List of Pakistan Test cricket records

Pakistan has played 434 Test matches resulting in 139 victories, 133 defeats and 162 draws for an overall winning percentage of 32.02, the fourth-highest winning percentage of Test playing teams. A tie can occur when the scores of both teams are equal at the conclusion of play, provided that the side batting last has completed their innings. Only two matches have ended in a tie in Test cricket history, neither of which involved Pakistan.[9]

Opponent	First Test	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	Drawn	W/L	% Won
Australia	11 October 1956[21]	64	15	31	0	18	0.48	23.43
Bangladesh	29 August 2001[22]	10	9	0	0	1	-	90.00
England	10 June 1954[23]	86	21	26	0	39	0.80	24.41
India	16 October 1952[24]	59	12	9	0	38	1.33	20.33
Ireland	11 May 2018[25]	1	1	0	0	0	-	100.00
New Zealand	13 October 1955[26]	60	25	14	0	32	1.78	41.66
South Africa	19 January 1995[27]	27	5	15	0	7	0.33	18.51
Sri Lanka	5 March 1982[28]	53	19	16	0	18	1.18	35.84
West Indies	17 January 1958[29]	52	20	17	0	15	1.17	38.46
Zimbabwe	1 December 1993[30]	17	10	3	0	4	3.33	58.82
Total		434	139	132	0	162	1.04	32.02
Last updated: 29 January 2021[9][31]

Younis Khan top scored with 313 in Pakistan's first innings total of 765/5d in the first Test against Sri Lanka in 2009,[34] Pakistan's highest innings total in Test cricket.

The highest innings total scored in Test cricket came in the series between Sri Lanka and India in August 1997. Playing in the first Test at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the hosts posted a first innings total of 952/6d. This broke the longstanding record of 903/7d which England set against Australia in the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval. The first Test of the 2008–09 series against Sri Lanka saw Pakistan set their highest innings total of 765/5d, the fifth-highest score in Test cricket.[35]

Rank	Score	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	765–6d	Sri Lanka	National Stadium, Karachi	21 February 2009
2	708	England	Kennington Oval, London	6 August 1987
3	699–5	India	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1 December 1989
4	679–7d			13 January 2006
5	674–6		Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	24 October 1984
Last updated: 30 August 2017[36]

Pakistan's highest fourth innings total is 450 all out in an unsuccessful run chase against Australia at Brisbane in December 2016. Australia had set a target of 490. Pakistan's second highest fourth innings total of 382/3 came against Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2015 which is also their highest successful chase.[37]

Rank	Score	Target	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	382/3	377	Sri Lanka	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele, Sri Lanka	3 July 2015
2	315/9	314	Australia	National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan	28 September 1994
3	302/5	302	Sri Lanka	Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, UAE	16 January 2014
4	277/3	274	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand	26 December 2003
5	262/9	261	Bangladesh	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan, Pakistan	3 September 2003
Last updated: 20 June 2020[38]

The highest innings total scored against Pakistan is by West Indies when they scored 790/3d in the third Test of the Pakistan's tour of West Indies in 1958 at Sabina Park.[35]

Rank	Score	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	790/3d	West Indies	Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica	26 February 1958
2	690	New Zealand	Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, UAE	26 November 2014
3	675/5d	India	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan, Pakistan	28 March 2004
4	659/6d	New Zealand	Hagley Oval, Christchurch, New Zealand	3 January 2021
5	644/7d	Sri Lanka	National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan	21 February 2009
Last updated: 6 January 2021[40]

The lowest innings total scored against Pakistan is 53 in the first test of West Indies tour of Pakistan in 1986[41]

Rank	Score	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	53	West Indies	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, Pakistan	24 October 1986
2	70	New Zealand	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	7 November 1955
3	71	Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka	26 August 1994
4	72	England	Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE	25 January 2012
5	73	New Zealand	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan	1 May 2002
		Sri Lanka	Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka	3 April 2006
Last updated: 3 December 2017[41]

A Test match is won when one side has scored more runs than the total runs scored by the opposing side during their two innings. If both sides have completed both their allocated innings and the side that fielded last has the higher aggregate of runs, it is known as a win by runs. This indicates the number of runs that they had scored more than the opposing side. If one side scores more runs in a single innings than the total runs scored by the other side in both their innings, it is known as a win by innings and runs. If the side batting last wins the match, it is known as a win by wickets, indicating the number of wickets that were still to fall.[42]

In 2002, Inzamam-ul-Haq led Pakistan to victory over New Zealand by an innings and 324 runs, Pakistan's greatest winning margin by an innings.

The fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval saw England win by an innings and 579 runs, the largest victory by an innings in Test cricket history. The fifth-largest victory was Pakistan's win against New Zealand in the first Test of the 2002 tour at the Gaddafi Stadium, where the hosts won by an innings and 324 runs.[43]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	Innings and 324 runs	New Zealand	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1 May 2002
2	Innings and 264 runs	Bangladesh	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	29 August 2001
3	Innings and 188 runs	Australia	National Stadium, Karachi	15 September 1988
4	Innings and 184 runs	Bangladesh	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong	9 December 2011
5	Innings and 178 runs		Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	9 January 2002
Last updated: 30 August 2017[44]

The greatest winning margin by runs in Test cricket was England's victory over Australia by 675 runs in the first Test of the 1928–29 Ashes series. Pakistan's largest victory by runs was recorded in the second Test of the 2018–19 series where they defeated Australia by 373 runs.[45]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	373 runs	Australia	Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi	19 October 2018
2	356 runs			30 October 2014
3	341 runs	India	National Stadium, Karachi	29 January 2006
4	328 runs	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka	6 May 2015
5	301 runs	Sri Lanka	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo	9 August 1994
Last updated: 19 October 2018[44]

Pakistan have won a Test match by a margin of 10 wickets on 13 occasions, rank fourth in the list after Australia (28), West Indies (25) and England (20).[lower-alpha 2][50][51][52]

Rank	Victories	Opposition	Most recent venue	Date
1	4	England	The Oval, London, England	11 August 2016
2	2	West Indies	National Stadium, Karachi	6 December 1997
		Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	16 November 2002
		New Zealand	Seddon Park, Hamilton	7 January 2011
		Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium, Galle	17 June 2015
6	1	India	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	3 January 1983
Last updated: 30 August 2017[44]

Pakistan's narrowest win by runs was against India in the first Test of the 1998–99 series at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Set 271 runs for victory in the final innings, India were bowled all out for 258 to give victory to Pakistan by twelve runs.[53] This was the twelfth-narrowest win in the history of Test cricket.[lower-alpha 3]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	12 runs	India	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	28 January 1999
2	16 runs		M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	13 March 1987
3	22 runs	England	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	12 November 2005
4	24 runs		Kennington Oval, London	12 August 1954
5	29 runs	South Africa	Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban	26 February 1998
Last updated: 30 August 2017[55]

Out of twelve occasions, Pakistan have achieved their narrowest win of one-wicket victory twice. Their first-narrowest win by wickets came in the first Test of the Australia tour of Pakistan in 1994–95. Played at the National Stadium in Karachi, the hosts won the match by a margin of one wicket. Pakistan repeated the feat against Bangladesh at Multan Cricket Stadium in 2003.[56]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	1 wicket	Australia	National Stadium, Karachi	28 September 1994
		Bangladesh	Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan	3 September 2003
3	2 wicket	England	Lord's, London	18 June 1992
4	3 wickets		National Stadium, Karachi	2 March 1984
		Sri Lanka	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	2 January 1992
		Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club, Harare	21 March 1998
		Australia	Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds	21 July 2010
Last updated: 30 August 2017[55]

Lord's in London played host Pakistan's greatest defeat by an innings in Test cricket.[43] The final Test of the 2010 series saw England defeat the tourists by an innings and 225 runs, to win the series 2–0.[57]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	Innings and 225 runs	England	Lord's, London	26 August 2010
2	Innings and 198 runs	Australia	Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah	11 October 2002
3	Innings and 185 runs	New Zealand	Seddon Park, Hamilton	27 March 2001
4	Innings and 176 runs	New Zealand	Hagley Oval, Christchurch	3 January 2021
5	Innings and 174 runs	West Indies	Sabina Park, Kingston	26 February 1958
Last updated: 6 January 2021[58]

The first Test of the 2004–05 series saw Pakistan defeated by Australia by 491 runs, fourth greatest losing margin by runs in Test cricket.[45]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	491 runs	Australia	WACA Ground, Perth	16 December 2004
2	354 runs	England	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	29 July 2010
3	348 runs	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	1 January 1977
4	330 runs	England	Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester	22 July 2016
5	324 runs	South Africa	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	19 January 1995
Last updated: 30 August 2017[58]

Pakistan have lost a Test match by a margin of 10 wickets on nine occasions.[lower-alpha 4]

