List of Test cricket records
Career runs

List of Test cricket records

Section Title: Career runs
Table Section Text: None

Runs	Player	Record held until	Duration of record

239	Australia Charles Bannerman	4 January 1882	4 years, 295 days

676	England George Ulyett	13 August 1884	2 years, 222 days

860	Australia Billy Murdoch	14 August 1886	2 years, 1 day

1,277	England Arthur Shrewsbury	23 January 1902	15 years, 162 days

1,293	Australia Joe Darling	18 February 1902	26 days

1,366	Australia Syd Gregory	14 June 1902	116 days

1,531	England Archie MacLaren	13 August 1902	60 days

3,412	Australia Clem Hill	27 December 1924	22 years, 136 days

5,410	England Jack Hobbs	29 June 1937	12 years, 184 days

7,249	England Wally Hammond	27 November 1970	33 years, 151 days

7,459	England Colin Cowdrey	23 March 1972	1 year, 117 days

8,032	West Indies Cricket Board Garfield Sobers	23 December 1981	9 years, 275 days

8,114	England Geoffrey Boycott	12 November 1983	1 year, 324 days

10,122	India Sunil Gavaskar	25 February 1993	9 years, 105 days

11,174	Australia Allan Border	25 November 2005	12 years, 273 days

11,953	West Indies Cricket Board Brian Lara	17 October 2008	2 years, 327 days

15,921	India Sachin Tendulkar	current	10 years, 189 days

Last updated: 15 June 2016 Notes: ^[a] Ulyett finished his career with 949 runs ^[b] Murdoch finished his career with 908 runs ^[c] Darling finished his career with 1,657 runs ^[d] Gregory finished his career with 2,282 runs ^[e] MacLaren finished his career with 1,931 runs ^[f] Cowdrey finished his career with 7,624 runs

Sentence(s)

The batting record of highest run-scorer had also changed hands: Sachin Tendulkar surpassed 11,953 runs by Brian Lara.

final_sentence: The batting record of highest run-scorer had also changed hands: Sachin Tendulkar surpassed 11,953 runs by Brian Lara.