Test cricket has always been the toughest format of cricket. Yet, always been a kind of format that has defined a player’s attitude and toughness on the crease, and the evolution of Test cricket, especially Indian Test cricket, has evolved much, from the first victory on 10th February 1952 against England at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Madras, under Vijay Hazare, the captain of the Indian Test cricket team.
Indian Test Cricket: Complete List of Test Caps (1932-2026)
- Amar Singh – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Sorabji Colah – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Jahangir Khan – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Lall Singh – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Naoomal Jaoomal – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Janardan Navle – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- K. Nayudu – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Syed Nazir Ali – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Mohammad Nissar – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Phiroze Palia – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Syed Wazir Ali – 1932 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Lala Amarnath – 1933 – Mumbai – vs ENG
- Laxmidas Jai – 1933 – Mumbai – vs ENG
- Rustomji Jamshedji – 1933 – Mumbai – vs ENG
- Vijay Merchant – 1933 – Mumbai – vs ENG
- Ladha Ramji – 1933 – Mumbai – vs ENG
- Dilawar Hussain – 1934 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- J. Gopalan – 1934 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Syed Mushtaq Ali – 1934 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- S. Nayudu – 1934 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Yuvraj of Patiala – 1934 – Chennai – vs ENG
- Dattaram Hindlekar – 1936 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Maharajkumar of Vizianagram – 1936 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Khershed Meherhomji – 1936 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Cotah Ramaswami – 1936 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Baqa Jilani – 1936 – The Oval – vs ENG
- Gul Mohammad – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Vijay Hazare – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Vinoo Mankad – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Rusi Modi – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Sadashiv Shinde – 1946 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Chandu Sarwate – 1946 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Ranga Sohoni – 1946 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Hemu Adhikari – 1947 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Jenni Irani – 1947 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Gogumal Kishenchand – 1947 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Khandu Rangnekar – 1947 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Amir Elahi – 1947 – Sydney – vs AUS
- Dattu Phadkar – 1947 – Sydney – vs AUS
- Kanwar Rai Singh – 1948 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Probir Sen – 1948 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- R. Rangachari – 1948 – Adelaide – vs AUS
- C. Ibrahim – 1948 – Delhi – vs WI
- Keki Tarapore – 1948 – Delhi – vs WI
- Polly Umrigar – 1948 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Sarobindu Banerjee – 1948 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Ghulam Ahmed – 1948 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Nirode Chowdhury – 1949 – Chennai – vs WI
- Madhusudan Rege – 1949 – Chennai – vs WI
- Shute Banerjee – 1949 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Nana Joshi – 1951 – Delhi – vs ENG
- Pankaj Roy – 1951 – Delhi – vs ENG
- D. Gopinath – 1951 – Brabourne – vs ENG
- Madhav Mantri – 1951 – Brabourne – vs ENG
- Ramesh Divecha – 1951 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Subhash Gupte – 1951 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Vijay Manjrekar – 1951 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Datta Gaekwad – 1952 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Gulabrai Ramchand – 1952 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Hiralal Gaekwad – 1952 – Lucknow – vs PAK
- Shah Nyalchand – 1952 – Lucknow – vs PAK
- Madhav Apte – 1952 – Brabourne – vs PAK
- Hemu Dani – 1952 – Brabourne – vs PAK
- Vijay Rajindernath – 1952 – Brabourne – vs PAK
- Ebrahim Maka – 1952 – Chennai – vs PAK
- Deepak Shodhan – 1952 – Eden Gardens – vs PAK
- C Gadkari – 1953 – Port of Spain – vs WI
- J Ghorpade – 1953 – Port of Spain – vs WI
- Pananmal Punjabi – 1955 – Dhaka – vs PAK
- Naren Tamhane – 1955 – Dhaka – vs PAK
- Prakash Bhandari – 1955 – Karachi – vs PAK
- Jasu Patel – 1955 – Karachi – vs PAK
- G. Kripal Singh – 1955 – Hyderabad – vs NZ
- N. Swamy – 1955 – Hyderabad – vs NZ
- Nari Contractor – 1955 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Vijay Mehra – 1955 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Sadashiv Patil – 1955 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Bapu Nadkarni – 1955 – Delhi – vs NZ
- R. Sunderam – 1955 – Delhi – vs NZ
- C Patankar – 1955 – Eden Gardens – vs NZ
- Chandu Borde – 1958 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Ghulam Guard – 1958 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Manohar Hardikar – 1958 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Vasant Ranjane – 1958 – Kanpur – vs WI
- Ramnath Kenny – 1958 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- R Surendranath – 1958 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Apoorva Sengupta – 1959 – Chennai – vs WI
- Ramakant Desai – 1959 – Delhi – vs WI
- L. Jaisimha – 1959 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Arvind Apte – 1959 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Abbas Ali Baig – 1959 – Manchester – vs ENG
- M. Muddiah – 1959 – Delhi – vs AUS
- Salim Durani – 1960 – Brabourne – vs AUS
- Budhi Kunderan – 1960 – Brabourne – vs AUS
- G. Milkha Singh – 1960 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Man Sood – 1960 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Rusi Surti – 1960 – Brabourne – vs PAK
- Baloo Gupte – 1961 – Chennai – vs PAK
- Vaman Kumar – 1961 – Delhi – vs PAK
- Farokh Engineer – 1961 – Kanpur – vs ENG
- Dilip Sardesai – 1961 – Kanpur – vs ENG
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi – 1961 – Delhi – vs ENG
- Erapalli Prasanna – 1962 – Chennai – vs ENG
- Chandrasekhar – 1964 – Brabourne – vs ENG
- Rajinder Pal – 1964 – Brabourne – vs ENG
- Hanumant Singh – 1964 – Delhi – vs ENG
- S. Indrajitsinhji – 1964 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Venkataraghavan – 1965 – Chennai – vs NZ
- Subramanya – 1965 – Delhi – vs NZ
- Ajit Wadekar – 1966 – Brabourne – vs WI
- Bishan Singh Bedi – 1966 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Subrata Guha – 1967 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Ramesh Saxena – 1967 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Syed Abid Ali – 1967 – Adelaide – vs AUS
- Umesh Kulkarni – 1967 – Adelaide – vs AUS
- Chetan Chauhan – 1969 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Ashok Mankad – 1969 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Ajit Pai – 1969 – Brabourne – vs NZ
- Ambar Roy – 1969 – Nagpur – vs NZ
- Ashok Gandotra – 1969 – Hyderabad – vs NZ
- Eknath Solkar – 1969 – Hyderabad – vs NZ
- Gundappa Viswanath – 1969 – Kanpur – vs AUS
- Mohinder Amarnath – 1969 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Kenia Jayantilal – 1971 – Kingston – vs WI
- P Krishnamurthy – 1971 – Kingston – vs WI
- Sunil Gavaskar – 1971 – Port of Spain – vs WI
- Ramnath Parkar – 1972 – Delhi – vs ENG
- Madan Lal – 1974 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Brijesh Patel – 1974 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Sudhir Naik – 1974 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Hemant Kanitkar – 1974 – Bengaluru – vs WI
- Parthasarathy Sharma – 1974 – Delhi – vs WI
- Anshuman Gaekwad – 1974 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Karsan Ghavri – 1974 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Surinder Amarnath – 1976 – Auckland – vs NZ
- Syed Kirmani – 1976 – Auckland – vs NZ
- Dilip Vengsarkar – 1976 – Auckland – vs NZ
- Yajurvindra Singh – 1977 – Bengaluru – vs ENG
- Kapil Dev – 1978 – Faisalabad – vs PAK
- Narasimha Rao – 1978 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Dhiraj Parsana – 1979 – Chennai – vs WI
- Bharath Reddy – 1979 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Yashpal Sharma – 1979 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Dilip Doshi – 1979 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Shivlal Yadav – 1979 – Bengaluru – vs AUS
