5 biggest victory margins by runs in Tests

#2 Australia beat England by 562 runs at The Oval (1934)

This remains one of England’s most humiliating defeats in the Ashes and remains the heaviest defeat suffered by the team in its history, in terms of runs. In the deciding 5th Test of the 1934 Ashes, Australia batted first and made a mammoth 701. Bill Ponsford made 266 and Sir Donald Bradman made 244.

In response, England could only make 321 but Australia did not enforce the follow-on and instead batted on to make 327. England were set to score 708 to win but instead of actually knuckling down and trying to draw the game, they collapsed in a heap to be all out for 145 in the 64th over. Leg-spin star Clarie Grimmett picked up 5 wickets.