Can you name the top run scorers in Test cricket matches (since WWII)?

Year	Player	Country - #
1946		Aus - 421
1947		Eng - 1159
1948		Aus - 1025
1949		Eng - 800
1950		Aus - 584
1951		Eng - 903
1952		Ind - 576
1953		Aus - 948
1954		Eng - 830
1955		WI - 827
1956		Eng - 491
1957		Eng - 701
1958		WI - 1299
1959		Aus - 671
1960		WI - 864
1961		Eng - 1035
1962		Eng - 982
1963		Eng - 1015
1964		Aus - 1381
1965		Eng - 895
1966		WI - 895
1967		Eng - 750

Year	Player	Country - #
1968		Eng - 894
1969		Aus - 909
1970		Aus - 530
1971		Ind - 918
1972		NZ - 672
1973		Eng - 1085
1974		Eng - 1379
1975		Aus - 982
1976		WI - 1710
1977		Aus - 736
1978		Ind - 1099
1979		Ind - 1407
1980		Aus - 953
1981		Eng - 975
1982		Eng - 1095
1983		Ind - 1310
1984		WI - 1179
1985		Aus - 1099
1986		Eng - 1059
1987		Ind - 875
1988		WI - 867
1989		Aus - 1219

Year	Player	Country - #
1990		Eng - 1264
1991		Eng - 1040
1992		Aus - 812
1993		Aus - 1241
1994		Eng - 1136
1995		WI - 1222
1996		Eng - 793
1997		SL - 1271
1998		Eng - 1222
1999		Ind - 1088
2000		Pak - 1090
2001		Aus - 1391
2002		Eng - 1481
2003		Aus - 1503
2004		Aus - 1481
2005		Aus - 1544
2006		Pak - 1788
2007		SA - 1210
2008		SA - 1656
2009		SL - 1234
2010		Ind - 1422

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Run Scorers Test Cricket Quiz

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Published: October 28th, 2008
Category: Sports
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Tags: Cricket Quizzes, Country Quizzes, top, scorer, wwii, run, test, match, player

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	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 09:30 GMT	6 points
	By the way, in case anybody's wondering, in the Cricinfo.com statistics, all runs scored in a match are credited to the calendar year in which the match started. I don't imagine this makes a huge difference.

	PresidentJSC:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 11:09 GMT	4 points
	62/62 on 3rd attempt!

	lyttmabatr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 12:46 GMT	6 points
	i got 4 and i know nothing about cricket!!! Yea me!

	Bouchkilele:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 15:01 GMT	4 points
	Was trying every derivative of "Yousuf" only to discover it was because I spelled "Mohammad" as "Mohammed" that I couldn't get 2006. That infuriated me since that's the record in a year (1788) and I remember when he took it from Viv. Scored a lof that 1,788 against my beloved W.I. too...

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	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 16:55 GMT	9 points
	@Vernon G.: `Yousuf' on its own works fine.

	HollywoodLeo:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 17:17 GMT	1 point
	Pretty much every quiz on this site that's asking for names accepts just last names. Makes for easy guessing sometimes by just putting common names in like Smith, Johnson, and Jackson

	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 17:35 GMT	4 points
	@Leo: Yes, most of the quizzes accept last names and also mention this in the blurb at the top of the page. In this case, guessing common surnames won't help a huge amount but it is often a handy route to an extra half-dozen points.

GamesmasterG_9:

Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:54 GMT

4 points

Its Vijay Hazare, not Jazare.

	Matt8204:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:54 GMT	4 points
	Hmm, cricket. Not touching this one, lol. I'm sure it's a fine sport, but I know nothing about it and I don't want to embarass myself!

	djwibble:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 18:59 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz - a nice counterpoint to the baseball ones i enjoy but know nothing about

	davidr:	Oct 28th, 2008 at 23:37 GMT	3 points
	@Gamesmaster: Well spotted! Sorry for accidentally 'Jaz'ing up his name. (Did I really just type that?)

	magister:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 00:23 GMT	-4 points
	@Leo: C'mon Leo! I would have given you a point without the explanation!

	AdamL:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 00:42 GMT	2 points
	2 things: 1. i tried both ul haq and inzamam and neither worked when i think both should. 2. my uncle is the answer to one of these (Keith Fletcher) and I didn't guess it. I'm embarrassed.

	DirtyKash:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 01:17 GMT	1 point
	Leo, you're awful.

	magister:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 18:41 GMT	0 points
	Incidentally, Leo may have given the first use of the verb "to down arrow" ever.

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 19:11 GMT	1 point
	The BBC's live text Olympic coverage may have used the phrase -- they were using up- and down-pointing arrows to indicate the performance of the British athletes.

	Wasim:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 15:36 GMT	4 points
	more cricket quizzes please! - maybe highest run scorers, wicket takers, all rounders, career averages, best figures, highest scores etc for Test and limited overs. That should keep me busy for a while!!

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	buffmyhuff:	May 25th, 2009 at 19:06 GMT	-2 points
	what are the arrows for

	Edge:	May 26th, 2009 at 19:46 GMT	-1 points
	Vote up comments you like, vote down comments you don't like. For example, people might be tempted to vote down my comment until they remember the concepts of sarcasm and satire. Comments suggesting answers omitted from a quiz (on quizzes different than this, where answers are fitted to a theme rather than a factual list) or just telling how you did on a quiz are usually voted down precipitously.

	oldkent:	Jun 9th, 2009 at 08:57 GMT	2 points
	They just get larger and larger...........

	Clamson:	Jun 17th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT	0 points
	Only comment is that Chappell marks down both Ian and Greg, but I suppose you can't really avoid that with surnames only.

	itfcdudette6:	Dec 20th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT	4 points
	I wonder what Boycott's strike rate was for those 975 runs.

	Poos:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 00:37 GMT	1 point
	Thilan Samaraweera needs to be added.

	delToro87:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 02:32 GMT	1 point
	Need to add Samaraweera and Tendulkar

	Tomath:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 21:31 GMT	1 point
	Bit annoyed I missed the only one on the list that I've met. I met Dennis Amiss at an awards dinner at my local cricket club.

	sumitgupta008:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 18:15 GMT	1 point
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	wagner28:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 07:33 GMT	0 points
	i got 62/62 in 8 and 1/2 mins.(coz i play for north essex cricket)

	mikeindex:	Aug 10th, 2011 at 08:14 GMT	1 point
	I seem to be the first to get 65/65! (Probably because there haven't been 65 answers for all that long).