- Roger Binny – 1979 – Bengaluru – vs PAK
- Sandeep Patil – 1980 – Chennai – vs PAK
- Kirti Azad – 1981 – Wellington – vs NZ
- Ravi Shastri – 1981 – Wellington – vs NZ
- Yograj Singh – 1981 – Wellington – vs NZ
- E. Srinivasan – 1981 – Auckland – vs NZ
- Kris Srikkanth – 1981 – Wankhede – vs ENG
- Ashok Malhotra – 1982 – Chennai – vs ENG
- Pranab Roy – 1982 – Chennai – vs ENG
- Ghulam Parkar – 1982 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Suru Nayak – 1982 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Arun Lal – 1982 – Chennai – vs SL
- Rakesh Shukla – 1982 – Chennai – vs SL
- Maninder Singh – 1982 – Karachi – vs PAK
- Balwinder Sandhu – 1983 – Sind – vs PAK
- A. Sekhar – 1983 – Lahore – vs PAK
- Sivaramakrishnan – 1983 – St John’s – vs WI
- Raghuram Bhat – 1983 – Nagpur – vs PAK
- Navjot Sidhu – 1983 – Ahmedabad – vs WI
- Chetan Sharma – 1984 – Lahore – vs PAK
- Manoj Prabhakar – 1984 – Delhi – vs ENG
- Mohammad Azharuddin – 1984 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Gopal Sharma – 1985 – Kanpur – vs ENG
- Lalchand Rajput – 1985 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Surinder Khanna Viswanath – 1985 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Kiran More – 1986 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Chandrakant Pandit – 1986 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Raju Kulkarni – 1986 – Wankhede – vs AUS
- Bharat Arun – 1986 – Kanpur – vs SL
- Raman Lamba – 1986 – Kanpur – vs SL
- Arshad Ayub – 1987 – Delhi – vs WI
- Sanjay Manjrekar – 1987 – Delhi – vs WI
- Narendra Hirwani – 1988 – Chennai – vs WI
- V. Raman – 1988 – Chennai – vs WI
- Ajay Sharma – 1988 – Chennai – vs WI
- Rashid Patel – 1988 – Wankhede – vs NZ
- Sanjeev Sharma – 1988 – Hyderabad – vs NZ
- Venkataramana – 1989 – Kingston – vs WI
- Salil Ankola – 1989 – Karachi – vs PAK
- Sachin Tendulkar – 1989 – Karachi – vs PAK
- Vivek Razdan – 1989 – Faisalabad – vs PAK
- Raju – 1990 – Christchurch – vs NZ
- Atul Wassan – 1990 – Christchurch – vs NZ
- Gursharan Singh – 1990 – Auckland – vs NZ
- Anil Kumble – 1990 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Javagal Srinath – 1991 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Subroto Banerjee – 1992 – Sydney – vs AUS
- Pravin Amre – 1992 – Durban – vs SA
- Ajay Jadeja – 1992 – Durban – vs SA
- Rajesh Chauhan – 1993 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Vinod Kambli – 1993 – Eden Gardens – vs ENG
- Vijay Yadav – 1993 – Delhi – vs ZIM
- Nayan Mongia – 1994 – Lucknow – vs SL
- Aashish Kapoor – 1994 – Mohali – vs WI
- Sunil Joshi – 1996 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Paras Mhambrey – 1996 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Venkatesh Prasad – 1996 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Vikram Rathour – 1996 – Birmingham – vs ENG
- Rahul Dravid – 1996 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- Sourav Ganguly – 1996 – Lord’s – vs ENG
- David Johnson – 1996 – Delhi – vs AUS
- VVS Laxman – 1996 – Ahmedabad – vs SA
- Dodda Ganesh – 1997 – Cape Town – vs SA
- Abey Kuruvilla – 1997 – Kingston – vs WI
- Nilesh Kulkarni – 1997 – Colombo (RPS) – vs SL
- Debasis Mohanty – 1997 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Harvinder Singh – 1998 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Harbhajan Singh – 1998 – Bengaluru – vs AUS
- Ajit Agarkar – 1998 – Harare – vs ZIM
- Robin Singh – 1998 – Harare – vs ZIM
- Robin Singh Junior – 1999 – Hamilton – vs NZ
- Sadagoppan Ramesh – 1999 – Chennai – vs PAK
- Ashish Nehra – 1999 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Devang Gandhi – 1999 – Mohali – vs NZ
- S. K. Prasad – 1999 – Mohali – vs NZ
- Vijay Bharadwaj – 1999 – Mohali – vs NZ
- Hrishikesh Kanitkar – 1999 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Wasim Jaffer – 2000 – Wankhede – vs SA
- Murali Kartik – 2000 – Wankhede – vs SA
- Nikhil Chopra – 2000 – Bengaluru – vs SA
- Mohammad Kaif – 2000 – Bengaluru – vs SA
- Shiv Sunder Das – 2000 – Dhaka – vs BAN
- Saba Karim – 2000 – Dhaka – vs BAN
- Zaheer Khan – 2000 – Dhaka – vs BAN
- Vijay Dahiya – 2000 – Delhi – vs ZIM
- Sarandeep Singh – 2000 – Nagpur – vs ZIM
- Rahul Sanghvi – 2001 – Wankhede – vs AUS
