Top 10 highest scores by batsmen in Tests

#3 BRIAN LARA (375)

Brian Lara poses with the scoreboard reflecting his record breaking innings

1994 was a watershed year for Mr. Lara, scoring a world record unbeaten 501 for Warwickshire, eclipsing Hanif Mohammad’s tally of 499 set in 1959. However, before that mammoth knock, the 24 year-old Trinidadian broke his compatriot Garry Sobers’ national record, and Len Hutton’s world record.

Sobers himself came to personally congratulate Lara amidst a of hoard of fans who had flooded the field after Lara had eclipsed the former’s 365. For his knock, he faced 538 deliveries, hitting almost a half-century of boundaries.