International Cricket Records Across Tests, ODIs and T20Is

How to Read These All-Format Lists

The most runs and most wickets tables add a player’s figures from all three formats together. A batter who played a lot of ODIs and T20Is will usually climb above one who mainly played Tests, simply because there were more games. Kohli has 533 matches and 622 innings behind his 28,012 runs. Joe Root (England), second on 22,737, has played 375 matches.

The start date matters a great deal. Sachin Tendulkar (India) appears with 12,859 runs and 34 hundreds, which covers only the part of his career from Dec 2001 on. Players who finished before then do not appear at all. So treat these as records of the ball-by-ball era, not career totals.

Hundreds and fifties count innings reaching 100 and 50. A hundred is not also counted as a fifty, which is why Kohli shows 84 hundreds and 145 fifties as separate figures.

International Cricket Records for Most Runs and Wickets

Kohli’s lead over Root is a big one, and he averages 52.56 across formats. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) is third with 21,401 and the highest average among the top three batters after Kohli, at 49.54. The top ten spans six countries, with Rohit Sharma (India) fourth on 19,860.

The wicket list is led by two England seamers. Anderson’s 950 put him well clear of Stuart Broad (England) on 840. Tim Southee (New Zealand) has 768 and Mitchell Starc (Australia) 763. R Ashwin (India) has 752 wickets and the most five-wicket hauls in the top 20, with 37. Among the leading names, Jasprit Bumrah (India) has the lowest average, 20.75.

Ajaz Patel (New Zealand) returned 10/119 versus India on 3 Dec 2021, taking all ten wickets in an innings, the best figures here.

Sixes, Fours and Player of the Match Awards

Rohit Sharma (India) has hit 639 sixes, far more than Chris Gayle (West Indies) on 457 and Jos Buttler (England) on 409. Short-format hitters fill this list: Glenn Maxwell (Australia) has 290 sixes from only 262 innings. The full table is on the most sixes page.

Fours are a different list. Kohli leads with 2,755, then Root with 2,253 and Sangakkara with 2,205. Batters who spent long hours in Tests rank well here.

No one has more match awards than Kohli’s 69. Rohit Sharma follows on 42 and Sangakkara third with 39. Sikandar Raza (Zimbabwe) is level with Quinton de Kock (South Africa) and TM Dilshan (Sri Lanka) on 32. For the hundreds list in full, open most centuries in international cricket.

Highest Scores and Team Totals

Brian Lara (West Indies) made 400* facing 582 balls versus England in St John’s, 10 Apr 2004, the top individual score in the data. Matthew Hayden (Australia) scored 380 against Zimbabwe six months earlier, and Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) made 374 versus South Africa in Jul 2006. Every score in the top 15 is a Test innings of 300 or more. More are listed on the highest individual scores page.

The biggest team total belongs to England: 823/7 against Pakistan in Multan, 7 Oct 2024. At the opposite extreme, Ivory Coast were dismissed for 7 by Nigeria in Lagos on 24 Nov 2024, the lowest all-out total in the record book. Both extremes are on the team totals page.