# List of first-class cricket records

This list of first-class cricket records itemises some record team and individual performances in first-class cricket. The list is necessarily selective, since it is in cricket's nature to generate copious records and statistics. Both instance records (such as highest team and individual scores, lowest team scores and record margins of victory) and season and career records (such as most runs or wickets in a season, and most runs or wickets in a career) are included.
Officially, there was no "first-class cricket" in Great Britain before 1895 or in the rest of the world before 1947 (see First-class cricket for details of the official rulings). The performances noted in this article include several which occurred in earlier years but it is understood that all were achieved in matches that are retrospectively recognised by most historians or statisticians as first-class (i.e., unofficially so). Some matches have not been universally accepted as first-class for statistical purposes and there are thus variations in published cricket statistics, mainly because of the different proposals that have been made for the starting date of the statistical records, ranging from the 17th century to 1895.
Records shown here are quoted by either CricketArchive or Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, unless otherwise stated.

## Notation
### Team notation

* 300–3 indicates that a team scored 300 runs for three wickets and the innings was closed, either due to a successful run chase or if no playing time remained.
* 300-3d indicates that a team scored 300 runs for three wickets, and declared its innings closed.
* 300 indicates that a team scored 300 runs and was all out.

### Batting Notation

* 100 indicates that a batsman scored 100 runs and was out.
* 100* indicates that a batsman scored 100 runs and was not out.
* 100* against a partnership means that the two batsmen added 100 runs to the team's total, and neither of them was out.

### Bowling Notation

* 5–100 indicates that a bowler captured 5 wickets while conceding 100 runs.

## Team records
### Team scoring records
#### Greatest margins of victory by an innings

Qualification: Innings and 550 runs.
| Margin | Teams | Venue | Season |
| Innings and 852 runs | Pakistan Railways beat Dera Ismail Khan | Lahore | 1964–65 |
| Innings and 669 runs | Victoria beat Tasmania | Melbourne | 1922–23 |
| Innings and 656 runs | Victoria beat New South Wales | Melbourne | 1926–27 |
| Innings and 605 runs | New South Wales beat South Australia | Sydney | 1900–01 |
| Innings and 579 runs | England beat Australia | The Oval | 1938 |
| Innings and 575 runs | Sind beat Baluchistan | Karachi | 1973–74 |
| Innings and 551 runs | Goa beat Arunachal Pradesh | Porvorim | 2024-25 |
| Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 14 November 2024. ||||

#### Greatest margins of victory by runs

Qualification: 575 runs.
| Margin | Teams | Venue | Season |
| 725 runs | Mumbai beat Uttarakhand | Bangaluru | 2021–22 |
| 685 runs | New South Wales beat Queensland | Sydney | 1929–30 |
| 675 runs | England beat Australia | Brisbane | 1928–29 |
| 645 runs | South Zone beat North Zone | Salem | 2022–23 |
| 638 runs | New South Wales beat South Australia | Adelaide | 1920–21 |
| 609 runs | Muslim Commercial Bank beat Water and Power Development Authority | Lahore | 1977–78 |
| 585 runs | Sargodha beat Lahore Municipal Corporation | Faisalabad | 1978–79 |
| Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 21 September 2022. ||||

#### Victory without losing a wicket

| Teams | Venue | Season |
| Lancashire beat Leicestershire | Manchester | 1956 |
| Karachi A beat Sind A | Karachi | 1957–58 |
| Railways beat Jammu and Kashmir | Srinagar | 1960–61 |
| Karnataka beat Kerala | Chikmagalur | 1977–78 |
| Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 19 May 2006. |||

#### Ties

There have been 33 ties in first-class cricket since 1948. Before then, a tie was sometimes declared where the scores were level when scheduled play ended, but the side batting last still had wickets in hand. Matches where this happens are considered a draw today, and a tie is now recognised only where the scores are level and the side batting fourth is dismissed.

#### Highest totals

Qualification: 900.
| Runs | Teams | Venue | Season |
| 1,107 | Victoria (v New South Wales) | Melbourne | 1926–27 |
| 1,059 | Victoria (v Tasmania) | Melbourne | 1922–23 |
| 952-6d | Sri Lanka (v India) | Colombo | 1997 |
| 951-7d | Sind (v Baluchistan) | Karachi | 1973–74 |
| 944-6d | Hyderabad (v Andhra) | Secunderabad | 1993–94 |
| 918 | New South Wales (v South Australia) | Sydney | 1900–01 |
| 912-8d | Holkar (v Mysore) | Indore | 1945–46 |
| 912-6d$^†$ | Tamil Nadu (v Goa) | Panaji | 1988–89 |
| 910-6d | Railways (v Dera Ismail Khan) | Lahore | 1964–65 |
| 903-7d | England (v Australia) | The Oval | 1938 |
| 900-6d | Queensland (v Victoria) | Brisbane | 2005–06 |
| $^†$ Tamil Nadu's total of 912-6d included 52 penalty runs. ||||
| The highest aggregate in a first-class match (both sides) was 2376, Maharashtra v Bombay at Poona, 1948–49. ||||
| Totals of 800 and above have been compiled on 39 occasions, most recently by England (scoring 823 for seven declared) against Pakistan at Multan in a 2024-25 Test Match. ||||
| Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 11 October 2024. ||||

#### Lowest totals

Qualification: 15.
| Runs | Teams | Venue | Season |
| 6 | The Bs (v All-England) | Lord's | 1810 |
| 12 | Oxford University (v MCC) | Oxford | 1877 |
| 12 | Northamptonshire (v Gloucestershire) | Gloucester | 1907 |
| 13 | Auckland (v Canterbury) | Auckland | 1877–78 |
| 13 | Nottinghamshire (v Yorkshire) | Nottingham | 1901 |
| 14 | Surrey (v Essex) | Chelmsford | 1983 |
| 15 | MCC (v Surrey) | Lord's | 1839 |
| 15 | Victoria (v MCC) | Melbourne | 1903–04 |
| 15 | Northamptonshire (v Yorkshire) | Northampton | 1908 |
| 15 | Hampshire (v Warwickshire) | Birmingham | 1922 |
| The lowest combined total for a side's two innings is 34 (16 and 18) by Border against Natal at East London in 1959–60. ||||
| The lowest aggregate for a completed first-class match (both sides) is 85, Quetta v Rawalpindi at Islamabad, 2008–09. The lowest aggregate for a completed first-class match where the winning side bowled their opponents out twice is 105, MCC v Australians at Lord's, 1878. ||||
| Sides have been bowled out for 20 or fewer on 36 occasions (including five before 1864 that are not universally considered first-class), the most recent being 16 by Border against KwaZulu-Natal at Paarl in 2020-21 (note that Border had two men absent injured). ||||
| Source: CricketArchive. Last updated 23 March 2021. ||||

