There have been giant scorers in Test match cricket whose batting has made the already rich sport, even richer. In terms of the love it receives, it is largely due to the familiarity Cricket still persists with, with its chunk of exceptional reportage on the famous names.
But if it’s true that cricket records are meant to be broken, and Lara’s individual Test score of 400* may now be on Yashasvi Jaiswal’s mercy as the left-hander continues to become an enforcer, one can possibly pause for something else. Something more fun. Something about as interesting as the Prince of Trinidad’s highest individual Test score and the gravitas with which the left hander went for it back in 2004.
But today’s a different, a new day. So let us begin with an exciting list that comprises- 3 cricketers with 700+ runs in a Test series. This is a list that neither includes the legend Kohli, nor Dhoni or even WG Grace.
It does, however, comprise names that are legendary in terms of creating big ripples in Cricket when none of today’s “Achievers” were even born.
Don Bradman
Not Donald, not Bradman; but Sir Donald Bradman! He shall always be an exemplifier of scoring heaps of runs at astonishing strike rate and consistency. The late great, who once famously stated that he finds a bit of him in Sachin Tendulkar, scored 6996 Test match runs on the whole. And he scored 974 of those in the space of a single Test series, it being the Ashes of the year 1930. Interestingly, this was a time where the Australians were in England but what the hosts didn’t know back then was the sensational Bradman show was going to shatter world records and thus, become a permanent seat holder in the realm of cricket’s greatest.
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Wally Hammond
Sir Wally Hammond was, will always undoubtedly be, one of England’s national treasures where it came to being a great stroke maker and someone who was as talented as he was dominant with the bat. On the whole, the Dover, UK-born batting icon scored 7249 runs on the whole in his incredible Test career, he scored 905 Test match runs in the 1928-29 series. The majestic batter struck 22 Test tons in his career.
Mark Taylor
In the 1989 Test series featuring Australia and England, Mark Taylor, back then in the form of his life, would end up scoring 839 Test match runs. This was from 11 innings. So the former great captain-batter’s talent ended up destroying the then English squad.
However, when one strolled past the left-hander’s record, it would appeal quite normal to many. For as it is- scoring dollops of runs, whether in the past or in the action-packed modern era, is something moves the fan and over three and a half decades ago, the man responsible for the “Caught Taylor, bowled Warne” phrase was simply unstoppable.