In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on the progressive highest individual scores in men’s Test cricket.
Charles Bannerman faced the first ball, scored the first run, hit the first boundary, and was the first to reach 50, 100, and 150 – all over the course of the first innings in the history of Test cricket. In 1884, Billy Murdoch became the first to hit a double hundred.
Since Bannerman, the world record for the highest individual score in Test cricket has changed hands several times. Garry Sobers held the record for the longest span of time, between 1957/58 and 1994, while Brian Lara was the only one to reclaim his own record, in 2004.
At the time of writing, Lara holds the world record of 400 not out, but can you name the other Test record scores that were, at some point, the highest?
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