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Every figure below was read off the full scorecard before it was written about, because the source returns 403 to everything that is not a browser and cannot be checked any other way. The scorecard is linked beside each one so you do not have to take this on trust.

This is not a list of records. It is the 98 numbers this blog has been through, which is a smaller and truer claim. Quote a row, link it, correct it if it is wrong.

Verified against the full scorecard. Sorted by the number itself.
No.WhatYear The pieceSource
0 balls faced 2019 The man who faced nothingin a World Cup final he helped decide scorecard
1 over 1963 One over, and the career endsand a Test career ended inside it scorecard
1 not out 2019 One not out, from seventeen ballsfrom seventeen balls, at the other end from Stokes scorecard
1 run 2023 Two hundred and fifty-six, chasing 258New Zealand’s margin at Wellington in 2023, after following on 226 behind; the fourth such win in Test history and the narrowest scorecard
2 runs 2005 Two wickets in an over, two runs at the endthe narrowest margin in Ashes history scorecard
2 of a fifty-run stand 2007 Two of the fiftyoff fourteen balls scorecard
3 runs 1902 Fred Tate’s fourthe margin at Old Trafford in 1902, the Test that ended Fred Tate’s international career after one match scorecard
4 in four balls 2007 Four in four, and it was not an overwatched by 5,220 people scorecard
5 absent hurt 1976 Five absent hurtthe number of Indian batters who did not bat in the second innings at Kingston in 1976, out of eleven scorecard
7 for 25 1993 Seven for oneAmbrose’s innings figures at Perth in 1993; the spell inside them cost one run scorecard
7 no-balls 1995 Seven times on Boxing Daycalled by one umpire and not the other scorecard
8 for 43 1981 Eight for 43, after nought for 72in the second innings, after thirty overs for none in the first scorecard
8 for 84 2001 Handled the ball, then stumpedHarbhajan Singh’s second innings at Chennai in 2001, fifteen for 217 in the match and 32 in the series, the deciding Test won by two wickets scorecard
10 minutes lost over a bat 1979 Four balls with an aluminium batthe card’s note at Perth in 1979: four balls with an aluminium bat, three runs, and ten minutes of persuasion before a wooden one came out scorecard
10 for 74 1999 Ten for 74Kumble at Delhi in 1999, all ten in an innings, the second time in Test history after Laker in 1956 scorecard
10 balls 2009 Ten ballsbefore a Test was abandoned, and they still count scorecard
11 extras 1924 Eleven extras in thirtyin South Africa’s 30 all out at Edgbaston in 1924, more than the top scorer made scorecard
12 for 108, in India’s first Test win 1952 Twelve for 108, and a firstMankad’s match figures at Madras in 1952, the Test in which India won for the first time, twenty-five matches after their debut scorecard
12 for 100 1959 Twelve for 100 at DaccaFazal Mahmood’s match figures at Dacca in 1959, in a Pakistan home Test at a ground that is now Bangladesh’s scorecard
12 lbws in the match, a record 1980 Twelve leg-befores, and a kicked stumpDunedin 1980, the one-wicket Test remembered for the appeal that was turned down and the stumps that were kicked scorecard
13 wickets, and a hundred 1980 A hundred and thirteen wicketsIan Botham at Bombay in 1980, six for 58, seven for 48 and 114, in a Test that took four days scorecard
13 wickets for 196 2001 Thirteen for 196Harbhajan Singh at Eden Gardens in 2001, in the Test India won after following on scorecard
16 for 136, on debut 1988 Sixteen for 136, aged nineteenHirwani at Madras in 1988, the best match figures by a bowler in a first Test, passing Bob Massie’s 16 for 137 by a run scorecard
16 for 220 1998 Sixteen for 220Muralitharan’s match figures at The Oval in 1998, the fifth-best in Test history by the card’s own note, in a Test Sri Lanka won by ten wickets scorecard
17 for three 1998 Fifty-six minutes at Sabina ParkEngland’s entire innings at Sabina Park in 1998, in a Test that counts scorecard
17 needed 1999 Seventeen neededwhen Tendulkar was out for 136 at Chennai in 1999, with four wickets left; India lost by 12 scorecard
18 not out 1974 Top scoreand it was the top score in the innings scorecard
18 wickets for two spinners 1987 Nine eachIqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed at Bangalore in 1987, nine each, in the Test remembered for Gavaskar’s 96 scorecard
19 wickets 1956 The man at the other endin one match, which nobody has matched scorecard
19 off the last over 2016 Nineteen off sixto win a World Cup scorecard
21 behind, and declared 1935 Twenty-one behind, and declaredEngland’s first innings at Bridgetown in 1935, closed at 81 for seven on a rain-ruined pitch to get West Indies in while it was worst scorecard
22 off one ball 1992 The number everybody remembersexcept the real requirement was 21 scorecard
