10 Highest Individual Test Innings In The History Of Cricket

Test cricket is the very pinnacle of the sport - and all batsmen in the game strive to score centuries for their nation. The very best batsmen have grander desires, however - and that is to become the highest scoring cricketer in history. The game may have evolved and moved on with the introduction of one-day internationals and then Twenty20 matches, but Test cricket remains the love of the purists. There is nothing quite like watching a five-day match in the glorious sunshine of a British summer - except when England are getting trounced, of course. Most particularly, there is nothing comparable to those "when were you when?" moments you get every once in a while, including at the cricket. In every day life, examples include: Where were you when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon? Where were you when JFK was shot? And where were you when England won the 1966 football World Cup. In cricketing terms, the most-regularly used question is: "Where were you when Brian Lara scored that huge knock against England?" But that is just one of countless impressive Test scores, with the triple-century mark having been surpassed 28 times in history. So here are the 10 highest individual Test scores in the history of cricket - and their combined total innings would be 3,605...

Rating: 400 Not Out

That man again - and once more a superb innings against England. Lara's second world-record Test score of 400 not out is 20 better than his closest rival - and his knock in St John's (yet again) has stood as the highest individual innings since April 10, 2004, and is unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon.