Top 10 biggest victories in Test cricket by runs

Winning a Test match itself is a big achievement for any captain and his team. It is arguably the toughest and topmost of all the three other international formats in the sport of cricket. Even after so many years of Twenty20 cricket and other shorter formats, Test cricket remains the ultimate priority for many players. A captain and a player always take the field to win matches for their respective side and to achieve it in a bigger way is more special.

A victory is always sweet in any format but a victory with a bigger margin and especially in the purest format of the game is even sweeter. The setup of the Whites was first introduced way back in the year 1877 and since then over the years, several teams have won matches by mammoth margins while batting first. It also includes games played in the 21^st century with teams having a first look at the pitch with the bat and posting massive totals on the board.

The English side holds the record for registering the biggest victory in the history of Tests in terms of runs. They defeated their rivals Australia in their own backyard by a staggering margin of 675 runs in the first of the five-match Ashes series in Brisbane in 1928/29. It was Australia’s turn next to script the second-largest victory of 562 runs against their arch-rivals England at The Oval in the fifth and final Test of the 1934 Ashes series.

Bangladesh has been the latest addition in the list of teams with biggest win margin, the Tigers defeated Afghanistan by a massive margin of 546 runs. This was also the biggest victory by runs in Test match in the 21st century and overall the match takes the third spot. Afghanistan, who played their just seventh Test has been thrashed by the experienced Bangladesh at Mirpur by margin of 546 runs while chasing a massive 662 runs.

Top Biggest Victory Margins in Test Cricket: (By runs) 

Australia has won by a margin of over 400 runs the most number of times

The team from down under, Australia have won matches by a margin of over 400 runs most numbers of the times in the history of Test cricket (5). They defeated rivals England by 562 runs at The Oval in 1934, South Africa by 530 runs in Melbourne in 1911, Pakistan by 491 runs in Perth in 2004, England by 409 runs, and 405 runs at Lord’s in 1948 and 2015 respectively. The second team with the most victories of over 400 runs is West Indies (2).