24 to avoid the follow-on 1990 Four sixes, twenty-four neededwhat India needed at Lord’s in 1990 when Kapil Dev hit four sixes in four balls, in a Test England won by 247 scorecard
26 all out 1955 Twenty-sixthe lowest total in Test history scorecard
28 balls, five wickets, one run 1981 Five for one in 28 ballsBotham’s spell at Edgbaston in 1981, the card’s only note on a Test in which no batter reached fifty scorecard
29 singles declined 1982 Cowans’s six for 77by Border and Thomson in the last-wicket stand at Melbourne in 1982, a detail the card itself records scorecard
30 all out 1896 Thirty, in ninety-four ballsSouth Africa at Port Elizabeth in 1896, the lowest Test total until New Zealand’s 26 in 1955 scorecard
35 off one over 2022 Thirty-five off one overBumrah off Broad at Edgbaston in 2022, 29 from the bat and six in extras, the most expensive over in Test history scorecard
36 all out, in 23 overs 1902 Thirty-six, then rainAustralia at Edgbaston in 1902, the same 36 India made at Adelaide in 2020, followed by a draw the weather made scorecard
36 not out 1975 Gavaskar’s 36from 174 balls, in a chase of 335 scorecard
36 off one over 2007 Thirty-six from one over, eighteen at the endand India won by exactly half of it scorecard
36 all out 2020 The innings without a double figureno batsman reached double figures scorecard
42 all out 1974 Nine wickets, not tenand only nine wickets fell scorecard
45 all out 1887 Forty-five, and they wonand England still won the match scorecard
45 runs 1977 Forty-five, twiceAustralia’s margin in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1977, and in the first Test of all on the same ground in 1877 scorecard
47 all out 2011 Twenty-one for ninefrom 21 for nine, at Cape Town in 2011 scorecard
54 for eight 1997 Fifty-four for eight, and then 477Australia at Edgbaston in 1997, in a Test they lost and a series they won scorecard
54 all out 2000 Four innings in a dayWest Indies at Lord’s in 2000, in a Test whose four innings all touched the same Friday scorecard
60 all out 2015 All out before lunchin 18.3 overs scorecard
62 runs, and the Ashes 1971 The Test that nearly stoppedEngland’s margin at Sydney in 1971, in the Test the captain took his side off the field and was told to bring it back or forfeit scorecard
69 balls 2009 Sixty-nine ballsthe last-wicket stand of Anderson and Panesar at Cardiff in 2009, 11.3 overs that kept the Ashes series level at nought all scorecard
74 in his 200th and last Test 2013 Seventy-four, in the two hundredthTendulkar at the Wankhede in 2013, from 118 balls, in a match India won by an innings on the third day scorecard
76 for nine, declared, 124 behind 1937 Seventy-six for nine, declaredEngland’s first innings at Melbourne in 1937, closed by Gubby Allen to get Australia in on a drying pitch; Australia’s reply was 564 scorecard
77 balls for six 2013 Six off seventy-seven ballsStuart Broad at Auckland in 2013, beside Prior’s 110 not out, in the stand that saved a series scorecard
78 for the tenth wicket 2019 Six not out, and eight wicketsPerera and Vishwa Fernando at Durban in 2019, the highest last-wicket stand to win a Test, from 226 for nine scorecard
81 for the ninth wicket 2010 Thirty-one, and five not outLaxman and Ishant Sharma at Mohali in 2010, from 124 for eight, in a Test India won by one wicket scorecard
82 minutes 1999 Twelve in eighty-two minutesCurtly Ambrose’s stay for 12 at Bridgetown in 1999, in the last-but-one wicket stand beside Lara’s 153 scorecard
85 to win 1882 Eighty-five to winEngland’s target at The Oval in 1882, the match that produced the Ashes; they made 77 scorecard
93 all out, chasing 107 2004 Ninety-three, chasing 107Australia at Mumbai in 2004, in a Test that lasted three days and had already been decided as a series scorecard
96 runs in two innings 1946 Forty-two and fifty-fourNew Zealand’s match aggregate at Wellington in 1946, in a Test that was not one at the time scorecard
98 not out, chasing 247 1998 Fraser’s ten, and the glovesAtherton at Trent Bridge in 1998, through the Donald spell the card has no line for; Fraser took ten and the award scorecard
98 at number eleven, on debut 2013 Ninety-eight, at number eleventhe highest score a last man has made in a Test scorecard
111 all out, chasing 117 1994 One hundred and eleven, chasing 117Australia at Sydney in 1994, beaten by five runs in a match in which Warne took twelve scorecard
112 in his only Test 1948 A career average of 112which is the highest career average in the game scorecard
123 out of 184 1999 One hundred and twenty-three of 184Slater’s share of Australia’s second innings at Sydney in 1999, 66.85 per cent, second only to Charles Bannerman in 1877 scorecard
133 handled the ball 1993 Handled the ball, 133the only Test hundred ended by a dismissal the Laws have since removed scorecard
