Batting Most Runs Innings

High scores in 1956 in FC

High scores

Player	Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Team	Opposition	Ground	Innings in match	Match Date	Scorecard
KR Miller	281*	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Leics	Leicester	2	5 May 1956	First-class
MH Mankad	231	525	-	21	0	-	India	v New Zealand	Chennai	1	6 Jan 1956	Test # 420
RN Harvey	225	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v M.C.C.	Lord's	1	26 May 1956	First-class
JW Burke	220	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v South Aust	Adelaide	1	14 Dec 1956	First-class
YM Chowdhury	211	270	-	18	0	-	Delhi	v Patiala	Delhi	1	17 Jan 1956	First-class
WJ Watson	206	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v West Aust	W.A.C.A	2	8 Dec 1956	First-class
MC Cowdrey	204*	-	-	-	-	-	Kent	v Cambridge U	Cambridge	3	12 May 1956	First-class
MS Hardikar	204	325	-	20	0	-	Bombay	v Gujarat	Brabourne	1	8 Dec 1956	First-class
WJ Watson	198	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v Queensland	Sydney	3	29 Dec 1956	First-class
CC McDonald	195	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Notts	Nottingham	1	12 May 1956	First-class
FA Lowson	183*	-	-	-	-	-	Yorkshire	v Oxford Uni	Oxford	1	5 May 1956	First-class
NJ Contractor	176	380	-	17	0	-	Gujarat	v Bombay	Brabourne	3	8 Dec 1956	First-class
P Roy	173	472	-	12	0	-	India	v New Zealand	Chennai	1	6 Jan 1956	Test # 420
BK Shepherd	173	-	-	-	-	-	West Aust	v Queensland	Brisbane	2	16 Nov 1956	First-class
FW Stocks	171	-	-	-	-	-	Notts	v Australians	Nottingham	2	12 May 1956	First-class
KD Mackay	169	-	-	-	-	-	Queensland	v NSW	Sydney	2	29 Dec 1956	First-class
HT Dani	166*	415	-	19	0	-	Services	v Delhi	Delhi	2	18 Feb 1956	First-class
JV Wilson	165	-	-	-	-	-	Yorkshire	v Oxford Uni	Oxford	1	5 May 1956	First-class
Sher Mohammad	162	330	-	19	0	-	Maharashtra	v Bombay	Solapur	2	4 Feb 1956	First-class
JW Burke	161	504	-	-	0	-	Australia	v India	Brabourne	2	26 Oct 1956	Test # 432
R Benaud	160	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Worcs	Worcester	2	2 May 1956	First-class
ED Weekes	156	211	-	19	0	-	West Indies	v New Zealand	Wellington	1	3 Mar 1956	Test # 423
MJ Stewart	155*	-	-	-	-	-	Surrey	v Cambridge U	Guildford	2	27 Jun 1956	First-class
ID Craig	155	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v West Aust	W.A.C.A	2	8 Dec 1956	First-class
AC Walton	152	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v Warwickshire	Birmingham	1	27 Jun 1956	First-class
M Ananthaswamy Rao	152	-	-	-	-	-	Orissa	v Bihar	Jamshedpur	3	22 Dec 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	147	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	20 Jan 1956	First-class
R O'Brien	146	293	-	18	0	-	Cambridge U	v Oxford Uni	Lord's	1	7 Jul 1956	First-class
RS Modi	146	279	-	13	0	-	Bombay	v Gujarat	Brabourne	1	8 Dec 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	142	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v West Aust	Melbourne	1	10 Feb 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	140	244	-	17	0	-	Australia	v India	Brabourne	2	26 Oct 1956	Test # 432
KD Meuleman	140	-	-	-	-	-	West Aust	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	2 Nov 1956	First-class
