Batting Records

IND vs ENG Test Records: Most Centuries

PlayerMatchesInnings100High Score
Joe Root (ENG)325910218
Rahul Dravid (IND)21377217
Sachin Tendulkar (IND)32537193
Alastair Cook (ENG)30547294
Mohammad Azharuddin (IND)15246182
Kevin Pietersen (ENG)16286202*
Ian Botham (ENG)14175208
Shubman Gill (IND)12225269
Rishabh Pant (IND)14255146
Graham Gooch (ENG)19335333

Key Insights

Joe Root is the lead century-maker in India-England Test matches. He is the only one to have 10 triple-digit scores.

Five of Root’s centuries came as England’s captain, the most for a skipper in India versus England Tests. Alastair Cook and Virat Kohli follow with four hundreds each.

Root is also the only batter with five or more centuries in winning causes in Tests between both sides. On the other hand, three of Rahul Dravid’s seven hundreds went in vain.

Yashasvi Jaiswal is the only batter to score multiple double hundreds in India versus England Tests.

Graham Gooch (333) and Karun Nair (303*) are the two batters to bring up Test triple centuries in India-England games. Gooch’s score is, of course, the highest between both teams.

Kapil Dev stormed to the fastest hundred in India versus England Tests. He took 86 balls to raise his century in the 1982 Kanpur Test.

Ian Botham smashed the quickest Test double hundred in India-England matches. He needed 220 balls to reach the 200-run mark in the 1982 Oval Test.

Gooch and Dilip Vengsarkar are the two batters with three centuries each at Lord’s in India-England Tests. Kevin Pietersen is the other batter with multiple tons.

Root and Dravid are the two batters with more than five Test centuries in English conditions. In India, though, only Cook has managed five centuries thus far.

Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest centurion in India-England Tests. He scored an unbeaten 119 at the age of 17 years and 107 days in the 1990 Manchester Test.

Geoff Boycott stands at the other end, with the last of his four hundreds coming at the age of 41 years and 63 days. He scored a 105-run knock in the 1981 Delhi Test.