 | 16 Mar 2000 | 2 Jan 2001 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 15 | 12 Nov 2010 | 3 Feb 2012 |
| D Elgar | South Africa | 15 | 10 Jun 2021 | 4 Jan 2023 |
| DM de Silva | Sri Lanka | 15* | 2 Feb 2024 | 25 Jun 2026 |
* indicates an ongoing sequence
Records include the following recent matches:
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, Only Test, Jun 28-30, 2026 [Test # 2625]
England v New Zealand at Nottingham, ICC World Test Championship 3rd Test, Jun 25-29, 2026 [Test # 2623]
West Indies v Sri Lanka at North Sound, ICC World Test Championship 1st Test, Jun 25-28, 2026 [Test # 2624]
