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Kennington Oval Test Stats: India Last 10 Matches List At Oval London

Dixit Bhargav
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Kennington Oval Test Stats: India Last 10 Matches List At Oval London

Set to return to Kennington Oval after 11 months, the Indian cricket team will be playing a Test match at this iconic venue for the first time since their 158-run victory against hosts England almost 21 months ago.

India, however, will be facing a whole different challenge at this ground this time round. In what is going to be their second consecutive ICC World Test Championship final, they will be up against table-toppers Australia – a team they defeated 2-1 in Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this year.

Historically, the only two times when India had faced the Aussies at this stadium had come during ICC Cricket World Cup 1999 and ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. While they had lost the first match, they had ended up winning by 36 runs primarily because of Shikhar Dhawan‘s 17th ODI century four years ago.

In addition to the match witnessing Dhawan’s last international century, it is also remembered for the India captain Virat Kohli taking a stand for Steven Smith. Needless to say, both the star batters are expected to put on display a spectacle during the course of the imminent WTC final.

Kennington Oval Test Stats Of India

India, who have played a total of 14 Tests at The Oval thus far, have won just twice in comparison to five losses here. Half-a-century apart, their two victories had come in 1971 and 2021. A commonality between both the wins was them losing the toss.

Highest Test run-scorers at this stadium among active Indian cricketers are KL Rahul (249), Rishabh Pant (178), Virat Kohli (169), Rohit Sharma (138) and Ravindra Jadeja (126). A special mention needs to be made of Shardul Thakur (117) who had scored half-centuries in both innings of his only Test here.

Jadeja (11), Ishant Sharma (8), Jasprit Bumrah (7), Umesh Yadav (6), Ravichandran Ashwin (3) and Thakur (3) are the highest wicket-takers in Test matches among active Indian bowlers played at this venue.

India Last 10 Matches List At Oval London

As far as India’s last 10 Test matches at this ground are concerned, they have won two and lost three while drawing the remaining five on the trot.

S. No.ResultMarginYear
1Lost9 wickets1936
2Drawn1946
3Drawn1952
4LostInnings & 27 runs1959
5Won4 wickets1971
6Drawn1978
7Drawn1982
8Drawn1990
9Drawn2002
10Drawn2007
11LostInnings & 8 runs2011
12LostInnings & 244 runs2014
13Lost118 runs2018
14Won157 runs2021

Even though both the white-ball formats are quite different to Test cricket, readers must note that India have won seven and lost nine out of their 17 ODIs at this venue. Additionally, they have never played a T20I here.

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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