Cricket is many things to many people. For some, it is the Gentleman’s game. For others, it’s the best way to soak in some sun. But for many others, Cricket would be nothing with the records that the cricketers make now and then. For example, one of the most popular records is the top cricketers with the highest test score.
Records are made and broken almost at every other test match and one-day match tournaments when it comes to Cricket. So, the cricket historians are quite a busy lot keeping records. One of the most prestigious records is that of the highest test score. While the audience loves a one day and the newer version, the T20, some still swear by the test match, calling it the ultimate test of grit, strength and resilience. A test match could even go on for more than the scheduled fourth day, making it more interesting.
Top Cricketers with the Highest Test Scores
Brian Lara (375, 400)
Remember how Brian Lara was a rage in the nineties, not just in India but globally? Well, that rage is justifiable because he holds not one but two records when it comes to the highest test score. He first scored 375, beating Gary Sober’s record in 1994, and that too against England. But that’s not all. He then went on to break his record by scoring an unbeatable 400, again against England. Brian Lara is the only cricketer to have crossed the 400 run mark. He did this in less than 600 deliveries. So, in any list where they talk about the highest test scores, Brian Lara will feature not once but twice, as he does here.
Matthew Hayden – 380
The nineties was a heady time for Cricket, with the younger cricketers adamant about smashing records. One of these young gentlemen was Matthew Hayden, who pummelled the opposition (Australia, in this case), for 380 runs. He did this with just 437 deliveries. Remember, making such a big score also means that the batsman’s run rate should be excellent, and there shouldn’t be any dot balls, even by the estimates of test cricket. What’s fascinating about these huge scores is that even after posting such scores, the match can end up in a draw, like the one in which Brian Lara scored 400.
Mahela Jayawardene – 374
In 2006, Mahela Jayawardene once again turned the tides with a record that remains fresh in everyone’s minds even today. He became one of the highest scorers in a test match by hitting 374 runs. He took about 500 deliveries for this, and he hit this score against South Africa. The South African team in the 2000s was one of the strongest, like the West Indies team of the nineties – so this tremendous knock matters in the world of Cricket.
Garry Sobers – 365
Sir Gary Sobers held the record of the most runs scored in a test match for about 35 years, making it one of the oldest records to be broken when it was. He hit a score of 365 against Pakistan in 1958. The Pakistan team of 1958 was not as strong as the team was in the nineties, but that shouldn’t overshadow the sheer grit and determination Sobers showed to create a record that remained on the books for thirty-five years.
More Cricketers who have Highest test score
L Hutton – 364
The records like this didn’t just begin in the fifties. In the early thirties, L Hutton hit a stunning score of 364 against Australia back in 1938, setting the ball roll in the world of Cricketing records. In the thirties, England and Australia were at loggerheads in the world of Cricket. Remember the Bodyline series that happened at around the same time?
Jayasurya (340)
Jayasurya was one of the most powerful batsmen in the nineties. He was very famous with the Cricket fans who loved the one-dayers because of his powerful strokes. Veterans thought that he was a flash in the pan. But he changed all that by becoming the highest-scoring cricketer with a knock of 340 against India in 1997. He cemented his place in the annals of Cricketing history with this score against India. At that time, the Indian team was at its strongest. The Indian Cricket team comprised Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, and so many others. These players have become iconic in the world of Cricketing.
Hanif Mohammad (337)
In 1958, Hanif Mohammad of Pakistan faced the West Indies in a test match, and there was too much at stake. Until the fifties, the big three of Cricket were England, West Indies and Australia. It was only in the eighties that the countries like India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan became big in Cricket. So, the very fact that Hanif Mohammad of Pakistan hit 337 runs against the West Indies in the fifties is a commendable idea.
WR Hammond (336)
In the thirties, it wasn’t just Lord Hutton that scored more than 300. WR Hammond also stuck a record by hitting 336 runs against New Zealand in 1933. This record, and the one one that Lord Hutton achieved doesn’t have a lot of paperwork, and it definitely isn’t anywhere on video – because the first video recorder was invented in 1951.
Latest Cricketer with High Test Score
DA Warner (335)
And the newest record is DA Warner, hitting 335 runs against Pakistan in 2019. With this, Pakistan had to host the highest run-scorer for a second time after Sir Gary Sobers hit them all along the park in the fifties.
These are the crickters with the highest test scores in Cricketing history. Until now, Virendra Sehwag was oh-so-close twice. He once hit 319 runs against South Africa in 2008. He has also scored 309 against Pakistan, and that too in Multan, back in 2004. Tendulkar’s highest score in test Cricket was against Bangladesh, a score of 248 in 2004.
With the cricketing world going more and more towards the one-dayers and twenty, it seems that players breaking these records will be few. It took someone 35 years to break Gary Sober’s record.
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