Rank	Number of Defeats	Opposition	Most Recent Venue	Date
1	3	Australia	The Gabba, Brisbane	5 November 1999
2	2	England	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	10 August 1967
		India	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	15 January 1980
4	1	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	23 April 1993
		South Africa	Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban	26 December 2002
Last updated: 30 August 2017[58]

Test cricket has seen twelve matches been decided by a margin of one wicket, with Pakistan being defeated once of them.[56] This was the final Test of the 1999–2000 series at Antigua Recreation Ground where the West Indies ran down the target of 216 runs in the final innings.[69]

Rank	Margin	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	1 wicket	West Indies	Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's	25 May 2000
2	2 wickets	New Zealand	University Oval, Dunedin	9 February 1985
		West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	22 April 1988
		Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	26 February 2000
5	3 wickets	England	Headingley Cricket Ground, Leeds	26 August 1982
			Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England	5 August 2020
Last updated: 9 August 2020[68]

A run is the basic means of scoring in cricket. A run is scored when the batsman hits the ball with his bat and with his partner runs the length of 22 yards (20 m) of the pitch.[70]

India's Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs in Test cricket with 15,921. Second is Ricky Ponting of Australia with 13,378 ahead of Jacques Kallis from South Africa in third with 13,289. Younis Khan is the only Pakistani batsman who has scored more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket.[71]

Rank	Runs	Player	Matches	Innings	Period
1	10,099	Younis Khan	118	207	2000–2017
2	8,832	Javed Miandad	124	189	1976–1993
3	8,830	Inzamam-ul-Haq	119	198	1992–2007
4	7,530	Mohammad Yousuf	90	156	1998–2010
5	6,384	Azhar Ali	84	158	2010–2021
Last updated: 29 January 2021[72]

Hanif Mohammad set the highest Test score for Pakistan with 337, surpassing Imtiaz Ahmed's 209 scored against New Zealand in October 1955 at Bagh-e-Jinnah. Inzamam-ul-Haq (329), Younis Khan (313) and Azhar Ali (302*) are the only others to sore a triple century for Pakistan.[11]

Rank	Runs	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	337	Hanif Mohammad	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	17 January 1958
2	329	Inzamam-ul-Haq	New Zealand	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1 May 2002
3	313	Younus Khan	Sri Lanka	National Stadium, Karachi	21 February 2009
4	302*	Azhar Ali †	West Indies	Dubai International Stadium, Dubai	14 October 2016
5	280*	Javed Miandad	India	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad	14 January 1983
Last updated: 15 October 2016[103]

A batsman's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been dismissed.[114]

Pakistan's Javed Miandad, finished his Test career with an average of 52.57. The next closest Pakistani to him is Mohammad Yousuf who retired in 2012 with an average of 52.29.[115]

A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century.

Sachin Tendulkar of India has score the most half-centuries in Test cricket with 68. He is followed by the West Indies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul on 66, Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq has 46 fifties to his name.[126]

A century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings.

Tendulkar has also scored the most centuries in Test cricket with 51. South Africa's Jacques Kallis is next on 45 and Ponting with 41 hundreds is in third. Younis Khan is the highest century-maker for Pakistan.[128]

Rank	Centuries	Player	Runs	Period
1	34	Younis Khan	10,099	2000–2017
2	25	Inzamam-ul-Haq	8,829	1992–2007
3	24	Mohammad Yousuf	7,530	1998–2010
4	23	Javed Miandad	8,832	1976–1993
5	17	Azhar Ali	6,384	2010–2021
Last updated: 29 January 2021[129]

A double century is a score of 200 or more runs in a single innings.

Bradman holds the Test record for the most double centuries scored with twelve, one ahead of Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara who finished his career with eleven. In third is Brian Lara of the West Indies with nine. England's Wally Hammond and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka both scored seven, and Miandad and Younis Khan are two of six cricketers who reached the mark on six occasions.[130]

Rank	Double centuries	Player	Runs	Period
1	6	Younis Khan	10,099	2000–2017
		Javed Miandad	8,832	1976–1993
3	4	Zaheer Abbas	5,062	1969–1985
		Mohammad Yousuf	7,530	1998–2010
5	3	Azhar Ali	6,384	2010–2021
Last updated: 29 January 2021[131]

A triple century is a score of 300 or more runs in a single innings.

Virender Sehwag of India Sehwag along with Australia's Don Bradman and West Indians Chris Gayle and Brian Lara holds the equal Test record for the most triple centuries scored with two.[132] 4 Pakistani batsmen have scored a single Test triple century as of January 2020.

