Most runs scored in a Test match career (female)
- Who
- Janette Brittin
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 24 August 1998
Janette Brittin (England) scored 1,935 runs in 44 innings, at an average of 49.61 runs per innings, between June 1979 and August 1998. She scored five centuries and 11 fifties during her Test career.
In the final Test series of her career, against Australia in August 1998, Brittin scored centuries in back-to-back matches and registered the highest scores of her career: 146 and 167.
The current (as of June 2014) England captain and Brittin's one-time opening partner, Charlotte Edwards, is second on the list of top female run-makers in Test matches with 1,621 runs in 39 innings since 1996.