Since 25 June 1932, when the Indian cricket team played their first-ever Test match, they have played 543 Test matches until December 2020. The country features a total of 296 cricketers in the longest format of the game. Very few players in each generation could stick to the format for a long time.
India has only two entries in the elite list of cricketers who have played more than 150 Test matches: Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, who ranks 1 and 2 in the list of Indian players with the most runs in Test.
This article lists the top 10 Test run-scorers among the Indian batsmen and a few key facts relevant to the table below.
| PLAYERS | MATCHES | INNS | RUNS | AVERAGE | HS | 100/50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S TENDULKAR | 200 | 329 | 15921 | 53.78 | 248* | 51/68 |
| R DRAVID | 163 | 284 | 13265 | 52.63 | 270 | 36/63 |
| S GAVASKAR | 125 | 214 | 10122 | 51.12 | 236* | 34/45 |
| V KOHLI | 123 | 210 | 9230 | 46.85 | 254* | 30/31 |
| VVS LAXMAN | 134 | 225 | 8781 | 45.97 | 281 | 17/56 |
| V SEHWAG | 103 | 178 | 8503 | 49.43 | 319 | 23/31 |
| S GANGULY | 113 | 188 | 7212 | 42.17 | 239 | 16/35 |
| C PUJARA | 103 | 176 | 7195 | 43.60 | 206* | 19/35 |
| D VENGARSARKAR | 116 | 185 | 6868 | 42.13 | 166 | 17/35 |
| M AZHARUDDIN | 99 | 147 | 6215 | 45.03 | 199 | 22/21 |
Key Facts
Among the cricketers who have scored more than 10000 Test runs, India has 3 of them: Tendulkar, Dravid, and Sunil Gavaskar.
The former Indian batsman, Sunil Gavaskar is the first overall cricketer to reach 10K runs in Test cricket.
