Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Joe Root 14,114
- 2 Alastair Cook 12,472
- 3 Steve Smith 10,763
- 4 Kane Williamson 9,515
- 5 Virat Kohli 9,230
Career Leaderboards
Cricket Records
Who has scored the most runs, taken the most wickets and held the best average, by format. Every table is built from the career figures stored on the player profiles on this site, and each entry links straight to the profile behind it.
Averages, strike rates and economy rates carry a qualifying minimum, printed under each table. Without one, a player with two innings would outrank a career of ten thousand runs. Where a figure has not been recorded, the player is left out rather than counted as zero.
What these tables cover
These are not all-time career records. The figures come from Cricsheet ball-by-ball match data, which covers recent decades rather than the full history of the game, so a career played mostly before that coverage begins is counted only in part. Sachin Tendulkar, for example, appears here with the Tests inside that window, not his full 200.
Read the tables as “the leaders among the matches we hold”, not as the record book. Source: Cricsheet, licensed ODC-BY. Last rebuilt: October 15, 2026.
Test Records
Batting
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Brian Lara 400
- 2 Mahela Jayawardene 374
- 3 David Warner 335
- 4 Chris Gayle 333
- 5 Michael Clarke 329
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Brian Lara 67.87
- 2 Kumar Sangakkara 60.64
- 3 Ellyse Perry 60.27
- 4 Steve Smith 56.06
- 5 Kane Williamson 54.06
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Joe Root 41
- 2 Steve Smith 37
- 3 Alastair Cook 33
- 4 Kane Williamson 33
- 5 Virat Kohli 30
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Harry Brook 86.83
- 2 Virender Sehwag 85.06
- 3 Adam Gilchrist 84.24
- 4 Tim Southee 82.69
- 5 Muttiah Muralitharan 77.46
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 James Anderson 682
- 2 Stuart Broad 604
- 3 Ravichandran Ashwin 532
- 4 Mitchell Starc 433
- 5 Dale Steyn 431
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Deepti Sharma 19.50
- 2 Jasprit Bumrah 19.79
- 3 Glenn McGrath 20.61
- 4 Kagiso Rabada 22.04
- 5 Pat Cummins 22.05
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Deepti Sharma 2.38
- 2 Glenn McGrath 2.41
- 3 Ellyse Perry 2.56
- 4 Daniel Vettori 2.57
- 5 Ravindra Jadeja 2.59
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 248
- 2 Jonny Bairstow 243
- 3 Quinton de Kock 222
- 4 Joe Root 216
- 5 Steve Smith 213
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 36
- 2 Litton Das 16
- 3 Rishabh Pant 16
- 4 Mushfiqur Rahim 15
- 5 Jonny Bairstow 14
ODI Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 14,675
- 2 Kumar Sangakkara 11,640
- 3 Rohit Sharma 11,357
- 4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 10,274
- 5 AB de Villiers 9,435
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Rohit Sharma 264
- 2 Martin Guptill 237
- 3 Virender Sehwag 219
- 4 Chris Gayle 215
- 5 Shubman Gill 208
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 58.47
- 2 Mithali Raj 57.82
- 3 Meg Lanning 56.43
- 4 Shubman Gill 55.72
- 5 Ellyse Perry 55.15
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 54
- 2 Rohit Sharma 32
- 3 Hashim Amla 26
- 4 AB de Villiers 25
- 5 Kumar Sangakkara 24
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Shahid Afridi 135.96
- 2 Andre Russell 130.23
- 3 Glenn Maxwell 124.20
- 4 Jos Buttler 115.73
- 5 Hardik Pandya 111.07
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 Lasith Malinga 322
- 2 Shakib Al Hasan 258
- 3 James Anderson 250
- 4 Shahid Afridi 242
- 5 Mitchell Starc 239
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Sophie Ecclestone 19.62
- 2 Glenn McGrath 21.02
- 3 Jhulan Goswami 21.73
- 4 Mitchell Starc 23.69
- 5 Jasprit Bumrah 23.99
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Sophie Ecclestone 3.71
- 2 Jhulan Goswami 3.79
- 3 Glenn McGrath 3.85
- 4 Daniel Vettori 3.98
- 5 Muttiah Muralitharan 4.09
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Kumar Sangakkara 324
- 2 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 308
- 3 Jos Buttler 233
- 4 Mushfiqur Rahim 217
- 5 Brendon McCullum 212
