* 1938 – English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.

He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.

Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket and in One Day Internationals ( ODIs ), has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.

He has the highest individual score in both first-class cricket ( 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994 ) and Test cricket ( 400 not out for the West Indies against England in 2004 ).

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

* Lara struck 277 runs against Australia in Sydney, his maiden Test century, the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.

* After Matthew Hayden had eclipsed his Test record for highest individual score 375 by five runs in 2003, he reclaimed the record scoring 400 not out in 2004 against England.

Test cricket, although the highest standard of cricket, is itself a form of first-class cricket, although the term " first-class " is commonly used to refer to domestic competition only.

In October 1999, Cronje became South Africa's highest Test run scorer during the first Test against Zimbabwe.

While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

In the first 5 years of Botham's Test career, when not playing as captain, he scored 2557 runs at an average of 49. 17 including 11 centuries and a highest score of 208, took 196 wickets at an average of 21. 28 including nineteen 5 wicket hauls and held 50 catches.

He still holds the record for the highest number of Test wickets taken by an England player ( 383 ).

* 1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.

He became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 2007.

The first day cover involving Muralitharan bears an official seal captioned as " The highest wicket taker in Test cricket, MUTHIAH MURALIDARAN, First Day of Issue 03. 12. 2007, Camp Post Office, Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium, Kandy ".

The first of these came in the First Test at Johannesburg, where after conceding 1 / 115, Benaud struck 122, his highest Test score, to see Australia reach a draw.

The highest wicket partnership of Grace's career was 283 runs for the first wicket with Bransby Cooper for the Gentlemen of the South v the Players of the South at The Oval in 1869.

At the time, he was also India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs.

At the end of the first day, Hobbs and Rhodes had scored 54 together, and the next day they took their partnership for the first wicket to 323, setting a new record for the highest partnership for any wicket in Test matches.

Their partnership remained an overall Test record for 22 years and the highest for the first wicket until 1948.

Kapil Dev later became the highest wicket taker in Test cricket with 434 wickets.

With 619 wickets, Anil Kumble is the world's third highest wicket taker in Tests and India's highest Test and ODI wicket taker.

McGrath holds the world record for the highest number of Test wickets by a fast bowler and is fourth on the all-time list, with the top three wicket takers Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne, and Anil Kumble all being spin bowlers.

He finished his career as the most successful Test fast-bowler and 3rd highest Test wicket taker.

McGrath holds seven highest tenth wicket partnerships, and two tenth wicket partnerships of 100 plus.

He remains India's highest wicket taker in ODI matches as a fast bowler and only Indian pacer to surprass 300 wicket tally in ODI matches.

He shared a 255 run stand with Sachin Tendulkar, which became at that time the highest partnership for India against any country for any wicket outside India.

Akhtar emerged as the highest wicket taker of the series with seventeen wickets.

Fleming scored 262 as he and Wellington team-mate James Franklin put 256 runs for the 8th wicket, the highest partnership to date in Tests between New Zealand and South Africa.

With the ball, Cairns ' career-best performance was 7 / 27 against the West Indies in a Test in 1998, and he is New Zealand's fourth highest wicket taker in Tests, after Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori and Chris Martin.

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Displaying a wider range of shots, he scored four centuries, including another against Essex, and established an effective opening partnership with Hayward, who set a record for the highest aggregate of runs in a season.

As of 2012, this remains England's highest opening partnership against Australia.

However, Thorpe was also a highly capable stroke-maker: during his highest Test score, 200 not out off 231 balls against New Zealand at Christchurch in 2002, he and Andrew Flintoff compiled a partnership of 281 in 51 overs.

In the Third Test, Boycott and Barber shared an opening partnership of 234 in four hours ; Boycott hit 84, his highest score of the series.

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The partnership was the fourth highest to that point in Australian Test cricket.

This is still the highest partnership for New Zealand against England.

In the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he was involved in a partnership of 318 runs with Rahul Dravid, which remains the highest overall partnership score in the World Cup tournament history.

His partnership of 318 with Rahul Dravid is the highest overall score in a World Cup and is the second highest in all ODI cricket.

Among his twelve centuries, Hutton scored his highest total for Yorkshire, 280 not out in six hours against Hampshire, sharing an opening partnership of 315 with Sutcliffe.

In 1991, he shared a 467-run partnership with Andrew Jones, at the time the highest partnership in Test history and in 2009 remained the third highest.