Team-Wise Highest Individual Scores In Test Cricket

Team-Wise Highest Individual Scores In Test Cricket; The magical three-figure mark holds a distinct significance in the game of cricket, as the batsman always dreams of scoring a century for his/her respective country. It takes a tremendous amount of concentration, grit, technique, and skill set to score a hundred in test match cricket.

A number of batsmen have achieved the feat on multiple occasions. Then there are those who go the extra mile and score double hundreds. During the course of those stunning knocks, a few of the batsman made the most of the chance to register the highest-ever individual score for their respective countries. Here, in this article, we came up with the highest individual scores in Test Cricket. Check out.

Team-Wise Highest Individual Scores In Test Cricket:

10. Bangladesh – Mushfiqur Rahim

Mushfiqur Rahim struck his third double hundred in Tests for Bangladesh against Zimbabwe in the one-off Test match held in the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka. The flamboyant batsman smashed his third triple century in his career to make things happen for Bangladesh.

During his knock, he surpassed Tamim Iqbal’s previous best of 217 with his 219-run knock. Besides that, Rahim, with 4412 runs, surpassed Tamil Iqbal as the highest-scoring batsman for Bangladesh in Tests, surpassing the latter’s 4405.

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9. Zimbabwe – DL Houghton

Dave Houghton is one of Zimbabwe’s best batsmen in their Test history. Alongside Andy Flower, Houghton used to smash the best bowlers in the world with ease. His cricketing skills were put on display when he smashed a blistering 266 against Sri Lanka at Bulawayo in 1994.

He faced the likes of Chaminda Vaas, Kumar Dharmasena and Muttiah Muralitharan during his stunning knock for Zimbabwe. His knock helped Zimbabwe to post 462 runs on the board. In reply, Sri Lanka were asked to follow-on but one of the great centuries by S Ranatunga denied a well-deserved victory for Zimbabwe.

8. New Zealand – Brendon McCullum

New Zealand’s former destructive batsman Brendon McCullum has multiple records to his name in international cricket. He is one of the most devastating batsmen in world cricket to take up to the field. He became the first New Zealander to score a triple hundred in a Test, 302 runs against India on 18 February 2014.

With New Zealand having lost half their side for 94 in the second innings, Brendon McCullum engineered a stupendous counter-attack, hitting 32 fours and four sixes as the Kiwis managed to draw the encounter.

7. South Africa – Hashim Amla

Amla is the only South African to have scored a triple century in the Test format. He arrived at the crease when the Proteas were at 1/1. Amla’s unbeaten knock of 311 runs helped South Africa to post a mammoth total of 637 on the board. South Africa eventually won the match to record a memorable 2-0 Test series victory against England.

Amla played international cricket for almost 15 years. He went on to represent Proteas in 349 matches across all formats to make 18,000 runs including 55 centuries and 88 fifty-plus scores across all formats of the game. He played 124 Tests for South Africa, scoring 9282 runs in them at an average of 46.41.

6. India – Virender Sehwag

Sehwag holds the record for the highest individual score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. It was one of the most fast-paced games in a Test match that witnessed Virender Sehwag unleash his fury on South Africa’s bowlers, as he played a masterful 319-run knock at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in 2008.

Batting for over 150 hours in the excruciating Chennai heat, Virender Sehwag went berserk as he scored 319 off just 308 balls with a mammoth 42 boundaries and five sixes. Despite the match being drawn, all eyes were on Virender Sehwag for his spectacular knock, another one that remains etched in the memorie3s of Indian cricket fans.

In a career that spanned 14 years, Sehwag scored 8586 runs in 104 Tests at an average of 49.34 with 23 hundreds and 32 half-centuries. In 251 ODIs he amassed 8273 runs at 35.05 with 15 centuries and 38 fifties while in 19 T20 internationals he made 394 runs with two fifties.

5. Pakistan – Hanif Mohammad

Hanif Mohammad’s 16-hour marathon is still the longest innings in Test history. Trailing by 473, the tourists needed to bat for over three days to salvage a draw; few gave them hope. But Hanif was unbeaten at the close of the second day. And on the third day. And on the fourth day. And on the fifth day.

He was eventually dismissed on the sixth morning for 337, having saved the game. It was a special knock from the Pakistani batsman, which changed the face of Pakistan Cricket Team.

4. England – L Hutton

With the Ashes already conceded, England made three changes to their side, bringing back a 22-year-old youth Len Hutton with five Tests under his belt. The pitch was so flat that it was not a surprise that England scored 347 for 1 on Day One.

Hutton saw it as a chance to make a mark in the international arena. Hutton reached his 150 in 362 balls and carried on relentlessly. Hutton reached his 300 from 718 balls and 662 minutes just before stumps on Day Two.

He went to the pavilion unbeaten on that score with England reaching 634 for 5. It was played in 1938 and remains the highest score for England in the longer version of the game.

3. Sri Lanka – Mahela Jayawardene

Jayawardene has always been the master of scoring runs for his side, especially, in the longer version of the game. It comes as no surprise that a person of his calibre is topping the chart for Sri Lanka.

Batting first, South Africa was bundled out for just 169 runs on a sluggish track. South Africa managed to reduce the Lankan lions to 14 for 2, but what followed was history in the making.

The duo of Kumar Sangakara and Mahela Jayawardene punished a hapless South African bowling attack that had the likes of Ntini, Andre Nel, and Dale Steyn. The du0 recorded the highest partnership for any wicket in the Test cricket.

Mahela Jayawardene’s 374 is the highest test score by a Sri Lankan batsman and has been untainted over time.

2. Australia – Matthew Hayden

On October 10, 2003, Australian opener Matthew Hayden became the highest individual run-scorer in a single Test inning when he went past Brian Lara’s 375, at the WACA against Zimbabwe, when he scored 380 runs.

After setting the record, Hayden was congratulated by the previous record-holder Brian Lara, who claimed the record back six months later when he became the first and only player to score 400 runs in an innings.

Australia posted a mammoth total of 735, led by Haydos’s 380. In reply, Zimbabwe could only muster 239, 141 runs short of Hayden’s individual score. Australia won the match by an innings and 175 runs. In the same game, Adam Gilchrist scored an unbeaten 113*, but it was dwarfed by Hayden’s triple hundred.

1. West Indies – Brian Lara

Brian Lara smashed 400 not out against England in St John’s to set the record for the highest individual score in Test innings. In the 2004 four-match series, the home team West Indies were already 3-0 down and hosts were staring at a whitewash. It was then that Lara, the skipper, decided to take the matters in his own hands.

The left-handed batsman batted for two minutes shy of 13 hours for the record. He faced 582 deliveries and hit 43 fours and four sixes.

West Indies declared their innings at 751/7. In reply, England crumbled against spinner Pedro Collin’s four-wicket haul that helped Windies to enforce the follow-on.

However, there wasn’t much time left in the match for Lara’s team to press for a win.