Eight different batsmen have scored 400 runs

Run (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...

 or more in a single innings

Innings

An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...

 in first-class cricket

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First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 on ten separate occasions. The first quadruple century was achieved by Archie MacLaren of Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

 against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 in 1895, and the most recent was scored by Brian Lara

Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...

 of the West Indies

West Indian cricket team

The West Indian cricket team, also known colloquially as the West Indies or the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking Caribbean countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies.From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s,...

 against England

English cricket team

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 in 2004—the only quadruple century to be made in a Test match

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

. Lara and Bill Ponsford

Bill Ponsford

William Harold "Bill" Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain...

 of Australia

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 are the only batsmen to reach 400 more than once.

The two batsmen to be dismissed

Dismissal (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out . Colloquially, the fielding team is also said to have snared, bagged or captured a wicket. At this point a batsman must discontinue batting and leave the field permanently for the innings...

 in the 390s in first-class circket are Naved Latif

Naved Latif

Naved Latif is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He has played in one Test match, against the West Indies in January/February 2002. During 2004/05 he started playing Twenty20 cricket...

 of Pakistan

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The Pakistan cricket team is the national cricket team of Pakistan. Pakistan, represented by the Pakistan Cricket Board , is a full member of the International Cricket Council, and thus participates in , and cricket matches....

, who scored 394 for Sargodha against Gujranwala at the Jinnah Stadium (Gujranwala)

Jinnah Stadium (Gujranwala)

Jinnah Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan. It is used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium capacity is 20,000 and hosted its first and only Test match in 1991.-Cricket World Cup:...

, in November 2000 and Stephen Cook

Stephen Cook (cricketer)

Stephen Craig Cook is a South African first class cricketer, the son of former Test player Jimmy Cook. He is a right-handed opening batsman and very occasional right-arm medium bowler formerly for Gauteng following his debut in 2000, and for Lions since 2009...

 who scored 390 for Lions against Warriors

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The Chevrolet Warriors is the name used by the combined Eastern Province and Border first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues of the Warriors are St George's Park, Port Elizabeth and Buffalo Park, East London....

 at Buffalo Park, East London

Buffalo Park

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 in October 2009.

List of quadruple centuries

* denotes that a batsman was "not out

Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

"

Inn. denotes the innings

Innings

An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...

