England vs India Head to Head Stats & Records in Test Cricket

England vs India Head to Head in Test Cricket

England and India have faced each other in 141 Test matches, the first in 1932 and the latest beginning on 31 July 2025. England have won 53 and India 37, with 51 drawn or ended without a result. England lead by 16. The highest innings total England have made against India is 710, against India's best of 759. The lowest completed innings are 81 and 42 respectively. England batters have scored 140 centuries here, India batters 127. Scroll up for the match-by-match record. Updated 9 September, 2026.

India played their first Test match against England, at Lord's on 25 June 1932, and lost by 158 runs in three days despite twice reducing England to under 20 for 3. For the next four decades it was almost entirely one-way. India did not beat England until 1952 at Madras, and did not win a series in England until 1971, when Bhagwath Chandrasekhar took six in the second innings at The Oval and set up a four-wicket win. India's 42 all out at Lord's in 1974 - the lowest total in their Test history - belongs to that same period.

Home advantage has done the rest. Since 2000 India have won 14 of the 24 Tests played on their own pitches and lost five; England took 13 of the 20 played at home in the 2010s alone. Spin decides matches in India, the moving ball decides them in England, and that is why series between these two so often produce heavy individual results rather than close ones. India's 4-1 win at home in early 2024, sealed by an innings at Dharamsala, and England's 4-1 in 2018 are the pattern rather than the exception.

The scoring runs to extremes in both directions. India's 759 for 7 declared at Chennai in December 2016, built on Karun Nair's unbeaten 303, is the highest total in their Test history; England's 710 for 7 declared at Edgbaston in 2011 is their best against India. Set against that, England were bowled out for 81 at Ahmedabad in February 2021 in a day-night Test that barely lasted two days.

The newest chapter was also the closest. The 2025 series in England finished 2-2 - India by 336 runs at Edgbaston, England at Headingley and Lord's, Manchester drawn, and the decider at The Oval going India's way by six runs.