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Broad conceded 35 runs in a single, which became the most runs scored in a single over in Test cricket. The second player on this list is Brian Lara who smacked left-arm spinner, Robin Peterson, for a massive 28 runs in a single over in Johannesburg way back in the 2003-04 season.

England holds the record for the most substantial runs victory in Test format, triumphing over Australia by an innings and 579 runs . Trailing behind is Australia with a an innings and 360 runs win against South Africa , followed by West Indies with a similar an innings and 336 runs victory against India .

West Indies batsman Brian Lara has the highest individual score in Test cricket: he scored 400 not out against England in 2004 to surpass the innings of 380 by Matthew Hayden six months earlier. Lara had held the record before Hayden, with a score of 375 against England 10 years earlier.

Pranav's 1009-run knock including 129 fours and 59 sixes during the match helped his school declare on 1465/3, which is also a record for the highest ever team score. His record of smashing over 1000 runs has not been broken by any player in cricket history.

Pranav Prashant Dhanawade (born 13 May 2000) is an Indian cricketer from Kalyan, Maharashtra who holds the world record for the most runs scored in one innings. Stretching across two days on 4 and 5 January 2016, he became the first person to score more than 1,000 runs in one innings in an officially recognised match.

Till now only India's Yuvraj Singh and West Indies' Kieron Pollard had managed to hit six sixes in an over in a T20 international. But Nepal's Dipendra Singh Airee joined the two legends in an elite list of cricketers hitting six sixes in an over in international cricket.

When one thinks of the most runs conceded in an over, the names of Tilak Raj and Malcolm Nash come to mind. Ravi Shastri and Sir Gary Sobers had hit six sixes to score 36 runs on both occasions. However, that dubious distinction goes to Bert Vance, who went for 77 in a match between Wellington and Canterbury.

On September 2007, in the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 at Durban, South Africa, former Indian batter Yuvraj Singh scored 36 runs in a single over. Yuvi's explosive over against England's Stuart Broad included 6 sixes and 1 four, making it one of the most memorable moments in T20 cricket.

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Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. In terms of innings, West Indian Brian Lara, Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara are the fastest (195) to reach the 10,000 run mark, while Australia's Steve Waugh is the slowest to achieve the feat (244).

Englishman Joe Root has the highest score in a hundredth Test match; he was the first player to have scored a double century (200 runs or more) in their hundredth Test match.

only one cricketer has scored 400 runs in a Test match innings. That cricketer is Brian Lara from the West Indies. He achieved this remarkable feat on April 10, 2004, during a Test match against England in Antigua. Brian Lara's innings of 400 not out remains the highest individual score in Test cricket history.

He would join a long list, which India's Sachin Tendulkar tops, as he is the only player to have played 200 Tests.

Highest 1st innings score in Test cricket: The England team that almost scored 1000 runs. Team India are sixth on the list of teams with the highest 1st innings score in Test cricket. The England cricket team holds the record for the highest 1st innings score in Test cricket.