OJ Pope of England scored 154 against Sri Lanka in the on-going test at The Oval to provide the 46^th occasion of an England captain scoring 150 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	Runs	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	AE Stoddart	173	3	v Australia	Melbourne	29 Dec 1894
2	WR Hammond	240	1	v Australia	Lord’s	24 Jun 1938
3	WR Hammond	181	1	v South Africa	Cape Town	31 Dec 1938
4	L Hutton	150	2	v India	Lord’s	19 Jun 1952
5	L Hutton	169	1	v West Indies	Georgetown	24 Feb 1954
6	L Hutton	205	2	v West Indies	Kingston	30 Mar 1954
7	PBH May	285*	3	v West Indies	Birmingham	30 May 1957
8	MC Cowdrey	155	3	v South Africa	The Oval	18 Aug 1960
9	ER Dexter	205	2	v Pakistan	Karachi	02 Feb 1962
10	ER Dexter	172	1	v Pakistan	The Oval	16 Aug 1962
11	ER Dexter	174	2	v Australia	Manchester	23 Jul 1964
12	MH Denness	188	2	v Australia	Melbourne	08 Feb 1975
13	MH Denness	181	1	v New Zealand	Auckland	20 Feb 1975
14	DI Gower	152	2	v Pakistan	Faisalabad	12 Mar 1984
15	DI Gower	173*	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	19 Mar 1984
16	DI Gower	166	1	v Australia	Nottingham	11 Jul 1985
17	DI Gower	215	2	v Australia	Birmingham	15 Aug 1985
18	DI Gower	157	1	v Australia	The Oval	29 Aug 1985
19	MW Gatting	183*	1	v India	Birmingham	03 Jul 1986
20	MW Gatting	150*	3	v Pakistan	The Oval	06 Aug 1987
21	GA Gooch	154	1	v New Zealand	Birmingham	05 Jul 1990
22	GA Gooch	333	1	v India	Lord’s	26 Jul 1990
23	GA Gooch	154*	3	v West Indies	Leeds	06 Jun 1991
24	GA Gooch	174	3	v Sri Lanka	Lord’s	22 Aug 1991
25	MA Atherton	185*	4	v South Africa	Johannesburg	30 Nov 1995
26	MA Atherton	160	2	v India	Nottingham	04 Jul 1996
27	AJ Stewart	164	3	v South Africa	Manchester	02 Jul 1998
28	N Hussain	155	1	v India	Lord’s	25 Jul 2002
29	MP Vaughan	166	1	v Australia	Manchester	11 Aug 2005
30	ME Trescothick	193	2	v Pakistan	Multan	12 Nov 2005
31	AJ Strauss	169	1	v West Indies	St John’s	15 Feb 2009
32	AJ Strauss	161	1	v Australia	Lord’s	16 Jul 2009
33	AN Cook	173	1	v Bangladesh	Chattogram	12 Mar 2010
34	AN Cook	176	3	v India	Ahmedabad	15 Nov 2012
35	AN Cook	190	2	v India	Eden Gardens	05 Dec 2012
36	AN Cook	162	3	v New Zealand	Lord’s	21 May 2015
37	AN Cook	263	2	v Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	13 Oct 2015
38	JE Root	190	1	v South Africa	Lord’s	06 Jul 2017
39	JE Root	226	2	v New Zealand	Hamilton	29 Nov 2019
40	JE Root	228	2	v Sri Lanka	Galle	14 Jan 2021
41	JE Root	186	2	v Sri Lanka	Galle	22 Jan 2021
42	JE Root	218	1	v India	Chennai	05 Feb 2021
43	JE Root	180*	2	v India	Lord’s	12 Aug 2021
44	JE Root	153	1	v West Indies	Bridgetown	16 Mar 2022
45	BA Stokes	155	4	v Australia	Lord’s	28 Jun 2023
46	OJ Pope	154	1	v Sri Lanka	The Oval	06 Sep 2024

OJ Pope of England scored 154 against Sri Lanka in the on-going test at The Oval to provide the fourth occasion of an England captain scoring 150 plus runs in a test innings against Sri Lanka. All such occasions are tabulated below. OJ Pope became the second England captain to score 150 plus runs in a test innings against Sri Lanka on home soil.  Prior to OJ Pope, GA Gooch had scored 174 against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in Aug 1991

No	Player	Runs	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	GA Gooch	174	3	v Sri Lanka	Lord’s	22 Aug 1991
2	JE Root	228	2	v Sri Lanka	Galle	14 Jan 2021
3	JE Root	186	2	v Sri Lanka	Galle	22 Jan 2021
4	OJ Pope	154	1	v Sri Lanka	The Oval	06 Sep 2024