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 118
- 2 Kumar Sangakkara 75
- 3 Mushfiqur Rahim 46
- 4 Jos Buttler 38
- 5 Alyssa Healy 33
T20I Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Shakib Al Hasan 47
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Shakib Al Hasan 46
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 Shakib Al Hasan 2
IPL Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 9,346
- 2 Rohit Sharma 7,331
- 3 Shikhar Dhawan 6,769
- 4 David Warner 6,567
- 5 KL Rahul 5,828
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Chris Gayle 175
- 2 Brendon McCullum 158
- 3 KL Rahul 152
- 4 Quinton de Kock 140
- 5 AB de Villiers 133
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 KL Rahul 45.53
- 2 Devon Conway 43.20
- 3 Virat Kohli 40.46
- 4 Shubman Gill 40.33
- 5 David Warner 40.04
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 9
- 2 Jos Buttler 7
- 3 KL Rahul 6
- 4 Chris Gayle 6
- 5 Shubman Gill 5
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Andre Russell 174.10
- 2 Travis Head 170.05
- 3 Rashid Khan 156.40
- 4 Virender Sehwag 155.44
- 5 Glenn Maxwell 155.12
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 Bhuvneshwar Kumar 226
- 2 Jasprit Bumrah 190
- 3 Ravichandran Ashwin 187
- 4 Ravindra Jadeja 180
- 5 Rashid Khan 179
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Lasith Malinga 19.80
- 2 Chris Woakes 21.93
- 3 Kagiso Rabada 22.30
- 4 Mitchell Starc 23.17
- 5 Andre Russell 23.28
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Anil Kumble 6.58
- 2 Muttiah Muralitharan 6.70
- 3 Daniel Vettori 6.79
- 4 Dale Steyn 6.94
- 5 Lasith Malinga 7.14
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 158
- 2 Virat Kohli 126
- 3 AB de Villiers 120
- 4 Ravindra Jadeja 104
- 5 Rohit Sharma 101
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 47
- 2 Rishabh Pant 24
- 3 Quinton de Kock 17
- 4 Adam Gilchrist 16
- 5 Kumar Sangakkara 9
First-class Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Alastair Cook 5,961
- 2 Marnus Labuschagne 5,281
- 3 Jonny Bairstow 3,879
- 4 Harry Brook 3,546
- 5 Travis Head 3,235
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Devon Conway 327
- 2 Jonny Bairstow 246
- 3 Cheteshwar Pujara 231
- 4 Martin Guptill 227
- 5 Moeen Ali 219
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Kumar Sangakkara 66.36
- 2 Devon Conway 62.19
- 3 Martin Guptill 60.02
- 4 Moeen Ali 55.36
- 5 Cheteshwar Pujara 52.13
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Alastair Cook 17
- 2 Marnus Labuschagne 16
- 3 Cheteshwar Pujara 13
- 4 Kumar Sangakkara 13
- 5 Jonny Bairstow 10
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Glenn Maxwell 81.04
- 2 Jonny Bairstow 72.30
- 3 Stuart Broad 72.27
- 4 Ben Stokes 71.64
- 5 Ross Taylor 69.80
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 James Anderson 187
- 2 Chris Woakes 125
- 3 Stuart Broad 124
- 4 Jofra Archer 116
- 5 Ben Stokes 82
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Tim Southee 18.29
- 2 James Anderson 19.08
- 3 Dale Steyn 19.10
- 4 Jofra Archer 22.82
- 5 Trent Boult 23.06
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 James Anderson 2.45
- 2 Dale Steyn 2.68
- 3 Stuart Broad 2.85
- 4 Tim Southee 2.86
- 5 Ravichandran Ashwin 2.86
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Jonny Bairstow 158
- 2 Alastair Cook 110
- 3 Marnus Labuschagne 64
- 4 Harry Brook 53
- 5 Martin Guptill 48
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Jonny Bairstow 5
List A Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Travis Head 1,413
- 2 Cheteshwar Pujara 1,378
- 3 Kumar Sangakkara 1,312
- 4 Alastair Cook 1,306
- 5 Marnus Labuschagne 895
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Travis Head 230
- 2 Cheteshwar Pujara 174
- 3 Jonny Bairstow 174
- 4 Kumar Sangakkara 166
- 5 Ben Stokes 164
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Cheteshwar Pujara 72.53
- 2 Kumar Sangakkara 62.48
- 3 Travis Head 54.35
- 4 Alastair Cook 52.24
- 5 Glenn Maxwell 44.06
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Cheteshwar Pujara 6
- 2 Kumar Sangakkara 5
- 3 Alastair Cook 4
- 4 Marnus Labuschagne 4
- 5 Travis Head 3
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Glenn Maxwell 116.62
