India's tour of England began with a three-match T20I series on 3 July, in T20Is team India beat England by 2-1 and won their first T20I series in England while in ODIs hosts England bounced back and defeated India in the last two ODIs after losing the first one and clinched the three-match ODI series by 2-1. Now both the teams will compete in the 5 match Test series that starts on 1 August at Edgbaston in Manchester. Team India have been the best team in this format for the last two years and will be eying their first Test series victory in England after 11 years. And here is a look at England vs India Test history.
All the major stats and numbers you need to know about England vs India Test history :
1. Head to Head -
Venue | Matches | Won by IND | Won by ENG | Drawn | Tied |
England | 57 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 0 |
India | 60 | 19 | 13 | 28 | 0 |
Neutral | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Overall | 117 | 25 | 43 | 49 | 0 |
2. Leading run scorers -
Player | Tests | Inns | NO | Runs | Avg | Best | 100 | 50 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 32 | 53 | 4 | 2535 | 51.73 | 193 | 7 | 13 |
Sunil Gavaskar | 38 | 67 | 2 | 2483 | 38.20 | 221 | 4 | 16 |
Alastair Cook | 25 | 45 | 3 | 2104 | 50.09 | 294 | 6 | 8 |
Rahul Dravid | 21 | 37 | 5 | 1950 | 60.93 | 217 | 7 | 8 |
Gundappa Viswanath | 30 | 54 | 4 | 1880 | 37.60 | 222 | 4 | 12 |
Graham Gooch | 19 | 33 | 2 | 1725 | 55.64 | 333 | 5 | 8 |
Dilip Vengsarkar | 26 | 43 | 6 | 1589 | 42.94 | 157 | 5 | 6 |
Kevin Pietersen | 16 | 28 | 1 | 1581 | 58.55 | 202* | 6 | 6 |
David Gower | 24 | 37 | 6 | 1391 | 44.87 | 200* | 2 | 6 |
Ken Barrington | 14 | 21 | 3 | 1355 | 75.27 | 172 | 3 | 9 |
3. Leading wicket takers -
Player | Tests | Inns | Wkts | Avg | BBI | 5w | 10w |
B Chandrasekhar | 23 | 38 | 95 | 27.27 | 8/79 | 8 | 0 |
Anil Kumble | 19 | 36 | 92 | 30.59 | 7/115 | 4 | 1 |
James Anderson | 22 | 42 | 86 | 28.17 | 5/42 | 3 | 0 |
Bishan Singh Bedi | 22 | 36 | 85 | 29.87 | 6/71 | 4 | 0 |
Kapil Dev | 27 | 48 | 85 | 37.34 | 6/91 | 4 | 0 |
Bob Willis | 17 | 30 | 62 | 23.24 | 6/53 | 3 | 0 |
Derek Underwood | 20 | 36 | 62 | 27.40 | 5/84 | 1 | 0 |
Ian Botham | 14 | 23 | 59 | 26.40 | 7/48 | 6 | 1 |
Vinoo Mankad | 11 | 19 | 54 | 23.12 | 8/55 | 3 | 1 |
Stuart Broad | 15 | 26 | 54 | 24.48 | 6/25 | 2 | 0 |