Most Innings Declarations by Indian Test Captains : The craze of Test cricket is seen all over the world. England watches Test cricket with great interest. The Indian cricket team is also playing test cricket these days. India is currently on a tour of Sri Lanka, where the Indian cricket team had gone to play a two-Test series. By winning the first match of this two-Test series, India took a 1-0 lead in the series. Now Team India is also on the verge of winning the second test match. Today i.e. on the fifth day of the match between India and Sri Lanka to be played in Colombo, India will have a chance to win the match and win the series 2-0.

Batting first in the second Test match being played between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo, the Indian cricket team declared its innings by scoring 503 runs for 9 wickets in 138 overs. After this, Sri Lanka was bundled out for 290 in the first innings and gained a lead of 213 runs. At the end of the fourth day of this match, Sri Lanka has scored 229 runs for 6 wickets. Sri Lanka has gained a lead of 16 runs over India. Now from here, if India takes 4 wickets as soon as possible on the fifth day and gets the target of less than 100 runs, then it will easily win the series.

In this series, Indian captain Shubman Gill has declared the innings twice. With this, he has joined the list in which the captains who have declared the innings the most number of times in Test cricket for India are present. Captains like Kapil Dev to Virat Kohli and Sourav Ganguly are present in this list. So today we are going to tell you about the captains who have declared the innings the most number of times in Test cricket for India.

1 – Virat Kohli

Former captain of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli is at the top among the Indian captains who have declared innings the most number of times in Test cricket. Virat Kohli has declared innings for India 29 times in Test cricket. Virat has scored 9230 runs for the country in 210 innings of 123 test matches with 30 centuries and 31 half-centuries.

2 – MS Dhoni

Former Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is at second place in this list. He has declared innings 15 times as captain for India in Test cricket. Dhoni has scored 4876 runs in 144 innings of 90 matches with 6 centuries and 33 half-centuries.

3 – Sourav Ganguly

Former captain of the Indian cricket team and known as Dada, Sourav Ganguly remains at the third place in the list of captains who have declared the most number of innings in Test cricket for India. Ganguly has declared the innings a total of 14 times as Indian captain. He has scored 7212 runs for the country in 113 tests with the help of 16 centuries.

4 – Mohammad Azharuddin

Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin is at fourth place in the list of captains who have declared the most number of innings in Test cricket for India. Azharuddin has declared innings 11 times as captain in Test cricket. He has scored 6215 runs in 99 test matches.

5 – Sunil Gavaskar

Indian cricket team's legendary batsman and former captain Sunil Gavaskar is included in the list of captains who have declared the most number of innings as captain in Tests for India. He is at number five in this list. He has declared Team India's innings 10 times during the test match. Gavaskar has scored 10122 runs in 125 matches with the help of 34 centuries.

6 – Rahul Dravid

Indian cricket team's powerful Test batsman and former captain Rahul Dravid is also included among those captains, he is at sixth position in this list. Who has declared the most number of innings as captain for India in Test cricket. Rahul Dravid has declared innings for India as captain 9 times in Test matches. Rahul has scored 13288 runs in 164 matches with the help of 36 centuries.

7 – Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev's name is also included among the captains who have declared the innings the most number of times in Test cricket for India. He is at 7th place in this list. As captain, Kapil Dev has declared innings for India 7 times in test matches. He has 5248 runs in his name in 131 matches with 8 centuries and 27 half-centuries. At the same time, he has also taken 434 wickets in his name.

8 – Rohit Sharma

Former Indian captain and star batsman Rohit Sharma is also present in this list. Rohit Sharma has declared innings in Test cricket 5 times. Along with this, he is the 8th Indian captain to declare the innings in Test matches the most number of times. Rohit has scored 4031 runs in 76 test matches with 12 centuries and 18 half-centuries.

9 – Shubhman Gill

Now Shubman Gill's name has also been included in this list. Shubman Gill has reached 9th position in the list of players who have declared innings in Test cricket for India. As captain, Shubman Gill has declared innings 4 times for India. Gill has scored 2993 runs in 42 tests with 11 centuries and 8 half-centuries.

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