Rank	Triple centuries	Player	Runs	Period
1	1	Hanif Mohammad	3,915	1952–1969
		Inzamam-ul-Haq	8,829	1992–2007
		Younis Khan	10,099	2000–2017
		Azhar Ali	6,384	2010–2021
Last updated: 6 January 2021[133]

Mohammad Yousuf scored 665 at the average of 133.00 against the West Indies in 2006–07.[136]

Test cricket is the oldest form of cricket played at international level. The 1930 Ashes series in England saw Bradman set the record for the most runs scored in a single series, falling just 26 short of 1,000 runs. He is followed by Wally Hammond with 905 runs scored in the 1928–29 Ashes series. Mark Taylor with 839 in the 1989 Ashes and Neil Harvey with 834 in 1952–53 South Africa series are third and fourth on the list, respectively. Pakistani cricketer Mudassar Nazar is seventeenth in the list with 761.[137]

A duck refers to a batsman dismissed without scoring a run.[138] West Indian Courtney Walsh has the most ducks to his name with 43. Pakistan's Danish Kaneria has scored the ninth-highest number of ducks in Test cricket along with Indian cricketer Ishant Sharma with 25.[139]

Wasim Akram has taken the most Test wickets (414) for Pakistan.

A bowler takes the wicket of a batsman when the form of dismissal is bowled, caught, leg before wicket, stumped or hit wicket. If the batsman is dismissed by run out, obstructing the field, handling the ball, hitting the ball twice or timed out the bowler does not receive credit.

Shane Warne held the record for the most Test wickets with 708 until December 2007 when Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan passed Warne's milestone.[141] Muralitharan, who continued to play until 2010, finished with 800 wickets to his name. India's Anil Kumble is third on the list taking 610 wickets and Glenn McGrath of Australia with 563 holds the record for most wickets by a fast bowler in Test cricket. Wasim Akram is the highest wicket taker for Pakistan with 414.[142][143]

Bowling figures refers to the number of the wickets a bowler has taken and the number of runs conceded.[162]

There has been two occasions in Test cricket where a bowler has taken all ten wickets in a single innings – Jim Laker of England took 10/53 against Australia in 1956 and India's Anil Kumble in 1999 returned figures of 10/74 against Pakistan. Abdul Qadir is one of 15 bowlers who has taken nine wickets in a Test match innings.[163]

Rank	Figures	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	9/56	Abdul Qadir	England	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	25 November 1987
2	9/86	Sarfraz Nawaz	Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne	10 March 1979
3	8/41	Yasir Shah	New Zealand	Dubai International Stadium, Dubai	27 November 2018
4	8/58	Imran Khan	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	22 March 1982
5	8/60		India	National Stadium, Karachi	23 December 1982
Last updated: 27 November 2018[164]

Imran Khan has the best bowling figures in a match (14/119) and best bowling average in career for Pakistan.

A bowler's bowling figures in a match is sum of the wickets taken and the runs conceded in two innings.

No bowler in the history of Test cricket has taken all 20 wickets in a match. The closest to do so was English spin bowler Jim Laker. During the fourth Test of the 1956 Ashes series, Laker took 9/37 in the first innings and 10/53 in the second to finish with match figures of 19/90. Imran Khan's figures of 14/119, taken in finaal match of the 1981–82 Test series against Sri Lanka, is the sixteenth-best in Test cricket history.[165]

Rank	Figures	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	14/119	Imran Khan	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	22 March 1982
2	14/184	Yasir Shah	New Zealand	Dubai Cricket Stadium, Dubai	24 November 2018
3	13/101	Abdul Qadir	England	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	25 November 1987
4	13/114	Fazal Mahmood		National Stadium, Karachi	11 October 1956
5	13/135	Waqar Younis	Zimbabwe		1 December 1993
Last updated: 29 December 2018[166]

A bowler's bowling average is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of wickets they have taken.

Nineteenth century English medium pacer George Lohmann holds the record for the best career average in Test cricket with 10.75. J. J. Ferris, one of fourteen cricketers to play Test cricket for more than one team,[177] is second behind Lohmann with an overall career average of 12.70 runs per wicket. Imran Khan's bowling average of 22.81 is the best figures for Pakistan.[178]

Rank	Average	Player	Wickets	Runs	Balls	Period
1	22.80	Mohammad Abbas	84	1,916	4,738	2017–2021
2	22.81	Imran Khan	362	8,258	19,458	1971–1992
3	23.03	Shabbir Ahmed	51	1,175	2,576	2003–2005
4	23.56	Waqar Younis	373	8,788	16,224	1989–2003
5	23.62	Wasim Akram	414	9,779	22,627	1985–2002
Qualification: 2,000 balls. Last updated: 6 January 2021[18]

A bowler's economy rate is the total number of runs they have conceded divided by the number of overs they have bowled.[138]

English bowler William Attewell, who played 10 matches for England between 1884 and 1892, holds the Test record for the best career economy rate with 1.31.[179] Pervez Sajjad, with a rate of 2.04 runs per over conceded over his 19-match Test career, is the best for Pakistan.[180]

Waqar Younis holds the Pakistani record for the best Test career strike rate, with figures of 43.4.

