In the ongoing 4th Test match between India vs England at Ranchi, the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma reached a new milestone of completing 4000 runs in his Test career and also completed scoring 1000 runs against England in Test cricket. Here, in this article we will have a look at the leading run-scorers for India in Test cricket and where Rohit Sharma stands among them.
Most runs for India in Test cricket:
- Sachin Tendulkar - 15921 (329 inns)
- Rahul Dravid - 13265 (284 inns)
- Sunil Gavaskar - 10122 (214 inns)
- Virat Kohli - 8848 (191 inns)
- VVS Laxman - 8781 (225 inns)
- Virender Sehwag - 8503 (178 inns)
- Sourav Ganguly - 7212 (188 inns)
- Cheteshwar Pujara - 7195 (176 inns)
- Dilip Vengsarkar - 6868 (185 inns)
- Mohammad Azharuddin - 6215 (147 inns)
- Gundappa Viswanath - 6080 (155 inns)
- Kapil Dev - 5248 (184 inns)
- Ajinkya Rahane - 5077 (144 inns)
- MS Dhoni - 4876 (144 inns)
- Mohinder Amarnath - 4378 (113 inns)
- Gautam Gambhir - 4154 (104 inns)
- Rohit Sharma - 4003 (100 inns)
Rohit Sharma became the 17th batsman to complete 4000 runs for India in Test cricket.
Most runs for India vs England in Test cricket:
- Sachin Tendulkar - 2535 (53 inns)
- Sunil Gavaskar - 2483 (67 inns)
- Virat Kohli - 1991 (50 inns)
- Rahul Dravid - 1950 (37 inns)
- Gundappa Viswanath - 1880 (54 inns)
- Cheteshwar Pujara - 1778 (49 inns)
- Dilip Vengsarkar - 1589 (43 inns)
- Kapil Dev - 1355 (39 inns)
- Mohamamad Azharuddin - 1278 (24 inns)
- Vijay Manjrekar - 1181 (29 inns)
- MS Dhoni - 1157 (37 inns)
- Farokh Engineer - 1113 (33 inns)
- Ravichandran Ashwin - 1086 (37 inns)
- Ravi Shastri - 1026 (31 inns)
- Rohit Sharma - 1013 (25 inns)
- Ravindra Jadeja - 1012 (31 inns)
Today, Rohit Sharma became the 16th Indian player to complete 1000 runs against India in Test cricket.