Wiaan Mulder Breaks into Top Five for Highest Individual Test Scores

Mulder now has the fifth-highest individual score in Test cricket history with 367*, surpassing Hashim Amla's 311* against England at The Oval in 2012.

Highest Individual Test Scores

Mulder's Achievements

• Highest individual score in an away Test, surpassing Hanif Mohammad's 337 against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1958.
• Second-fastest Test triple hundred in terms of balls taken (297 balls).
• Third batter in Test cricket history to aggregate 100-plus runs in two different sessions in the same innings of a Test.
• Third instance in Test cricket history that a batter scored a triple hundred in the first innings of the game after his side was put into bat.
• Third South Africa batter to register a 350-plus score in first-class cricket.

Boundary Count

• Mulder's boundary count of 53 (49 fours and four sixes) is the second-most in a Test innings ever, after John Edrich's 52 fours and five sixes during his 310* against New Zealand at Headingley in 1965.
• 220 of Mulder's runs came in boundaries – the second most in a Test innings ever – only behind 238 for Edrich in his aforementioned knock.

Highest Boundary Count in a Test Innings

South Africa's Run-Rate

• South Africa's run-rate in their first innings effort of 626/5 declared is the second-best for any 600-plus total in Test cricket history, only behind England's 6.5 (657 in 101 overs) against Pakistan in Rawalpindi in 2022.