A bowler's strike rate is the total number of balls they have bowled divided by the number of wickets they have taken.[138]

English George Lohmann has best Test career strike rate with 34.1; Waqar Younis of Pakistan with an overall career strike rate of 43.4 balls per wicket, is eighth in the list.[181]

A five-wicket haul refers to a bowler taking five wickets in a single innings.[183]

Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the most number five-wicket hauls in Test cricket with 67 throughout his career. former Pakistani captain Wasim Akram is tenth on the list and leading the equivalent list for Pakistan.[184]

Rank	Five-wicket hauls	Player	Wickets	Period
1	25	Wasim Akram	414	1985–2002
2	23	Imran Khan	362	1971–1992
3	22	Waqar Younis	373	1989–2003
4	16	Yasir Shah	234	2014–2021
5	15	Abdul Qadir	236	1977–1990
		Danish Kaneria	261	2000–2010
Last updated: 30 December 2020[185]

A ten-wicket haul refers to a bowler taking ten or more wickets in a match over two innings.

Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka has taken the most ten-wicket hauls in Test cricket with 22. Imran Khan, jointly tenth with Derek Underwood of England, leads the equivalent list for Pakistan with 6 ten-wicket hauls.[186]

The worst figures in a single innings in Test cricket came in the third Test between the West Indies at home to Pakistan in 1958. Pakistan's Khan Mohammad returned figures of 0/259 from his 54 overs in the second innings of the match.[188][189]

Rank	Figures	Player	Overs	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	0/259 ♠	Khan Mohammad	54	West Indies	Sabina Park, Jamaica	26 February 1958
2	0/183	Danish Kaneria	47	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1 March 2009
3	0/156	Iqbal Qasim	56	Australia	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	6 March 1980
4	0/153	Mushtaq Ahmed	46	Australia	Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar	15 October 1998
5	0/148	Fazal Mahmood	47	England	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	1 July 1954
Last updated: 5 September 2017[190]

The worst figures in a match in Test cricket were taken by South Africa's Imran Tahir in the 2006 Boxing Day Test match against Australia. He returned figures of 0/180 from his 23 overs in the first innings and 0/80 off 14 in the third innings for a total 0/260 from 37 overs.[191] He claimed the record in his final over when two runs came from it—enough for him to pass the previous record of 0/259, set 48 years prior by Pakistan's Khan Mohammad.[192][193][194]

Rank	Figures	Player	Overs	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	0/259	Khan Mohammad	54	West Indies	Sabina Park, Jamaica	26 February 1958
2	0/183	Danish Kaneria	47	Sri Lanka	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	1 March 2009
3	0/164	Sohail Khan	27		National Stadium, Karachi	21 February 2009
4	0/160	Aaqib Javed	47	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	10 February 1989
5	0/156	Iqbal Qasim	56	Australia	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	6 March 1980
Last updated: 5 September 2017[195]

South Africa's seventh Test tour of England in 1913–14 saw the record set for the most wickets taken by a bowler in a Test series. English paceman Sydney Barnes played in four of the five matches and achieved a total of 49 wickets to his name. Jim Laker sits second on the list with 46 wickets taken during the 1956 Ashes series. Pakistan's Imran Khan is seventh with his 40 wickets taken against India during the 1982–83 tour.[196]

Rank	Wickets	Player	Matches	Series
1	40	Imran Khan	6	Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1982–83
2	30	Abdul Qadir	3	English cricket team in Pakistan in 1987–88
3	29	Waqar Younis	3	New Zealand cricket team in Pakistan in 1990–91
	29	Yasir Shah	3	New Zealand cricket team in UAE in 2018–19
5	27	Waqar Younis	3	Zimbabwean cricket team in Pakistan in 1993–94
Last updated: 29 December 2018[197]

In cricket, a hat-trick occurs when a bowler takes three wickets with consecutive deliveries. The deliveries may be interrupted by an over bowled by another bowler from the other end of the pitch or the other team's innings, but must be three consecutive deliveries by the individual bowler in the same match. Only wickets attributed to the bowler count towards a hat-trick; run outs do not count. In Test cricket history there have been just 44 hat-tricks, the first achieved by Fred Spofforth for Australia against England in 1879. In 1912, Australian Jimmy Matthews achieved the feat twice in one game against South Africa. The only other players to achieve two hat-tricks are Australia's Hugh Trumble, against England in 1902 and 1904, Pakistan's Wasim Akram, in separate games against Sri Lanka in 1999, and England's Stuart Broad.

