Most runs in Border-Gavaskar Trophy history

India will be hosting Australia in the four-match Test series, also known as Border-Gavaskar Trophy, starting on February 9 in Nagpur. India must win the series or register two wins to boost their hopes for the World Test Championship final. Australian team ranks first in the current ICC Test team’s chart but will find it tough to dominate India on their home turf.

Cheteshwar Pujara recently completed 7000 runs in Test cricket and is the highest run-scorer among the active leading run-getters in Border-Gavaskar Trophy history with 1893 runs from 20 Tests. In-form Steve Smith has scored 1742 runs from just 14 Tests in Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Virat Kohli is not far behind with 1682 runs in this chart but all these three batters are not among the top five leading run-getters in Border-Gavaskar Trophy history. So, let’s look at the top three cricketers with the most runs in Border-Gavaskar Trophy history.

3) 2434 runs – VVS Laxman

Laxman scored 2434 runs from 29 Tests against Australia at an average of 49.67 with six centuries and 12 half-centuries. He enjoyed playing against mighty Australia and always left his mark, including his famous 281-run knock at Eden Gardens in 2001.

2) 2555 runs – Ricky Ponting

The former Australian captain scored 13378 runs from 168 Tests, the second-highest in format history, and almost half of those runs came against India, England, and South Africa. His top performances came against India as he scored 2555 runs from just 29 Tests at an average of 54.36 with eight hundreds and 12 fifties. Ponting’s career-best knock of 257 at Melbourne Cricket Ground came against India during the Boxing Day clash in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2003-04.

1) 3262 runs – Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin scored almost 16000 runs in Tests, so it is hard to witness any scoring record chart without his name at the top. Sachin is the only cricketer to score more than 3000 runs against Australia as he top-scored 3262 runs in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at a staggering average of 56.24 with nine centuries and 16 fifties.