Highest Individual Test Cricket Scores of All Time
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Brian Lara leads in Highest Test Score (runs) with 400 in 2004.
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Brian Lara grew fastest: +6.7% from 1994 to 2004 (375 → 400).
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1958 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2004: Brian Lara is 1.2× larger than Wally Hammond.
About This Dataset
Highest Individual Test Cricket Scores of All Time
The highest individual innings scores ever recorded in Test match cricket. Brian Lara holds the world record for the highest individual Test innings with 400 not out, scored for the West Indies against England at Antigua in 2004.
Analysis
Brian Lara (400), Matthew Hayden (380) and Garfield Sobers (365) take the top three in Highest Test Score (runs) in 2004. No single entity dominates: the leader, Brian Lara, holds 15.9% of the combined total of all 7. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 5 run from 365 down to 336. Over 1994–2004 the steepest rise belongs to Brian Lara: +6.7% (375 → 400).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 7 entities · 1933–2004 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Highest Test Score (runs)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2004.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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