Stats : India's current top order at home and away from home in Test cricket since 2016

Virat Kohli has scored more than 500 runs and 2 hundreds in five away Test matches this year.

Virat Kohli has scored more than 500 runs away from home in Test cricket in 2018 (Photo - getty)

2018 is turning out to be a nightmare year for most of the Indian batsmen. All those batsmen who were scoring fifties and hundreds for fun at home in the last two and three years are struggling even to score in double digits.

This year India has played five Tests away from home (3 in South Africa and 2 in England) and in those 5 Tests, except captain Virat Kohli no one could score anything substantial. And in the 10 innings of these five Tests, a total of six fifty-plus scores have been scored by Indian batsmen and 4 of them came from Virat Kohli's bat.

India could have done better had other Indian batsman supported captain Kohli who scored more than 500 runs and was leading run scorer in South Africa from either side and has also scored most runs in India - England Test series. 

Here is a look at India's top order batsmen's home and away from performance in Test cricket since Jan 2016 -

1. At home since Jan 2016 - Cheteshwar Pujara (Photo - getty)

 Player  Tests   Inns   NO   Runs   Avg  HS     100   50 
 Virat Kohli    15  26  3  1862  80.95    243   7  3
 Cheteshwar Pujara   17  29  2  1640  60.74  202  5  9
 Murali Vijay  15  25  0  1168  46.72  155  6  3
 KL Rahul  12  19  1  848  47.11  199  1  8
 Ajinkya Rahane  15  26  2  745  31.04  188  1  3
 R Ashwin  17  22  0  502  22.81  72  0  4
 Shikhar Dhawan  4  7  0  317  45.28  107  1  2

- Five Indian batsmen average more than 45 in home Test matches since the start of 2016 and total 21 hundreds have been scored by these batsmen.


2. In Sri Lanka and West Indies since Jan 2016 -Shikhar Dhawan (photo - getty)

 Player  Tests   Inns   NO   Runs   Avg  HS    100   50 
 Virat Kohli   7  8  1  412  58.85   200  2  0
 Cheteshwar Pujara   6  6  0  371  61.83  153  2  0
 Murali Vijay  2  1  0  7  7  7  0   0
 KL Rahul  5  5  0  378  75.60  158  1  3
 Ajinkya Rahane  7  8  3  472  94.40   132  2  2
 R Ashwin  7  7  0  367  52.42  118  2  1
 Shikhar Dhawan  6  8  0  496  62.00  190  2  1

- total 11 hundreds have been scored by all these Indian batsmen and among the top order batsmen only Murali Vijay couldn't score in triple figures who played only one innings and missed remaining Test matches due to injury. 


3. In South Africa and England in 2018 -Virat Kohli scored 153 runs against South Africa in Centurion Test (Photo - getty)

 Player  Tests   Inns   NO   Runs   Avg     HS    100   50 
 Virat Kohli   5  10  0  526   52.60   153  2  2
 Cheteshwar Pujara   4  8  0  118  14.75  50  0  1
 Murali Vijay  5  10  0  128  12.80  46  0  0
 KL Rahul  4  8  0  65  8.12  16  0  0
 Ajinkya Rahane  3  6  0  105  17.50  48  0  0
 R Ashwin  4  8  1  175  25.00  38  0  0
 Shikhar Dhawan  2  4  0  71  17.75  26  0  0

- Only 2 hundreds and both hundreds have been scored by Virat Kohli and rest batsmen could score only one fifty among them. 


4. The difference in Test batting average at home and combined Test batting average in South Africa and England since Jan 2016 -

Cheteshwar Pujara: 45.99

KL Rahul: 39.03

Murali Vijay: 33.92

Shikhar Dhawan: 27.53

Ajinkya Rahane: 13.54

R Ashwin:  -2.19

 
 

By Jasveer Singh Kharra - 16 Aug, 2018

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