Australia completed an ultra-rate double feat while scoring 511 runs in their first innings of the Brisbane Test of Ashes 2025/26.
Australia take the lead in Brisbane after team effort
The hosts took a handsome 177-run first-innings lead by slamming 511 runs, with all of their 11 batters scoring in double digits. This was only the sixth instance of a team amassing 500 or more runs in a Test innings with none of their batters hitting a hundred.
Australia’s 511 is also the fifth-highest score by a team that didn’t have a centurion in a Test innings. Sri Lanka’s 531 is the highest such total, which came against Bangladesh in Chittagong in March 2024.
Mitchell Starc top-scored for the hosts with an assured 77 from No.9, while Jake Weatherald got to his first fifty in the format with a 72. Three other batters – Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith and Alex Carey – were dismissed in the 60s, whereas Cameron Green fell five short of a half-century.
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Travis Head (33), Josh Inglis (23), Scott Boland (21), Michael Neser (16) and Brendan Doggett (13) all scored in double digits, making this only the sixth instance for a team where every batter scored between 10 and 99 runs each in an innings.
Highest Test innings totals without a century
Four of the six instances of a team scoring 500 or more in a Test innings have come in Australia, and all such scores were made in the team's first innings of the said game.
| Team | Innings Total | HS | Against | Venue | Season |
| Sri Lanka | 531 | 93 | Bangladesh | Chittagong | 2023/24 |
| India | 524-9d | 70 | New Zealand | Kanpur | 1976/77 |
| Australia | 520-7d | 99 | West Indies | Perth | 2009/10 |
| South Africa | 517 | 87* | Australia | Adelaide | 1997/98 |
| Australia | 511 | 77 | England | Brisbane | 2025/26 |
| Pakistan | 500-8d | 95 | Australia | Melbourne | 1981/82 |
Instances of all 11 batters scoring in double digits in a Test innings
India and Australia have each had two instances of all 11 of their batters scoring in double digits in a Test innings.
| Team | Innings Total | HS | Against | Venue | Season |
| India | 359 | 80 | New Zealand | Dunedin | 1967/68 |
| India | 524-9d | 70 | New Zealand | Kanpur | 1976/77 |
| Australia | 471 | 68 | Sri Lanka | Colombo | 1992 |
| England | 470 | 72 | West Indies | The Oval | 2004 |
| South Africa | 313 | 46 | England | Johannesburg | 2015/16 |
| Australia | 511 | 77 | England | Brisbane | 2025/26 |
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