Indian batsmen scoring 200 plus runs in Test innings

Indian batsmen scoring 200 plus runs in Test innings

RG Sharma scored 212 at Ranchi in the ongoing third test against South Africa to provide the 54th occasion of an Indian batsman scoring 200 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below. It also represents a ground record for the highest individual innings by a batsman at Ranchi. The previous best was 206 by CA Pujara against Australia in Mar 2017

No Player Runs Inns Opposition Ground Start Date
1 PR Umrigar 223 1 v New Zealand Hyd-LBS 19 Nov 1955
2 MH Mankad 223 1 v New Zealand Mumbai (BS) 02 Dec 1955
3 MH Mankad 231 1 v New Zealand Chennai 06 Jan 1956
4 MAK Pataudi 203* 3 v England Delhi 08 Feb 1964
5 DN Sardesai 200* 3 v New Zealand Mumbai (BS) 12 Mar 1965
6 DN Sardesai 212 1 v West Indies Kingston 18 Feb 1971
7 SM Gavaskar 220 3 v West Indies Port of Spain 13 Apr 1971
8 SM Gavaskar 205 1 v West Indies Mumbai 01 Dec 1978
9 SM Gavaskar 221 4 v England The Oval 30 Aug 1979
10 GR Viswanath 222 1 v England Chennai 13 Jan 1982
11 AD Gaekwad 201 2 v Pakistan Jalandhar 24 Sep 1983
12 SM Gavaskar 236* 2 v West Indies Chennai 24 Dec 1983
13 SV Manjrekar 218 1 v Pakistan Lahore 01 Dec 1989
14 RJ Shastri 206 2 v Australia Sydney 02 Jan 1992
15 VG Kambli 224 2 v England Mumbai 19 Feb 1993
16 VG Kambli 227 1 v Zimbabwe Delhi 13 Mar 1993
17 NS Sidhu 201 2 v West Indies Port of Spain 14 Mar 1997
18 SR Tendulkar 217 1 v New Zealand Ahmedabad 29 Oct 1999
19 R Dravid 200* 2 v Zimbabwe Delhi 18 Nov 2000
20 SR Tendulkar 201* 1 v Zimbabwe Nagpur 25 Nov 2000
21 VVS Laxman 281 3 v Australia Kolkata 11 Mar 2001
22 R Dravid 217 2 v England The Oval 05 Sep 2002
23 R Dravid 222 1 v New Zealand Ahmedabad 08 Oct 2003
24 R Dravid 233 2 v Australia Adelaide 12 Dec 2003
25 SR Tendulkar 241* 1 v Australia Sydney 02 Jan 2004
26 V Sehwag 309 1 v Pakistan Multan 28 Mar 2004
27 R Dravid 270 2 v Pakistan Rawalpindi 13 Apr 2004
28 SR Tendulkar 248* 2 v Bangladesh Dhaka 10 Dec 2004
29 V Sehwag 201 2 v Pakistan Bengaluru 24 Mar 2005
30 V Sehwag 254 2 v Pakistan Lahore 13 Jan 2006
31 W Jaffer 212 3 v West Indies St John’s 02 Jun 2006
32 W Jaffer 202 1 v Pakistan Kolkata 30 Nov 2007
33 SC Ganguly 239 1 v Pakistan Bengaluru 08 Dec 2007
34 V Sehwag 319 2 v South Africa Chennai 26 Mar 2008
35 V Sehwag 201* 1 v Sri Lanka Galle 31 Jul 2008
36 G Gambhir 206 1 v Australia Delhi 29 Oct 2008
37 VVS Laxman 200* 1 v Australia Delhi 29 Oct 2008
38 V Sehwag 293 2 v Sri Lanka Mumbai (BS) 02 Dec 2009
39 SR Tendulkar 203 2 v Sri Lanka Colombo (SSC) 26 Jul 2010
40 SR Tendulkar 214 2 v Australia Bengaluru 09 Oct 2010
41 CA Pujara 206* 1 v England Ahmedabad 15 Nov 2012
42 MS Dhoni 224 2 v Australia Chennai 22 Feb 2013
43 CA Pujara 204 2 v Australia Hyd-RGS 02 Mar 2013
44 V Kohli 200 1 v West Indies North Sound 21 Jul 2016
45 V Kohli 211 1 v New Zealand Indore 08 Oct 2016
46 V Kohli 235 2 v England Mumbai 08 Dec 2016
47 KK Nair 303* 2 v England Chennai 16 Dec 2016
48 V Kohli 204 1 v Bangladesh Hyd-RGS 09 Feb 2017
49 CA Pujara 202 2 v Australia Ranchi 16 Mar 2017
50 V Kohli 213 2 v Sri Lanka Nagpur 24 Nov 2017
51 V Kohli 243 1 v Sri Lanka Delhi 02 Dec 2017
52 MA Agarwal 215 1 v South Africa Visakhapatnam 02 Oct 2019
53 V Kohli 254* 1 v South Africa Pune 10 Oct 2019
54 RG Sharma 212 1 v South Africa Ranchi 19 Oct 2019

It also represents a ground record for the highest individual innings by a batsman at Ranchi. The previous best was 206 by CA Pujara against Australia in Mar 2017

No Player Runs Inns Opposition Ground Start Date
1 CA Pujara 202 2 v Australia Ranchi 16 Mar 2017
2 RG Sharma 212 1 v South Africa Ranchi 19 Oct 2019

It also represents the fourth occasion of an Indian batsman scoring 200 plus runs in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No Player Runs Inns Opposition Ground Start Date
1 V Sehwag 319 2 v South Africa Chennai 26 Mar 2008
2 MA Agarwal 215 1 v South Africa Visakhapatnam 02 Oct 2019
3 V Kohli 254* 1 v South Africa Pune 10 Oct 2019
4 RG Sharma 212 1 v South Africa Ranchi 19 Oct 2019
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