Arun Jaitley Stadium Test records: Delhi Test match records and highest successful run chase

The second Test match of the ongoing Australia’s tour of India in Delhi will commence from tomorrow after a three-day break got converted into a five-day break due to the hasty culmination of the first Test match in Nagpur last week.

Arun Jaitley Stadium, which had hosted South Africa for matches in both the white-ball formats last year, will be hosting a Test match after more than half-a-decade.

India, who’ve played each one of the 35 Tests in the national capital starting from 1948, have won 13 and lost six while drawing the remaining 15 matches over the years.

Australia, on the other hand, have won one and lost three out of their seven Test matches here. Set to play a Test at this venue after a decade, senior Australian cricketers namely David Warner, Steven Smith and Nathan Lyon were part of their Playing XI in 2013.

Arun Jaitley Stadium Test records

Highest Test run-scorers at the Arun Jaitley Stadium are Sachin Tendulkar (759), Dilip Vengsarkar (671), Sunil Gavaskar (668), Rahul Dravid (635) and Sourav Ganguly (582). Best Test batters here among active cricketers are:

Batter	Matches	Runs	Highest	Average	100	50
Virat Kohli (IND)	3	467	243	77.83	1	2
Cheteshwar Pujara (IND)	3	248	82*	49.6	0	2
Ajinkya Rahane (IND)	3	246	127	49.2	2	0
Dinesh Chandimal (SL)	1	200	164	100	1	0
Shikhar Dhawan (IND)	2	144	67	36	0	1

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Unlike the batters, there are a couple of active cricketers in the list of highest wicket-takers in Test matches played at this stadium. Historically, Anil Kumble (58), Kapil Dev (32), Ravichandran Ashwin (28), Bhagwath Chandrasekar (23) and Vinoo Mankad (22). As far as current cricketers are concerned, the best bowlers are:

Bowlers	Matches	Wickets	Average	Economy	SR
Ravichandran Ashwin (IND)	4	27	20.11	2.35	51.2
Ravindra Jadeja (IND)	3	19	16.89	1.72	58.7
Nathan Lyon (AUS)	1	9	18.33	4.26	25.7
Ishant Sharma (IND)	5	9	49.11	2.86	103
Umesh Yadav (IND)	2	7	18.42	2.18	50.5

Highest innings totals in Delhi Test matches and highest successful run chase

Score	Overs	Team	Opposition	Year
644/8d	214	West Indies	India	1959
631	183.4	West Indies	India	1948
613/7d	161	India	Australia	2008
577	179.3	Australia	India	2008
566/8d	142.2	India	West Indies	1979

A total of 11 run-chases have been sealed in the 35 Tests played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The record for the highest successful run-chase is jointly shared by West Indies (in 1987) and India (in 2011) for chasing down a 276-run target against one another.