5 captains with the highest scores in Test cricket 

#4 Graham Gooch - 333 runs

Graham Gooch

The former captain of the English team, Graham Gooch too recorded his highest individual Test score against India. When the Indian team visited the United Kingdom to play a three-match Test series versus England, the visitors did not know what hit them when the skipper of the home team welcomed them with a knock of 333 runs.

Opening the innings for England in the first Test match, Gooch hit a triple ton to take his side to a massive total of 653 runs. The right-handed batsman had smashed 43 fours and 3 sixes in his innings which comprised of 485 deliveries.

Gooch lost his wicket to Manoj Prabhakar but his innings had ensured that England won the Test match by a hefty margin of 247 runs.

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#3 Mark Taylor - 334* runs

Mark Taylor of Australia

The left-handed batting maestro from Australia, Mark Taylor holds the record of the highest Test score by an Australian captain. He had achieved this record while opening the innings against Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998.

He had built great partnerships with Justin Langer and Mark Waugh on the way to his triple hundred. In the end, Taylor declared the innings when the scoreboard of his team read 599/4, with him being not out at 334 runs.

The New South Wales-born player stood in the middle for 720 minutes during the course of his epic innings but his efforts could not produce a win for Australia as some brilliant batting performances from the Pakistani batsmen ensured that the game ended in a stalemate.