No.	Bowler	Against	Inn.	Test	Dismissals	Venue	Date	Ref.
1	Wasim Akram	Sri Lanka	1	3/4	Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) Niroshan Bandaratilleke (b) Pramodya Wickramasinghe (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	6 March 1999	[198]
2			2	4/4	Avishka Gunawardene (c Shahid Afridi) Chaminda Vaas (b) Mahela Jayawardene (c Wajahatullah Wasti)	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	14 March 1999	[199]
3	Abdul Razzaq		1	2/3	Romesh Kaluwitharana (c Moin Khan) Rangana Herath (lbw) Ravi Pushpakumara (lbw)	Galle International Stadium, Galle	21 June 2000	[200]
4	Mohammad Sami		1	3/3	Charitha Buddhika (lbw) Nuwan Zoysa (lbw) Muttiah Muralitharan (b)	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	8 March 2002	[201]
5	Naseem Shah	Bangladesh	2	2/2	Nazmul Hossain Shanto (lbw) Taijul Islam (lbw) Mahmudullah Riyad (c Haris Sohail)	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	9 February 2020	[202]

The wicket-keeper is a specialist fielder who stands behind the stumps being guarded by the batsman on strike and is the only member of the fielding side permitted to wear gloves and external leg guards.[203]

A wicket-keeper can be credited with the dismissal of batsman in two ways, caught or stumped. A fair catch is a taken when the ball is caught fully within the field of play without it bouncing when the ball has touched the striker's bat or glove holding the bat,[204] while a stumping occurs when the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket while the batsman out of his ground and not attempting a run.[205]

Pakistan's Wasim Bari is eleventh in taking most dismissals in Test cricket as a designated wicket-keeper with 228.[20]

Rank	Dismissals	Player	Matches	Period
1	228	Wasim Bari	81	1967–1984
2	206	Kamran Akmal	53	2002–2010
3	147	Moin Khan	69	1990–2004
4	130	Rashid Latif	37	1992–2003
5	121	Sarfraz Ahmed	38	2010–2019
Last updated: 6 September 2017[206]

Bari leads in the list of most catches taken as a designated wicket-keeper in Test cricket for Pakistan, with 201.[207]

Rank	Dismissals	Player	Matches	Period
1	201	Wasim Bari	81	1967–1984
2	184	Kamran Akmal	53	2002–2010
3	127	Moin Khan	69	1990–2004
4	119	Rashid Latif	37	1992–2003
5	103	Sarfraz Ahmed	38	2010–2019
Last updated: 6 September 2017[206]

Bert Oldfield, Australia's fifth-most capped wicket-keeper, holds the record for most stumpings in Test cricket with 52. He is followed by England's Godfrey Evans with 46 to his name. Indian glovemen Syed Kirmani and MS Dhoni are both equal third on 38 and Bari is eighth in the list with 27.[208]

Rank	Stumpings	Player	Matches	Period
1	27	Wasim Bari	81	1967–1984
2	22	Kamran Akmal	53	2002–2010
3	20	Moin Khan	69	1990–2004
5	18	Sarfraz Ahmed	38	2010–2019
5	16	Imtiaz Ahmed	38	1952–1962
Last updated: 6 September 2017[209]

Four wicket-keepers have taken seven wickets in a single innings in a Test match—Wasim Bari of Pakistan in 1979, Englishman Bob Taylor in 1980, New Zealand's Ian Smith in 1991 and most recently West Indian gloveman Ridley Jacobs against Australia in 2000.[210]

The feat of taking 6 wickets in an innings has been achieved by 22 wicket-keepers on 30 occasions including two Pakistanis.[211]

Rank	Dismissals	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	7	Wasim Bari	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland	23 February 1979
2	6	Rashid Latif	Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo	14 March 1998
		Adnan Akmal	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	15 January 2011
Last updated: 6 September 2017[212]

Three wicket-keepers have made 11 dismissals in a Test match, Englishman Jack Russell in 1995, South African AB de Villiers in 2013 and most recently India's Rishabh Pant against Australia in 2018.[213]

