Top 10 Batsmen with most runs in a Test match

1. Graham Gooch – 456:

Graham Gooch was going through a lean phase in the 1990s until India arrived to play a 3-Test series. The first Test of the series was played at the Lord’s and Gooch knew that luck was on his side when he was dropped by Indian keeper Kiran More on 36. He went on to make 333 runs off 485 balls hitting 43 fours and 3 sixes. England scored 653/4 dec.

India barely saved the follow-on thanks to Kapil Dev hitting 4 sixes off 4 balls bowled by Eddie Hemmings. This gave Gooch the chance to score yet another hundred in the Test and he took the chance full on making 123 in the second innings and becoming the first batsman to score a triple-century and a century in the same Test.

He also became the first batsman to score 400 runs in a single Test, breaking Greg Chappell’s record of 380 runs. Gooch’s record still stands tall despite 25 years passing by, no other batsman has been able to score 450 runs again.

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(All Stats Updated Till 14th December, 2015)