Losing Top-scorers in a Test Match

Two or More Top Scores of a Test Match Made for a Side Losing by 100 Runs or More

Test	Venue	Date	Winner	Margin	Top scorers for losers	Top scorer for winners
Eng v Aus	Leeds	1909	Aus	126 runs	J Sharp 61, JT Tyldesley 55	SE Gregory 46
Aus v Eng	Sydney	1924/25	Aus	193 runs	FE Woolley 123, JB Hobbs 115, H Sutcliffe 115	HL Collins 114
Eng v SA	Birmingham	1960	Eng	100 runs	RA McLean 68, JHB Waite 58	R Subba Row 56
Ind v Aus	Madras	1964/65	Aus	139 runs	Pataudi 128*, Hanumant Singh 94	RB Simpson 77
Ind v Eng	Bangalore	1976/77	Ind	140 runs	DL Amiss 82, APE Knott 81*	GR Viswanath 79*
Ind v Eng	Bombay	1981/82	Ind	138 runs	G Boycott 60, CJ Tavare 56	SM Gavaskar 55
SA v Ind	Cape Town	1996/97	SA	282 runs	SR Tendulkar 169, M Azharuddin 115	BM McMillan 103*, G Kirsten 103
Eng v Aus	Nottingham	1997	Aus	264 runs	AJ Stewart 87, GP Thorpe 82*	MA Taylor 76
Eng v Pak	Manchester	2001	Pak	108 runs	GP Thorpe 138, MO Vaughan 120, ME Trescothick 117	Inzamam-ul-Haq 114
Eng v Pak	Leeds	2006	Eng	167 runs	Mohammad Yousuf 192, Younis Khan 173	KP Pietersen 135
SA v Eng	Jo’burg	2019/20	Eng	191 runs	RE van der Dussen 98, Q de Kock 76	Z Crawley 66
Note also
SL v Aus	Galle	2011/12	Aus	125 runs	DPMD Jayawardene 105, AD Mathews 95	MEK Hussey 95

Top Score of a Test Match Made for a Side Losing by an Innings

There have been no instances of a side that lost by an innings providing the two top scorers of a match, but there have been 18 occasions when the match’s top-scorer was on the wrong end of an innings defeat, as well as one when the losers provided one joint-top-scorer of such a match:

Test	Venue	Date	Winner	Margin (Inns &)	Top two scorers for losing side	Top scorer for winners
SA v Eng	Cape Town	1905/06	SA	16 runs	JN Crawford 74; LJ Moon 33	AEE Vogler 62*
Aus v SA	Manchester	1912	Aus	88 runs	GA Faulkner 122*; R Beaumont 31	W Bardsley 121
Aus v Eng	Melbourne	1920/21	Aus	91 runs	JB Hobbs 122; EH Hendren 67	CE Pellew 116
Eng v SA	Birmingham	1924	Eng	18 runs	RH Catterall 120; JM Blankenberg 56	JB Hobbs 76
Eng v WI	Oval	1950	WI	56 runs	L Hutton 202*; DCS Compton 44	FMM Worrell 138
SA v NZ	Durban	1953/54	SA	58 runs	GO Rabone 107; GO Rabone 68	RA McLean 101
NZ v Eng	Auckland	1954/55	Eng	20 runs	JR Reid 73; B Sutcliffe 49	L Hutton 53
SA v NZ	Jo’burg	1961/62	SA	51 runs	JR Reid 142; JR Reid 60	DJ McGlew 120
Pak v NZ	Rawalpindi	1964/65	Pak	64 runs	BR Taylor 76; BW Sinclair 22	Saeed Ahmed 68
Aus v Ind	Sydney	1977/78	Ind	2 runs	PM Toohey 85; GJ Cosier 68	GR Viswanath 79
Aus v Pak	Melbourne	1981/82	Pak	82 runs	GM Wood 100; BM Laird 52	Mudassar Nazar 95
SA v Zim	B’fontein	1999/00	SA	13 runs	GJ Whittall 85; GJ Whittall 51	JN Rhodes 70
Ind v SA	Bangalore	1999/00	SA	71 runs	M Azharuddin 102; A Kumble 36*	L Klusener 97
Aus v Eng	Adelaide	2002/03	Aus	51 runs	MP Vaughan 177; AJ Stewart 57	RT Ponting 154
Aus v WI	Brisbane	2009/10	Aus	65 runs	A Barath 104; TM Dowlin 62	SM Katich 92
SA v NZ	Cape Town	2012/13	SA	27 runs	DG Brownlie 109; BB McCullum 51	AN Petersen 106
Aus v Pak	Melbourne	2016/17	Aus	18 runs	Azhar Ali 205*; Sohail Khan 65	SPD Smith 165*
SL v Ind	Colombo SSC	2017	Ind	53 runs	FDM Karunaratne 141; BKG Mendis 110	CA Pujara 133
Aus v WI	Brisbane	2000/01	Aus	126 runs	S Chanderpaul 62*; D Ganga 20	B Lee 62*

Thanks to Keith Walmsley
Last updated 30 January 2020

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