Highest Test Scores From No.9, Full List: Marco Jansen Nearly Breaks All-Time Record In India With Career-Best Knock
Marco Jansen fell just six runs short of breaking the all-time record of the highest score by a visiting No.9 Test batter in India with his 93 in the Guwahati Test.
Marco Jansen falls six short of all-time India record for No.9 batter
Jansen hit a 91-ball 93, laced with six fours and seven sixes (the latter being the most by a visiting batter in India) to help South Africa post a mammoth 489 in the first innings. He walked in at 334-7 as India finally sensed an opening to close down the innings.
However, the home bowlers were made to toil hard by the towering Jansen, who hit Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj for multiple boundaries. He took a special liking for Jadeja, hitting four sixes against his left-arm spin.
Having taken 53 deliveries for his 50, Jansen didn’t slow down even after centurion Senuran Muthusamy’s dismissal, scoring his next 43 runs off 38 balls. But just seven short of his maiden Test hundred, he bottom-edged a full Kuldeep delivery onto his stumps.
Jansen’s 93 was the second-highest score by a visiting No.9 batter in India after Mitchell Starc’s 99 in Mohali in 2012/13. Jayant Yadav holds the record for the highest score by a No.9 batter in India – 104 vs England at the Wankhede in 2016/17. This was also Jansen’s career-best knock.
Highest Test scores from No.9, full list
Player Team Score Opposition Venue Season
Ian Smith
New Zealand 173 v India Auckland 1989/90
Stuart Broad
England 169 v Pakistan Lord’s 2010
Clem Hill
Australia 160 v England Adelaide 1907/08
Asif Iqbal
Pakistan 146 v England The Oval 1967
Daniel Vettori
New Zealand 137* v Pakistan Hamilton 2003/04
James Franklin
New Zealand 122* v South Africa Cape Town 2006
Gubby Allen
England 122 v New Zealand Lord’s 1931
John Murray
England 112 v West Indies The Oval 1966
Shaun Pollock
South Africa 111 v Sri Lanka Centurion 2000/01
Mohammad Rafique
Bangladesh 111 v West Indies Gros Islet 2004
Adam Parore
New Zealand 110 v Australia W.A.C.A 2001
Jason Holder
West Indies 110 v Zimbabwe Bulawayo 2017
Shaun Pollock
South Africa 106* v West Indies Bridgetown 2000/01
Jayant Yadav
India 104 v England Wankhede 2016/17
Lance Klusener
South Africa 102* v India Cape Town 1996/97
Jack Gregory
Australia 100 v England Melbourne 1920/21
Ray Lindwall
Australia 100 v England Melbourne 1946/47
Mitchell Starc
Australia 99 v India Mohali 2012/13
Noman Ali
Pakistan 97 v Zimbabwe Harare 2021
Mitchell Johnson
Australia 96* v South Africa Johannesburg 2008/09
Donald Tiripano
Zimbabwe 95 v Afghanistan Abu Dhabi 2020/21
Marco Jansen
South Africa 93* v India Guwahati 2025/26
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