<P> Cricket is, by its nature, capable of generating large numbers of records and statistics . This list details the most significant team and individual records in Test cricket . </P> <P> As of August 2018, the most successful team in Test cricket, in terms of both wins and win percentage, is Australia, having won 383 of their 812 Tests (47.16%). Excluding teams who have only played a single Test (the ICC World XI, a rest of world team who played a single Test against Australia in 2005, and recent Test newcomers Ireland and Afghanistan) the least successful team are Bangladesh who have struggled since their introduction to Test cricket in 2000, leading to questioning of their Test status . </P> <P> Australian Donald Bradman, widely considered the greatest batsman of all time, holds several personal and partnership records . He scored the most runs in a series, has the most double centuries and was a part of the record 5th wicket partnership . His most significant record is his batting average of 99.94 . One of cricket's most famous statistics, it stands almost 40 runs higher than any other batsman's average . Don Bradman is the only player in the world to have scored 5000 runs against a single opposition: 5028 runs against England . </P> <P> In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19--90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first - class one . In taking 10--53 in the second innings he became the first bowler to capture all ten wickets in a Test match innings, and his analysis remains the best innings figures . Indian Leg - spinner Anil Kumble is the only other bowler to have taken 10 wickets in an innings, claiming 10--74 against Pakistan in 1999 . West Indies batsman Brian Lara has the highest individual score in Test cricket: he scored 400 not out against England in 2004 to surpass the innings of 380 by Matthew Hayden six months earlier . Lara had held the record before Hayden, with a score of 375 against England 10 years earlier . Pakistan's Misbah - ul - Haq holds the record of the fastest test half century scoring 50 runs from 21 balls . The record for the fastest test century is held by New Zealand's Brendon McCullum who scored 100 runs from 54 balls in his final test match . </P>

Who holds the record of scoring the maximum number of runs in test cricket