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Over the course of the past several decades, India versus England or England versus India has been a huge rivlary. Maybe today, an India versus West Indies doesn't inspire that much fan attention as it did back in the day but pure gritty Test battles such as India against Australia and England versus India have reached epic statues in the highest firmament of the sport.
But having said that which Indian batters have gone on to record highest individual Test knocks against England, thus birthing some really epic beauties from the bat?
Look nowhere else, for we have that covered for you.
Top Test scores by Indians against England
Virat Kohli's 235
Virat Kohli should have ideally been on this current tour to England. Instead, he's now suddenly a former Test cricketer. This isn't just the sentiment of the author of this piece, but rather that of most cricket fans who adore the great right hander, a legend of the game.
And in scoring his dominant 235 at home in India, Virat Kohli reached a career high of 235, his highest individual Test score, which was struck in the year 2016. On account of his genius with the bat, his team reached a mighty total of 631, and Kohli struck 25 fours and 1 six during a 515 minute stay at the wicket.
Mumbai regaled on that occasion being witness to the great knock and so did India, on the whole. Not sure about England though, who suffered an innings defeat.
G.R. Viswanath's 222
It is quite a shame that despite all his classical deeds as a batter and for transforming the skill called batting into an artform, G.R. Viswanath isn't quite talked about as much as he deserves in this day and age, especially where batting has come to sport a brutal form instead of a classical form.
But back in the day, Viswanath's 222 in Chennai, then Madras against England in 1982, was one of the most distinguished and brilliant innings that truly epitomised grace under pressure. It remains the right-hander's finest ever century versus the English.
Sir Sunil Gavaskar's 221
Back at The Oval in 1979, Sir Gavaskar, also called "Sunny G" nowadays, had scored a great and gritty 221 on a seaming track. It remains one of the most dogged centuries ever scored in English conditions. Such remarkable was his form back then that in that series, some of Sir Gavaskar's other scores read - 61 and 68 at Edgbaston, 42 and 59 at the Lord's and then, the Oval-bound contest that yielded 13 and that 221.
Truly, the little master!
Rahul Dravid's 217
'The Wall', the 'Mr. Dependable' and the man who always put the interest of the team over his ambitions, Dravid considered to be one of the most technically correct batters had scored a fantastic 217 back in the day in England.
The beauty of his double ton was the fact that not only did Rahul Dravid scored his runs against a quartet comprising Caddick, Tudor, Cork and Hoggard, he ended up spending 629 minutes out in the middle for his country.
In that series itself, the gritty right hander scored 602 runs for India. Not called the Wall for nothing!
Cheteshwar Pujara 206*
The man who was considered the next 'Wall' in the works especially since Rahul Dravid's retirement, Pujara's best score in a Test match against England, to say specifically, is that 206 that came back in 2012 during the first Test of England's tour of India. In Ahmedabad, not technically his home ground, albeit the surface in his home state of Gujarat, Pujara was at his patient and defiant best in scoring his first double ton against England.
He faced Anderson, Broad, Swann and even Bresnand and scored on the whole 247 unbeaten runs, ending up undefeated in both innings of the game.
