Every time a test match is played in international cricket, a number of records (both individual and team) are set and broken. This article discusses a variety of historically significant team records in test match cricket related to runs scored or conceded.
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Highest score in an Inning
Sri Lanka holds the record for the highest test cricket innings score. In their match against India at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the Lankan players reached a staggering score of 952/6. They took 271 overs to attain this team score in the 2nd inning of the game.
Achieving this record happened on August 2, 1997. India batted during the first two days of the game, while Sri Lanka batted for the following three, and the game finished in a draw.
The biggest difference between the totals of the first and second innings
The Pakistan national cricket team, which accomplished this feat in 1958, currently holds this unique record. Pakistan established a record run differential between their first and second innings totals in the game versus the West Indies in Bridgetown, totaling 551 runs.
The team was handed a follow-on after the first inning, which saw them get all out for just 106 runs. The squad came back strongly in the second inning, scoring 657/8. After five days of cricket, the game was drawn since there was no more time.
Teams dismissed twice in a single day of test cricket
In test match cricket, only three teams have ever been knocked out twice in a single day (on a total of four occasions). The Indian cricket team is the first squad to have their name appear on this dismal record. On the third day of the 1952 test match against England at Manchester, they were dismissed twice (at 58 and 82, respectively).
Zimbabwe is the second team to have lost a test match after being eliminated twice in a single day, and that too twice. The first time was in 2005 against New Zealand in Harare (59 and 99), and the second time was in 2012 against New Zealand in Napier (51 and 143).
Afghanistan is the most recent team to set this degrading record. In 2018, at Bangalore, the Indian bowlers bowled out the Afghanistan cricket team twice in one day (109 and 103).