#### Highest totals in the fourth innings

Qualification: 510.
| Runs | Teams | Result | Venue | Season |
| 654–5 | England (v South Africa) | Drawn | Durban | 1938–39 |
| 604 | Maharashtra (v Bombay) | Bombay won by 354 runs | Pune | 1948–49 |
| 592 | Glamorgan (v Gloucestershire) | Tied | Cheltenham | 2024 |
| 576–8 | Trinidad (v Barbados) | Drawn | Port-of-Spain | 1945–46 |
| 572 | New South Wales (v South Australia) | South Australia won by 20 runs | Sydney | 1907–08 |
| 541–7 | West Zone (v South Zone) | West Zone won by three wickets | Hyderabad | 2009–10 |
| 529–9 | Western Australia Combined XI (v South Africans) | Drawn | Perth | 1963–64 |
| 518 | Victoria (v Queensland) | Queensland won by 234 runs | Brisbane | 1926–27 |
| 513–9 | Central Province (v Southern Province) | Central Province won by one wicket | Kandy | 2003–04 |
| Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 3 July 2024. |||||

## Individual records
### Individual records (batting)
#### Highest individual score

The highest individual score in first-class cricket is 501* scored by Brian Lara for Warwickshire in 1994. There have been ten other scores of 400 or more, including another by Lara and two by Bill Ponsford.
Scorecards began to be kept regularly from the 1772 season which is now seen as the commencement of the statistical first-class record, though historical first-class cricket began a century earlier. There is no certainty of a complete statistical record of any season until well into the 19th century, which is why Roy Webber and others have been reluctant to begin their first-class cricket statistics before the 1864 season, notwithstanding the official commencement of first-class cricket in 1895.
The earliest century definitely recorded in a match generally regarded as first-class is the 136 scored by John Small in the 1775 season (see below). There can be little doubt that centuries had been scored before this but the records are either lost or the known details are incomplete. Some of the main instances of high scoring prior to 1772 are as follows:
* 1744 – John Harris scored 47 for Slindon v. London at the Artillery Ground in the match which has left the oldest known scorecard. This is the earliest match from which individual scores are known. The oldest known team scores date from 1731.
* 1745 – Richard Newland scored 88 for All-England v. Kent at the Artillery Ground, almost certainly in the second innings of the match, but there is a slight possibility that it was his match total. This is the highest known score recorded prior to the introduction c.1760 of the pitched delivery and the straight bat.
* 1767 – two Hampshire batters (believed to have been Tom Sueter and either George Leer or Edward "Curry" Aburrow) recorded a first-wicket partnership of 192 against Surrey, but there is no record of their individual scores, although at least one of the batters probably made a personal century. It is the earliest known century partnership.
* 1768 – John Small scored "above seven score notches" for Hampshire v Kent, but it is not known if this was his match total or his performance in the second innings. If it was his match total, he could still have made a century in either innings.
* 1769 – John Minshull (listed as "J. Minchin" on the scorecard) scored the earliest century in all classes of cricket of which there is a definite record: he made 107 for Duke of Dorset's XI v Wrotham at Sevenoaks Vine (although the location is not certain), but the match is generally considered a minor one.
The following individual scores in first-class matches from 1772 are progressively the highest definitely recorded on contemporary scorecards:
* 78 – John Small for Hampshire v All-England at Broadhalfpenny Down in 1772. This was the highest score recorded in the earliest match now designated first-class by some statisticians and remained the highest known score through the 1772 season.
* 88 – William Yalden for Surrey v Hampshire at Broadhalfpenny Down in 1773.
* 95 – Joseph Miller for Kent v Hampshire at Sevenoaks Vine in 1774.
* 136 – John Small for Hampshire v Surrey at Broadhalfpenny Down in 1775. This is the earliest known century in a first-class match. Small's colleague Richard Nyren scored 98 in the same innings so they both beat Miller's score.
* 167 – James Aylward for Hampshire v All-England at Sevenoaks Vine in 1777.
* 170 – Lord Frederick Beauclerk for Homerton v Montpelier at Aram's New Ground in 1806. This match is considered a minor one in the opinion of some statisticians but several other matches involving either team are rated first-class. Its inclusion in Scores and Biographies is significant and it is first-class on that basis.
* 278 – William Ward for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Norfolk at Lord's in 1820. Again, there is some doubt among certain statisticians about the status of Norfolk but the match's inclusion in Scores and Biographies is significant.
Ward's record survived for 56 years until W. G. Grace scored the first triple-century in first-class cricket in 1876. The table below shows the progressive world record from 1876.
| Runs | Player | Match | Venue | Season |
| 344 | W. G. Grace (Gentlemen of MCC) | Kent v Gentlemen of MCC | Canterbury | 1876 |
| 424 | Archie MacLaren (Lancashire) | Somerset v Lancashire | Taunton | 1895 |
| 429 | Bill Ponsford (Victoria) | Victoria v Tasmania | Melbourne | 1922–23 |
| 437 | Bill Ponsford (Victoria) | Victoria v Queensland | Melbourne | 1927–28 |
| 452* | Don Bradman (New South Wales) | New South Wales v Queensland | Sydney | 1929–30 |
| 499 | Hanif Mohammad (Karachi) | Karachi v Bahawalpur | Karachi | 1958–59 |
| 501* | Brian Lara (Warwickshire) | Warwickshire v Durham | Birmingham | 1994 |

#### Most runs in a career

Qualification: 40,000.
| Runs | Player | Innings | Matches | Average | Career span |
| 61,760 | Jack Hobbs (Surrey and England) | 1,325 | 834 | 50.70 | from 1905 to 1934 |
| 58,959 | Frank Woolley (Kent and England) | 1,530 | 978 | 40.77 | from 1906 to 1938 |
| 57,611 | Patsy Hendren (Middlesex and England) | 1,300 | 833 | 50.80 | from 1907 to 1938 |
| 55,061 | Phil Mead (Hampshire and England) | 1,340 | 814 | 47.67 | from 1905 to 1936 |
| 54,211 | W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County, and England) | 1,478 | 870 | 39.45 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 50,670 | Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire and England) | 1,098 | 754 | 52.02 | from 1919 to 1945 |
| 50,551 | Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire and England) | 1,005 | 634 | 56.10 | from 1920 to 1951 |
| 48,426 | Geoffrey Boycott (Yorkshire and England) | 1,014 | 609 | 56.83 | from 1962 to 1986 |
| 47,793 | Tom Graveney (Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and England) | 1,223 | 732 | 44.91 | from 1948 to 1971–72 |
| 44,846 | Graham Gooch (Essex and England) | 990 | 581 | 49.01 | from 1973 to 1997 (plus one match in 2000) |
| 43,551 | Tom Hayward (Surrey and England) | 1,138 | 712 | 41.79 | from 1893 to 1914 |
| 43,423 | Dennis Amiss (Warwickshire and England) | 1,139 | 658 | 42.86 | from 1960 to 1987 |
| 42,719 | Colin Cowdrey (Kent and England) | 1,130 | 692 | 42.89 | from 1950 to 1976 |
| 41,284 | Andy Sandham (Surrey and England) | 1,000 | 643 | 44.82 | from 1911 to 1937–38 |
| 41,112 | Graeme Hick (Worcestershire, England, Zimbabwe, Queensland and Northern Districts) | 871 | 526 | 52.23 | from 1983–84 to 2008 |
| 40,140 | Len Hutton (Yorkshire and England) | 814 | 513 | 55.51 | from 1934 to 1960 |
| Source: Wisden 2006 and CricketArchive – 20,000 or more runs in a first-class career. Last updated: 17 October 2009. Current list @ ESPNcricinfo (min. 30,225 runs) ||||||

