HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORE TEST CRICKET

Innings or series
Highest individual score
Runs
Player Opponent Venue
Season
400* Brian Lara
v England
St John's
2003-04
380 Matthew Hayden
v Zimbabwe
Perth
2003-04
375 Brian Lara
v England
St John's
1993-94
374 Mahela Jayawardene
v South Africa
Colombo
2006
365* Garfield Sobers
v Pakistan
Kingston
1957-58

Most runs in a series
Runs
Player Series
974 (7 inns.) Don Bradman
v England, 1930

905 (9 inns.) Wally Hammond
Australia, 1928-29

839 (11 inns.) Mark Taylor
v England, 1989

834 (9 inns.) Neil Harvey
v South Africa, 1952-53
829 (7 inns.) Viv Richards
v England, 1976


Highest individual score — progression of record
Runs
Player Opponent Venue
Season
165* Charles Bannerman
(in the inaugural Test Match) v England
Melbourne
1876-77
211 Billy Murdoch
v England
The Oval, London
1884
287 Tip Foster
v Australia
Sydney
1903-04
325 Andy Sandham
v West Indies
Kingston
1929-30
334 Don Bradman
v England
Leeds
1930
336* Wally Hammond
v New Zealand
Auckland
1932-33
364 Len Hutton
v Australia
The Oval, London
1938
365* Garfield Sobers
v Pakistan
Kingston
1957-58
375 Brian Lara
v England
St John's
1993-94
380 Matthew Hayden
v Zimbabwe
Perth
2003-04
400* Brian Lara
v England
St John's
2003-04