- Sairaj Bahutule – 2001 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Sameer Dighe – 2001 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Hemang Badani – 2001 – Harare – vs ZIM
- Deep Dasgupta – 2001 – Bloemfontein – vs SA
- Virender Sehwag – 2001 – Bloemfontein – vs SA
- Sanjay Bangar – 2001 – Mohali – vs ENG
- Iqbal Siddiqui – 2001 – Mohali – vs ENG
- Tinu Yohannan – 2001 – Mohali – vs ENG
- Ajay Ratra – 2002 – Port of Spain – vs WI
- Parthiv Patel – 2002 – Nottingham – vs ENG
- Lakshmipathy Balaji – 2003 – Ahmedabad – vs NZ
- Aakash Chopra – 2003 – Ahmedabad – vs NZ
- Yuvraj Singh – 2003 – Mohali – vs NZ
- Irfan Pathan – 2003 – Adelaide – vs AUS
- Gautam Gambhir – 2004 – Wankhede – vs AUS
- Dinesh Karthik – 2004 – Wankhede – vs AUS
- MS Dhoni – 2005 – Chennai – vs SL
- RP Singh – 2006 – Faisalabad – vs PAK
- S Sreesanth – 2006 – Nagpur – vs ENG
- Piyush Chawla – 2006 – Mohali – vs ENG
- Munaf Patel – 2006 – Mohali – vs ENG
- VRV Singh – 2006 – St John’s – vs WI
- Ramesh Powar – 2007 – Chattogram – vs BAN
- Ishant Sharma – 2007 – Mirpur – vs BAN
- Amit Mishra – 2008 – Mohali – vs AUS
- Murali Vijay – 2008 – Nagpur – vs AUS
- Pragyan Ojha – 2009 – Kanpur – vs SL
- Subramaniam Badrinath – 2010 – Nagpur – vs SA
- Wriddhiman Saha – 2010 – Nagpur – vs SA
- Abhimanyu Mithun – 2010 – Galle – vs SL
- Suresh Raina – 2010 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Cheteshwar Pujara – 2010 – Bengaluru – vs AUS
- Jaydev Unadkat – 2010 – Centurion – vs SA
- Abhinav Mukund – 2011 – Kingston – vs WI
- Virat Kohli – 2011 – Kingston – vs WI
- Praveen Kumar – 2011 – Kingston – vs WI
- Ravichandran Ashwin – 2011 – Delhi – vs WI
- Umesh Yadav – 2011 – Delhi – vs WI
- Varun Aaron – 2011 – Wankhede – vs WI
- Vinay Kumar – 2012 – W.A.C.A – vs AUS
- Ravindra Jadeja – 2012 – Nagpur – vs ENG
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar – 2013 – Chennai – vs AUS
- Shikhar Dhawan – 2013 – Mohali – vs AUS
- Ajinkya Rahane – 2013 – Delhi – vs AUS
- Mohammed Shami – 2013 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Rohit Sharma – 2013 – Eden Gardens – vs WI
- Stuart Binny – 2014 – Nottingham – vs ENG
- Pankaj Singh – 2014 – Southampton – vs ENG
- Karn Sharma – 2014 – Adelaide – vs AUS
- KL Rahul – 2014 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Naman Ojha – 2015 – Colombo (SSC) – vs SL
- Jayant Yadav – 2016 – Visakhapatnam – vs ENG
- Karun Nair – 2016 – Mohali – vs ENG
- Kuldeep Yadav – 2017 – Dharamsala – vs AUS
- Hardik Pandya – 2017 – Galle – vs SL
- Jasprit Bumrah – 2018 – Cape Town – vs SA
- Rishabh Pant – 2018 – Nottingham – vs ENG
- Hanuma Vihari – 2018 – The Oval – vs ENG
- Prithvi Shaw – 2018 – Rajkot – vs WI
- Shardul Thakur – 2018 – Hyderabad – vs WI
- Mayank Agarwal – 2018 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Shahbaz Nadeem – 2019 – Ranchi – vs SA
- Mohammed Siraj – 2020 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Shubman Gill – 2020 – Melbourne – vs AUS
- Navdeep Saini – 2021 – Sydney – vs AUS
- T Natarajan – 2021 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Washington Sundar – 2021 – Brisbane – vs AUS
- Axar Patel – 2021 – Chennai – vs ENG
- Shreyas Iyer – 2021 – Kanpur – vs NZ
- KS Bharat – 2023 – Nagpur – vs AUS
- Suryakumar Yadav – 2023 – Nagpur – vs AUS
- Ishan Kishan – 2023 – Roseau – vs WI
- Yashasvi Jaiswal – 2023 – Roseau – vs WI
- Mukesh Kumar – 2023 – Port of Spain – vs WI
- Prasidh Krishna – 2023 – Centurion – vs SA
- Rajat Patidar – 2024 – Visakhapatnam – vs ENG
- Dhruv Jurel – 2024 – Rajkot – vs ENG
- Sarfaraz Khan – 2024 – Rajkot – vs ENG
- Akash Deep – 2024 – Ranchi – vs ENG
- Devdutt Padikkal – 2024 – Dharamsala – vs ENG
- Harshit Rana – 2024 – Perth – vs AUS
- Nitish Kumar Reddy – 2024 – Perth – vs AUS
- Sai Sudharsan – 2025 – Leeds – vs ENG
- Anshul Kamboj – 2025 – Manchester – vs ENG
- Manav Suthar – 2026 – New Chandigarh – vs AFG
The first Test cap, which was presented to Amar Singh at Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1932, was an Indian pacer; he took 28 wickets in his international career. He played seven matches before WW-II, and with his fiery right-arm bowling action, he is still known for it, and after that, many Test caps were presented to several players. Manav Suthar, who was capped recently against Afghanistan in Test cricket, on 6th June, the match was played in Mullanpur, New Chandigarh Stadium.
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