Highest fourth-innings scores — Test cricket
GA Headley is the first listed entry with 223 runs in Redball’s recorded data for Test · International. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Runs | Opposition | Date | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GA Headley | 223 | England | 1930-04-03 | Scorecard → |
| NJ Astle | 222 | England | 2002-03-13 | Scorecard → |
| SM Gavaskar | 221 | England | 1979-09-01 | Scorecard → |
| WJ Edrich | 219 | South Africa | 1939-03-03 | Scorecard → |
| CG Greenidge | 214* | England | 1984-07-02 | Scorecard → |
| KR Mayers | 210* | Bangladesh | 2021-02-03 | Scorecard → |
| JP Greaves | 202* | New Zealand | 2025-12-02 | Scorecard → |
| Babar Azam | 196 | Australia | 2022-03-12 | Scorecard → |
| KC Sangakkara | 192 | Australia | 2007-11-16 | Scorecard → |
| SJ McCabe | 189* | South Africa | 1935-12-24 | Scorecard → |
Ordered by runs; equal scores use match date and innings identifier for stable ordering. An asterisk means not out. Domestic first-class records exclude Tests. Entries tied at the tenth-row cutoff may not all be shown.
Recorded match dates: 1877-03-15 to 2026-09-09. Date spans do not imply complete coverage. Career aggregates may cover a different set of matches.
Displayed source rows last updated: unavailable. Figures retrieved: 2026-10-02. This is not a live score feed.
Source: Redball’s recorded statistics. Methodology, definitions and coverage.
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