- 2 Travis Head 114.51
- 3 Cheteshwar Pujara 96.91
- 4 Kumar Sangakkara 94.52
- 5 Eoin Morgan 92.87
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 Sophie Ecclestone 25
- 2 Jofra Archer 18
- 3 Moeen Ali 17
- 4 James Anderson 15
- 5 Marnus Labuschagne 13
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Sophie Ecclestone 13.88
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Sophie Ecclestone 2.98
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Marnus Labuschagne 15
- 2 Glenn Maxwell 15
- 3 Jonny Bairstow 15
- 4 Heather Knight 14
- 5 Kumar Sangakkara 12
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Jonny Bairstow 2
Domestic T20 Records
Batting
Most Runs
Among matches in our data
- 1 Babar Azam 10,575
- 2 Beth Mooney 10,386
- 3 Sophie Devine 9,857
- 4 Kieron Pollard 9,106
- 5 Ellyse Perry 8,777
Highest Score
Among matches in our data
- 1 Brendon McCullum 158
- 2 Glenn Maxwell 154
- 3 Chris Gayle 151
- 4 Alyssa Healy 148
- 5 Meg Lanning 135
Best Batting Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Virat Kohli 48.40
- 2 Mohammad Rizwan 42.29
- 3 Beth Mooney 42.05
- 4 Ellyse Perry 41.40
- 5 Babar Azam 41.15
Minimum 20 innings.
Most Centuries
Among matches in our data
- 1 Chris Gayle 12
- 2 Babar Azam 10
- 3 Faf du Plessis 9
- 4 Glenn Maxwell 8
- 5 Sophie Devine 6
Highest Strike Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Andre Russell 165.49
- 2 Suryakumar Yadav 160.53
- 3 Glenn Maxwell 154.23
- 4 Harry Brook 154.04
- 5 Shahid Afridi 153.06
Minimum 20 innings.
Bowling
Most Wickets
Among matches in our data
- 1 Amelia Kerr 374
- 2 Andre Russell 354
- 3 Sophie Ecclestone 353
- 4 Shakib Al Hasan 343
- 5 Rashid Khan 321
Best Bowling Average
Among matches in our data
- 1 Wanindu Hasaranga 16.08
- 2 Sophie Ecclestone 17.50
- 3 Dale Steyn 17.77
- 4 Amelia Kerr 18.07
- 5 Jasprit Bumrah 18.19
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Best Economy Rate
Among matches in our data
- 1 Jhulan Goswami 5.75
- 2 Muttiah Muralitharan 5.95
- 3 Daniel Vettori 6.07
- 4 Amelia Kerr 6.31
- 5 Sophie Ecclestone 6.31
Minimum 20 wickets. Lower is better.
Fielding & Keeping
Most Catches
Among matches in our data
- 1 Kieron Pollard 244
- 2 Quinton de Kock 234
- 3 David Miller 216
- 4 Suzie Bates 209
- 5 Glenn Maxwell 205
Most Stumpings
Among matches in our data
- 1 Alyssa Healy 102
- 2 Beth Mooney 56
- 3 Quinton de Kock 43
- 4 Mushfiqur Rahim 41
- 5 Kumar Sangakkara 39
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these all-time cricket records?
No, and it matters. The tables are built from ball-by-ball match data that covers recent decades rather than the whole history of the game. Read them as the leaders among the matches we hold, not as the record book.
Who has scored the most runs?
Each format has its own most-runs table on this page and the leader is named at the top of it, with a link to the player profile behind the figure. The same is done for wickets, centuries and the other categories.
Why is a famous player missing or lower than expected?
Because only the part of a career that falls inside our match data is counted. A player who played most of their cricket before that coverage begins appears with those matches only, which is why the tables are labelled by scope rather than called all-time.
What is a qualifying minimum?
It is the smallest career sample a player must have before an average or a strike rate counts. Without one, two good innings would outrank ten thousand runs. The minimum used is printed under each table it applies to.
What is a batting average and a strike rate?
A batting average is runs divided by the number of times the batter was out, so not-outs raise it. A strike rate is runs scored per hundred balls faced, which measures speed rather than weight of runs.
Which formats are covered?
Test, ODI and T20 international cricket, plus first-class, List A and domestic Twenty20 including the IPL. Each has its own set of tables, because a batting average means something different in each of them.
How often are the tables rebuilt?
They are recomputed from the stored player statistics on a schedule, and the date of the last rebuild is printed at the top of this page. Nothing is calculated while you are reading it.