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What is the highest Test innings score?

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William Rodriguez

Published Jan 08, 2026

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.

What is the highest team score in a Test innings?

Sri Lankan Cricket Team Holds The Records Of Highest Team Score In Test Cricket Innings. As They Scored 952 Runs With The Loss Of 6 Wickets Against India on 06 August 1997 at R. Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo.

What is the highest inning total in a Test match?

Here we take a look at the top seven highest team totals in the history of Test cricket.

  • India 759/7d vs England (2016) ...
  • Sri Lanka 760/7d vs India (2009) ...
  • Pakistan 765/6d vs Sri Lanka (2009) ...
  • West Indies 790/3d vs Pakistan (1958) ...
  • England 849 vs West Indies (1930) ...
  • England 903/7d vs Australia (1938)

What is the highest cricket score ever by a team?

The world record is held by England in their innings of 481/6 in 50 overs against Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 19 June 2018.

Who hit 6 sixes in an over?

Herschelle Gibbs hits six sixes in an over in ODI cricket

While Shastri and Sobers were the first two batsmen to reach the milestone, it is former South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs who was the first to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket.

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Who hit 6 fours in an over?

Sandeep Patil during the course of his resurrecting 129 achieved the feat of six fours in an over.

Who scored 300 in ODI?

Don Bradman is international cricket history's only player to score 300+ runs in one day, accomplishing the feat on July 11, 1930.

Has anyone taken 20 wickets in a Test match?

Indian pacers take all 20 wickets in a Test for first time. The Johannesburg Test match between India and South Africa was the first instance of India's pacers taking all 20 wickets in a Test. Jasprit Bumrah was the pick of the bowlers with seven wickets followed by Mohammad Shami, who took six.

What is the highest score in IPL?

RCB has scored the highest runs in a match with an astounding score of 263–5 against PWI in 2013, the same match in which Gayle hit his record score for a match in IPL, and also the record for the highest number of 6's in an innings. This is also the second highest innings total by any team in a T20 match.

Who scored 600 runs in Test cricket?

The Indian side ended up scoring 7-655, and the game's end result was a tie. The highest 600+ scores made by the team came against the England cricket team at a Test innings held at Chennai. This is a historical Test match due to the stupendous triple-hundred scored by Karun Nair.

What is India's highest score in ODI?

  • *Highest total – 418/5 in 50 overs vs WI at Indore on December 8, 2011.
  • *Lowest total – 54 all out in 26.3 overs vs SL at Sharjah on October 29, 2000.
  • *Largest victory – by 257 runs vs Bermuda at Port of Spain on March 19, 2007.

Did Don Bradman ever hit a six?

How many Sixes did Don Bradman hit in his Test career? Don hit just six sixes in his Test career, five v. England and one v. India.

Who made fastest fifty test?

Former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq leads the list for the fastest fifty in Test cricket, with his record 21-ball half-century against Australia in an Abu Dhabi Test in 2014.

Who scored fastest 200 in ODI?

Chris Gayle holds the record for the fastest double century (200) in one-day internationals (ODI) cricket. Chris Gayle's 215 off 147 balls included 10 fours and a record 16 sixes. He became the first non-Indian and only the fifth batsman in history to score a double-century in a 50-over match.

Who is the youngest cricketer to score a century in the Test cricket?

When he scored his debut hundred, Bangladesh's Mohammad Ashraful became the youngest player to score a century in Test cricket, at the age of 17 years and 61 days.

Who hit the most sixes in an over?

1) Herschelle Gibbs: The first one to achieve this feat was South African opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs. While batting during a match against Netherlands in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 on March 16, Gibbs unleashed on leg-spin bowler Daan Van Bunge and hit him for six sixes in the 30th over of the game.