Batting Numbers
Averages and records — with the era adjustment stated, not implied.
Sourced from the scorecards
Test cricket's numbers, calibrated honestly
Averages, records, and rates — what each number measures, and which cross-era comparisons genuinely hold up.
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The stats desk
Test Match Stats reads the longest format through its statistics, quoting the primary scorecards and stating the era context plainly.
Bowling Numbers
The inverted scale: what makes a great bowling average, decade by decade.
The Records
From Bradman's 99.94 outward — which records mean what they appear to.
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Test Match Records
Test Cricket Run Rate per Over by Team, 2001–2026
Test run rate per over for each side and calendar year since 2001, computed from Cricsheet ball-by-ball data on legal deliveries, with a pooled yearly trend.
Test Match Records
Test Match Results by Team, 2001–2026
Wins, losses, draws and win percentage for every Test side by year since 2001, with home, away and neutral splits, built from Cricsheet match records.
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Test Match Records
Test Match Results by Venue, 2001–2026
Home wins, away wins, draws and home win percentage for all 96 grounds that hosted a men's Test between 2001 and 2026, from Cricsheet match records.
Test Match Records
Test Cricket Toss Decisions and Outcomes by Country, 2001–2026
Bat-first and field-first toss choices and the win rates that followed, by host country and year, for 894 men's Tests from 2001 to 2026 via Cricsheet.
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Geoffrey Boycott Test Batting Career Statistics
Geoffrey Boycott’s 108 Tests, 8,114 runs and 22 centuries, with innings, not-outs and a clear note on the published average.
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Most Runs in Test Cricket: Men’s Career Leaders
Sachin Tendulkar holds the record with 15,921 runs in 200 Tests and 329 innings, averaging 53.78 with 51 centuries.
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Most Runs in a Test Match: Gooch’s Aggregate Explained
Graham Gooch’s total was 456, made with 333 and 123 across two innings—showing why a match aggregate is not an individual innings score.
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What Counts as a Good Batting Average in Test Cricket?
In Test cricket a batting average of 40 is good, 50 is elite, and 60 sustained over a career has essentially never happened — except once, at 99.94.