| Batting Position | Matches | Inns | Runs | HS | Avg | 100s/50s | Not Outs | 0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opener | 50 | 87 | 3039 | 199 | 36.17 | 8/15 | 3 | 7 |
| No. 3 | 5 | 7 | 112 | 54 | 16.00 | 0/1 | 0 | 1 |
| No. 4 | 1 | 2 | 108 | 86 | 54.00 | 0/1 | 0 | 0 |
| No. 6 | 6 | 9 | 234 | 101 | 29.25 | 1/1 | 1 | 1 |
| Overall | 60 | 105 | 3493 | 199 | 34.58 | 9/18 | 4 | 9 |
More KL Rahul Stats
KL Rahul – Captaincy Record – Test, ODI, T20I, & IPL
KL Rahul – Test Runs against Each Team
KL Rahul – Test Runs in Each Country
KL Rahul – Test Runs by Batting Position
KL Rahul – Test Runs Year-wise
KL Rahul – ODI Runs by Batting Position
KL Rahul – T20I Runs Year-wise
Key Insights
KL Rahul has been moved up and down in India’s ODI batting setup. But the picture is slightly different in Test cricket.
While he has batted at a few positions, it’s the opening slot where he has found his feet in the whites. Rahul is the fifth Indian batter to play 50 Tests as an opener.
More than 85 percent of Rahul’s Test career runs have come as an opener. He is one of the seven Indian batters to score 2500-plus Test runs as openers.
Most of his Test hundreds have come in the opening position. Rahul is one of the 11 Indian openers with five or more centuries. And he is among the six Indian batters with 20 or more fifty-plus scores as openers.
Rahul’s highest Test score of 199 also came while opening the innings against England in the 2016 Chennai Test.
The Karnataka batter’s only Test hundred outside the opening slot came at No. 6. He scored an impressive 101-run knock against South Africa on a tough Centurion deck in December 2023. This was only the second time he slotted in as a No. 6 batter in Tests!
Rahul is one of the six Indian batters to average above 30 as a No. 1 batter (minimum 1500 runs).
Four of Rahul’s Test hundreds came against England as an opener. This is the joint-most hundreds by an Indian opener against England in Tests. Explore which Indian batters have scored most centuries in IND vs ENG Tests here.
Likewise, he is one of the three Indian batters to score 1000-plus runs against England as an opener in Tests. And Rahul is one of the five Indian openers with 800-plus Test runs against Australia. Learn more about KL Rahul’s opponent-wise Test batting records here.
