| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | High Score | Avg | 100s/50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Bradman (AUS) | 19 | 30 | 2674 | 334 | 102.84 | 11/3 |
| Steven Smith (AUS) | 23 | 44 | 2334 | 215 | 54.27 | 8/10 |
| Allan Border (AUS) | 25 | 43 | 2082 | 200* | 65.06 | 5/12 |
| Viv Richards (WI) | 24 | 34 | 2057 | 291 | 64.28 | 5/12 |
| Garry Sobers (WI) | 21 | 37 | 1820 | 174 | 53.52 | 5/9 |
| Steve Waugh (AUS) | 22 | 32 | 1633 | 177* | 74.22 | 7/4 |
| Mark Taylor (AUS) | 18 | 31 | 1584 | 219 | 52.8 | 5/7 |
| Sachin Tendulkar (IND) | 17 | 30 | 1575 | 193 | 54.31 | 4/8 |
| Gordon Greenidge (WI) | 19 | 30 | 1570 | 223 | 56.07 | 6/4 |
| Michael Clarke (AUS) | 22 | 40 | 1435 | 187 | 39.86 | 3/6 |
Key Insights
Don Bradman has scored the most Test runs among visiting batters in England. The former Australian legend aggregated 2674 runs in 30 innings, thereby leading our best 10 overseas Test batters in England.
Bradman’s average of 102.84 is also the highest by an overseas batter on English soil (minimum 500 runs).
Bradman dominates the century chart as well. The right-hand batter smashed 11 Test hundreds in England. No other visiting batter has scored 10 centuries.
Bradman converted three hundreds into double centuries and two into triple centuries, again the most by a visitor in England. Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards, Graeme Smith, Steven Smith, and Zaheer Abbas have scored two double hundreds each.
334 runs scored by Bradman in the first innings of the 1930 Leeds Test are the highest by an overseas batter in England. His other triple hundred also came at Leeds in 1934. It is also the highest individual Test score in that year. Find out the highest individual scores each year in Test cricket here.
Bob Simpson and Hashim Amla are the other triple-centurions in England. Coincidentally, both batters brought up 311-run knocks almost 48 years apart.
Simpson’s score is the highest by an opponent captain in England. The former Australian skipper amassed 311 runs in the first innings of the 1964 Manchester Test.
Allan Border has scored the most runs among visiting captains. He aggregated 1472 runs in 29 innings as Australia’s skipper. South Africa’s Graeme Smith (1355) is the other captain with 1000-plus runs. Did you know Graeme Smith also stands as the global leader of the Test runs chart as a captain?
Bradman and Smith share the top spot for scoring the most Test hundreds among visiting captains in England. Both smashed five tons each.
Sachin Tendulkar’s run tally of 1575 is the highest among Asian batters in English conditions. Rahul Dravid (1376), Sunil Gavaskar (1152), and Virat Kohli (1096) are the other batters with more than 1000 runs.
Dravid’s tally had six hundreds, the most by an Asian batter in England. Tendulkar and Dilip Vengsarkar scored four each.
This makes Sachin and Dravid topping the Indian lists for most runs and centuries in England, respectively.
Dravid’s average of 68.80 is also the highest among Asian batters, with Saleem Malik (66.50) and Sourav Ganguly (65.35) being the others with a 60-plus average (minimum 500 runs).
Meanwhile MS Dhoni tops the chart that includes only visiting wicketkeepers with most runs in Tests played in England.
