Top 10 Players with Most Runs in Test Cricket

Highest Runs in Test Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs in test cricket games of all time. His fans and people in the cricket community call him “The Master Blaster” and “The God of Cricket”. He is the only cricketer in history to have played 200 test matches, which is the most.

Sachin Tendulkar has set the standard for how many runs a player can get in a Test Match. In 200 games, he got 15921 runs. After Sachin, the players with the most runs in tests are Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, who have 13378 and 13289 runs, respectively.

Highest Runs in Test Cricket: Top 10 Players List

Sachin Tendulkar | 15,921 runs in Test Cricket

Almost every batting record set in cricket has Sachin Tendulkar’s name at the top. He is called the God of cricket because of this. The Little Master has scored 15921 runs in 200 test matches. He has 51 centuries in Test matches, which is the most of any cricketer, and he is the only person to have 100 international centuries.

Ricky Ponting | 13,378 runs in Test Cricket

Ricky Ponting, who was the captain of Australia, has scored the second-most runs in the history of Test cricket. He is known for how well he handles pressure and how much he wants to win. Ricky Ponting played in 168 Test matches and got 13378 runs before he quit in 2012. His best score in Test Cricket was 257.

Jacques Kallis | 13,289 runs in Test Cricket

Jacques Kallis of South Africa is next on the list of players with the most runs in test cricket. Kallis is the only cricket player to have scored more than 10,000 runs in both Test and ODI matches. Also, he has taken 577 wickets in international Test, ODI, and T20I games. Throughout his career, he was an asset that couldn’t be replaced.

Rahul Dravid | 13,288 runs in Test Cricket

Rahul Dravid has scored the fourth-most runs in Test Cricket. Dravid, who was one of India’s best batsmen in Test cricket and was known as “The Wall,” is now the coach of the Indian Cricket team. He has played in 164 Tests and scored a total of 13288 runs. His best Test score was 270.

Alastair Cook | 12,472 runs in Test Cricket

Alastair Cook is a former England Test captain who played for the country in all international formats from 2006 to 2018. He is one of the youngest English players to have scored more than 12,000 runs in test cricket. He has played in more than 160 test matches, and the most he has played is 294.

Kumar Sangakkara | 12,400 runs in Test Cricket

Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka, who is also a great wicketkeeper, has a very special place in the hearts of his fans. Sangakkara has played in 134 test matches and scored a total of 12,400 runs, with a high of 319. He scored 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000, and 12,000 runs in Test cricket faster than anyone else.

Brian Lara | 11,953 runs in Test Cricket

Brian Lara, a former cricket star from the West Indies, is the only person to have ever scored 400 against England in a Test match. This is still the highest score ever made in a Test match. From his first match in 1990 until he quit in 2006, he played in more than 131 Tests and scored 11953 runs.

Highest Runs in Test Career

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100	50
SR Tendulkar (INDIA)	1989-2013	200	329	33	15921	248*	53.78	51	68
RT Ponting (AUS)	1995-2012	168	287	29	13378	257	51.85	41	62
JH Kallis (ICC/SA)	1995-2013	166	280	40	13289	224	55.37	45	58
R Dravid (ICC/INDIA)	1996-2012	164	286	32	13288	270	52.31	36	63
AN Cook (ENG)	2006-2018	161	291	16	12472	294	45.35	33	57
KC Sangakkara (SL)	2000-2015	134	233	17	12400	319	57.4	38	52
BC Lara (ICC/WI)	1990-2006	131	232	6	11953	400*	52.88	34	48
S Chanderpaul (WI)	1994-2015	164	280	49	11867	203*	51.37	30	66
DPMD Jayawardene (SL)	1997-2014	149	252	15	11814	374	49.84	34	50
AR Border (AUS)	1978-1994	156	265	44	11174	205	50.56	27	63