#### Highest career average

Qualification: 20,000 runs, average 54.
| Average | Player | Matches | Runs | Career span |
| 95.14 | Don Bradman (New South Wales, South Australia and Australia) | 234 | 28,067 | from 1927–28 to 1948–49 |
| 57.84 | Sachin Tendulkar (Bombay/Mumbai, Yorkshire and India) | 310 | 25,396 | from 1988–89 to 2013–14 |
| 57.83 | Darren Lehmann (South Australia, Victoria, Australia and Yorkshire) | 284 | 25,795 | from 1987–88 to 2007–08 |
| 56.83 | Geoff Boycott (Yorkshire and England) | 609 | 48,426 | from 1962 to 1986 |
| 56.37 | Ranjitsinhji (Sussex and England) | 307 | 24,692 | from 1893 to 1912 (plus three matches in 1920) |
| 56.22 | Bob Simpson (New South Wales, Western Australia and Australia) | 257 | 21,029 | from 1952–53 to 1977–78 |
| 56.10 | Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire and England) | 634 | 50,551 | from 1920 to 1947 (plus occasional matches to 1951) |
| 55.90 | Ricky Ponting (Tasmania and Australia) | 289 | 24,150 | from 1992–93 to 2013 |
| 55.51 | Len Hutton (Yorkshire and England) | 513 | 40,140 | from 1934 to 1955 (plus occasional matches to 1960) |
| 55.33 | Rahul Dravid (Karnataka and India) | 298 | 23,794 | from 1990–91 to 2011–12 |
| 54.87 | Gary Sobers (Barbados, West Indies, South Australia and Nottinghamshire) | 383 | 28,314 | from 1952–53 to 1974 |
| 54.74 | Barry Richards (Natal, South Africa, Hampshire and South Australia) | 339 | 28,358 | from 1964–65 to 1982–83 |
| 54.67 | Graeme Pollock (Eastern Province, Transvaal and South Africa) | 262 | 20,940 | from 1960–61 to 1986–87 |
| In addition to Bradman, the following batters batted in 100 innings or more with an average of 64.00 or above: 71.64 – Vijay Merchant, 150 matches, 13,470 runs, from 1929–30 to 1950–51 69.86 – George Headley, 103 matches, 9,921 runs, from 1927–28 to 1948–49 plus occasional matches to 1954 67.46 – Ajay Sharma, 129 matches, 10,120 runs, from 1984–85 to 1999–2000 65.18 – Bill Ponsford, 162 matches, 13,819 runs, from 1920–21 to 1934–35 64.99 – Bill Woodfull, 174 matches, 13,388 runs, from 1921–22 to 1934–35 |||||
| Source: Wisden 2006, CricketArchive – 20,000 or more runs in a first-class career and Cricinfo – Highest career batting average. Last updated: 4 May 2018. |||||
The highest first-class batting career average of all is 207.00, by Norman Callaway, who aged 18 scored 207 in his only first-class innings on his début for New South Wales against Queensland in 1914–15. He died during the Second Battle of Bullecourt in 1917.

#### Most runs in a season

| Runs | Player | Season |
| 3,816 runs (50 innings, average 90.85) | Denis Compton (Middlesex & England) | 1947 |
| 3,539 runs (52 innings, average 80.43) | Bill Edrich (Middlesex & England) | 1947 |
| 3,518 runs (61 innings, average 66.37) | Tom Hayward (Surrey and England) | 1906 |
| 3,429 runs (56 innings, average 68.58) | Len Hutton (Yorkshire and England) | 1949 |
| 3,352 runs (59 innings, average 60.94) | Frank Woolley (Kent and England) | 1928 |
| These records may never be beaten, because fewer first-class matches are played nowadays |||
| Source: Wisden 2006. Last updated: 19 May 2006. |||

#### Most runs in an over

| Runs | Sequence | Batter | Bowler | Match | Venue | Season |
| 37 | 6 4 4 6 4 4 4 4 1 (3 no-balls contributed two extras each, so the over cost 43) | Louis Kimber (Leicestershire) | Ollie Robinson (Sussex) | Sussex v Leicestershire | Hove | 2024 |
| 36 | 6 6 6 6 6 6 | Garfield Sobers (Nottinghamshire) | Malcolm Nash (Glamorgan) | Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire | Swansea | 1968 |
| 36 | 6 6 6 6 6 6 | Ravi Shastri (Bombay) | Tilak Raj (Baroda) | Bombay v Baroda | Bombay | 1984–85 |
| 34 | 4 6 6 0 4 4 4 6 (2 no-balls) | Ted Alletson (Nottinghamshire) | Ernest Killick (Sussex) | Sussex v Nottinghamshire | Hove | 1911 |
| 34 | 4 0 4 4 6 6 6 4 (8-ball over) | Richard Edwards (New Zealand Governor-General's XI) | Joey Carew (West Indians) | Governor-General's XI v West Indians | Auckland | 1968–69 |
| 34 | 6 4 6 6 6 6 | Frank Hayes (Lancashire) | Malcolm Nash (Glamorgan) | Glamorgan v Lancashire | Swansea | 1977 |
| 34 | 6 4 4 4 4 6 6 0 (2 no-balls contributed 2 extras each, so the over cost 38) | Andrew Flintoff (Lancashire) | Alex Tudor (Surrey) | Lancashire v Surrey | Manchester | 1998 |
| 34 | 6 6 6 6 4 6 | Craig Spearman (Gloucestershire) | Stephen Moreton (Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) | Oxford UCCE v Gloucestershire | Oxford | 2005 |
| 34 | 6 6 6 6 6 4 | Ben Stokes (Durham) | Josh Baker (Worcestershire) | Worcestershire v Durham | Worcester | 2022 |
| Shoaib Bashir of Worcestershire conceded 38 in an over to Surrey in 2024; Dan Lawrence hit five sixes and a single, and there were seven extras: five wides and a no-ball. The rules for debiting wides and no-balls against a bowler's analysis changed in the 1980s, and the number of runs for a no-ball is not consistent over all cricket competitions, so this record is, in Wisden and other sources, framed as runs scored by the batter rather than runs conceded by the bowler. |||||||
| The following instances are not usually included as records because the bowlers deliberately conceded runs in an attempt to manufacture an otherwise unlikely victory |||||||
| 75 | 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1 (including 17 no-balls and only five legitimate deliveries; 2 no-balls not scored off contributed one each, so the over cost 77) | Lee Germon and R. M. Ford (Canterbury) | R. H. Vance (Wellington) | Canterbury v Wellington | Christchurch | 1989–90 |
| 34 | 6 6 6 6 4 6 | Matthew Maynard (Glamorgan) | Steve Marsh (Kent) | Glamorgan v Kent | Swansea | 1992 |
| 34 | 6 6 4 6 6 6 | Glen Chapple (Lancashire) | Tony Cottey (Glamorgan) | Lancashire v Glamorgan | Manchester | 1993 |
| 34 | 6 4 6 6 6 6 | Barry Touzel (Western Province B) | Frans Viljoen (Griqualand West) | Western Province B v Griqualand West | Kimberley | 1993–94 |
| Source: Wisden 2006, and Cricinfo. Last updated: 26 June 2024. |||||||

