India vs England Test Series: Top statistical highlights from a 93-Year rivalry – Leading run-getters, wicket-takers, iconic spells & historic wins.
India’s World Test Championship 2025-27 campaign will get underway when they take on England in what is expected to be a gruelling five-match Test series away from home. The first Test will commence on June 20 at Headingley, Leeds, where India have won two Tests.
We will find out how India have fared and who were India’s top performing individuals across different departments in Test matches played in England between the two sides.
Overall H2H record
It has always been a challenge for India to tour England, and the results have largely favoured the home side. While India have shown fight in the last tour, coming close to winning for the fourth time, England have been the dominant side overall.
- India have won three Test series in England (1971, 1986 and 2007). They came close on two more occasions by drawing level in 2002 and 2021/22.
- The visiting side has won just nine Tests out of the 67 played in England.
A look at prolific India Test players in England
Top 3 run-scorers for India against England in England:
- Only three batters from India have scored 1000 or more Test runs in England. The recently retired Virat Kohli comes close with 976 runs in 29 Test innings in England.
- While the former skipper Rahul Dravid has scored the most Test centuries (six) for India in England, there are 27 other batters who have made at least one Test century in England.
Top 3 wicket-takers for India against England in England:
- For India, eight bowlers have taken 30 or more Test wickets in England, with Ishant Sharma topping the charts. Anil Kumble (36), Bishen Singh Bedi (35), Mohammad Shami (34), Bhagawath Chandrasekhar (31) and Zaheer Khan (31) are the others to do so.
- Among the India bowlers with at least 20 Test wickets in England, Bumrah’s average is the best followed by Zaheer’s of 27.96.
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Top 5 innings by India batters against England in England:
- Only Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar have registered Test double centuries in England among India batters.
- There are five others who have crossed the 150-run mark in an innings, namely Sachin Tendulkar, achieving it twice, and the likes of Ravi Shastri, Vinoo Mankad, Mohammad Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar doing it once.
- Tendulkar’s 193 is the highest Test score by an India batter in a winning cause in England.
Top 5 spells by India bowlers against England in England:
- 22 India bowlers have picked at least a five wicket haul in England and out of this, only Chetan Sharma has bagged a Ten-wicket haul in the country. He claimed match figures of 10/188 at Birmingham back in the 1986 tour.
- Ishant Sharma’s 7/74 are the best Test innings bowling figures for India in England and it came in a winning cause.
- Amar Singh was the first to bag a Test fifer for India in England, though the visitors lost the match.
- Bhagwath Chandrasekhar’s 6/38 are the best bowling figures by an India spinner in England.
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Top 3 innings totals for India against England in England:
- India have crossed the 500-run mark in six innings and their highest total is 664 that they made at the Oval back in 2007. Three of those big totals came at the Oval.
- The highest winning innings total is the 628 which they made in the famous Leeds Test, where three of the batting mainstays namely, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly made centuries.
Top 3 victories by India in terms of runs (including innings wins) against England in England:
Top 5 victories by India in terms of wickets against England in England:
- India have won just the three Tests in England by wickets. All of them are listed above and the win at Nottingham in 1971 is their first in the country.
- Incidentally, all three of these wins in terms of wickets, has resulted in a series win for India.
- Only once India has won by an innings margin in England and it was the Leeds back in the 2002 series.
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Most catches by an India fielder against England in England:
Most dismissals by an India wicket-keeper against England in England:
- KL Rahul has made the most dismissals for India in a single innings (four) and Rahul Dravid has the most dismissals (19) by a non-wicketkeeper in England.
- Among wicket-keepers, MS Dhoni has affected the most dismissals for India.
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