6 batsmen who have scored the most Test runs between dismissals

#3 Garry Sobers – 490 runs

Garry Sobers' 365* remains the highest score by a batsman on his first Test century

365* and 125: February - March 1958

The legendary Sir Garry Sobers announced himself on the international stage by converting his very first century into a mountain of a score. In 28 innings before his career-best score of 365* against Pakistan at Kingston in 1958, his highest score was 80, in just the previous innings. Sobers marched on to script a fascinating knock in an innings win, thus becoming the first man to hit a triple century in the same innings as his maiden hundred – since then, only Karun Nair has repeated the feat – and still holds the record of the highest score following a first Test century.

At Georgetown in the next match, Sobers smacked 125 and followed that up with an unbeaten 109 in a successful run chase of 317, thus missing out on accumulating as many as 599 runs before being sent back, a record which would have stood for the next 58 years. The great Sobers then went on to hit three Test hundreds in his next seven innings, with all three knocks coming in India in late 1958.