Most runs in a Test series, full list: How much does Shubman Gill need to break the all-time record at The Oval?

Gill’s amazing run in the ongoing series – 147 and 8 at Leeds, 269 and 161 at Birmingham, 16 and 6 at Lord’s, and 12 and 103 at Old Trafford – has taken his series tally to 722 runs at 90.25 with four hundreds. He will eye several world records at The Oval.

The steepest among them, however, is most runs by a batter in a bilateral series – a record set by Don Bradman in his second series (and on his first tour of England) in 1930. En route, Bradman went past Wally Hammond’s tally of 905, set in Bradman’s debut series, in Australia in 1928/29.

Bradman dominated cricket until his retirement, in 1948. Throughout this phase, Hammond remained arguably his closest rival. Even after all these years, they remain the only batters with more than 850 runs (let alone 900) in a bilateral Test series.

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Gill is some distance away from going past Bradman or even Hammond, but he needs 118 to overtake the third name on the list: Mark Taylor scored 839 runs in the 1989 Ashes in England, the series that set off Australia’s 16-year grip of the urn.

Most runs by a batter in a bilateral Test series