#### High proportion of team's runs

It is not unusual for a batter to dominate the scoring while he is at the wicket; it is more unusual for a batter to dominate his side's completed total if they are all out.
The lowest completed first-class innings to include a fifty is Indians' 66 against Yorkshire at Harrogate in 1932, to which Nazir Ali contributed 52 (78.79%) and his partners 9 (there were 5 extras).
The lowest completed first-class innings to include a century is Nottinghamshire's 143 against Hampshire at Bournemouth in 1981, to which Clive Rice contributed 105* (73.4%) and his partners 35 (there were 3 extras) and Gujranwala's 143 against Bahawalpur at Bahawalpur in 2001–02, to which Rizwan Malik contributed 100* (69.93%) and his partners 41 (there were 2 extras).
The lowest completed first-class innings to include a double-century is Namibia's 282 against Kenya at Sharjah in January 2008, to which Gerrie Snyman contributed 230 (81.56%) and his partners 43 (there were 9 extras).
The lowest completed first-class innings to include a triple century is the Rest's 387 against Hindus at Bombay in 1943–44, to which Vijay Hazare contributed 309 (79.84%) and his partners 59 (there were 19 extras).
The lowest completed first-class total to include a score of 350 is Otago's 500 against Canterbury at Christchurch in 1952–53, to which opener Bert Sutcliffe contributed 385 (77.0%) and his partners 86 (there were 29 extras).
The highest percentage of runs scored in any completed innings is 83.43% by Glenn Turner who scored 141* out of Worcestershire's 169 against Glamorgan at Swansea in 1977. The remaining batters scored 27 and there was one extra.
In the 2007 English cricket season, Mark Ramprakash scored a record 30.02% of Surrey's runs excluding extras. In 16 matches he scored 2,026 runs at an average of 101.30, while his team mates managed 4,721 between them at an average of 26.08.
Conversely, the highest completed first-class innings not to include an individual century is 671 for nine declared by Surrey against Kent at Beckenham in 2022. Seven batters passed 50, and the top score was Ollie Pope's 96.

#### Most boundaries in an innings

Qualification: 55 boundaries.
| boundaries | Player | Match | Season |
| 72 (10 sixes and 62 fours) | Brian Lara (501*) | Warwickshire v Durham at Birmingham | 1994 |
| 68 (68 fours) | Percy Perrin (343*) | Essex v Derbyshire at Chesterfield | 1904 |
| 65 (a six and 64 fours) | Archie MacLaren (424) | Lancashire v Somerset at Taunton | 1895 |
| 64 (64 fours) | Hanif Mohammad (499) | Karachi v Bahawalpur at Karachi | 1958–59 |
| 60 (26 sixes and 34 fours) | Tanmay Agarwal (366) | Hyderabad v Arunachal Pradesh at Hyderabad | 2023-24 |
| 58 (2 sixes and 56 fours) | Sakibul Gani (341) | Bihar v Mizoram at Kolkata | 2021-22 |
| 57 (5 sixes and 52 fours) | John Edrich (310*) (The most boundaries in a Test match innings) | England v New Zealand at Leeds | 1965 |
| 57 (5 sixes and 52 fours) | Naved Latif (394) | Sargodha v Gujranwala at Gujranwala | 2000–01 |
| 56 (2 sixes and 54 fours) | Kedar Jadhav (327) | Maharashtra v Uttar Pradesh at Gahunje | 2012–13 |
| 55 (55 fours) | Charles Gregory (383) | New South Wales v Queensland at Brisbane | 1906–07 |
| 55 (2 sixes and 53 fours) | Geoff Marsh (355*) | Western Australia v South Australia at Perth | 1989–90 |
| 55 (3 sixes, 1 five and 51 fours) | Sanjay Manjrekar (377) | Bombay v Hyderabad at Bombay | 1990–91 |
| 55 (3 sixes and 52 fours) | Darren Lehmann (339) | Yorkshire v Durham at Headingley | 2006 |
| 55 (1 six and 54 fours) | Daryl Mitchell (298) | Worcestershire v Somerset at Taunton | 2009 |
| 55 (1 six and 54 fours) | Stephen Cook (390) | Lions v Warriors at East London | 2009–10 |
| 55 (8 sixes and 47 fours) | Rilee Rossouw (319) | Eagles v Titans at Centurion | 2009–10 |
| There have been higher proportions of boundaries in an innings. In 2004 Thilina Kandamby playing for Sri Lankans against Zimbabwe A at Harare scored 52 including 10 fours and 2 sixes. At Leicester in 2006 Mark Pettini of Essex, facing Leicestershire "bowlers" who were giving away runs in order to contrive a positive result, hit 114* including 12 fours and 11 sixes (Essex lost). The most sixes in an innings is 26, achieved by Tanmay Agarwal (innings listed above). 26 sixes is also the most ever hit by a batter in a match. ||||
| Source: Wisden 2011. Last updated: 27 January 2024. ||||

#### Most triple-centuries

Qualification: 3. Includes all scores of 300 or more. Entries in bold are for batters still playing first-class cricket.
| Triple-centuries | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 6 | Donald Bradman (two for Australia, two for New South Wales and two for South Australia) | 234 | from 1927–28 to 1948–49 |
| 4 | Bill Ponsford (all for Victoria) | 162 | from 1920–21 to 1934–35 |
| 4 | Wally Hammond (one for England and three for Gloucestershire) | 634 | from 1920 to 1951 |
| 3 | W. G. Grace (two for Gloucestershire and one for MCC) | 870 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 3 | Graeme Hick (all for Worcestershire) | 526 | from 1983–84 to 2008 |
| 3 | Brian Lara (two for West Indies and one for Warwickshire) | 259 | from 1987–88 to 2006–07 |
| 3 | Mike Hussey (all for Northamptonshire) | 273 | from 1994–95 to 2012–13 |
| 3 | Ravindra Jadeja (all for Saurashtra) | 134 | from 2006–07 to present |
| 3 | Cheteshwar Pujara (two for Saurashtra and one for India A) | 275 | from 2005–06 to present |
| Source: Wisden 2006 and ACS. Last updated: 31 December 2024. ||||

#### Most double-centuries

Qualification: 15. Includes all scores of 200 or more.
Entry in bold denotes player still playing first-class cricket.
| Double-centuries | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 37 | Donald Bradman (twelve for Australia in Test matches, seven for touring Australian sides, eight for New South Wales, eight for South Australia, one for WM Woodfull's XI and one for DG Bradman's XI) | 234 | from 1927–28 to 1948–49 |
| 36 | Wally Hammond (seven for England in Test matches, twenty-four for Gloucestershire, five for touring MCC sides) | 634 | from 1920 to 1951 |
| 22 | Patsy Hendren (one for England in a Test match, four for touring MCC sides, fifteen for Middlesex and two for MCC) | 833 | from 1907 to 1938 |
| 18 | Cheteshwar Pujara (three for India in Test matches, two for India A, one for India Blue in the Duleep Trophy final, nine for Saurashtra and three for Sussex) | 275 | from 2006 to present |
| 17 | Mark Ramprakash (five for Middlesex and twelve for Surrey) | 461 | from 1987 to 2012 |
| 17 | Herbert Sutcliffe (sixteen for Yorkshire and one for England in a Test trial) | 754 | from 1919 to 1945 |
| 16 | C. B. Fry (thirteen for Sussex, two for Hampshire and one for Gentlemen) | 394 | from 1892 to 1921–22 |
| 16 | Jack Hobbs (one for England in a Test match, thirteen for Surrey, one for Players and one for Rest of England) | 834 | from 1905 to 1934 |
| 16 | Graeme Hick (fourteen for Worcestershire, one for Zimbabweans and one for Northern Districts) | 526 | from 1983–84 to 2008 |
| Source: Wisden 2006 and ACS. Last updated: 31 December 2024. ||||

