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#3 Wasim Akram's highest Test score is more than Sachin, Ponting, and Kallis

Wasim Akram

Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, and Jacques Kallis - three players who have scored most runs in Tests than any other player in the history of the game. Their consistency and longevity are the factors that put them at the top of the greatest batsmen the game has seen.

They are part of an elite group which has succeeded against every opposition in all conditions. All three of them have played many brilliant knocks which guided their team to Test victories. But one thing that these three have failed to achieve is breaching the 300-mark in an innings.

Their highest Test score, Kallis (224), Sachin (248*), and Ponting (257), is lesser than Wasim Akram's highest Test score (257*).

Not only they occupy the top three spots in the all-time run-getters list but also the list of most Tests centuries. Tendulkar scored six double centuries, but none was above 250.

Only two of Kallis' 45 centuries were above 200. Ponting scored six double hundreds with a high score of 257 against India.