Current Top 5 Highest Scorer in WTC
With the league stage of the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23 drawing to a close, we take a look at the highest scores that individual batters notched in this cycle of the tournament. The ICC World Test Championship has seen batters plunder the runs with eight double hundreds and a few near misses across the 2021-23 cycle, while India and Australia will hope to add to that tally when they meet in the final at the Oval from June 7.
1. Tom Latham
252 v Bangladesh, Christchurch, 2022
Stand-in skipper Latham compiled a fantastic 252 against Bangladesh in the Test that was Ross Taylor’s final international in whites. New Zealand scored at more than four runs per over in the first innings while making a mammoth 521, with Latham leading the way with 34 fours and two sixes in his double ton.
2. Kane Williamson
215 v Sri Lanka, Wellington, 2023
Williamson ended this WTC cycle with a second double century, matching his efforts from the first cycle and ensuring the right-hander has reached the mark more times in WTC matches than any other batter.
3. Dinesh Chandimal
206 v Australia, Galle, 2022
Chandimal became the first Sri Lankan to make a double century against Australia in Tests as he notched 206 to set up a victory by an innings and 39 runs in the second match of the series. The right-hander hit 15 boundaries and five sixes from the 326 balls he faced in the first innings, as Sri Lanka compiled 554 for their highest Test score against Australia.
4. Marnus Labuschagne
204 v West Indies, Perth, 2022
Labuschagne and teammate Steve Smith tormented the West Indies as they both compiled double hundreds while coming together for a 251-run stand in the first innings of the first Test of the series.
5. Kane Williamson
200 v Pakistan, Karachi, 2022
Williamson led New Zealand’s fightback after Pakistan had put 438 on board, smashing a patient and unbeaten double hundred off 395 balls to help his side take a first innings lead. This knock was Williamson’s first double hundred in the WTC cycle and the fifth of his career, although there was another still to come against Sri Lanka.
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