#### Most centuries

Qualification: 115.
| Centuries | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 199 | Jack Hobbs including 15 for England in Test matches, 12 for touring representative MCC teams, 144 for Surrey, and 16 for Players v Gentlemen | 834 | from 1905 to 1934 |
| 170 | Patsy Hendren including 7 for England in Test matches, 16 for touring representative MCC teams, 119 for Middlesex, and 13 for MCC | 833 | from 1907 to 1938 |
| 167 | Wally Hammond including 22 for England in Test matches, 20 for touring representative MCC teams, and 113 for Gloucestershire | 634 | from 1920 to 1951 |
| 153 | Phil Mead including 4 for England in Test matches, 3 for touring representative MCC teams, and 138 for Hampshire | 814 | from 1905 to 1936 |
| 151 | Herbert Sutcliffe including 16 for England in Test matches, 7 for touring representative MCC teams, and 112 for Yorkshire | 754 | from 1919 to 1945 |
| 151 | Geoffrey Boycott including 22 for England in Test matches, 13 for touring representative MCC teams, and 103 for Yorkshire | 609 | from 1962 to 1986 |
| 145 | Frank Woolley including 5 for England in Test matches, 7 for touring representative MCC teams, and 122 for Kent | 978 | from 1906 to 1938 |
| 136 | Graeme Hick including 6 for England in Test matches, 7 for touring representative England teams, 106 for Worcestershire, and 10 for Northern Districts | 526 | from 1983–84 to 2008 |
| 129 | Len Hutton including 19 for England in Test matches, 18 for touring representative MCC teams, and 85 for Yorkshire | 513 | from 1934 to 1960 |
| 128 | Graham Gooch including 20 for England in Test matches, 8 for official touring representative England teams, and 94 for Essex | 581 | from 1973 to 1997 (plus one match in 2000) |
| 124 | W. G. Grace (see List of first-class cricket centuries by W. G. Grace) including 2 for England in Test matches, 19 for MCC teams, 52 for Gloucestershire, 7 for London County, and 15 for Gentlemen v Players | 870 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 123 | Denis Compton including 17 for England in Test matches, 20 for touring representative MCC teams, and 67 for Middlesex | 515 | from 1936 to 1958 (plus occasional matches to 1964) |
| 122 | Tom Graveney including 11 for England in Test matches, 16 for touring representative MCC teams, 50 for Gloucestershire, and 27 for Worcestershire | 732 | from 1948 to 1971–72 |
| 117 | Donald Bradman including 29 for Australia in Test matches, 30 for touring representative Australian teams or representative Australian teams against touring representative teams, 21 for New South Wales, and 25 for South Australia | 234 | from 1927–28 to 1948 (plus occasional matches in 1948–49) |
| The following also achieved 100 centuries. Viv Richards (114), Mark Ramprakash (114), Zaheer Abbas (108), Andy Sandham (107), Colin Cowdrey (107), Tom Hayward (104), Glenn Turner (103), John Edrich (103), Ernest Tyldesley (102), Les Ames (102), Dennis Amiss (102). ||||
| Source: Wisden 2006 and CricketArchive. Last updated: 9 July 2012. ||||

#### Ineffective batters

Many cricketers with short first-class careers fail to ever score a run, and finish with a batting average of 0.00. Seymour Clark (a wicket-keeper for Somerset in the 1930 season) is believed to hold the record for most innings in a scoreless career with nine innings in his five matches, including seven ducks. The record for most matches in a career without ever scoring is believed to belong to John Howarth (a Nottinghamshire fast-medium bowler in the 1960s), whose thirteen matches included seven innings and four ducks.
The longest sequence of consecutive scoreless innings is 12 by Mark Robinson for Northamptonshire in 1990, whose scores that season were 1*, 0*, 1, 0, 0*, 0*, 0*, 0*, 0*, 0, 0, 0, 0*, 0*, 0 and 1*.
The most consecutive single-figure innings by a batter is 71, which has occurred twice. The first occurrence was by Jem Shaw who played chiefly for Nottinghamshire and the All England Eleven between his first-class debut on 26 June 1865 against Surrey with a score of 9, which he did not surpass until scoring 15 in the second innings of his last match of 1870 for “Richard Daft’s XI” against the United North of England Eleven. This was equalled by Eric Hollies of Warwickshire and England between 20 July 1948, when he made 12 not out against Glamorgan, and 16 August 1950, when he made 14 against Nottinghamshire. Hollies also holds the record for most consecutive innings without reaching 20, playing a total of 284 innings between 23 August 1939 when he made 22 against Gloucestershire and 19 May 1954, when he almost doubled his previous highest first-class score in making 47 against Sussex. Billy Bestwick of Derbyshire did not reach 20 in his last 258 first-class innings after making 20 against Warwickshire on 9 August 1906.
The lowest career batting average by a player with more than fifty first-class matches is almost certainly 2.63 by Francis McHugh of Yorkshire (three matches) and Gloucestershire (92 matches) between 1949 and 1956. McHugh batted in 111 innings for only 179 runs, with only four double figure scores. No other regular first-class cricketer is known to have had a batting average of under 3.00.

### Individual records (bowling)
#### Most wickets in a career

Qualification: 2,400.
| Wickets | Player | Matches | Average | Career span |
| 4,204 wickets | Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire and England) | 1110 | 16.72 | from 1898 to 1930 |
| 3,776 wickets | Tich Freeman (Kent and England) | 592 | 18.42 | from 1914 to 1936 |
| 3,278 wickets | Charlie Parker (Gloucestershire and England) | 635 | 19.46 | from 1903 to 1935 |
| 3,061 wickets | Jack Hearne (Middlesex and England) | 639 | 17.75 | from 1888 to 1914 (plus one match in 1921 and another in 1923) |
| 2,979 wickets | Tom Goddard (Gloucestershire and England) | 593 | 19.84 | from 1922 to 1952 |
| 2,874 wickets | Alec Kennedy (Hampshire and England) | 677 | 21.23 | from 1907 to 1936 |
| 2,857 wickets | Derek Shackleton (Hampshire and England) | 647 | 18.65 | from 1948 to 1969 |
| 2,844 wickets | Tony Lock (Surrey, Leicestershire, England and Western Australia) | 654 | 19.23 | from 1946 to 1970–71 |
| 2,830 wickets | Fred Titmus (Middlesex and England) | 792 | 22.37 | from 1949 to 1980 (plus one match in 1982) |
| 2,809 wickets | W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County and England) | 870 | 18.14 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 2,784 wickets | Maurice Tate (Sussex and England) | 679 | 18.16 | from 1912 to 1937 |
| 2,742 wickets | George Hirst (Yorkshire and England) | 826 | 18.73 | from 1891 to 1921–2 (plus one match in 1929) |
| 2,503 wickets | Colin "Charlie" Blythe (Kent and England) | 439 | 16.81 | from 1899 to 1914 |
| 2,465 wickets | Derek Underwood (Kent and England) | 676 | 20.28 | from 1963 to 1987 |
| 2,432 wickets | Ewart Astill (Leicestershire and England) | 733 | 23.76 | from 1906 to 1939 |
| Source: Cricket Archive. Last updated: 8 June 2006. |||||

