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Mulder retires short of Mahela and Lara’s highest individual Test score
07 Jul, 2025
South Africa’s Wiaan Mulder posted the fifth-highest individual score in Test cricket history – an unbeaten 367, and retired short of Mahela Jayawardena’s 374 and Brian Lara’s 400.
The total marked the highest ever for the Proteas in the longest format of the game. The monumental knock included a whooping 49 fours and four maximums.
The right-handed batter stands only behind Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden and Mahela Jayawardena among the highest individual scorers in Men’s Tests.
The right-handed batter added himself in a pantheon of greats on Day 2 of the second Test against Zimbabwe in South Africa’s first series since being crowned the World Test Champions at Lord’s last month.
Coming in to bat at number three on the opening day of the Test, the Proteas all-rounder produced a titanic effort with the bat to become the first batter to score a triple hundred on Test captaincy debut.
The knock was the second quickest triple hundred in the history of the format (297), behind only Virender Sehwag, who had got past the milestone off 278 deliveries against South Africa in Chennai back in 2008.
Shouldering the innings with South Africa having lost two early wickets, Mulder alongwith David Bedingham, helped the Proteas recover by helping them to a mammoth first innings total.
South Africa had gained a 1-0 lead in the series after bagging a massive 328-run win in the first Test in Bulawayo.
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