Test cricket records
Highest score in the 4th inning of the George Hadlee game: How many records have been set in the almost 147-year history of Test cricket? Even today, new records are set and old ones are broken at every competition. But what if we told you that there is such a record of Test, created in 1930? Since then, no one has managed to achieve it, let alone break it. This record was set in the match between the West Indies and England.
The historic Test match was played between England and the West Indies in 1930.
Time of the year 1930. The teams of England and West Indies faced each other in the test match. The English team batted first and posted a huge score of 849 runs in the first innings. Afterwards, when the West Indies team came into the field to chase runs, the entire team could only score 286 runs together. England's second innings begins again and this time the team has 272 runs for nine wickets. The West Indies' fourth innings now begins. West Indies' early wickets fell early but George Hadlee, playing at number three, played an amazing kind of innings.
George Hadley scored 223 runs in the fourth innings of the game.
George Hadley faced 385 balls and scored 223 runs. He hit 28 fours during his innings. The West Indies team scored 408 runs for 5 wickets in this innings. As for the result of the game, it ended in a draw. But this innings from George Headley is a record so far. This is the highest number of runs scored by a batsman in the fourth innings of a Test. To date, no batter has scored more runs than this in the fourth inning.
Nathan Astle almost broke the record but narrowly missed it.
The record wasn't broken, but one batsman definitely came close but narrowly missed it. In the Test match between New Zealand and England in 2002, New Zealander Nathan Astle scored 222 runs in the fourth innings of the match. If he had scored another run he could have equaled that record, but if he had scored two runs it could have been broken. But unfortunately Astle narrowly missed out. No other batsman could even come close. This record from 1930 is now 90 years old, but still unbreakable. It remains to be seen whether any other batsman will dare to break it.
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