 of the match

Score	Batsman	For	Against	Inn.	Competition	At	Date	Notes
501*	Lara, BrianBrian Lara Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...	Warwickshire Warwickshire County Cricket Club Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...	Durham Durham County Cricket Club Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was...	2nd	County Championship County Championship The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...	Edgbaston Edgbaston Cricket Ground Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...	1994-06-03, 063 and 6 June 1994	Batting second, sharing stands of 115 with Roger Twose Roger Twose Roger Graham Twose played 16 Tests and 87 One Day Internationals for New Zealand in the mid-1990s.Born in England, Twose moved to play in New Zealand in 1991-92, as it became clear he would struggle to ever force his way into the England side...  (51) for the second wicket, 314 with Trevor Penney Trevor Penney Trevor Lionel Penney is a former cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club, noted particularly for his fielding...  (44) for the third wicket and 322* with Keith Piper (116*) for the fifth wicket, on the way to a Warwickshire total of 810 for 4 declared in reply to Durham's 556 for 8 declared, to which John Morris John Morris (cricketer) John Morris is a former English cricketer, who played for England in three Tests and eight ODIs from 1990 to 1991...  had contributed 204. Rain prevented any play on the third scheduled day of play, 4 June, removing any prospect of either side playing for a win, and 5 June was a rest day. Lara started the fourth and final day of play on 111*; his 390 runs in one day is the most ever in a first-class match; he scored 174 before lunch, hitting more boundaries in the session than his partner, Penney, scored runs. Lara's innings included a first-class record 72 boundaries (62 fours and 10 sixes), and he reached 500 by hitting the second-last ball of the match for four. With this innings Lara achieved the unique distinction of scoring seven centuries in eight first-class innings, a sequence that had begun with the record score in Tests of 375.
499	Hanif MohammadHanif Mohammad Hanif Mohammad Hanif Mohammad is a former Pakistan cricketer. He played for the Pakistani cricket team in 55 Test matches between 1952/53 and 1969/70 and averaged 43.98, with twelve hundreds....	Karachi	Bahawalpur Bahawalpur cricket team Bahawalpur cricket team were a first-class cricket side who played in Pakistani first class cricket. They were from the city of Bahawalpur and won the inaugural Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, with the team captained by Mohammad Saeed. His son in law Fazal Mahmood played beside him in that championship...	2nd	Quaid-e-Azam Trophy	Karachi Parsi Institute Ground	1959-01-09, 10, 119, 10 and 11 January 1959	Batting second, sharing stands of 172 with Waqar Hasan Waqar Hasan Waqar Hasan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Tests from 1952 to 1959.-External links:*...  (37) for the second wicket, 103 with Wazir Mohammad Wazir Mohammad Wazir Mohammad is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 20 Tests from 1952 to 1959....  (31) for the third wicket and 259 with Wallis Mathias Wallis Mathias Wallis Mathias was a Pakistani cricketer who played in 21 Tests from 1955 to 1962. He was the first non-Muslim cricketer to play for Pakistan....  (103) for the fourth wicket, on the way to a team total of 772 for 7 declared. Bahawalpur batted first and were dismissed for 185. In their second innings, they were dismissed for 108, giving Karachi victory by an innings and 479 runs. Hanif was run out while going for his 500th run; it is said that he was trying to keep the strike.
452*	Bradman, DonDon Bradman	New South Wales New South Wales Blues The New South Wales cricket team are an Australian first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales...	Queensland Queensland Bulls The Queensland cricket team, nicknamed the Bulls, are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:*Sheffield Shield, 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season...	3rd	Sheffield Shield	Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney Cricket Ground The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...	1930-01-04, 64 and 6 January 1930	This is the only 400 made in the third innings of a match. After evenly matched first innings, New South Wales scoring 235 and Queensland 227 in reply, Bradman started this innings on the second day of the match, and was 205* overnight. 5 January was a rest day. He shared stands of 272 with Alan Kippax Alan Kippax Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars, Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and...  (115) for the third wicket, 156 with Stan McCabe Stan McCabe Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short, stocky right-hander,...  (60) for the fourth wicket and 180 with Arthur Allsopp (66) for the sixth wicket on the way to a team score of 761 for 8 declared. Queensland were 72-7 in their second innings by the end of the third day, and were dismissed for 84, so New South Wales won by 685 runs.
