There are many such records in Test cricket, which have not been broken for almost 100 years. One of them is a record, the biggest win in terms of runs in Test cricket. This record was set by England against Austlia 97 years ago. At that time England defeated Australia by a huge margin of 675 runs. England had set a target of 742 runs in front of Australia, but the Australian team was all out for only 66 runs.

Full account of this historic match

This was the first match of the five -match Test series between England and Australia. England were on tour in 1928, Australia. The match was played between the two teams in Brisbane. England batted first in this Test. England batsmen batted brilliantly. Patie Hendraine scored a brilliant century for England. Handraine scored 169 runs with the help of 16 fours. Apart from him, Harold Larvood scored 70 and Percy Chapman scored 50 runs, due to which England scored 521 runs in the first innings. For Australia, Jack Gregory and Clary Grimate took three wickets each.

After this, Australia came to bat. No Australian batsman could play a big innings. Jack Rider scored the most runs for Australia. Rider scored an innings of 33 runs. The Australian team was reduced to just 122 runs. Harold larvood took 6 wickets for England. England got a lead of 399 runs in the first innings.

England declared the innings by scoring 342 runs in the second innings. Phil Mid scored 73, Douglas Jardin scored 65 runs for England. Clary Grimate took 6 wickets for Australia. In this way, England set a target of 742 runs in front of Australia.

Chasing the target, the Australian team was reduced to just 66 runs. England won the match by a big margin of 675 runs. Jack White took the most wickets from England. Jack took four wickets.

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