#### Most wickets in a season

Qualification: 275 wickets.
| Wickets | Player | Average | Season |
| 304 | Tich Freeman (England, Kent and Players) | 18.05 | 1928 |
| 298 | Tich Freeman (England, Kent, Players and South of England) | 15.26 | 1933 |
| 290 | Tom Richardson (Surrey, Players and South of England) | 14.37 | 1895 |
| 283 | Charles Turner (Australians) | 11.68 | 1888 |
| 276 | Tich Freeman (England, Kent and Players) | 15.60 | 1931 |
| 275 | Tich Freeman (England, Kent, Players and South of England) | 16.84 | 1930 |
| Remarkably, Freeman took 250 wickets or more in England in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933. These records may never be beaten, because fewer first-class matches are played nowadays. ||||
| Source: Cricket Archive. Last updated: 16 August 2005. ||||

#### Best figures in an innings

The most wickets possible in an eleven-a-side innings is ten, and this has been achieved on a number of occasions. The first to do so was Edmund Hinkly in 1848 for Kent v England at Lord's. Perhaps the most famous early instance was two years later, when John Wisden, playing for the North of England v South of England at Lord's in 1850, clean bowled all ten South batters. In these early matches, the number of runs scored off each bowler was not recorded. The only other all-ten analysis not to contain any direct assistance from a fielder was by Eric Hollies, who got seven Nottinghamshire batters out clean bowled and three leg before wicket in his ten for 49 for Warwickshire v Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston, Birmingham in 1946.
The cheapest all-ten (and therefore the best innings bowling analysis in first-class cricket) was achieved by Hedley Verity in 1932 at Headingley, when he took ten for 10 for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire. The most expensive all-ten recorded was ten for 175 by Eddie Hemmings playing for a touring International XI against a West Indies XI at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica in 1982.
The only bowlers to take all ten wickets in an innings more than once were Tich Freeman (three times in 1929, 1930 and 1931), John Wisden (twice, in 1850 and 1851), Vyell Walker (1859 and 1865), Hedley Verity (twice, 1931 and 1932), and Jim Laker (twice, both against the 1956 Australians). W. G. Grace also achieved a ten-for analysis twice, in 1873 and 1886; on the first occasion, he also scored a century, but the second occasion was in a twelve-a-side match.

#### Best figures in a match

The most wickets ever taken in a first-class match is nineteen, by Jim Laker for England against Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester in 1956, in the fourth Test match of that year's Ashes series. His figures were nine for 37 in Australia's first innings, and ten for 53 in their second.
Laker's feat has never been paralleled in first-class cricket. Eighteen wickets in a match was achieved by William Lillywhite for eleven Players against sixteen Gentlemen at Lord's in 1837, and by Henry Arkwright for MCC against Kent in a 12-a-side match at Canterbury in 1861, but seventeen is the most otherwise recorded in an eleven-a-side match. Apart from Laker's, there have only been two instances of seventeen wickets in a match since World War II, by John Davison for Canada against United States of America in an ICC Intercontinental Cup match in 2004, and Kyle Abbott for Hampshire against Somerset in the First Division of the County Championship in 2019.

#### Five wickets in an innings

Individual bowlers take great credit if they can capture five or more wickets in an innings. The earliest known instance of this was by William Bullen, who bowled five batters out when playing for All-England v Hampshire at Sevenoaks Vine in 1774. Scorecards were still uncommon at the time and bowling analyses were incomplete; bowlers were only credited with "bowled" victims, catches being awarded to the fielder only.
Tich Freeman took five wickets in an innings a record 386 times. Wilfred Rhodes achieved it 287 times.

#### Ten wickets in a match

It is a notable achievement for a bowler to capture 10 wickets in a match, and the feat is usually highlighted in career statistics. The earliest known instance was by Thomas Brett of Hampshire against Surrey at Laleham Burway in 1775. Brett's victims were "all bowled" as he was not credited with wickets falling to catches. He took seven in the first innings and four in the second (but Surrey still won by 69 runs).
Tich Freeman took ten wickets in a match a record 140 times. Charlie Parker achieved it 91 times.

#### Hat-tricks

A hat-trick is when a bowler takes three wickets from three consecutive deliveries. Doug Wright achieved the most hat-tricks in first-class cricket with seven. Tom Goddard and Charlie Parker each took six. In 2019–20, Ravi Yadav uniquely took a hat-trick in his first over on first-class debut, for Madhya Pradesh against Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy.
In 1907, Albert Trott of Middlesex took four wickets in four balls, and another hat-trick, in the same Somerset innings. In 1963–64, Joginder Rao playing for Services took two hat-tricks in the same Northern Punjab innings during his second first-class match, after having also taken a hat-trick in his début match. Other instances of two hat-tricks in a match have been achieved by Alfred Shaw (in 1884), Jimmy Matthews (1912 in a Test match), Charlie Parker (1924), Roly Jenkins (1949), Amin Lakhani (1978–79), and Mitchell Starc (2017-18).
Four wickets in four balls is a rarer achievement, first done by Joseph Wells (father of science fiction author H. G. Wells) for Kent against Sussex in 1862. Alan Walker, for Nottinghamshire in 1956, uniquely took the last wicket of Leicestershire's first innings, and a hat-trick with the first three balls of their second innings. Bob Crisp is the only player to take four wickets in four balls on two occasions.
Five wickets in five balls has never been achieved - one of the closest instances coming in 1925, when CWL Parker struck the stumps with five successive deliveries for Gloucestershire against Yorkshire. The second, however, was called a no-ball, so only four wickets were actually taken, including the hat-trick from the 3rd to 5th deliveries. Five wickets in six balls has been achieved five times, by Bill Copson for Derbyshire against Warwickshire in 1937, by William Henderson for North East Transvaal against Orange Free State at Bloemfontein in 1937–38, by Pat Pocock for Surrey against Sussex at Eastbourne in 1972, by Yasir Arafat for Rawalpindi against Faisalabad at Rawalpindi in 2004–05, and by Neil Wagner for Otago against Wellington in 2010–11. Wagner took five wickets in the over, a world's first. Pocock's spell also included six wickets in nine balls and seven wickets in eleven balls, both records.

### Individual records (all-rounders)

An all-rounder excels at more than one discipline, usually both batting and bowling. Wicket-keeping all-rounders are effective batters and effective wicket-keepers.