138 on debut 1991 One hundred and thirty-eightin the Test his twin was dropped for scorecard
143 and 134, two days apart 1998 Two nights in SharjahTendulkar at Sharjah in April 1998, against the same Australian attack, one in a defeat that qualified India and one in the final scorecard
149 not out 1981 The captain who was not the captaina fortnight after being sacked as captain scorecard
149 in a World Cup final 2007 A hundred and forty-nine, before the darkthe highest score anybody has made in one scorecard
153 balls to a double hundred 2002 Two hundred in 153 ballsNathan Astle at Christchurch in 2002, the fastest in Test cricket by balls faced when it was made, in a defeat scorecard
165 retired hurt, of 245 1877 One hundred and sixty-five, retired hurtBannerman at Melbourne in 1877: 67.35 per cent of his side’s completed innings in the first Test of all, still the largest share by one batter scorecard
175 not out 1983 The innings nobody filmedand no film of it exists scorecard
176 for four, in 41.3 overs 2000 Finished in the darkEngland’s chase at Karachi in 2000, finished in the dark on the fifth evening, the first Test Pakistan had lost on the ground scorecard
186 needed; 184 made 1993 One run, and a decisionAustralia at Adelaide in 1993, out by one run to a caught-behind decision the card records in five words scorecard
204 for six 1996 Drawn, with the scores levelEngland’s reply to a target of 205 at Bulawayo, with the scores level at the end scorecard
219 in the fourth innings at Durban 1939 Two hundred and nineteen, in the fourth inningsfrom a Test career that had produced almost nothing scorecard
232 for both sides 1960 Seven balls at the Gabbathe first tie in Test cricket, at Brisbane in 1960 scorecard
309 off 375 balls 2004 Three hundred and nine, the day beforethe first Test triple century by an Indian scorecard
334 not out 1998 Three hundred and thirty-four, and no moreand he declared rather than pass Bradman scorecard
342 needed; 344 for one 1984 Declared, and 344 for oneWest Indies at Lord’s in 1984, chasing Gower’s declaration at 5.19 an over on the fifth day scorecard
347 all out, chasing 348 1986 Leg before, scores levelthe second tie in Test history, at Madras in 1986 scorecard
387 chased, for four 2008 Declared, and 387 chasedIndia at Chennai in 2008, set by a declaration at 311 for nine; the card’s coverage headline calls it India’s record home chase scorecard
404 for three, chasing 404 1948 Four hundred and four for threeAustralia at Headingley in 1948, in 345 minutes on the last day, after England’s declaration; the record chase until Port of Spain 1976 scorecard
406 for four, chasing 403 1976 Four hundred and six for fourIndia at Port of Spain in 1976, the record fourth-innings chase when it was made, nine days before Kingston scorecard
425 minutes 1999 Four hundred and twenty-five minutesJustin Langer’s 127 at Hobart in 1999, the player-of-the-match innings beside Gilchrist’s 149 scorecard
438 for nine, with a ball to spare 2006 Four hundred and thirty-eightSouth Africa’s reply to 434 at Johannesburg in 2006, the one-day international the card’s own coverage calls the 438 game scorecard
443 not out 1948 The 443 nobody let him finishnine short of the record, and the other side went home scorecard
445 needed; 220 for three when it stopped 1975 No play on the fifth dayAustralia at Headingley in 1975, in the Test abandoned because the pitch was vandalised on the last night scorecard
551 for six, declared 2006 Declared at 551, and lostEngland’s first innings at Adelaide in 2006, in a Test they lost by six wickets on the fifth evening scorecard
586 and lost 1894 Following on, and winningAustralia’s first innings at Sydney in 1894, the first Test lost by a side that had enforced the follow-on scorecard
729 for six, declared 1930 Declared at 729Australia at Lord’s in 1930, Bradman 254 of them, in a four-day Test; not a record, since England had made 849 at Kingston the winter before scorecard
751 for five, declared 2004 Declared at 751West Indies at Antigua in 2004, closed once Lara had reached 400, in the last Test of a series England had already won scorecard
903 for seven, declared 1938 Declared at 903England at The Oval in 1938, the highest Test total for fifty-nine years, closed by a declaration in a match that had no end date scorecard
952 for six, declared 1997 Declared at 952Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1997, the highest total in Test cricket, closed by a declaration on the last day of a drawn match scorecard
970 minutes 1958 Nine hundred and seventy minutesthe longest innings ever played scorecard
1981 runs 1939 The match with no last dayacross ten days, and it was still a draw scorecard
8259 in the ground 2005 Eight thousand two hundred and fifty-nineon the last day of a Test given full status scorecard

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