List of players who have scored 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket
10,000 or more runs in Tests
Table:
10,000 or more runs in Tests[7]

No.

Player

Team

First

Last

Mat.

Inn.

Runs

Avg.

100s

50s

Date[7]

1
Sachin Tendulkar[5][8] ^

India
1989
2013
200
329

15,921

53.78
51
68
16 March 2005

2
Ricky Ponting[5][9]

Australia
1995
2012
168
287

13,378

51.85
41
62
30 May 2008

3
Jacques Kallis[5][10]

South Africa
1995
2013
166
280

13,289

55.37
45
55
27 February 2009

4
Rahul Dravid[5][11]

India
1996
2012
164
286

13,288

52.31
36
63
29 March 2008

5
Alastair Cook[5][12]

England
2006
2018
161
291

12,472

45.35
33
57
30 May 2016

6
Kumar Sangakkara[5][13]

Sri Lanka
2000
2015
134
233

12,400

57.40
38
52
26 December 2012

7
Brian Lara[5][14] ^

West Indies
1990
2006
131
232

11,953

52.88
34
48
15 August 2004

8
Shivnarine Chanderpaul[5][15]

West Indies
1994
2015
164
280

11,867

51.37
30
66
26 April 2012

9
Mahela Jayawardene[5][16]

Sri Lanka
1997
2014
149
252

11,814

49.84
34
50
26 December 2011

10
Allan Border[5][17] ^

Australia
1978
1994
156
265

11,174

50.56
27
63
2 January 1993

11
Steve Waugh[5][18]

Australia
1985
2004
168
260

10,927

51.06
32
50
3 January 2003

12
Sunil Gavaskar[5][19] ^

India
1971
1987
125
214

10,122

51.12
34
45
7 March 1987

13
Younis Khan[5][20]

Pakistan
2000
2017
118
213

10,099

52.05
34
33
23 April 2017

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