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Most fours in an innings
Player	Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
JH Edrich	310*	532	450	52	5	England	v New Zealand	Leeds	8 Jul 1965	Test # 593
V Sehwag	254	328	247	47	1	India	v Pakistan	Lahore	13 Jan 2006	Test # 1781
DG Bradman	334	383	448	46	0	Australia	v England	Leeds	11 Jul 1930	Test # 196
BC Lara	375	766	538	45	0	West Indies	v England	St John's	16 Apr 1994	Test # 1259
VVS Laxman	281	631	452	44	0	India	v Australia	Kolkata	11 Mar 2001	Test # 1535
DG Bradman	304	430	473	43	2	Australia	v England	Leeds	20 Jul 1934	Test # 236
RG Pollock	274	417	401	43	0	South Africa	v Australia	Durban	5 Feb 1970	Test # 671
GA Gooch	333	628	485	43	3	England	v India	Lord's	26 Jul 1990	Test # 1148
BC Lara	400*	778	582	43	4	West Indies	v England	St John's	10 Apr 2004	Test # 1696
DPMD Jayawardene	374	752	572	43	1	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Colombo (SSC)	27 Jul 2006	Test # 1810
RB Kanhai	256	400	-	42	0	West Indies	v India	Kolkata	31 Dec 1958	Test # 463
V Sehwag	319	530	304	42	5	India	v South Africa	Chennai	26 Mar 2008	Test # 1870
DL Amiss	262*	570	563	40	1	England	v West Indies	Kingston	16 Feb 1974	Test # 732
PA de Silva	267	509	380	40	0	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Wellington	31 Jan 1991	Test # 1162
V Sehwag	293	366	254	40	7	India	v Sri Lanka	Mumbai (BS)	2 Dec 2009	Test # 1937
MJ Clarke	230	345	257	40	1	Australia	v South Africa	Adelaide	22 Nov 2012	Test # 2061
V Sehwag	309	531	375	39	6	India	v Pakistan	Multan	28 Mar 2004	Test # 1693
MJ Clarke	329*	609	468	39	1	Australia	v India	Sydney	3 Jan 2012	Test # 2027
GS Sobers	365*	614	-	38	0	West Indies	v Pakistan	Kingston	26 Feb 1958	Test # 450
Zaheer Abbas	274	544	467	38	0	Pakistan	v England	Birmingham	3 Jun 1971	Test # 687
IVA Richards	291	472	386	38	0	West Indies	v England	The Oval	12 Aug 1976	Test # 781
BC Lara	277	474	372	38	0	West Indies	v Australia	Sydney	2 Jan 1993	Test # 1208
N Hussain	207	437	337	38	0	England	v Australia	Birmingham	5 Jun 1997	Test # 1368
Inzamam-ul-Haq	329	579	436	38	9	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	1 May 2002	Test # 1600
ML Hayden	380	622	437	38	11	Australia	v Zimbabwe	Perth	9 Oct 2003	Test # 1661
RE Foster	287	419	-	37	0	England	v Australia	Sydney	11 Dec 1903	Test # 78
BA Young	267*	605	422	37	0	New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Dunedin	7 Mar 1997	Test # 1358
CH Gayle	317	630	483	37	3	West Indies	v South Africa	St John's	29 Apr 2005	Test # 1750
AD Nourse	231	289	-	36	0	South Africa	v Australia	Johannesburg	24 Dec 1935	Test # 248
LG Rowe	302	612	430	36	1	West Indies	v England	Bridgetown	6 Mar 1974	Test # 734
ST Jayasuriya	340	799	578	36	2	Sri Lanka	v India	Colombo (RPS)	2 Aug 1997	Test # 1374
MS Atapattu	249	516	324	36	1	Sri Lanka	v Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	14 May 2004	Test # 1699
KC Sangakkara	270	468	365	36	2	Sri Lanka	v Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	14 May 2004	Test # 1699
L Hutton	364	797	847	35	0	England	v Australia	The Oval	20 Aug 1938	Test # 266
FMM Worrell	261	335	-	35	2	West Indies	v England	Nottingham	20 Jul 1950	Test # 325
FMM Worrell	237	570	-	35	0	West Indies	v India	Kingston	28 Mar 1953	Test # 371
GC Smith	277	541	373	35	0	South Africa	v England	Birmingham	24 Jul 2003	Test # 1651
HH Gibbs	183	324	258	35	1	South Africa	v England	The Oval	4 Sep 2003	Test # 1659
SR Tendulkar	248*	552	379	35	0	India	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	10 Dec 2004	Test # 1725
KC Sangakkara	287	675	457	35	0	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Colombo (SSC)	27 Jul 2006	Test # 1810
HM Amla	311*	790	529	35	0	South Africa	v England	The Oval	19 Jul 2012	Test # 2049

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

England v New Zealand at Lord's, 1st Test, May 16-19, 2013 [Test # 2088]

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, 2nd Test, Apr 25-29, 2013 [Test # 2087]

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Harare, 1st Test, Apr 17-20, 2013 [Test # 2086]

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The record for most centuries in a Test is eight. It has happened twice, most recently in the Galle Test between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in March 2013, when five Sri Lankans and three Bangladeshis scored tons. The only other instance was in Antigua between West Indies and South Africa, 2005.

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