#### Career all-rounders

Qualification: 22,000 runs and 1,100 wickets.
| Player | Runs | Wickets | Matches | Career span |
| Frank Woolley (Kent and England) | 58,959 (average 40.77) | 2,066 (average 19.87) Woolley also took 1,018 catches | 978 | from 1906 to 1938 |
| W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County, and England) | 54,211 (average 39.45) | 2,809 (average 18.14) | 870 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire and England) | 39,969 (average 30.81) | 4,204 (average 16.72) | 1,110 | from 1898 to 1930 |
| Jack Hearne (John William Hearne) (Middlesex and England) | 37,252 (average 40.98) | 1,839 (average 24.42) | 647 | from 1909 to 1936 |
| George Herbert Hirst (Yorkshire and England) | 36,356 (average 34.13) | 2,742 (average 18.73) | 826 | from 1891 to 1921 (plus one match in 1929) |
| Brian Close (Yorkshire, Somerset and England) | 34,994 (average 33.26) | 1,171 (average 26.42) | 786 | from 1949 to 1977 (plus occasional matches to 1986) |
| James Langridge (Sussex and England) | 31,716 (average 35.20) | 1,530 (average 22.56) | 695 | from 1924 to 1953 |
| Trevor Bailey (Essex and England) | 28,641 (average 33.42) | 2,082 (average 23.13) | 682 | from 1945 to 1967 |
| John King (Leicestershire) | 25,122 (average 27.33) | 1,204 (average 25.17) | 552 | from 1895 to 1925 |
| John Gunn (Nottinghamshire and England) | 24,557 (average 33.18) | 1,242 (average 24.52) | 535 | from 1896 to 1925 (plus occasional matches to 1932) |
| Johnny Douglas (Essex and England) | 24,531 (average 27.90) | 1,893 (average 23.32) | 651 | from 1901 to 1930 |
| Ray Illingworth (Yorkshire, Leicestershire and England) | 24,134 (average 28.06) | 2,072 (average 20.27) | 787 | from 1951 to 1983 |
| Vallance Jupp (Sussex, Northamptonshire and England) | 23,296 (average 29.41) | 1,658 (average 23.01) | 529 | from 1909 to 1938 |
| Ewart Astill (Leicestershire and England) | 22,735 (average 22.55) | 2,432 (average 23.76) | 733 | from 1906 to 1939 |
| Albert Relf (Sussex and England) | 22,238 (average 26.79) | 1,897 (average 20.94) | 565 | from 1900 to 1921 |
| Note: in addition to the above, Fred Titmus, Garfield Sobers, Mike Procter, Maurice Tate and Peter Sainsbury all achieved 20,000 runs and 1,000 wickets |||||
| Source: Cricket Archive. Last updated: 13 March 2007. |||||

#### Career wicket-keeping all-rounders

Qualification: 20,000 runs and 1,000 dismissals.
| Player | Runs | Dismissals | Matches | Career span |
| Jim Parks (Sussex, Somerset and England) | 36,673 (average 34.76) | 1,181 (1,088 c, 93 st) | 739 | from 1949 to 1976 |
| Les Ames (Kent and England) | 37,248 (average 43.51) | 1,121 (703 c, 418 st) | 593 | from 1926 to 1951 |
| Source: Cricket Archive and Cricinfo. Last updated: 12 March 2007. |||||

### Individual records (wicket-keepers)
#### Most dismissals (catches plus stumpings) in a career

Qualification: 1,100.
| Dismissals | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 1,649 (1,473 caught, 176 stumped) | Bob Taylor (Derbyshire and England) | 639 | from 1960 to 1988 |
| 1,527 (1,270 c, 257 st) | John Murray (Middlesex and England) | 635 | from 1952 to 1975 |
| 1,497 (1,242 c, 255 st) | Bert Strudwick (Surrey and England) | 675 | from 1902 to 1927 |
| 1,344 (1,211 c, 133 st) | Alan Knott (Kent and England) | 511 | from 1964 to 1985 |
| 1,320 (1,192 c, 128 st) | Jack Russell (Gloucestershire and England) | 465 | from 1981 to 2004 |
| 1,310 (933 c, 377 st) | Fred Huish (Kent) | 497 | from 1895 to 1914 |
| 1,294 (1,083 c, 211 st) | Brian Taylor (Essex) | 572 | from 1949 to 1973 |
| 1,263 (1,139 c, 124 st) | Steve Rhodes (Worcestershire and England) | 440 | from 1981 to 2004 |
| 1,253 (906 c, 347 st) | David Hunter (Yorkshire) | 548 | from 1889 to 1909 |
| 1,228 (953 c, 275 st) | Harry Butt (Sussex and England) | 550 | from 1890 to 1912 |
| 1,207 (852 c, 355 st) | Jack Board (London County, Gloucestershire, England and Hawke's Bay) | 525 | from 1891 to 1914–15 |
| 1,206 (904 c, 302 st) | Harry Elliott (Derbyshire and England) | 532 | from 1920 to 1947 |
| 1,181 (1,088 c, 93 st) | Jim Parks (Sussex, Somerset and England) | 739 | from 1949 to 1976 |
| 1,126 (948 c, 178 st) | Roy Booth (Yorkshire and Worcestershire) | 468 | from 1951 to 1970 |
| 1,121 (703 c, 418 st) | Les Ames (Kent and England) | 593 | from 1926 to 1951 |
| Ames achieved the most dismissals in a season with 128 in 1929. The most dismissals in a match is 14 (7 in each innings, 11 caught and 3 stumped) by Ibrahim Khaleel for Hyderabad (India) against Assam at Guwahati in 2011–12. The only wicket-keepers to dismiss 9 batters in an innings are Tahir Rasheed (8 caught and 1 stumped) for Habib Bank against Pakistan Automobiles Corporation at Gujranwala in 1992–93 and Wayne James (7 caught and 2 stumped) for Matabeleland against Mashonaland Country Districts at Bulawayo in 1995–96 (he also scored 99 and 99* in the same match). ||||
| Source: Wisden 2008. Last updated: 27 November 2011. ||||

#### Most stumpings in a career

Qualification: 300.
| Stumpings | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 418 | Les Ames (Kent and England) | 593 | from 1926 to 1951 |
| 377 | Fred Huish (Kent) | 497 | from 1895 to 1914 |
| 358 | Ted Pooley (Middlesex and Surrey) | 370 | from 1861 to 1883 |
| 355 | Jack Board (London County, Gloucestershire, England and Hawke's Bay) | 525 | from 1891 to 1914–15 |
| 347 | David Hunter (Yorkshire) | 548 | from 1889 to 1909 |
| 343 | George Duckworth (Lancashire and England) | 504 | from 1923 to 1938 |
| 341 | Tich Cornford (Sussex and England) | 496 | from 1921 to 1947 |
| 334 | Harold Stephenson (Somerset) | 463 | from 1948 to 1964 |
| 322 | Fred Price (Middlesex and England) | 402 | from 1926 to 1947 |
| 302 | Harry Elliott (Derbyshire and England) | 532 | from 1920 to 1947 |
| Ames achieved the most stumpings in a season with 64 in 1932. ||||
| Source: Wisden 2008 and https://cricketarchive.com. Last updated: 3 May 2008. ||||

