India's modern-day Test batter Cheteshwar Pujara has achieved a unique milestone of completing 20,000 runs in FC cricket in the recently completed match between Saurashtra and Vidarbha in Ranji Trophy 2024. Hence here in this article, we will have a look at the list of top-10 batters from India who have scored the most runs in First Class Cricket.
Most runs in FC Cricket among Indian batters:
- Sunil Gavaskar - 25834 (563 inns)
- Sachin Tendulkar - 25396 (490 inns)
- Rahul Dravid - 23794 (497 inns)
- Cheteshwar Pujara - 20013 (430 inns)
- VVS Laxman - 19730 (436 inns)
- Wasim Jaffer - 19410 (421 inns)
- Vijay Hazare - 18740 (367 inns)
- GR Viswanath - 17970 (486 inns)
- Dilip Vengsarkar - 17868 (390 inns)
- Polly Umrigar - 16155 (350 inns)
From the above list, we can see that Pujara has become the only fourth batsman to complete 20,000 runs in FC cricket among Indian batters.
Cheteshwar Pujara has scored 7195 runs in his Test career from 176 innings at an average of 43.6 which includes 19 centuries and 35 fifties to his name. He was last seen playing in the Test format during the WTC 2023 finals against Australia at Oval in the June month.
Cheteshwar Pujara has scored 444 runs from 5 innings in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2023/24 edition which is the most for any batsman in this Ranji season so far.