What is the highest successful target chased against India in Test cricket as England face uphill task?

India have set a 399-run target against England in their bid to bounce again in the five-match sequence against Ben Stokes’ males. Rohit Sharma‘s troops are already 1-0 down in the Test sequence and so they now look to realize parity in the second Test at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam. On the again of Shubman Gill‘s century, the hosts racked up 255 runs in the second innings, including to their 143-run lead in the first innings.

Gill lastly arrived in his new function in his eleventh Test outing at quantity three. He had no scores of over 50 batting at one down, however on this event, he scored a vital knock, which was the important cog for India in the second innings. Apart from the century, no different batter was capable of get a fifty with Axar Patel’s 45 being the subsequent highest rating. However, England are up against an uphill activity in the fourth innings.

What is the highest target chased against India?

There have been solely two cases of groups chasing over 300 scores against India in Test cricket. The report for the highest successful run chase against the Men in Blue is at the moment held by England solely, a feat which they achieved one and a half years in the past. That occasion came about when India toured England for the one-off rescheduled Test in July 2022, which was a part of the five-match sequence in 2021. 

Notably, the different 300-plus rating chased against India is 339 by Australia in 1977. Notably, the highest rating chased in India is 387 which the Men in Blue achieved in 2008 against England in Chennai. The highest target hunted down in Asia is 395, carried out by West Indies against Bangladesh in 2021 Chattogram Test.

India’s Playing XI:

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mukesh Kumar

England’s Playing XI:

Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson