IND vs ENG: What are England’s highest Test chases? Ben Stokes’ men eye Leeds record against India | Cricket News
Even with rain threatening to foil a full day’s play at the Headingley grounds in Leeds on Tuesday, Ben Stokes and England are expected to go full-throttle in the bid to chase down a record total against India in the first Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.
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Headingley has seen plenty of fourth-innings heroics over the years, including Stokes’ special ton against Australia in the 2019 Ashes. The venue boasts of the highest batting average in the last innings across the last decade. It is also home to a record Day 5 chase Don Bradman’s ‘Invicibles’ in the 1948 Ashes, when the visitors chased down a whopping 404-run target on day five against England. Interestingly, England had recorded their highest-ever chase in their last Test meeting at home against India, back in 2022 at Edgbaston. Posed with a 378-run target, England gunned down more than half the score against a Jasprit Bumrah-led India in the early days of ‘Bazball’ under Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.
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Steered centuries from Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, England overhauled the 378-run target in only 76.4 overs to produce an emphatic result and draw the series 2-2 back then. Weather willing, Stokes and Co. will need to pull off a similar miracle to stub Shubman Gill’s unit at Headingley this time. Since Australia in that Leeds epic 77 years ago, no team has managed to record 350 runs to win a Test on the final day.
Highest Test scores chased England
Team
Opposition
Win Margin
Target
Venue
Year
England
India
7 wickets
378
Birmingham
2022
England
Australia
1 wicket
359
Headingley, Leeds
2019
England
Australia
3 wickets
332
Melbourne
1928
England
Australia
6 wickets
315
Headingley, Leeds
2001
England
New Zealand
4 wickets
305
Chrchurch
1997
Highest Test targets chased in England
404 – Australia beat England seven wickets in 1948 (Leeds)
378 -England beat India seven wickets in 2022 (Birmingham)
359 – England beat Australia one wicket in 2019 (Leeds)
342 – West Indies beat England nine wickets in 1984 (Lord’s)
322 – West Indies beat England five wickets in 2017 (Leeds)
