In cricket history, the all-time record for the highest First-Class team total remains Victoria's 1,107 runs, amassed against New South Wales in 1926-27. Although the innings is famous for its marathon nature, the individual world record score of 437 by Bill Ponsford was set in a different match against Queensland a year later, not in the 1,107 innings where he scored 352. The highest score in Test cricket is 952 for 6 declared, set by Sri Lanka against India in 1997. In One-Day Internationals (ODI), the record belongs to England, who scored 498 for 4 against the Netherlands in 2022, surpassing their own previous world records of 444 for 3 and 481 for 6. In the Twenty20 format, the highest total in domestic T20 cricket (and all T20s) is 349 for 5, scored by Baroda against Sikkim in the 2024 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, an innings that included a record 37 sixes. For T20 Internationals (T20I) specifically, Zimbabwe currently holds the record with 344 for 4, having surpassed Nepal's 2023 score of 314 for 3. Nepal's massive victory margin of 273 runs in that match was also a record, though it too has since been broken by Zimbabwe with a 290-run win. Finally, while not an official top-tier record, the highest individual score ever recorded in any form of cricket belongs to schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade, who made 1,009 not out in an inter-school match in 2016.
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