Top 6 scores by a batsman while carrying his bat through a Test innings

#4 Bill Brown – 206 vs England (1938)

Bill Brown played alongside the great Don Bradman

Not a lot of people would’ve heard the name of Bill Brown. But he was the opening batsman and captain of the Australian team when Don Bradman was scoring all those runs. Brown played 22 Tests and scored 1592 runs at an average of 46.82. He lost his prime cricketing years to the Second World War. But he was the first batsman who carried his bat through the innings and scored a double century.

In the second Test of the 1938 Ashes, England posted 494 batting first. Bill Brown led Australia’s charge. He made a superb unbeaten 206 as he helped Australia get to 422 in reply to England’s big total. He batted for more than six hours and blunted out the England bowling attack. His performance helped Australia draw the game.

His innings of 206 was also the highest score by a batsman who carried his bat and Brown heled the record for almost 55 years.