Top 10 Batsmen with Most Fours in a test innings

Top 10 Batsmen with Most Fours in a test innings: Test cricket is all about hanging on – it tests your patience and resilience. You just cannot go out there and start attempting sixes from the very first ball for obvious reasons. You have 5 days for the game and you won’t want to risk your energy and more importantly, your wicket. You leave the good balls, take your time to read the conditions and settle down and talk more in singles and doubles. There have been exceptions to this format as well – players like Virender Sehwag always showed more interest towards making the ball sail over the boundary and quite well did so; but in most of the cases it’s the fours which keep your scoreboard ticking. A six requires timing and power, a four requires even greater things – hand-eye coordination, ability to read the field, finding the gap and executing the correct way. We present to you a list of 10 cricketers with most number of fours in a test innings.

10. Mahela Jayawardene 43:

He is considered as one of the finest test-cricketers the world has ever produced. With his class, patience and strong technique, Mahela Jayawardene would stay hours and hours on the pitch altogether.

In July, 2006, Sri Lanka was playing their first match of the test-series against England when Jayawardene went on to share a world record partnership of 642 runs alongside Kumar Sangakkara. He scored 374 in that innings – the highest score by a Sri Lankan batsman. He hit 43 fours in that knock.