| Player | Score (Balls) | 4s/6s | Against | Venue | Match Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiaan Mulder (SA) | 367* (334) | 49/4 | Zimbabwe | Bulawayo | 6 Jul 2025 |
| Hanif Mohammad (PAK) | 337 (NA) | 24/0 | West Indies | Bridgetown | 17 Jan 1958 |
| Wally Hammond (ENG) | 336* (NA) | 34/10 | New Zealand | Auckland | 31 Mar 1933 |
| Mark Taylor (AUS) | 334* (564) | 32/1 | Pakistan | Peshawar | 15 Oct 1998 |
| Don Bradman (AUS) | 334 (448) | 46/0 | England | Leeds | 11 Jul 1930 |
| Chris Gayle (WI) | 333 (437) | 34/9 | Sri Lanka | Galle | 15 Nov 2010 |
| Andy Sandham (ENG) | 325 (640) | 28/0 | West Indies | Kingston | 3 Apr 1930 |
| Kumar Sangakkara (SL) | 319 (482) | 32/8 | Bangladesh | Chattogram | 4 Feb 2014 |
| Harry Brook (ENG) | 317 (322) | 29/3 | Pakistan | Multan | 7 Oct 2024 |
| Hashim Amla (SA) | 311* (529) | 35/0 | England | The Oval | 19 Jul 2012 |
Key Insights
Wiaan Mulder has registered the highest individual score in an away Test. He aggregated 367 not out against Zimbabwe in the 2025 Bulawayo Test. This is also the highest Test score by a skipper away from home.
Mulder’s unbeaten 367 is now the fifth-highest individual score in the longest format.
Mulder needed 297 deliveries to reach 300, the fastest triple century by a batter in an away Test. Overall, this is the second-quickest Test triple hundred.
Mulder hammered 49 fours in his knock, the most by a batter in an away Test innings.
On the other hand, Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes smashed the joint-most sixes in a Test innings away from home. Both clobbered 11 maximums each while scoring 202 (vs Pakistan, Sharjah, 2014) and 258 (vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2016), respectively. The overall record belongs to two players have hit 12 sixes in a Test innings – check them here.
Stokes eclipsed the 250-run mark in 196 deliveries, the fastest by a batter in all Tests.
Don Bradman is the only batter to score two triple centuries away from home in Tests. His both knocks – 334 and 304 – came against England in Leeds in 1930 and 1934, respectively. Read about the leaders in scoring Test 300s here.
Chris Gayle has logged the highest strike rate in an away Test innings (minimum 100 runs). He brought up his 72-ball 102 at a strike rate of 141.66 against Australia in the 2009 Perth Test. Gayle also brought up the second-fastest Test century away from home off 70 balls.
Hanif Mohammad’s 337-run knock is the highest by a batter in his team’s second innings in Tests. Here’s what special about this innings.
Sunil Gavaskar has smashed the highest score in the fourth innings in an away-from-home Test. He scored 221 against England in the 1979 Oval Test. Do you know how many batters have scored double centuries in fourth innings of a Test match?
Brian Lara’s 226 against Australia in the 2005 Adelaide Test is the highest score by a batter in a losing cause away from home. The second-highest score in a loss also belongs to Lara. He brought up a 221-run knock versus Sri Lanka, though the hosts beat them by 10 wickets in the 2001 Colombo Test.
In all, Lara scored three double tons in losing causes in away Tests, the most by a batter. The other knock was 202 against South Africa in the 2003 Johannesburg Test.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs and centuries away from home in Tests. He aggregated 8705 runs and 29 hundreds in 176 innings (106 matches).
