India’s Highest Test Run-Scorers in Every Calendar Year

Sachin Tendulkar, the legendary Indian cricketer, made his debut on November 15th, 1989. Twenty-four years later, at Wankhede, he played his last Test match in 2013. Since then, he topped the top-scoring Indian Test batsmen list in eight calendar years.

We thought we would cover the leading runs scorers for India in Tests in every calendar year since 1989, which will be a valuable addition to our calendar year records section.

So here it is, the Indian highest Test runs scorers – year by year.

YEAR	MOST RUNS SCORER	RUNS	INNS	AVERAGE	HIGH SCORE	100s
1989	Sanjay Manjarekar	769	13	64.08	218	3
1990	Mohammed Azharuddin	752	10	75.20	192	3
1991	Manoj Prabhakar	110	4	36.66	54*	0
1992	Sachin Tendulkar	419	11	41.90	148*	3
1993	Vinod Kambli	793	8	113.29	227	4
1994	Sachin Tendulkar	700	11	70.00	179	2
1995	Ajay Jadeja	180	4	45.00	73	0
1996	Sachin Tendulkar	623	15	41.53	177	2
1997	Sachin Tendulkar	1000	17	62.50	169	4
1998	Sachin Tendulkar	647	9	80.88	177	3
1999	Sachin Tendulkar	1088	19	68.00	217	5
2000	Rahul Dravid	624	11	78.00	200*	2
2001	Sachin Tendulkar	1003	18	62.69	155	3
2002	Sachin Tendulkar	1392	26	55.68	193	4
2003	Rahul Dravid	803	10	100.38	233	2
2004	Virender Sehwag	1141	19	63.39	309	3
2005	Virender Sehwag	702	12	63.82	201	2
2006	Rahul Dravid	1095	22	60.83	146	3
2007	Sourav Ganguly	1106	19	61.44	239	3
2008	Virender Sehwag	1462	27	56.23	319	6
2009	Rahul Dravid	747	10	83.00	177	2
2010	Sachin Tendulkar	1562	23	78.10	214	7
2011	Rahul Dravid	1145	23	57.25	146*	5
2012	Virat Kohli	689	16	49.21	116	3
2013	Cheteshwar Pujara	829	13	75.36	204	3
2014	Murali VIjay	852	20	42.60	146	2
2015	Virat Kohli	640	15	42.67	147	2
2016	Virat Kohli	1215	18	75.94	235	4
2017	Cheteshwar Pujara	1140	18	67.06	202	4
2018	Virat Kohli	1322	24	55.08	153	5
2019	Mayank Agarwal	754	11	68.55	243	2
2020	Ajinkya Rahane	272	8	38.86	112	1
2021	Rohit Sharma	906	21	47.68	161	2

Stats Highlights

Players who have topped the chart in more than one years, since 1989, are

1. Sachin Tendulkar – 8
2. Rahul Dravid – 5
3. Virat Kohli – 4
4. Virender Sehwag – 3
5. Cheteshwar Pujara – 2

Tendulkar topped the overall chart twice in his Test career in 1999 & 2010, whereas Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid ended up the highest calendar year run-scorer once each in Test cricket.

Sunil Gavaskar, on the other hand, topped the overall chart four times in his career before 1989. Check here for the overall calendar year top-scorers chart for every year since 1877.

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for most Test centuries in a calendar year among the Indian batsmen – 7 in 2010. Read here to know who holds the record overall.

Virender Sehwag, the only Indian batsman to score two triple centuries in Test cricket, featured thrice in this chart, with his big knocks splitting every year.