 In a Test career spanning 85 matches , he scored 7 @,@ 249 runs and took 83 wickets . Hammond captained England in 20 of those Tests , winning four , losing three , and drawing 13 . His career aggregate of runs was the highest in Test cricket until surpassed by Colin Cowdrey in 1970 ; his total of 22 Test centuries remained an English record until Alastair Cook surpassed it in December 2012 . In 1933 , he set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out , surpassed by Len Hutton in 1938 . In all first @-@ class cricket , he scored 50 @,@ 551 runs and 167 centuries , respectively the seventh and third highest totals by a first @-@ class cricketer as of 2015 . With the ball , he took 732 wickets . 
