The Indian cricket team is currently in England for a five-match Test series scheduled from June 20 to August 4. The Kent County Cricket Ground in Beckenham will host the tourists for a four-day practice match from June 13 to June 16 before to the commencement of the Test matches.
The five-match series between India and England will take place during the 2025–2027 World Test Championship (WTC) calendar. India had a disappointing conclusion to their previous WTC campaign. They lost to Australia 3-1 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after being shocked 3-0 at home by New Zealand.
With Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma retiring from Test cricket, India will begin a new chapter in their red-ball history under Shubman Gill’s leadership. While a lot of star batters have done admirably in Tests in England over the years, others have delivered disappointing performances. On that point, we look at five great Indian batsmen who did not score a Test century in England.
1. Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan, a former India opener, had a stop-start Test career, appearing in 34 matches and scoring 2,315 runs at an average of 40.61. The left-handed hitter scored seven hundreds in his Test career but failed to reach a half-century in England.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) June 8, 2025Dhawan played seven Tests in England between 2014 and 2018. He scored only 284 runs in 14 innings, at a dismal average of 20.28. His best Test score in England was 44, achieved in Nottingham during the 2018 trip.
2. Pankaj Roy
India opener Pankaj Roy also finished his international career without Test ton in England. Between 1952 and 1959 Roy played nine Tests in England. He averaged 13.70 making a total of 233 runs in 17 innings and scored just one fifty in 17 innings. Best of 54 were scored in Nottingham, 1959 series.
Roy played in all together 43 Test matches of his whole career and he scored aggregate 1,242 runs with the normal of 32.56, which included huge 5 hundreds and 9 half hundreds.
3. Vijay Hazare
Vijay Hazare, Indian batting legend too couldn’t make a Test hundred in England. Between 1946 and 1952 he played seven Tests in England. Hazare scored 456 runs in 12 innings at the average of 41.45 with three half centuries in the 12 innings. In Leeds in 1952 he scored a best of 89. Hazare at the helm aggregated 56 in the second innings too. During the same tour he also scored 69* at Lord’s.
Hazare played 30 matches in his overall Test career in which he scored 2,192 runs at an average of 47.65. He scored seven hundreds and nine fifties – his best was 164*.
4. VVS Laxman
VVS Laxman had an ever green Test career as a former middle order batter for India. He played for the country in a total of 134 Test matches, producing 8,781 runs at the average of 45.97 with 17 hundreds and 56 half centuries to his name.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) June 9, 2025However, the former Hyderabad batter did not enjoy the time in England playing against the moving ball. Between 2002 and 2011 he played 11 Tests in England. In 19 innings, 586 runs were scored with an average of 57.40 where his five half centuries had come. At lord’s in 2002, Laxman’s maiden Test tour of England saw him put up his best of 74.
5. MS Dhoni
Former India captain MS Dhoni will also go down as a batsman who never got a Test hundred in England. England is the only Test country which the ex-India keeper-batter played in 12 Tests and that too in 2007 and 2014. Nine innings are not bad and in the 23 innings, he made 778 runs at a decent average of 37.04, thanks to eight fifties. At The Oval he totalled 92 off 81 balls in the 2007 series. Dhoni lifted the bat nine fours and four sixes.
Dhoni featured in 90 Test matches in which he scored 4,876 runs at an average of 38.09 with the help of six tons and 33 fifties and highest of 224.
