Highest Scores in 4th Innings of Match George Hadlee : How many records have been made in the nearly 147 year history of Test cricket. Even now, whenever there is a competition, new records are made and old ones are broken. But what if we tell you that there is such a record of Test, which was made in the year 1930. Since then, no one has been able to match it, let alone break it. This record was made in the match played between West Indies and England.
The historic test match was played between England and West Indies in 1930.
Time of year 1930. The teams of England and West Indies were face to face for the test match. Batting first, the England team scored a huge score of 849 runs in the first innings. After this, when the West Indies team came into the field to chase runs, the entire team together could score only 286 runs. England’s second innings starts again and this time the team is declared at 272 runs for nine wickets. Now the fourth innings of West Indies begins. West Indies’ early wickets fell early, but George Hadlee, who came to play at number three, played an amazing type of innings.
George Hadley scored 223 runs in the fourth innings of the match.
George Hadley faced 385 balls and scored 223 runs. During his innings he hit 28 fours. West Indies team scored 408 runs for 5 wickets in this innings. As far as the result of the match is concerned, it ended in a draw. But this innings of George Headley is a record so far. This is the highest number of runs scored by a batsman in the fourth innings of a Test. Till date no batsman has been able to score more runs than this in the fourth innings.
Nathan Astle came close to breaking the record, but narrowly missed.
The record has not been broken, but one batsman definitely came close to it, but narrowly missed it. In the test match played between New Zealand and England in 2002, New Zealand’s Nathan Astle scored 222 runs in the fourth innings of the match. If he had scored one more run, he could have equaled this record, but if he had scored two runs, it could have been broken. But unfortunately Astle just missed it. No other batsman has been able to come even close to this. This record of the year 1930 is now 90 years old, but remains unbreakable, it remains to be seen whether any other batsman will come and dare to break it.