KL Rahul is playing as an opening batter for Team India in the ongoing second Test against the West Indies. On Day 1 of the red-ball match taking place at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, the 33-year-old
right-handed batter from Karnataka joined Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in an elite list. He became the seventh Indian batter to score 2000 runs in the World Test Championship.
Rahul needed 16 runs in the second India-West Indies Test to join the 2000-run club, and he achieved the objective by hitting Jayden Seales for back-to-back fours on the last two balls of the ninth over of India’s first innings.
He now has 2003* runs to his name in 31 WTC matches.
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, who is not playing in the ongoing series due to a foot injury, is India’s highest run-getter in the WTC. Pant has played 38 WTC matches and, with the help of 6 centuries and 16 fifties, has scored 2731 runs.
He is followed by Rohit, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli, who have 2716, 2697 and 2617 runs to their credit, respectively.
Most runs for India in World Test Championship
| PLAYER | MATCHES | RUNS | BEST SCORE | 100/50 |
| Rishabh Pant | 38 | 2731 | 146 | 6/16 |
| Rohit Sharma | 40 | 2716 | 212 | 9/8 |
| Shubman Gill | 39 | 2697 | 269 | 9/8 |
| Virat Kohli | 46 | 2617 | 254* | 5/11 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 46 | 2505 | 175* | 5/17 |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | 26 | 2251* | 214* | 6/12 |
| KL Rahul | 31 | 2003* | 137 | 6/8 |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 35 | 1769 | 102* | 1/15 |
| Ajinkya Rahane | 29 | 1589 | 115 | 3/9 |
| Mayank Agarwal | 19 | 1293 | 243 | 4/4 |
The overall record of scoring most runs in WTC is in name of England’s Joe Root. The world No. 1 Test batter has amassed a total of 6080 runs in 69 matches played so far. Australia’s Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne are second and third on the list with 4278 and 4225 runs respectively.
KL Rahul in red-hot form
Rahul is in red-hot form these days for Team India. He scored 100 runs in the first innings of the first India-West Indies Test at Narendra Modi Stadium last week. In September 2025, Rahul played the second unofficial Test for India A against Australia A in Lucknow and played an unbeaten knock of 176 runs in the second innings to help them chase down the target of 412 runs for the loss of five wickets.
In the 2025 edition of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, which was played between India and England in the third quarter of 2025, Rahul scored more than 500 runs for the Shubman Gill-led side as an opening batter.
