Test Records :- Highest Individual Scores

# Player Name Team Opposition Venue Runs Balls Date 1 Brian Lara West Indies England St John's 400* 582 10 Apr 2004 2 Matthew Hayden Australia Zimbabwe Perth 380 437 9 Oct 2003 3 Brian Lara West Indies England St John's 375 538 16 Apr 1994 4 Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka South Africa Colombo (SSC) 374 572 27 Jul 2006 5 Garry Sobers West Indies Pakistan Kingston 365 26 Feb 1958 6 Leonard Hutton England Australia The Oval 364 847 20 Aug 1938 7 Sanath Jayasuriya Sri Lanka India Colombo (RPS) 340 578 2 Aug 1997 8 Hanif Mohammad Pakistan West Indies Auckland 337 970 17 Jan 1958 9 Wally Hammond England New Zealand Auckland 336* 31 Mar 1933 10 Mark Taylor Australia Pakistan Peshawar 334* 564 15 Oct 1998 11 Donald Bradman Australia England Leeds 334 448 11 Jul 1930 12 Graham Gooch England India Lord's 333 485 26 Jul 1990 13 Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistan New Zealand Lahore 329 436 1 May 2002 14 Andy Sandham England West Indies Kingston 325 640 3 Apr 1930 15 Virender Sehwag India South Africa Chennai 319 304 26 Mar 2008 16 Chris Gayle West Indies South Africa St John's 317 483 29 Apr 2005 17 Younis Khan Pakistan Sri Lanka Karachi 313 568 21 Feb 2009 18 Bob Simpson Australia England Manchester 311 740 23 Jul 1964 19 John Edrich England New Zealand Leeds 310* 450 8 Jul 1965 20 Virender Sehwag India Pakistan Multan 309 375 28 Mar 2004 21 Bob Cowper Australia England Melbourne 307 589 11 Feb 1966 22 Donald Bradman Australia England Leeds 304 473 20 Jul 1934 23 Lawrence Rowe West Indies England Bridgetown 302 430 6 Mar 1974 24 Donald Bradman Australia South Africa Adelaide 299* - 29 Jan 1932 25 Martin Crowe New Zealand Sri Lanka Wellington 299 523 31 Jan 1991 26 Virender Sehwag India Sri Lanka Mumbai (BS) 293 254 3 Dec 2009 27 Ramnaresh Sarwan West Indies England Bridgetown 291 452 26 Feb 2009 28 Viv Richards West Indies England The Oval 291 386 12 Aug 1976 29 Tip Foster England Australia Sydney 287 11 Dec 1903 30 Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka South Africa Colombo (SSC) 287 457 27 Jul 2006 31 Peter May England West Indies Birmingham 285* 30 May 1957 32 V.V.S. Laxman India Australia Kolkata 281 452 11 Mar 2001 33 Javed Miandad Pakistan India Hyderabad (India) 280* 460 14 Jan 1983 34 Denis Compton England Pakistan Nottingham 278 287 1 Jul 1954 35 Brian Lara West Indies Australia Sydney 277 372 2 Jan 1993 36 Graeme Smith South Africa England Birmingham 277 373 24 Jul 2003 37 Daryll Cullinan South Africa New Zealand Auckland 275* 490 27 Feb 1999 38 Gary Kirsten South Africa England Durban 275 642 26 Dec 1999 39 Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka India Ahmedabad 275 435 19 Nov 2009 40 Stephen Fleming New Zealand Sri Lanka Colombo (PSS) 274* 476 25 Apr 2003 41 Graeme Pollock South Africa Australia Durban 274 401 5 Feb 1970 42 Zaheer Abbas Pakistan England Birmingham 274 467 3 Jun 1971 43 Javed Miandad Pakistan New Zealand Auckland 271 465 24 Feb 1989 44 George Headley West Indies England Kingston 270* 14 Mar 1935 45 Donald Bradman Australia England Melbourne 270 375 1 Jan 1937 46 Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka Zimbabwe Bulawayo 270 365 14 May 2004 47 Rahul Dravid India Pakistan Rawalpindi 270 495 13 Apr 2004