South Africa's Gary Kirsten set a plethora of records during his match saving marathon innings of 275 in the Durban Test against England.

Kirsten now shares the record of playing highest individual innings for South Africa with Daryll Cullinan who made 275 not out against NewZealand at Auckland in 1998-99.

Kirsten's innings lasted for 878 minutes - longest ever played for South Africa. He easily beat Herschelle Gibbs' 659 minute 211 not out in the second Test against New Zealand at Christ- church in 1998-99, which in turn had just nosed ahead of Daryll Cullinan's 658 minute essay in the first Test of the same series at Auckland. It is also the second longest innings in a Test after Pakistan's Hanif Mohammed's marathon 970 minute 337 against WestIndies at Bridgetown in 1957-58. In fact Kirsten's innings is the third longest ever in all first class matches surpassed only by Rajiv Nayyar (who just recently broke Hanif Mohammed's long - standing record by batting for 1,015 minutes in a north zone Ranji Trophy league match) and Hanif Mohammed himself.

Kirsten now has a tally of 10 Test match hundreds to his name- most by a South African. He was earlier at level with 'Dudley' Nourse and Daryll Cullinan with nine hundreds. Kirsten has now scored 3792 runs in 56 Tests - most by a South African. He sur- passed fellow team-mate and captain Hansie Cronje's tally of 3689 runs from 64 Tests.

Highest individual innings for each country :

For          Score   Batsman            Opponent        Venue         Season

England	     364     Len Hutton	        Australia       The Oval       1938

Australia    334*    Mark Taylor        Pakistan        Peshawar       1998-99
	     334     Don Bradman        England         Leeds	       1930


South Africa 275*    Daryll Cullinan    NewZealand      Auckland       1998-99
	     275     Gary Kirsten       England         Durban	       1999-00


WestIndies   375     Brian Lara	        England         St.John's      1993-94

NewZealand   299     Martin Crowe       SriLanka        Wellington     1990-91

India	     236*    Sunil Gavaskar     WestIndies      Chennai	       1983-84

Pakistan     337     Hanif Mohammed     WestIndies      Bridgetown     1957-58

SriLanka     340     Sanath Jayasuriya  India           Colombo RP     1996-97

Zimbabwe     266     Dave Houghton	SriLanka        Bulawayo       1994-95

Longest individual innings :

Mins   Runs  Batsman	        Countries 	          Venue	        Season

970   337   Hanif Mohammed     Pakistan     v WestIndies  Bridgetown    1957-58
878   275   Gary Kirsten       South Africa v England     Durban        1999-00
799   340   Sanath Jayasuriya  SriLanka     v India       Colombo RP	1996-97
797   364   Len Hutton	       England      v Australia   The Oval	1938
777   201 * Brendon Kuruppu    SriLanka     v NewZealand  Colombo CCC	1986-87
766   375   Brian Lara	       WestIndies   v England	  St.John's	1993-94
762   311   Bob Simpson        Australia    v England	  Manchester	1964
753   225   Roshan Mahanama    SriLanka     v India	  Colombo RP	1996-97
727   307   Bob Cowper	       Australia    v England	  Melbourne	1965-66
720   163   Shoaib Mohammed    Pakistan     v NewZealand  Wellington	1988-89
720   334*  Mark Taylor        Australia    v Pakistan	  Peshawar	1998-99











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