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India's Biggest Test Wins

 India used that knowledge to impose themselves on Australia in the second innings on Monday evening. "We bowled close to 32 odd overs and gave away 72 or 73 runs. We had runs in hand, and we were waiting for the ball to turn soft. It's one of the reasons why we wanted Ishant with the semi-new ball today. He got us that important breakthrough and because of that we were able to put pressure on their batting." India's tweakers made an early impact far earlier in the innings to leave Australia yet again hoping for a Michael Clarke special.

Matches played (by country)

Team	Opponent	1st Test	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	% Won	W/L ratio
India	Australia	1947	84	22	38	23	1	26.19	0.58
	Bangladesh	2000	7	6	0	1	0	85.71	--
	England	1932	107	20	40	47	0	18.69	0.5
	New Zealand	1955	52	18	9	25	0	34.51	2.0
	Pakistan	1952	59	9	12	38	0	15.25	0.75
	South Africa	1992	27	7	12	8	0	25.92	0.58
	Sri Lanka	1982	35	14	6	15	0	40.00	2.33
	West Indies	1948	88	14	30	44	0	15.90	0.68
	Zimbabwe	1992	11	7	2	2	0	63.63	3.5

Individual records (appearances)

 

Most career matches

1	196	Sachin Tendulkar	1989-
2	163	Rahul Dravid	1996–2012
3	134	VVS Laxman	1996-2012
4	132	Anil Kumble	1990-2008
5	131	Kapil Dev	1978-1994
6	125	Sunil Gavaskar	1971-1987
7	116	Dilip Vengsarkar	1976-1992
8	113	Sourav Ganguly	1996-2008
9	103	Virender Sehwag	2001
10	101	Harbhajan Singh	1998

Individual records (batting)

 

Highest individual score

Rank	Runs	Player	Match	Venue	Season
1	319	Virender Sehwag	South Africa	Chennai	2008
2	309	Virender Sehwag	Pakistan	Multan	2004
3	293	Virender Sehwag	Sri Lanka	Mumbai	2009
4	281	VVS Laxman	Australia	Kolkata	2001
5	270	Rahul Dravid	Pakistan	Rawalpindi	2004
6	254	Virender Sehwag	Pakistan	Lahore	2006
7	248*	Sachin Tendulkar	Bangladesh	Dhaka	2004
8	241*	Sachin Tendulkar	Australia	Sydney	2004
9	239	Sourav Ganguly	Pakistan	Bangalore	2007
10	236*	Sunil Gavaskar	West Indies	Chennai	1983

Individual records (bowling)

 

Most career wickets

Rank	Wickets	Player	Matches	Average
1	619	Anil Kumble	132	29.65
2	434	Kapil Dev	131	29.64
3	413	Harbhajan Singh	101	32.35
4	295	Zaheer Khan	88	32.35
5	266	Bishen Singh Bedi	67	28.71

Most career 10-wickets-in-a-match

 

 

Rank	10s	Player	Matches	Wickets	BBM	Average
1	8	Anil Kumble	132	619	14/149	29.65
2	5	Harbhajan Singh	101	413	15/217	32.37
3	2	Ravichandran Ashwin	14	78	12/85	29.62
		Irfan Pathan	29	100	12/126	32.26
		Maninder Singh	35	88	14/90	37.36
		Erapalli Prasanna	49	189	11/140	30.38
		Vinoo Mankad	44	162	13/131	32.32
		BS Chandrasekhar	58	242	12/104	29.74
		Kapil Dev	131	434	11/146	29.64
4	1	Jasubhai Patel	7	29	14/124	21.96

Individual records (fielding)

 

Most dismissals in Test career (wicketkeeper)

Rank	Dismissals	Player	Caught	Stumped	Matches	Innings
1	237	MS Dhoni	205	32	75	138
2	198	Syed Kirmani	160	38	88	151
3	130	Kiran More	110	20	49	90
4	107	Nayan Mongia	99	8	44	77
5	82	Farokh Engineer	66	16	46	83
6	51	Naren Tamhane	35	16	21	35
7	50	Dinesh Karthik	45	5	23	30
8	49	Parthiv Patel	41	8	20	37
9	31	Khokhan Sen	20	11	14	21
10	28	Budhi Kunderan	21	7	18	26

Highest partnerships by runs

 

Rank	Partnership	Runs	Players	Opposition	Venue	Year
1	1st wicket	413	Vinoo Mankad & Pankaj Roy	New Zealand	Chennai	1956
2	1st wicket	410	Virender Sehwag & Rahul Dravid	Pakistan	Lahore	2006
3	5th wicket	376	VVS Laxman & Rahul Dravid	Australia	Kolkata	2001
4	2nd wicket	370	Cheteshwar Pujara & Murali Vijay	Australia	Hyderabad	2013
5	4th wicket	353	Sachin Tendulkar & VVS Laxman	Australia	Sydney	2004
6	2nd wicket	344*	Sunil Gavaskar & Dilip Vengsarkar	West Indies	Kolkata	1978
7	3rd wicket	336	Virender Sehwag & Sachin Tendulkar	Pakistan	Multan	2004
8	3rd wicket	316	Gundappa Viswanath & Yashpal Sharma	England	Chennai	1982
9	2nd wicket	314	Gautam Gambhir & Rahul Dravid	England	Mohali	2008
10	3rd wicket	308	Murali Vijay & Sachin Tendulkar	Australia	Bangalore	2010