The feat of making 10 dismissals in a match has been achieved by 4 wicket-keepers on 4 occasions with Sarfaraz Ahmed being the only Pakistani wicket-keeper.[214]

Rank	Dismissals	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	10	Sarfaraz Ahmed	South Africa	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa	11 January 2019
2	9	Rashid Latif	New Zealand	Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand	10 February 1994
		Kamran Akmal	West Indies	Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica	3 June 2005
4	8	Wasim Bari	England	Headingley, Leeds, England	8 July 1971
		Rashid Latif	Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia	30 November 1995
		Kamran Akmal	Sri Lanka	Galle International Stadium, Galle, Sri Lanka	4 July 2009
			England	The Oval, London, England	18 August 2010
		Adnan Akmal	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand	15 January 2011
Last updated: 23 August 2020[215]

Brad Haddin holds the Test cricket record for the most dismissals taken by a wicket-keeper in a series. He took 29 catches during the 2013 Ashes series which broke the previous record held by fellow Australian Rod Marsh where he took 28 catches in the 1982–83 Ashes series.[216] Rashid Latif has the most dismissals for Pakistan in a Test series.[217]

Caught is one of the ten methods a batsman can be dismissed in cricket. A fair catch is defined as a fielder catches the ball, from a legal delivery, fully within the field of play without it bouncing when the ball has touched the striker's bat or glove holding the bat.[204] The majority of catches are caught in the slips, located behind the batsman, next to the wicket-keeper, on the off side of the field. Most slip fielders are top order batsmen.[218]

India's Rahul Dravid holds the record for the most catches in Test cricket by a non-wicket-keeper with 210, followed by Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka on 205 and South African Jacques Kallis with 200. Younis Khan is the highest-ranked Pakistani and twelfth overall, securing 139 catches in his Test career.[219]

The 1920–21 Ashes series, in which Australia whitewashed England 5–0 for the first time, saw the record set for the most catches taken by non-wicket-keeper in a Test series. Australian all-rounder Jack Gregory took 15 catches in the series as well as 23 wickets.[221] Greg Chappell, a fellow Australian all-rounder, is second behind Gregory with 14 catches taken during the 1974–75 Ashes series. Three players have taken 13 catches in a series on five occasions with both Bob Simpson and Brian Lara having done so twice and Rahul Dravid once. Younis Khan has taken 10 catches, the most by a Pakistani.[222]

A total of 71 players have achieved the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in their Test career.[224]

India's Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most Test matches played with 200 with former captains in Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh being joint second with each having represented Australia on 168 occasions. Javed Miandad played for Pakistan in 124 matches.[226]

Former English captain Alastair Cook holds the record for the most consecutive Test matches played with 159. He broke Allan Border's long standing record of 153 matches in June 2018.[228] Asad Shafiq, the Pakistan batsmen has played in 72 consecutive Test matches.[229]

Graeme Smith, who led the South African cricket team from 2003 to 2014, holds the record for the most matches played as captain in Test cricket with 109. Allan Border, the man who skippered Australia from 1984 to 1994 is second with 93 matches. New Zealand's captain from 1997 to 2006, Stephen Fleming, is third on the list with 80 and in fourth on 77 is Australia's Ricky Ponting who led the side for six years from 2004 to 2010. Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq is ninth in the list along with Sri Lankan Arjuna Ranatunga.[230]

The youngest player to play in a Test match is claimed to be Hasan Raza at the age of 14 years and 227 days. Making his debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe on 24 October 1996, there is some doubt as to the validity of Raza's age at the time. The second- and third-youngest players are also from Pakistan—Mushtaq Mohammad and Aaqib Javedwith at 15 years and 124 days and 16 years and 189 days, respectively.[232]

Rank	Age	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	14 years and 227 days ♠	Hasan Raza	Zimbabwe	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	24 October 1996
2	15 years and 124 days	Mushtaq Mohammad	West Indies	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	16 March 1959
3	16 years and 189 days	Aaqib Javed	New Zealand	Basin Reserve, Wellington	10 February 1989
4	16 years and 221 days	Aftab Baloch		Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	8 November 1969
5	16 years and 248 days	Nasim-ul-Ghani	West Indies	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados	17 January 1958
Last updated: 15 October 2017[233][234]

At 49 years and 119 days, James Southerton of England, playing in the very first Test match in March 1877, is the oldest player to make his debut in Test cricket. Second on the list is Miran Bakhsh of Pakistan who at 47 years and 284 days made his debut against India in 1955. Australia's Don Blackie is the third-oldest player to make his debut, breaking into the side during the second Test of the 1928–29 Ashes series at the age of 46 years and 253 days.[235]

