There are 18 occasions of an indian opening batsman scoring 200 plus runs in a test innings. The following table lists all such occasions. KL Rahul missed the bus narrowly when he was dismissed for 199 against England at Chennai in the going test

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	MH Mankad	223	1	v New Zealand	Mumbai (BS)	02 Dec 1955
2	MH Mankad	231	1	v New Zealand	Chennai	06 Jan 1956
3	DN Sardesai	200*	3	v New Zealand	Mumbai (BS)	12 Mar 1965
4	SM Gavaskar	220	3	v West Indies	Port of Spain	13 Apr 1971
5	SM Gavaskar	205	1	v West Indies	Mumbai	01 Dec 1978
6	SM Gavaskar	221	4	v England	The Oval	30 Aug 1979
7	AD Gaekwad	201	2	v Pakistan	Jalandhar	24 Sep 1983
8	RJ Shastri	206	2	v Australia	Sydney	02 Jan 1992
9	NS Sidhu	201	2	v West Indies	Port of Spain	14 Mar 1997
10	V Sehwag	309	1	v Pakistan	Multan	28 Mar 2004
11	V Sehwag	201	2	v Pakistan	Bangalore	24 Mar 2005
12	V Sehwag	254	2	v Pakistan	Lahore	13 Jan 2006
13	W Jaffer	212	3	v West Indies	St John’s	02 Jun 2006
14	W Jaffer	202	1	v Pakistan	Kolkata	30 Nov 2007
15	V Sehwag	319	2	v South Africa	Chennai	26 Mar 2008
16	V Sehwag	201*	1	v Sri Lanka	Galle	31 Jul 2008
17	G Gambhir	206	1	v Australia	Delhi	29 Oct 2008
18	V Sehwag	293	2	v Sri Lanka	Mumbai (BS)	02 Dec 2009