443*	Nimbalkar, B. B.B. B. Nimbalkar B. B. Nimbalkar Bhausaheb Babasaheb Nimbalkar, Marathi known as B. B. Nimbalkar was an Indian cricketer who made an Indian record of 443 not out in first-class cricket...	Maharashtra Maharashtra cricket team The Maharashtra cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Maharashtra in the city of Pune. It is in the Plate Group of the Ranji Trophy...	Kathiawar	2nd	Ranji Trophy Ranji Trophy The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...	Pune Club Ground Pune Club Ground The Pune Club Ground is a cricket ground in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It has been used for first-class cricket since 1935, most recently for a Ranji Trophy match between Maharashtra and Railways in 2001.... , Poona	1948-12-16, 17, 1816, 17 and 18 December 1948	Batting second, sharing stands of 455 with Kamal Bhandarkar (205) for the second wicket and 242 with Sharad Deodhar (93) for the third wicket, on the way to a team score of 826 for 4 declared in reply to Kathiawar's first innings 238. This is the only 400 by a cricketer who was never selected to play Test cricket. The opposing captain, Thakore Saheb of Rajkot, conceded the match when Nimbalkar was nine short of Bradman's then world-record score.
437	Ponsford, BillBill Ponsford Bill Ponsford William Harold "Bill" Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain...	Victoria Victorian Bushrangers The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...	Queensland Queensland Bulls The Queensland cricket team, nicknamed the Bulls, are the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket team in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments:*Sheffield Shield, 4-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926/27 season...	1st	Sheffield Shield	Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...	1927-12-16, 1716 and 17 December 1927	Batting first, sharing stands of 314 with "Stork" Hendry Hunter Hendry Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry was a cricketer who played for New South Wales, Victoria and Australia national cricket team.Nicknamed Stork, he was a formidable batsman who bowlers found difficulty in delivering to...  (129) for the second wicket and 143 with Jack Ryder (70) for the third wicket, in a team score of 793 all out. Queensland were dismissed for 189 in their first innings, and following on Follow-on Follow-on is a term used in the sport of cricket to describe a situation where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough to the score achieved by the first team batting in the first innings...  they made 407, with Cecil Thompson making 118. Victoria won by an innings and 197 runs. This innings made Ponsford the first player to score two quadruple centuries, and he is the only batsman to break his own record for the highest first-class score.
429	Ponsford, BillBill Ponsford Bill Ponsford William Harold "Bill" Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain...	Victoria Victorian Bushrangers The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...	Tasmania Tasmanian Tigers The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and...	2nd	Interstate match	Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Cricket Ground The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...	1923-02-3, 53 and 5 February 1923	Batting second, sharing stands of 336 with Hammy Love Hammy Love Hampden Stanley Bray Love was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test for Australia in 1933. He replaced Bert Oldfield as wicket-keeper for the Ashes match played at Brisbane after Oldfield retired hurt in the Adelaide test of the Bodyline series...  (156) for the fifth wicket, 197 with William Bailey William Bailey William Bailey was an American actor. He appeared in 222 films between 1911 and 1959. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Bailey died in Hollywood, California in 1962 at the age of 76.-Selected filmography:...  (82) for the sixth wicket and 164 with Karl Schneider Karl Schneider Karl Joseph Schneider was a cricketer who played for Victoria and South Australia . A tiny man at just 157cm tall, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and was a specialist left-hand batsman who occasionally bowled right-arm wrist spin...  (55) for the seventh wicket, in a team score of 1,059 all out. This was the first team innings to exceed 1,000 runs. Tasmania were dismissed for 217 and 176, Victoria winning by an innings and 666 runs.
428	Aftab BalochAftab Baloch Aftab Baloch Aftab Baloch is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in two Tests from 1969 to 1975. A right-handed middle order batsman and capable right arm offbreak bowler, Baloch is best known for being a member of the 400 club....	Sind Sind cricket team The Sindh cricket team was a cricket team representing the province of Sindh in Pakistan and pre-partition India.Sindh's first first-class game was in December 1932, when they drew with Ceylon at the Gymkhana ground in Karachi. From 1934–35 until 1947–48 Sindh participated in the Ranji Trophy...	Baluchistan	2nd	Quaid-e-Azam Trophy	National Stadium National Stadium, Karachi The National Stadium is a cricket stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. It is currently used for cricket matches, and is home to Karachi's domestic cricket teams. The stadium is able to hold 34,228 spectators, making it the second largest cricket stadium in Pakistan after Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore... , Karachi Karachi Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...	1974-02-18, 19, 2018, 19 and 20 February 1974	Batting second, sharing stands of 302 with Bashir Shana (165) for the third wicket, 236 with Nasir Valika (74) for the fourth wicket and 174 with Javed Miandad Javed Miandad Mohammad Javed Miandad Khan , popularly known as Javed Miandad , is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1975 and 1996. He is Pakistan's leading run scorer in Test cricket. He has served as a captain of the Pakistan national cricket team...  (100) for the fifth wicket, in a team score of 951 for 7 declared. Baluchistan were bowled out for 93 and 283, and Sind won the match by an innings and 575 runs.
