As Brook walked off the field at the Hagley Oval he did so with a career average of 60.05 – fractionally less than Herbert Sutcliffe’s national record of 60.73. Woakes did not last long but ...

Sir Don Bradman’s 99.94 remains clear of the field and the Australian great’s record is unlikely to ever be matched, while Herbert Sutcliffe’s 60.73 is the record for a full England career.

Five other men have played 100 or more consecutive Tests. Herbert Sutcliffe made 176 and 127 in his two innings in the second Ashes Test in 1925, but England still lost the match by 81 runs Getty ...

In doing so he raced to 2,000 Test runs in just 36 innings, the eighth fastest of all-time and second only to Herbert Sutcliffe's record of 33 among Englishmen. The tone shifted during a vital ...

2 - Visiting batters with 80-plus scores in both innings of an MCG Test: Herbert Sutcliffe in 1925 and Jaiswal in 2024. Jaiswal is the seventh batter with two 80-plus scores in a Melbourne Test.

His 18 th double ton also helped him climb to the fourth spot in the list of most double centuries in first-class cricket ...