India Vs England Test Series: The Indian team has won the Ranchi test match against England by five wickets. With this victory, the Indian team has taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match Test series. The fifth and last match of the Test series will be played in Dharamshala from March 7.
It is not easy to beat India at home!
This is the Indian team's 17th consecutive Test series win at home. The last time the Indian team lost a home Test series was against England in November 2012. Since then he has not lost a single test series. If seen, the Indian team has also scored a hat-trick of victories in the Test series against England at home. In fact, before this, India had defeated England in 2 consecutive Test series at home.
A fantastic victory in Ranchi for #TeamIndia
India clinch the series 3⃣-1⃣ with the final Test to be played in Dharamsala 👏👏
Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/FUbQ3MhXfH#INDvENG , @IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/5I7rENrl5d
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 26, 2024
India is the first team to have won 17 consecutive Test series at home. After this, Kangaroo team is at second place which had won 10 consecutive test series at home. However, Australia is the first team to win 10 consecutive Test series at home twice. He won the first series from November 1994 to November 2000. Whereas the second series was won between July 2004 and November 2008.
| Team | consecutive home test series | since when | Till when |
| India | 17 | February 2013 | campaign continues |
| Australia | 10 | November 1994 | November 2000 |
| Australia | 10 | July 2004 | November 2008 |
| west indies | 8 | March 1976 | February 1986 |
| west indies | 7 | March 1998 | November 2001 |
| South Africa | 7 | May 2009 | May 2012 |
Team India won 17 consecutive home test series
1. Australia: India won the series 4-0 (4), February 2013
2. West Indies: India won the series 2-0 (2), November 2013
3. South Africa: India won the series 3-0 (4), November 2015
4. New Zealand: India won the series 3-0 (3), September 2016
5. England: India won the series 4-0 (5), November 2016
6. Bangladesh: India won the series 1-0 (1), February 2017
7. Australia: India won the series 2-1 (4), February 2017
8. Sri Lanka: India won the series 1-0 (3), November 2017
9. Afghanistan: India won the series 1-0 (1), June 2018
10. West Indies: India won the series 2-0 (2), October 2018
11. South Africa: India won the series 3-0 (3), October 2019
12. Bangladesh: India won the series 2-0 (2), November 2019
13. England: India won the series 3-1 (4), 2020-2021
14. New Zealand: India won the series 1-0 (2), 2021
15. Sri Lanka: India won the series 2-0 (2), 2022
16.Australia: India won the series 2-1 (4), 2023
17. England: India lead 3-1 (5), one match left
The England team's last win in the Test series on Indian soil was in 2012-13. That means the English team has not been able to win any bilateral Test series in India for the last 11 years. The England team played 17 Test series against India, out of which it won only 5. Whereas India won 9 test series. There were 3 series draws between the two teams. Overall, 36 bilateral Test series have been played between India and England so far. During this period, India won 12 series, while it lost 19. 5 series ended in a draw.
If seen, a total of 135 test matches have been played between England and India so far, out of which the Indian team won 34 and England was successful in 51. There have been 50 test draws between the two. A total of 68 Test matches were played between the two teams on Indian soil, out of which England has won only 15. Whereas India won 25 test matches. 28 matches have been drawn.
Indian team's playing-11 in Ranchi Test: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.
England's playing-11 in Ranchi Test: Jack Crowley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes (captain), Ben Foakes (wicketkeeper), Tom Hartley, Ollie Robinson, James Anderson, Shoaib Bashir.
India Vs England Test Series Schedule
1st Test: 25-29 January, Hyderabad (England won by 28 runs)
2nd Test: 2-6 February, Visakhapatnam (India won by 106 runs)
3rd Test: 15-19 February, Rajkot (India won by 434 runs)
4th Test: 23-27 February, Ranchi (India won by 5 wickets)
5th Test: 7-11 March, Dharamshala
