Indian Openers With Most Centuries In Test: KL Rahul has continued to make the most of his peak form as he slammed his third Test century of 2025, to go with two fifties, in his 7th Test match this year, as his ton helped India take the lead in the ongoing first Test against the West Indies.
In Indiaâ€s first innings of the IND vs WI Ahmedabad Test, the senior India opener batted with elite control—ESPNcricinfo recorded Rahul to have had 90% control at the time of reaching his century—against a lackluster West Indies bowling attack thatâ€s missing two of their frontline quicks.
While Yashasvi Jaiswal (36) and Shubman Gill (50) also got starts, the younger duo failed to capitalize on it. But Rahul, who currently has scored the most runs as an opener in Test cricket in 2025 in the world, jogged on his terrific batting momentum from the Test series in England earlier this year.
Ahead of the Ahmedabad Test against the West Indies, Rahul had played a splendid innings of 176* for India A against Australia A to help his side chase down a mammoth target of 412 runs.
KL Rahul has simply been outstanding since his return to the Test side as an opener in the BGT 2024/25 last November. Since his return to the XI last year in Australia, no opener has managed more runs than Rahul in Tests.
Heâ€s averaging 52 as an opener in his last 10 Tests, including this one, scoring over 880 runs in this period. 2025 is already Rahulâ€s most prolific year in Test cricket, both in terms of runs and centuries.
Whoever the opposition has been—Australia, England, Australia A, or West Indies—Rahul has batted with a calm tempo, measuredness, assuredness, and his trademark leave to the deliveries outside the off-stump, shelving his bat behind his pad to avoid nicking.
This century against the West Indies in Ahmedabad is a significant moment for Rahul. While he has 9 Test centuries away from home, this is only his second Test hundred in India, the previous one coming way back in 2016.
Rahul has now also leaped ahead of Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma—Rahulâ€s current head coach at the Indian Team and former Test opening partner, respectively—on the list of Test centuries as an opener.
Gambhir and Rohit had hit nine Test hundreds as an opener each; Rahul now has 10 to his name, the fourth-highest for India. Ahead of Rahul are three former Indian openers: Sunil Gavaskar (33), Virender Sehwag (22), and Murali Vijay (12).
Top 5 Indian Openers With Most Centuries In Test Cricket:
- Sunil Gavaskar – 33
- Virender Sehwag – 22
- Murali Vijay – 12
- KL Rahul – 10
- Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma – 9
As an opener, KL Rahul is the fifth-leading run-scorer for India, behind Gavaskar, Sehwag, Gambhir, and Vijay.
Meanwhile, talking about the IND vs WI Ahmedabad Test, at lunch on day 2, India have a lead of 56 runs. India bowled the visitors out for only 162 on day 1, courtesy of Mohammed Sirajâ€s four-wicket haul. In reply, India are 218/3 at the time of writing, with Rahul batting on 100*.
IND vs WI Playing XIs:
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill (C), Sai Sudharsan, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Nitish Reddy, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj
West Indies: Shai Hope (wk), Khary Pierre, John Campbell, Alick Athanaze, Roston Chase (C), Jomel Warrican, Brandon King, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Justin Greaves, Johann Layne, Jayden Seales
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