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Player Runs Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
GS Sobers 365* West Indies v Pakistan Kingston 26 Feb 1958 Test # 450
RB Simpson 311 Australia v England Manchester 23 Jul 1964 Test # 564
RE Foster 287 England v Australia Sydney 11 Dec 1903 Test # 78
BC Lara 277 West Indies v Australia Sydney 2 Jan 1993 Test # 1208
Zaheer Abbas 274 Pakistan v England Birmingham 3 Jun 1971 Test # 687
RB Kanhai 256 West Indies v India Kolkata 31 Dec 1958 Test # 463
DJ McGlew 255* South Africa v New Zealand Wellington 6 Mar 1953 Test # 368
WR Hammond 251 England v Australia Sydney 14 Dec 1928 Test # 177
SFAF Bacchus 250 West Indies v India Kanpur 2 Feb 1979 Test # 845
SG Barnes 234 Australia v England Sydney 13 Dec 1946 Test # 280
AD Nourse 231 South Africa v Australia Johannesburg 24 Dec 1935 Test # 248
VG Kambli 224 India v England Mumbai 19 Feb 1993 Test # 1214
JA Rudolph 222* South Africa v Bangladesh Chittagong 24 Apr 2003 Test # 1640
RWT Key 221 England v West Indies Lord's 22 Jul 2004 Test # 1707
WJ Edrich 219 England v South Africa Durban 3 Mar 1939 Test # 271
DS Atkinson 219 West Indies v Australia Bridgetown 14 May 1955 Test # 406
E Paynter 216* England v Australia Nottingham 10 Jun 1938 Test # 263
D Lloyd 214* England v India Birmingham 4 Jul 1974 Test # 741
LG Rowe 214 West Indies v New Zealand Kingston 16 Feb 1972 Test # 693
MS Sinclair 214 New Zealand v West Indies Wellington 26 Dec 1999 Test # 1478
HH Gibbs 211* South Africa v New Zealand Christchurch 11 Mar 1999 Test # 1449
Taslim Arif 210* Pakistan v Australia Faisalabad 6 Mar 1980 Test # 878
DM Jones 210 Australia v India Chennai 18 Sep 1986 Test # 1052
Imtiaz Ahmed 209 Pakistan v New Zealand Lahore 26 Oct 1955 Test # 414
SL Campbell 208 West Indies v New Zealand Bridgetown 19 Apr 1996 Test # 1325
MP Donnelly 206 New Zealand v England Lord's 25 Jun 1949 Test # 315
Aamer Sohail 205 Pakistan v England Manchester 2 Jul 1992 Test # 1191
BJ Hodge 203* Australia v South Africa Perth 16 Dec 2005 Test # 1777
DSBP Kuruppu 201* Sri Lanka v New Zealand Colombo (CCC) 16 Apr 1987 Test # 1074
GW Flower 201* Zimbabwe v Pakistan Harare 31 Jan 1995 Test # 1285
JN Gillespie 201* Australia v Bangladesh Chittagong 16 Apr 2006 Test # 1799
SE Gregory 201 Australia v England Sydney 14 Dec 1894 Test # 42
SM Nurse 201 West Indies v Australia Bridgetown 5 May 1965 Test # 589
DN Sardesai 200* India v New Zealand Mumbai (BS) 12 Mar 1965 Test # 582
GC Smith 200 South Africa v Bangladesh East London 18 Oct 2002 Test # 1619

Records include the following recent matches:
England v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), 3rd Test, Feb 3-6, 2012 [Test # 2034]
New Zealand v Zimbabwe at Napier, Only Test, Jan 26-28, 2012 [Test # 2033]
England v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, 2nd Test, Jan 25-28, 2012 [Test # 2032]
Australia v India at Adelaide, 4th Test, Jan 24-28, 2012 [Test # 2031]

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There have been 308 century stands in India in ODIs, the most in a particular country. Australia and England are next, with 281 and 206 century stands respectively. Sharjah has witnessed the most century stands in ODIs among cricket venues (120) followed by Harare (77).

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