GRA Langley	139	-	-	-	-	-	South Aust	v West Aust	Adelaide	1	3 Feb 1956	First-class
A Wharton	137	-	-	-	-	-	Lancashire	v Australians	Manchester	3	23 May 1956	First-class
PJP Burge	135	-	-	-	-	-	Queensland	v Victoria	Melbourne	2	8 Dec 1956	First-class
SJE Loxton	134	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	23 Nov 1956	First-class
JW Burke	132*	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v Victoria	Melbourne	2	22 Dec 1956	First-class
Mohinder Singh	132	-	-	19	0	-	UP	v Rajputana	Udaipur	2	15 Jan 1956	First-class
PJP Burge	131	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Notts	Nottingham	1	12 May 1956	First-class
PE Richardson	130*	-	-	-	-	-	Worcs	v Australians	Worcester	3	2 May 1956	First-class
DV Smith	130	-	-	-	-	-	Sussex	v Cambridge U	Cambridge	1	9 May 1956	First-class
JM Parks	129	-	-	-	-	-	Sussex	v Cambridge U	Hove	2	30 Jun 1956	First-class
Swaranjit Singh	128*	-	-	-	-	-	Cambridge U	v Leics	Cambridge	1	16 May 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	128	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v NSW	Sydney	1	28 Jan 1956	First-class
ER Dexter	126	-	-	-	-	-	Cambridge U	v Middlesex	Cambridge	1	30 May 1956	First-class
MJK Smith	126	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v Gloucs	Bristol	1	23 Jun 1956	First-class
GB Stevens	125*	-	-	-	-	-	South Aust	v West Aust	Adelaide	3	2 Nov 1956	First-class
MA Eagar	125	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v F Foresters	Oxford	3	19 May 1956	First-class
KD Meuleman	125	-	-	-	-	-	West Aust	v Queensland	Brisbane	2	16 Nov 1956	First-class
RG Nadkarni	125	-	-	5	0	-	Maharashtra	v Saurashtra	Khadakvasla	2	24 Nov 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	125	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Melbourne	1	29 Dec 1956	First-class
SK Khanna	124*	-	-	9	0	-	Bengal	v Orissa	Eden Gardens	1	11 Feb 1956	First-class
AR Sridhar	124*	-	-	-	-	-	Madras	v Hyderabad	Salem	3	14 Dec 1956	First-class
AS Bhatia	124	240	-	12	1	-	Delhi	v Services	Delhi	1	18 Feb 1956	First-class
ACD Ingleby-Mackenzie	124	-	-	-	-	-	Hampshire	v Oxford Uni	Oxford	3	16 May 1956	First-class
ED Weekes	123	-	-	17	0	-	West Indies	v New Zealand	Dunedin	2	3 Feb 1956	Test # 421
JW Burke	123	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Leics	Leicester	2	5 May 1956	First-class
AG Kripal Singh	122	169	-	14	0	-	Madras	v Andhra	Chennai	1	13 Jan 1956	First-class
K Arjun Singh	122	165	-	-	-	-	Rajputana	v UP	Udaipur	3	15 Jan 1956	First-class
MK Mantri	122	258	-	7	0	-	Bombay	v Madras	Chennai	2	10 Mar 1956	First-class
REC Pratt	120	-	-	-	-	-	Surrey	v Cambridge U	Guildford	2	27 Jun 1956	First-class
SJE Loxton	119*	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	20 Jan 1956	First-class
KHD Kendall	119	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	23 Nov 1956	First-class
K Arjun Singh	119	-	-	-	-	-	Rajasthan	v	Indore	2	22 Dec 1956	First-class
ER Dexter	118*	-	-	-	-	-	Cambridge U	v Sussex	Cambridge	4	9 May 1956	First-class
ATW Grout	118*	-	-	-	-	-	Queensland	v NSW	Sydney	2	29 Dec 1956	First-class
CJ Pinch	118	-	-	-	-	-	South Aust	v West Aust	Adelaide	1	3 Feb 1956	First-class
MJK Smith	117	200	-	13	0	-	Oxford Uni	v Cambridge U	Lord's	2	7 Jul 1956	First-class
