Ashes Most Runs & Ashes Highest Individual Scores

The Ashes series began in the 1882/83 season in Australia. Since then, many legends of the game from Australia as well as England featured in the Ashes and made it the most awaited bilateral Test series.

Over the years, there have been some brilliant batting performances in England vs Australia Test Series. Batsmen like W. G. Grace, Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Allan Border, Sir Alastair Cook and Ricky Ponting have graced the Ashes series.

Here is the list of Top 10 highest run-getters in Ashes series:

Most Runs in Ashes (Overall) :

Sl. No.	Player	Team	Inns	Runs	Ave
1	Sir Donald Bradman	Australia	63	5028	89.78
2	Sir Jack Hobbs	England	71	3636	54.26
3	Allan Border	Australia	73	3222	55.55
4	Steve Waugh	Australia	72	3173	58.75
5	David Gower	England	69	3037	46.01
6	Wally Hammond	England	58	2852	51.85
7	Steve Smith	Australia	48	2800	65.11
8	Herbert Sutcliffe	England	46	2741	66.85
9	Clem Hill	Australia	76	2660	35.46
10	John Edrich	England	57	2644	48.96

The Australian legend, Sir Donald Bradman, who is arguably the world’s best batsman, is the only player to score more than 4,000 runs in Ashes series. He has the distinction of scoring most runs in Ashes with 5028 runs under his belt at an average of 89.79.

The next best is England’s Sir Jack Hobbs who scored 3636 runs at an average of 54.27. Another Australian legend Allan Border is ranked third in the list of batsmen scoring most Ashes runs as he scored 3548 runs at 56.32 runs per innings.

However, the highest individual score belongs to England’s Sir Len Hutton who once scored 364 runs in a whopping 847 balls in the 5th Test of the 1938 series which enabled England to their highest Test total of 903/7 dec.

Here is the list of Highest Individual Scores in Ashes so far :

Ashes Highest Individual Scores :

S. No.	Player	Team	Runs	Balls
1	Sir Leonard Hutton	England	364	847
2	Sir Donald Bradman	Australia	334	448
3	Bob Simpson	Australia	311	740
4	Bob Cowper	Australia	307	589
5	Sir Donald Bradman	Australia	304	473
6	Tip Foster	England	287	-
7	Sir Donald Bradman	Australia	270	375
8	Bill Ponsford	Australia	266	422
9	Ken Barrington	England	256	624
10	Sir Donald Bradman	Australia	254	376

Second in the list of Ashes highest individual scores is once again sir Donald Bradman whose 334 remains the highest Test score by an Australian. Bradman appears four times in the list of Top 10 highest individual scores in Ashes.