Quiz! Most Test runs in each calendar year since 1980

In 1902, Clem Hill became the first to top the 1,000-run mark in Test cricket. That year, he scored 1,060 runs from 12 Tests at 55.78. By the time the list had another entry – Denis Compton’s, in 1947 – two World Wars had passed. Compton was also the first to score 1,100 in a year.

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In 1958, Garry Sobers was the first to breach 1,200; in 1964, Bobby Simpson topped 1,300; and in 1976, Viv Richards raised the bar to 1,710 – a tally that has been beaten only once, by a Pakistani, in 2006.

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In this quiz, you have to name the leading run-scorer for each calendar year since 1980, four years after Richards’s phenomenal year. We have given you each player’s nationality and the runs they scored each year as hints, good luck!

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Quiz! Most Test runs in each calendar year since 1980

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