brian lara scored 401 runs in a test match.
who scored 401 runs in a test match?
brian lara
sangakkara made his test debut against south africa in july 2000. he scored his maiden test century in 2001, against india, and his first double-century during the 2002 asian test championship final against pakistan. sangakkara's highest score in test cricket is 319, which he scored against bangladesh in 2014. during his innings of 287 against south africa in 2006, he and mahela jayawardene set a new world record of 624 runs for the highest partnership for any wicket in test or first-class cricket. in the following year, he scored back-to-back double-centuries against bangladesh, the fifth instance of successive double-centuries in test cricket. he has scored 200 or more runs in a test match on eleven occasions, surpassing brian lara, who has scored 200 or more runs in a test match on nine occasions; only donald bradman (12 double-centuries) has done so more often. he became the ninth batsman and second sri lankan to score centuries against all test-playing nations in december 2007, when he scored 152 against england. he was appointed captain of the sri lanka team in march 2009, following the resignation of mahela jayawardene, and the first of his seven test centuries as captain came against pakistan in july of the same year. sangakkara has the second-highest batting average—69.60 per innings—for a captain who scored a minimum of 1,500 runs.
list of international cricket centuries by kumar sangakkara
he was a batsman who was difficult to dismiss when set, he scored over 140 in five of his seven hundreds. he had a strong record against subcontinental sides, against india he scored 401 runs at 50.13 and made 625 runs at 62.50 against the sri lankans. it was against the sri lankans that he made his highest test score of 186 in wellington. with martin crowe, jones made a partnership of 467 which became a test record as the highest partnership by any side for any wicket. the innings came in a prolific period for jones as he made 122 and an unbeaten 100 in his next two test innings. jones is currently the only new zealand batsmen to have ever scored 3 hundreds in consecutive innings.
andrew jones (new zealand cricketer)