254* in Pune

The highest Test score in the ledger is 254* against South Africa at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune on 10 October 2019. Home. First innings, so it is marked set, not a chase. He was captain. India won. It is Test hundred number 26 and international number 69.

A first-innings not-out double is a different job from the ODI chases that dominate the search traffic. He had time, the innings was not a chase of a target, and the not-out mark means the innings ended with him still there. The Test book later closed, in May 2025, with 30 hundreds. This score is the ceiling of that book. No ODI in 2026 or 2027 can raise it.

Searches for a 200 in Tests land in the same place. The double hundreds are rows in the Test list, and this one is the largest of them. The page does not retell the sessions ball by ball. The scorecard does that. The point of the file is to attach the score to a date, a captaincy, a result, and a format that can no longer change.