Eight tons in a Test, and high totals without a hundred

Six new entries had to be made on the honours board at Lord's after the first Test between England and West Indies finished on Monday and all six belonged to England. Four of their batsmen scored centuries in the first innings, Monty Panesar took 6 for 129 and Kevin Pietersen scored another hundred in the second. Although West Indies scored 437 in their first innings, nobody scored a hundred. This week we look at matches with the most hundreds and five-wicket hauls.

The highest number of centuries and five-fors by one team in a match is seven, although there were only six performers. Saeed Anwar, Taufeeq Umar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq pummeled Bangladesh for hundreds and Danish Kaneria scalped six in each innings as Pakistan won by an innings and 264 runs at Multan in 2001.

Most combined hundreds and 5wi in a match by one team - Tests

Team	100	5	Tot	Result	Opposition	100	5		Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
Pakistan	5	2	7	won	Bangladesh	0	0		Multan	29 Aug 2001	Test 1560
Australia	4	2	6	won	England	2	1		Adelaide	14 Jan 1921	Test 137
Australia	5	1	6	won	West Indies	2	0		Kingston	11 Jun 1955	Test 408
Pakistan	4	2	6	won	India	1	1		Faisalabad	3 Jan 1983	Test 945
Australia	3	3	6	tied	India	1	0		Chennai	18 Sep 1986	Test 1052
England	5	1	6	drawn	West Indies	0	0		Lord's	17 May 2007	Test 1831
England	3	2	5	lost	Australia	3	1		Sydney	19 Dec 1924	Test 158
England	2	3	5	won	South Africa	0	1		Johannesburg	24 Dec 1927	Test 168
Australia	4	1	5	lost	England	2	1		Melbourne	29 Dec 1928	Test 178
England	3	2	5	won	Australia	1	0		Sydney	2 Dec 1932	Test 220

The timeless Test at Adelaide in 1921 had a total of six hundreds (Australia 4, England 2) and three five-wicket hauls (Australia 2, England 1) and is one of three Tests with a total of nine such performances. The other two are the Sydney Test between Australia and England in 1924 and the West Indies-India Test at Kingston in 1953.

The maximum number of hundreds in a Test is eight, scored by South Africa and West Indies at Antigua in 2005. AB de Villiers, Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince scored centuries and when West Indies batted, Chris Gayle replied with 317 and three others weighed in with centuries too. The match was a dull draw with only 17 wickets falling in five days.

There have been three other Tests with seven hundreds scored, the most recent also being between West Indies and South Africa at Cape Town in 2004. The seventh century in that match was Dwayne Smith's audacious 105 off 105 balls on Test debut.

Most combined hundreds in a match - Tests

Team	100	Team	100	Tot		Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
West Indies	4	South Africa	4	8		St John's	29 Apr 2005	Test 1750
England	4	Australia	3	7		Nottingham	10 Jun 1938	Test 263
West Indies	2	Australia	5	7		Kingston	11 Jun 1955	Test 408
South Africa	4	West Indies	3	7		Cape Town	2 Jan 2004	Test 1681
Australia	4	England	2	6		Adelaide	14 Jan 1921	Test 137
Australia	3	England	3	6		Sydney	19 Dec 1924	Test 158
Australia	4	England	2	6		Melbourne	29 Dec 1928	Test 178
South Africa	3	England	3	6		Durban	3 Mar 1939	Test 271
Australia	3	India	3	6		Adelaide	23 Jan 1948	Test 294
West Indies	3	India	3	6		Kingston	28 Mar 1953	Test 371

England's effort in the past week at Lord's was the only the third time in Test history that a team had five different centurions in a match. In the other two matches, there were five centuries in a single innings. One was the Pakistan-Bangladesh match mentioned above, while the other is the Kingston Test between West Indies and Australia in 1955. Colin McDonald, Neil Harvey, Keith Miller, Ron Archer and Richie Benaud, at No 8, helped Australia pile up 758 and beat West Indies by an innings and 82 runs even though they had two centurions of their own.

Most hundreds in an innings - Tests

Team	100	Result	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
Australia	5	won	v West Indies	Kingston	11 Jun 1955	Test 408
Pakistan	5	won	v Bangladesh	Multan	29 Aug 2001	Test 1560
England	4	drawn	v Australia	Nottingham	10 Jun 1938	Test 263
West Indies	4	drawn	v India	Delhi	10 Nov 1948	Test 304
Pakistan	4	won	v India	Faisalabad	3 Jan 1983	Test 945
West Indies	4	drawn	v India	St John's	28 Apr 1983	Test 956
Pakistan	4	won	v Sri Lanka	Galle	21 Jun 2000	Test 1501
Sri Lanka	4	won	v India	Colombo (SSC)	29 Aug 2001	Test 1559
New Zealand	4	drawn	v Australia	Perth	30 Nov 2001	Test 1573
New Zealand	4	drawn	v India	Mohali	16 Oct 2003	Test 1662

In the recent Lord's Test, West Indies managed 437 in the first innings without anyone scoring a hundred. It's a pretty big score but nowhere close to the highest total without a hundred. India scored 524 for 9 against New Zealand at Kanpur in 1976. The highest score of the innings was Mohinder Amarnath's 70 while five others got past fifty.

Highest team score without a hundred - Tests

Team	Score	Result	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
India	524/9d	drawn	v New Zealand	Kanpur	18 Nov 1976	Test 786
South Africa	517	drawn	v Australia	Adelaide	30 Jan 1998	Test 1397
Pakistan	500/8d	won	v Australia	Melbourne	11 Dec 1981	Test 913
Bangladesh	488	won	v Zimbabwe	Chittagong (MAA)	6 Jan 2005	Test 1733
Australia	485	won	v New Zealand	Christchurch	25 Feb 1993	Test 1215
India	485	drawn	v Sri Lanka	Nagpur	26 Nov 1997	Test 1387
South Africa	479	won	v India	Bangalore	2 Mar 2000	Test 1486
England	477/9d	drawn	v South Africa	Leeds	4 Aug 1994	Test 1264
Australia	476	lost	v England	Adelaide	12 Jan 1912	Test 118
West Indies	475	won	v India	Bridgetown	23 Mar 1962	Test 527