Rank	Age	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	47 years and 284 days	Miran Bakhsh	India	Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore	29 January 1955
2	34 years and 308 days	Zulfiqar Babar	South Africa	Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi	14 October 2013
3	34 years and 177 days	Aslam Khokhar	England	Trent Bridge, Nottingham	1 July 1954
4	34 years and 111 days	Nauman Ali	South Africa	National Stadium, Karachi	26 January 2021
5	33 years and 13 days	Bilal Asif	Australia	Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai	7 October 2018
Last updated: 28 January 2021[235][236]

England all-rounder Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest player to appear in a Test match. Playing in the fourth Test against the West Indies in 1930 at Sabina Park, in Kingston, Jamaica, he was aged 52 years and 165 days on the final day's play. The oldest Pakistani Test player is Miran Bakhsh who was aged 47 years and 298 days when he represented Pakistan for the final time in the 1955 tour of India at the Peshawar Club Ground.[237]

Rank	Age	Player	Opposition	Venue	Date
1	47 years and 298 days	Miran Bakhsh	India	Peshawar Club Ground, Peshawar	12 February 1955
2	44 years and 104 days	Amir Elahi		Eden Gardens, Kolkata	12 December 1952
3	42 years and 347 days	Misbah-ul-Haq	West Indies	Windsor Park, Roseau	10 May 2017
4	39 years and 162 days	Younis Khan
5	39 years and 135 days	Younis Ahmed	India	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	4 March 1987
Last updated: 28 January 2021[237][238]

A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored before each wicket falls. The first wicket partnership is between the opening batsman and continues until the first wicket falls. The second wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the number three batsman. This partnership continues until the second wicket falls. The third wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the new batsman. This continues down to tenth wicket partnership. When the eleventh wicket has fallen, there is no more batsman left so the innings is closed.

Wicket	Runs	First batsman	Second batsman	Opposition	Venue	Date
1st wicket	298	Aamer Sohail	Ijaz Ahmed	West Indies	National Stadium, Karachi	6 December 1997
2nd wicket	291	Zaheer Abbas	Mushtaq Mohammad	England	Edgbaston, Birmingham	3 June 1971
3rd wicket	451	Mudassar Nazar	Javed Miandad	India	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, Sindh	14 January 1983
4th wicket	350	Mushtaq Mohammad	Asif Iqbal	New Zealand	Carisbrook, Dunedin	7 February 1973
5th wicket	281	Javed Miandad			Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore	9 October 1976
6th wicket	269	Mohammad Yousuf	Kamran Akmal	England		29 November 2005
7th wicket	308	Waqar Hasan	Imtiaz Ahmed	New Zealand		26 October 1955
8th wicket	313	Wasim Akram	Saqlain Mushtaq	Zimbabwe	Sheikhupura Stadium, Sheikhupura	17 October 1996
9th wicket	190	Asif Iqbal	Intikhab Alam	England	Kenington Oval, London	24 August 1967
10th wicket	151	Azhar Mahmood	Mushtaq Ahmed	South Africa	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi	6 October 1997
Last updated: 15 October 2017[239]

The highest Test partnership by runs for any wicket is held by the Sri Lankan pairing of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene who put together a third wicket partnership of 624 runs during the first Test against South Africa in July 2006. This broke the record of 576 runs set by their compatriots Sanath Jayasuriya and Roshan Mahanama against India in 1997. New Zealand's Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe hold the third-highest Test partnership with 467 made in 1991 against Sri Lanka. Equal fourth on the list is Mudassar Nazar and Javed Miandad of Pakistan who together scored 451 against Pakistan in 1983 and the Australian pairing of Bill Ponsford and Don Bradman putting on the same score against England in the 1934 Ashes series.[240]

Wicket	Runs	First batsman	Second batsman	Opposition	Venue	Date
3rd wicket	451	Mudassar Nazar	Javed Miandad	India	Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, Sindh	14 January 1983
	397	Qasim Umar		Sri Lanka	Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad	16 October 1985
	363	Younis Khan	Mohammad Yousuf	England	Headingley Stadium, Leeds	4 August 2006
	352*	Ijaz Ahmed	Inzamam-ul-Haq		Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka	12 March 1999
4th wicket	350	Mushtaq Mohammad	Asif Iqbal	New Zealand	Carisbrook, Dunedin	7 February 1973
Last updated: 16 October 2017[241]