Most consecutive matches for a team

Most consecutive matches for a team in Tests

Most consecutive matches

Player	Team	Mat	From	Until
AN Cook	England	159	11 May 2006	7 Sep 2018
AR Border	Australia	153	10 Mar 1979	25 Mar 1994
ME Waugh	Australia	107	3 Jun 1993	19 Oct 2002
SM Gavaskar	India	106	23 Jan 1975	3 Feb 1987
BB McCullum	New Zealand	101	10 Mar 2004	20 Feb 2016
NM Lyon	Australia	100	1 Aug 2013	28 Jun 2023
AB de Villiers	South Africa	98	17 Dec 2004	2 Jan 2015
AC Gilchrist	Australia	96	5 Nov 1999	24 Jan 2008
R Dravid	India	93	20 Jun 1996	10 Dec 2005
DPMD Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	93	8 Nov 2002	3 Jan 2013
KC Brathwaite	West Indies	90	16 Jun 2014	3 Jul 2025
TWM Latham	New Zealand	88	14 Feb 2014	14 Dec 2024
GR Viswanath	India	87	19 Mar 1971	30 Jan 1983
ML Hayden	Australia	86	31 Mar 2000	2 Jan 2008
GS Sobers	West Indies	85	11 Apr 1955	20 Apr 1972
SR Tendulkar	India	84	15 Nov 1989	15 Jun 2001
MEK Hussey	Australia	79	3 Nov 2005	3 Jan 2013
JE Root	England	77	12 Jun 2014	24 Jan 2020
MV Boucher	South Africa	75	14 Feb 1998	11 Aug 2004
RT Ponting	Australia	73	3 Nov 2004	26 Dec 2010
DL Haynes	West Indies	72	1 Dec 1979	16 Jun 1988
SP Fleming	New Zealand	72	1 Jul 1999	22 Mar 2008
Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	72	18 Oct 2011	21 Aug 2020
IM Chappell	Australia	71	28 Jan 1966	31 Jan 1976
M Azharuddin	India	69	28 Apr 1989	24 Feb 1999
HM Amla	South Africa	68	27 Apr 2006	14 Oct 2013
JE Root	England	68*	16 Jul 2020	4 Dec 2025
N Kapil Dev	India	66	16 Oct 1978	12 Dec 1984
APE Knott	England	65	5 Mar 1971	25 Aug 1977
IT Botham	England	65	10 Feb 1978	2 Mar 1984
N Kapil Dev	India	65	13 Jan 1985	19 Mar 1994
IA Healy	Australia	64	15 Sep 1988	5 Oct 1994
BC Lara	West Indies	64	18 Apr 1992	26 Dec 1999
MA Atherton	England	63	19 Feb 1993	6 Aug 1998
AJ Stewart	England	62	20 Jun 1996	23 Aug 2001
RB Kanhai	West Indies	61	30 May 1957	14 Feb 1969
IVA Richards	West Indies	61	5 Jun 1980	11 Jan 1988
DC Boon	Australia	60	15 Mar 1990	25 Jan 1996
A Kumble	India	60	18 Oct 1992	2 Mar 2000
JH Kallis	South Africa	60	26 Dec 1997	2 Jan 2003
MJ Prior	England	60	6 Mar 2009	13 Dec 2013
D Elgar	South Africa	60	3 Nov 2016	3 Jan 2024
MJ Clarke	Australia	59	30 May 2008	14 Mar 2013
SPD Smith	Australia	59	14 Mar 2013	22 Mar 2018
JR Reid	New Zealand	58	23 Jul 1949	8 Jul 1965
AW Greig	England	58	8 Jun 1972	25 Aug 1977
SMH Kirmani	India	56	11 Sep 1979	31 Jan 1985
ADR Campbell	Zimbabwe	56	18 Oct 1992	14 Sep 2001
SC Ganguly	India	56	2 Aug 1997	8 Oct 2003
IA Healy	Australia	55	25 Nov 1994	14 Oct 1999
DA Warner	Australia	55	1 Aug 2013	22 Mar 2018
GD McGrath	Australia	54	1 Oct 1998	26 Dec 2002
KP Pietersen	England	54	21 Jul 2005	16 Jul 2009
MV Boucher	South Africa	54	13 Jan 2005	6 Feb 2010
V Kohli	India	54	22 Nov 2011	16 Mar 2017
KJ Hughes	Australia	53	1 Dec 1978	2 Jan 1983
Javed Miandad	Pakistan	53	14 Dec 1977	2 Jan 1984
CA Walsh	West Indies	53	12 Apr 1990	14 Mar 1997
G Kirsten	South Africa	53	26 Dec 1993	18 Mar 1999
MS Atapattu	Sri Lanka	53	20 Jun 1997	21 Jul 2002
JL Langer	Australia	53	23 Aug 2001	14 Oct 2005
HM Amla	South Africa	53	18 Dec 2013	21 Feb 2019
M Labuschagne	Australia	53	14 Aug 2019	11 Jun 2025
FE Woolley	England	52	9 Aug 1909	14 Aug 1926
PBH May	England	52	15 Aug 1953	2 Jul 1959
RW Marsh	Australia	52	27 Nov 1970	25 Aug 1977
MA Taylor	Australia	52	17 Mar 1994	2 Jan 1999
A Flower	Zimbabwe	52	18 Oct 1992	15 Jun 2001
GS Chappell	Australia	51	11 Dec 1970	25 Aug 1977
DI Gower	England	51	27 Nov 1981	5 Jun 1986
AC Parore	New Zealand	51	21 Nov 1996	30 Mar 2002
Azhar Ali	Pakistan	51	1 Nov 2015	16 Jul 2022
SPD Smith	Australia	51	4 Sep 2019	11 Jun 2025
RJ Shastri	India	50	24 Sep 1983	9 Dec 1989

* indicates an ongoing sequence

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

Australia v England at Brisbane, 2nd Test, Dec 4-7, 2025 [Test # 2611]

New Zealand v West Indies at Christchurch, ICC World Test Championship 1st Test, Dec 2-6, 2025 [Test # 2610]

India v South Africa at Guwahati, ICC World Test Championship 2nd Test, Nov 22-26, 2025 [Test # 2609]