#seven centuries

Vivian Richards — 1,710 Test Runs in a Calendar Year, 1976

Vivian Richards scored 1,710 runs in eleven Tests in 1976 at an average of 90.00, with seven centuries — a record that stood for thirty years until Mohammad Yousuf's 1,788 in 2006. The aggregate included 556 in Australia, 384 in the Caribbean against India, and 829 against England in four Tests, capped by 291 at the Oval. Richards missed the Lord's Test of the English summer with glandular fever; the seven centuries broke Garry Sobers' previous record of six in a calendar year.