Most Test Runs In Career

Sachin Tendulkar is the record holder for the highest number of runs in Test cricket, amassing a remarkable total of 15,921 runs (most test runs in career). This legendary Indian batsman had an illustrious career from 1989 to 2013 and is celebrated as one of the best all-time batsman ever.

Prior to the Indian cricket team’s tour of Sri Lanka in July 2008, Sachin Tendulkar was just 177 runs away from surpassing Brian Lara’s record of 11,953 Test runs. Unfortunately, he struggled throughout all six innings, accumulating only 95 runs in total.

As a result, India lost the series, and his average of 15.83 marked his lowest in a Test series consisting of at least three matches. Following this, Tendulkar was unable to participate in the ODI series against Sri Lanka due to an injury.

However, during the subsequent tour of Australia to India, he made a comeback, regaining both fitness and form. In the first Test, he scored 13 and 49, and in the first innings of the second Test, he achieved 88 runs, thus breaking Brian Lara’s record for the most Test runs. He also reached the milestone of 12,000 runs when he was at 61.

On the day he set this record, he referred to it as the most significant achievement in his 19-year career. He followed this with a fifty in the third Test and a score of 109 in the fourth, contributing to India’s series victory of 2–0 and the reclaiming of the Border–Gavaskar Trophy.

In his last Test innings against the West Indies, Sachin Tendulkar managed to score 74 runs, falling just 79 runs short of reaching the impressive milestone of 16,000 runs in Test cricket. He concluded his Test Career with a remarkable total of 15,921 runs, a feat that remains a WORLD RECORD.

Most Test Runs In Career

Rank	Players	Country	Runs
1	Sachin Tendulkar	India	15,921
2	Joe Root	England	13,543*
3	Ricky Ponting	Australia	13,378
4	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	13,289
5	Rahul Dravid	India	13,288
6	Alastair Cook	England	12,472
7	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	12,400
8	Brian Lara	West Indies	11,953
9	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	11,867
10	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	11,814
11	Allan Border	Australia	11,174
12	Steve Waugh	Australia	10,927
13	Steve Smith	Australia	10,477*
14	Sunil Gavaskar	India	10,122
15	Younis Khan	Pakistan	10,099
16	Hashim Amla	South Africa	9,282
17	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	9,276*
18	Graeme Smith	South Africa	9,265
19	Virat Kohli	India	9,230
20	Graham Gooch	England	8,900
21	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	8,832
22	Inzamam-Ul-Haq	Pakistan	8,830
23	David Warner	Australia	8,786
24	VVS Laxman	India	8,781
25	AB De Villiers	South Africa	8,765
26	Michael Clarke	Australia	8,643
27	Matthew Hayden	Australia	8,625
28	Virender Sehwag	India	8,586
29	Viv Richards	West Indies	8,540
30	Alec Stewart	England	8,463
31	David Gower	England	8,231
32	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	8,214
33	Kevin Pietersen	England	8,181
34	Geoffrey Boycott	England	8,114
35	Gary Sobers	West Indies	8,032
36	Mark Waugh	Australia	8,029
37	Michael Atherton	England	7,728
38	Ian Bell	England	7,727
39	Justin Langer	Australia	7,696
40	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	7,683
41	Colin Cowdrey	England	7,624
42	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies	7,558
43	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	7,530
44	Mark Taylor	Australia	7,525
45	Clive Lloyd	West Indies	7,515
46	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	7,487
47	David Boon	Australia	7,422
48	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	7,289
49	Wally Hammond	England	7,249
50	Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	7,222
51	Chris Gayle	West Indies	7,214
52	Saurav Ganguly	India	7,212
53	Cheteshwar Pujara	India	7,195
54	Stephan Fleming	New Zealand	7,172
55	Azhar Ali	Pakistan	7,142
56	Greg Chappell	Australia	7,110
57	Andrew Strauss	England	7,037
58	Ben Stokes	England	7,032*
59	Don Bradman	Australia	6,996
60	Sanath Jayasuria	Sri Lanka	6,973
61	Len Hutton	England	6,971
62	Dilip Vengsarkar	India	6,868
63	Ken Barrington	England	6,806
64	Graham Thorpe	England	6,744
65	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	6,453
66	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	6,361*
67	Aravinda De Silva	Sri Lanka	6,361
68	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	6,328*
69	Mike Hussey	Australia	6,235
70	Rohan Kanhai	West indies	6,227
71	Mohammad Azharuddin	India	6,215
72	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	6,167
73	Neil Harvey	Australia	6,149
74	Gundappa Viswanath	India	6,080
75	Usman Khawaja	Australia	6,053*
76	Jonny Bairstow	England	6,042*
77	Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies	5,950*
78	Richie Richardson	West Indies	5,949
79	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	5,842
80	Tom Latham	New Zealand	5,834*
81	Marcus Trescothick	England	5,825
82	Denis Compton	England	5,807
83	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	5,768
84	Naseer Hussain	England	5,764
85	Carl Hooper	West Indies	5,762
86	Michael Vaughan	England	5,719
87	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	5,570
88	Mark Boucher	South Africa	5,515
89	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	5,502
90	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	5,492
91	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	5,462
92	Martin Crowe	New Zealand	5,442
93	Jack Hobbs	England	5,410
94	Doug Walters	Australia	5,357
95	Dean Elgar	South Africa	5,347
96	Ian Chappell	Australia	5,345
97	John Wright	New Zealand	5,334
98	Michael Slater	Australia	5,312
99	Kapil Dev	India	5,248
100	Bill Lawry	Australia	5,234