Longest individual innings (by balls)

Longest individual innings (by balls) in Tests

Longest individual innings (by balls)

Player	Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
L Hutton	364	797	847	35	-	42.97	England	v Australia	The Oval	20 Aug 1938	Test # 266
GM Turner	259	704	759	22	-	34.12	New Zealand	v West Indies	Georgetown	6 Apr 1972	Test # 696
RB Simpson	311	762	743	23	1	41.85	Australia	v England	Manchester	23 Jul 1964	Test # 564
SG Barnes	234	649	667	17	-	35.08	Australia	v England	Sydney	13 Dec 1946	Test # 280
G Kirsten	275	878	642	26	-	42.83	South Africa	v England	Durban	26 Dec 1999	Test # 1480
A Sandham	325	600	640	28	-	50.78	England	v West Indies	Kingston	3 Apr 1930	Test # 193
KF Barrington	256	683	624	26	-	41.02	England	v Australia	Manchester	23 Jul 1964	Test # 564
WR Hammond	251	461	605	30	-	41.48	England	v Australia	Sydney	14 Dec 1928	Test # 177
WR Hammond	177	440	603	17	-	29.35	England	v Australia	Adelaide	1 Feb 1929	Test # 179
RM Cowper	307	727	589	20	-	52.12	Australia	v England	Melbourne	11 Feb 1966	Test # 601
BC Lara	400*	778	582	43	4	68.72	West Indies	v England	St John's	10 Apr 2004	Test # 1696
WR Hammond	231*	460	579	27	-	39.89	England	v Australia	Sydney	18 Dec 1936	Test # 256
ST Jayasuriya	340	799	578	36	2	58.82	Sri Lanka	v India	Colombo (RPS)	2 Aug 1997	Test # 1374
DPMD Jayawardene	374	752	572	43	1	65.38	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Colombo (SSC)	27 Jul 2006	Test # 1810
Younis Khan	313	760	568	27	4	55.10	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	21 Feb 2009	Test # 1909
MA Taylor	334*	720	564	32	1	59.21	Australia	v Pakistan	Peshawar	15 Oct 1998	Test # 1426
DL Amiss	262*	570	563	40	1	46.53	England	v West Indies	Kingston	16 Feb 1974	Test # 732
RS Mahanama	225	753	561	27	-	40.10	Sri Lanka	v India	Colombo (RPS)	2 Aug 1997	Test # 1374
BB McCullum	302	775	559	32	4	54.02	New Zealand	v India	Wellington	14 Feb 2014	Test # 2120
Hanif Mohammad	187*	542	556	21	-	33.63	Pakistan	v England	Lord's	27 Jul 1967	Test # 621
G Boycott	246*	573	555	30	1	44.32	England	v India	Leeds	8 Jun 1967	Test # 618
TW Jarvis	182	540	555	19	-	32.79	New Zealand	v West Indies	Georgetown	6 Apr 1972	Test # 696
DSBP Kuruppu	201*	777	548	24	-	36.67	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Colombo (CCC)	16 Apr 1987	Test # 1074
AN Cook	294	773	545	33	-	53.94	England	v India	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011	Test # 2003
DL Houghton	266	675	541	30	3	49.16	Zimbabwe	v Sri Lanka	Bulawayo	20 Oct 1994	Test # 1271
BC Lara	375	766	538	45	-	69.70	West Indies	v England	St John's	16 Apr 1994	Test # 1259
MS Atapattu	201*	684	536	18	-	37.50	Sri Lanka	v England	Galle	22 Feb 2001	Test # 1530
HM Amla	311*	790	529	35	-	58.79	South Africa	v England	The Oval	19 Jul 2012	Test # 2049
AN Cook	263	836	528	18	-	49.81	England	v Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	13 Oct 2015	Test # 2180
WL Murdoch	211	490	525	24	-	40.19	Australia	v England	The Oval	11 Aug 1884	Test # 16
G Kirsten	210	650	525	24	1	40.00	South Africa	v England	Manchester	2 Jul 1998	Test # 1420
CA Pujara	202	672	525	21	-	38.47	India	v Australia	Ranchi	16 Mar 2017	Test # 2256
CT Radley	158	648	524	15	-	30.15	England	v New Zealand	Auckland	4 Mar 1978	Test # 820
MD Crowe	299	610	523	29	3	57.17	New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Wellington	31 Jan 1991	Test # 1162
GW Flower	201*	654	523	11	1	38.43	Zimbabwe	v Pakistan	Harare	31 Jan 1995	Test # 1285
Javed Miandad	260	617	521	28	1	49.90	Pakistan	v England	The Oval	6 Aug 1987	Test # 1079
GT Dowling	239	556	519	26	5	46.05	New Zealand	v India	Christchurch	22 Feb 1968	Test # 631
GN Yallop	268	716	517	29	-	51.83	Australia	v Pakistan	Melbourne	26 Dec 1983	Test # 973
Shoaib Mohammad	163	720	516	17	1	31.58	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Wellington	10 Feb 1989	Test # 1115
S Chanderpaul	136*	675	510	17	-	26.66	West Indies	v India	St John's	10 May 2002	Test # 1602
Younis Khan	267	690	504	32	1	52.97	Pakistan	v India	Bengaluru	24 Mar 2005	Test # 1743

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Records includes the following current or recent matches:

India vs West Indies at Delhi, West Indies in India 2nd Test, Oct 10-14, 2025 [Test # 2601]

Pakistan vs South Africa at Lahore, South Africa in Pakistan 1st Test, Oct 12-16, 2025 [Test # 2602 - Live]
>> 0/0 (0.5 ov, RD Rickelton 0*, AK Markram 0*, Hasan Ali 0/0)

West Indies vs India at Ahmedabad, West Indies in India 1st Test, Oct 2-4, 2025 [Test # 2600]