### Individual records (fielding)
#### Most catches in a career

Qualification: 640 catches.
| Catches | Player | Matches | Career span |
| 1,018 | Frank Woolley (Kent and England) | 978 | from 1906 to 1938 |
| 876 | W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County and England) | 870 | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 831 | Tony Lock (Surrey, Leicestershire, England and Western Australia) | 654 | from 1946 to 1970–71 |
| 820$^†$ | Wally Hammond (Gloucestershire and England) | 634 | from 1920 to 1951 |
| 813$^†$ | Brian Close (Yorkshire, Somerset and England) | 786 | from 1949 to 1986 |
| 788 | John Langridge (Sussex) | 574 | from 1928 to 1955 |
| 765 | Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire and England) | 1110 | from 1899 to 1929–30 |
| 760 | Arthur Milton (Gloucestershire and England) | 620 | from 1948 to 1974 |
| 759 | Patsy Hendren (Middlesex and England) | 833 | from 1907 to 1938 |
| 709 | Graeme Hick (Worcestershire, England, Zimbabwe, Queensland and Northern Districts) | 526 | from 1983–84 to 2008 |
| 697 | Peter Walker (Glamorgan and England) | 469 | from 1956 to 1972 |
| 694 | John Tunnicliffe (Yorkshire) | 498 | from 1891 to 1907 |
| 675 | James Seymour (London County and Kent) | 553 | from 1900 to 1926 |
| 675 | Phil Mead (Hampshire and England) | 814 | from 1905 to 1936 |
| 644 | Keith Fletcher (Essex and England) | 730 | from 1962 to 1988 |
| $^†$Hammond also made 3 stumpings, Close made 1. ||||
| Hammond achieved the most catches in a season: 79 in 1928 — that season he also took the most catches in a match: 10 for Gloucestershire against Surrey at Cheltenham (he also scored 139 and 143 in the same match). The most catches in an innings is 7, by Micky Stewart for Surrey against Northamptonshire at Northampton in 1957, by Tony Brown for Gloucestershire against Nottinghamshire at Nottingham in 1966, and by Rikki Clarke for Warwickshire against Lancashire at Liverpool in 2011. ||||
| Source: Cricinfo and https://cricketarchive.com. Last updated: 4 August 2011. ||||

### Individual records (other)
#### Most matches played

Qualification: 750.
| Matches | Player | Career span |
| 1110 | Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire and England) | from 1898 to 1930 |
| 978 | Frank Woolley (Kent and England) | from 1906 to 1938 |
| 870 | W. G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County and England) | from 1865 to 1908 |
| 834 | Jack Hobbs (Surrey and England) | from 1905 to 1934 |
| 833 | Patsy Hendren (Middlesex and England) | from 1907 to 1938 |
| 826 | George Herbert Hirst (Yorkshire and England) | from 1891 to 1929 |
| 814 | Phil Mead (Hampshire and England) | from 1905 to 1936 |
| 792 | Fred Titmus (Middlesex and England) | from 1949 to 1980 |
| 787 | Ray Illingworth (Yorkshire, Leicestershire and England) | from 1951 to 1983 |
| 786 | Brian Close (Yorkshire and England) | from 1949 to 1986 |
| 754 | Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire and England) | from 1919 to 1945 |
| Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 22 May 2006. |||

## Partnership records
### Highest partnerships

Qualification: 480.
| Runs | Players | Opposition | Venue | Season |
| 624 (3rd wicket) | Kumar Sangakkara & Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) | v South Africa | Colombo | 2006 |
| 606* (3rd wicket) | Kashyap Bakle & Snehal Kauthankar (Goa) | v Arunachal Pradesh | Porvorim | 2024-25 |
| 594* (3rd wicket) | Swapnil Gugale and Ankit Bawne (Maharashtra) | v Delhi | Mumbai | 2016–17 |
| 580 (2nd wicket) | Rafatullah Mohmand & Aamer Sajjad (Water and Power Development Authority) | v Sui Southern Gas Company | Sheikhupura Stadium | 2009–10 |
| 577 (4th wicket) | Vijay Hazare & Gul Mohammad (Baroda) | v Holkar | Baroda | 1946–47 |
| 576 (2nd wicket) | Sanath Jayasuriya & Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka) | v India | Colombo | 1997–98 |
| 574* (4th wicket) | Clyde Walcott & Frank Worrell (Barbados) | v Trinidad | Port-of-Spain | 1945–46 |
| 561 (1st wicket) | Waheed Mirza & Mansoor Akhtar (Karachi Whites) | v Quetta | Karachi | 1976–77 |
| 555 (1st wicket) | Percy Holmes & Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) | v Essex | Leyton | 1932 |
| 554 (1st wicket) | Jack Brown & John Tunnicliffe (Yorkshire) | v Derbyshire | Chesterfield | 1898 |
| 539 (3rd wicket) | Sagar Jogiyani & Ravindra Jadeja (Saurashtra) | v Gujarat | Surat | 2012–13 |
| 538 (4rd wicket) | Babul Kumar & Sakibul Gani (Bihar) | v Mizoram | Kolkota | 2021-22 |
| 523 (3rd wicket) | Michael Carberry & Neil McKenzie (Hampshire) | v Yorkshire | Southampton | 2011 |
| 520* (5th wicket) | Cheteshwar Pujara & Ravindra Jadeja (Saurashtra) | v Orissa | Rajkot | 2008–09 |
| 503 (1st wicket) | Aaron Finch & Ryan Carters (Cricket Australia XI) | v New Zealanders | Sydney | 2015–16 |
| 502* (4th wicket) | Frank Worrell & John Goddard (Barbados) | v Trinidad | Bridgetown, Barbados | 1943–44 |
| 501 (3rd wicket) | Alviro Petersen & Ashwell Prince (Lancashire) | v Glamorgan | Colwyn Bay | 2015 |
| 494 (5th wicket) | Marshall Ayub & Mehrab Hossain, Jr. (Central Zone) | v East Zone | Bogra | 2012–13 |
| 490 (1st wicket) | Ted Bowley & John Langridge (Sussex) | v Middlesex | Hove | 1933 |
| 487* (6th wicket) | George Headley & Clarence Passailaigue (Jamaica) | v Lord Tennyson's XI | Kingston, Jamaica | 1931–32 |
| 486 (1st wicket) | Will Pucovski & Marcus Harris (Victoria) | v South Australia | Glenelg | 2020-21 |
| 485 (1st wicket) | Yaseen Valli & Andrea Agathangelou (Easterns) | v Boland | Paarl | 2019–20 |
| 480 (2nd wicket) | Dean Elgar & Rilee Rossouw (Eagles) | v Titans | Centurion | 2009–10 |
| The highest partnerships for the wickets not listed above are |||||
| 460 (7th wicket) | Bhupinder Singh jnr & Pankaj Dharmani (Punjab) | v Delhi | Delhi | 1994–95 |
| 433 (8th wicket) | Arthur Sims & Victor Trumper (Australians) | v Canterbury | Christchurch | 1913–14 |
| 283 (9th wicket) | Arnold Warren & John Chapman (Derbyshire) | v Warwickshire | Blackwell | 1910 |
| 307 (10th wicket) | Alan Kippax & Hal Hooker (New South Wales) | v Victoria | Melbourne | 1928–29 |
| Source: Wisden 2011. Last updated: 14 November 2024. |||||