PE Richardson	117	525	-	6	0	-	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	1	24 Dec 1956	Test # 434
RR Lindwall	116*	-	-	-	-	-	Australians	v Cambridge U	Cambridge	1	19 May 1956	First-class
AC Walton	116*	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v Sussex	Oxford	2	9 Jun 1956	First-class
RM James	116	-	-	-	-	-	Cambridge U	v Australians	Cambridge	3	19 May 1956	First-class
D Kenyon	116	-	-	-	-	-	Worcs	v Cambridge U	Worcester	3	20 Jun 1956	First-class
CJ Pinch	116	-	-	-	-	-	South Aust	v West Aust	Adelaide	3	2 Nov 1956	First-class
CD Gopinath	115	173	-	10	0	-	Madras	v Andhra	Chennai	1	13 Jan 1956	First-class
HM Winfield	115	-	-	-	-	-	Notts	v Oxford Uni	Oxford	2	23 May 1956	First-class
JH Shaw	114	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	23 Nov 1956	First-class
KM Rungta	113*	-	-	-	-	-	Rajasthan	v	Indore	2	22 Dec 1956	First-class
RM Chanda	113	189	-	16	0	-	Bengal	v M. Pradesh	Eden Gardens	2	3 Mar 1956	First-class
YM Chowdhury	113	-	-	-	-	-	Delhi	v Bombay	Delhi	1	3 Mar 1956	First-class
Rev.DS Sheppard	113	295	-	14	1	-	England	v Australia	Manchester	1	26 Jul 1956	Test # 428
SJ Carroll	113	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v South Aust	Adelaide	1	14 Dec 1956	First-class
DGW Fletcher	112*	-	-	-	-	-	Surrey	v Oxford Uni	The Oval	3	20 Jun 1956	First-class
RB Simpson	112*	-	-	-	-	-	West Aust	v Queensland	W.A.C.A	4	15 Dec 1956	First-class
PR Umrigar	112	190	-	9	0	-	Bombay	v Bengal	Eden Gardens	2	30 Mar 1956	First-class
LF Outschoorn	112	-	-	-	-	-	Worcs	v Cambridge U	Worcester	1	20 Jun 1956	First-class
RB Kenny	111*	163	-	13	0	-	Bombay	v Maharashtra	Solapur	1	4 Feb 1956	First-class
GR Reynolds	110*	-	-	-	-	-	Queensland	v South Aust	Adelaide	3	22 Dec 1956	First-class
CC McDonald	110	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v NSW	Sydney	1	28 Jan 1956	First-class
ASM Oakman	110	-	-	-	-	-	Sussex	v Oxford Uni	Oxford	3	9 Jun 1956	First-class
WJ Watson	109	-	-	-	-	-	NSW	v Victoria	Sydney	2	28 Jan 1956	First-class
B Constable	109	-	-	-	-	-	Surrey	v Australians	The Oval	2	16 May 1956	First-class
GS Ramchand	109	-	-	-	0	-	India	v Australia	Brabourne	1	26 Oct 1956	Test # 432
MJK Smith	108	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v Middlesex	Oxford	3	2 May 1956	First-class
AC Walton	108	-	-	-	-	-	Oxford Uni	v Lancashire	Oxford	3	9 May 1956	First-class
RN Harvey	108	-	-	-	-	-	Victoria	v Queensland	Melbourne	1	8 Dec 1956	First-class
MH Mankad	107	222	-	10	0	-	Bombay	v Madras	Chennai	2	10 Mar 1956	First-class
R O'Brien	107	-	-	-	-	-	Cambridge U	v Lancashire	Cambridge	1	5 May 1956	First-class
KD Mackay	107	-	-	-	-	-	Queensland	v South Aust	Adelaide	2	22 Dec 1956	First-class
GA Smithson	106*	-	-	-	-	-	Leics	v Cambridge U	Cambridge	2	16 May 1956	First-class

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Performances in matches that overlap years are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

Victoria vs South Australia at Melbourne, Sheffield Shield , Dec 29, 1956 - Jan 2, 1957 [First-class]

New South Wales vs Queensland at Sydney, Sheffield Shield , Dec 29, 1956 - Jan 2, 1957 [First-class]

England vs South Africa at Johannesburg, England tour of South Africa 1st Test, Dec 24-29, 1956 [Test # 434]