Most Runs in Team’s 2nd Innings in Test Cricket

Most Runs in Team’s 2nd Test Innings

Key Insights

Joe Root has scored the most runs in a team’s second Test innings. He is the only batter to aggregate 5000 runs in this phase. Root is also the only one with more than 2500 runs in Test wins.

Over 240 batters have scored more than 1000 runs in their respective teams’ second Test innings.

104.50 Don Bradman’s average in Australia’s second Test innings, the highest by any batter (minimum 1000 runs). He aggregated 2299 runs in 30 innings, including 10 hundreds and eight fifties.

Bradman’s average jumps to 157 if we consider his numbers as a captain. This is the highest average among captains, as he amassed 1413 runs in 15 innings. Explore some insane cricketing stats still ruling by Don Bradman.

Graeme Smith, though, has aggregated the most runs in a team’s second Test innings as a captain. He scored 3434 runs in 84 innings as South Africa’s skipper.

4751 of Alastair Cook’s 4947 runs came while opening, the most by a batter in that position. Cook’s 15 hundreds as an opener are also the most by any batter in a team’s second Test innings. Explore Cook’s overall Test stats and records here.

South Africa’s Bruce Mitchell has the highest average as an opener in a team’s second innings (minimum 1000 runs). He averaged 75.62 while scoring 1210 runs in 22 innings.

Root is the lone batter with more than 2500 runs at home in a team’s second Test innings, while Cook has aggregated 2500-plus away from home. Find out which batter has most career runs at home Test matches here.

Mohammad Hanif (337) and Brendon McCullum (302) are the two triple-centurions in their respective teams’ second Test innings. Among them, Hanif’s 337 is the highest, brought up against the West Indies in the 1958 Barbados Test. Read about it here.