424	MacLaren, ArchieArchie MacLaren	Lancashire Lancashire County Cricket Club Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...	Somerset Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...	1st	County Championship County Championship The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...	County Ground, Taunton Taunton Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....	1895-07-15, 1615 and 16 July 1895	Batting first, sharing stands of 141 with Albert Ward (64) for the first wicket, 363 with Arthur George Paul Arthur George Paul Arthur George Paul was an Irish sportsman who played rugby union as a full back, playing club rugby for Swinton and represented Lancashire as a first-class cricketer...  (177) for the second wicket and 107 with Charles Benton Charles Benton Charles Benton is CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Benton Foundation and former CEO of Public Media Incorporated, a film and video publisher and distributor...  (43) for the fourth wicket, in a team score of 801 all out. Lancashire won by an innings and 452 runs, dismissing Somerset for 143 and 206. This was the first quadruple century in first-class cricket, and remains the highest first-class innings by an English player.
405*	Hick, GraemeGraeme Hick Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...	Worcestershire Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...	Somerset Somerset County Cricket Club Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...	1st	County Championship County Championship The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...	County Ground, Taunton Taunton Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....	1988-05-05, 65 and 6 May 1988	Batting first, sharing stands of 265 with Steve Rhodes Steve Rhodes Steve Rhodes is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper, but was also a useful number six or seven batsman, making twelve first-class centuries....  (56) for the sixth wicket and 177* with Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth is an English former cricketer, who is currently a first-class cricket umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career occurred with Worcestershire, although he had a spell with Derbyshire, and overseas with Natal...  (31*) for the eighth wicket in a team total of 628 for 7 declared, the lowest total to include a 400; Worcestershire had been 132 for 5. Somerset were dismissed for 222 and 192, and Worcestershire won by an innings and 214 runs. Hick had not yet played a Test match.
400*	Lara, BrianBrian Lara Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...	West Indies	England	1st	4th Test	Antigua Recreation Ground Antigua Recreation Ground Antigua Recreation Ground is the national stadium of Antigua and Barbuda. It is located in St. John's, on the island of Antigua. The ground has been used by the West Indies cricket team and Antigua and Barbuda national football team... , St John's St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda St John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, a country located in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. St John's is located at... , Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...	2004-04-10, 11, 1210, 11 and 12 April 2004	Batting first, sharing stands of 232 with Ramnaresh Sarwan Ramnaresh Sarwan Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan is a West Indian cricketer of Indo-Guyanese origin and a member of the West Indies cricket team....  (90) for the third wicket, and 282* with Ridley Jacobs Ridley Jacobs Ridley Detamore Jacobs , is a left-handed batsman who was a regular fixture in the West Indian cricket team in the 1990s and 2000s. He made his Test match debut on his 31st birthday, playing in 65 Tests in six years...  (107*) for the fifth wicket, on the way to a West Indies total of 751 for 5 declared. Despite a century for Andrew Flintoff Andrew Flintoff Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE is a former English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club, England and the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. A tall fast bowler, batsman and slip fielder, Flintoff according to the ICC rankings was consistently rated amongst the top...  (102*), England were bowled out for 285 in their first innings and forced to follow-on Follow-on Follow-on is a term used in the sport of cricket to describe a situation where the team that bats second is forced to take its second batting innings immediately after its first, because the team was not able to get close enough to the score achieved by the first team batting in the first innings... . England managed to hold out in their second innings, with a century for Michael Vaughan Michael Vaughan Michael Paul Vaughan OBE is a retired cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England. A classically elegant right-handed batsman and occasional off-spinner, Vaughan was ranked one of the best batsmen in the world following the 2002/3 Ashes, in which he scored 633 runs, including three centuries... (140), and the match was drawn with England on 422 for 5.