Records

Cricket records that do not change every week: highest scores, most wickets, longest careers, checked against our own dataset.

Records 10 Aug 2026 · 6 min

Highest individual scores in Test cricket, and what they cost

Only one batter has passed 400. The list is shorter than people expect, and the innings on it took between eight and sixteen hours to build.

Records 9 Aug 2026 · 6 min

Most Test wickets of all time, and the two who will not be caught

Muralitharan's 800 and Warne's 708 sit above everybody. The list below them explains more about how cricket changed than the two at the top do.

Records 2 Aug 2026 · 7 min

The three teams that won a Test after following on

In roughly 2,600 Test matches it has happened three times, and two of them involved the same opposition. What the three have in common is not what people assume.

Records 30 Jul 2026 · 7 min

Most Test runs of all time, and what the list is really measuring

Tendulkar's 15,921 leads a list that rewards longevity above everything. The averages beside those totals tell a very different story about who was hardest to dismiss.