INDIVDUAL BATTING RECORDS IN TEST CRICKET

Individual records
Individual records (batting)
Career runs
Most career runs
Runs
Player Period
12,773 (261 inns.) Sachin Tendulkar
1989—
11,953 (232 inns.) Brian Lara
1993—2007
11,188 (225 inns.) Ricky Ponting
1995—
11,174 (265 inns.) Allan Border
1978—1994
10,927 (260 inns.) Steve Waugh
1985—2004

Highest career average
Average
Player Period
99.94 (80 inns.) Don Bradman
1928—1948
60.97 (41 inns.) Graeme Pollock
1963—1970
60.83 (40 inns.) George Headley
1930—1954
60.73 (81 inns.) Herbert Sutcliffe
1924—1935
59.23 (31 inns.) Eddie Paynter
1931—1939
Qualification: 20 innings.
Source: Cricinfo.com. Last updated: 01 March 2009.

Notes:
• If the qualification is removed, the highest career batting average list is topped by Andy Ganteaume, who scored 112 in his one and only Test innings.[1]

Most career runs — progression of record
Runs Player Record held until
239 Charles Bannerman
4 January 1882
676 1 George Ulyett
13 August 1884
860 2 Billy Murdoch
14 August 1886
1,277 Arthur Shrewsbury
23 January 1902
1,293 3 Joe Darling
18 February 1902
1,366 4 Syd Gregory
14 June 1902
1,531 5 Archie MacLaren
13 August 1902
3,412 Clem Hill
27 December 1924
5,410 Jack Hobbs
29 June 1937
7,249 Wally Hammond
27 November 1970
7,459 6 Colin Cowdrey
23 March 1972
8,032 Garfield Sobers
23 December 1981
8,114 Geoff Boycott
12 November 1983
10,122 Sunil Gavaskar
25 February 1993
11,174 Allan Border
25 November 2005
11,953 Brian Lara
17 October 2008
12,773 Sachin Tendulkar
current
Source: HowSTAT!. Last updated: 7 April 2009.
Notes:
1. Ulyett finished career with 949 runs
2. Murdoch finished career with 908 runs
3. Darling finished career with 1,657 runs
4. Gregory finished career with 2,282 runs
5. MacLaren finished career with 1,931 runs
6. Cowdrey finished career with 7,624 runs