West Indies vs India Test Stats: 102 Matches, Two Different Eras

India and West Indies have played 102 men’s Test matches against each other. West Indies lead the all-time record with 30 wins to India’s 25, with 47 draws—but that aggregate conceals a complete reversal in the rivalry. India are unbeaten in the teams’ past 27 Tests.

These figures exclude ODIs, T20Is and women’s internationals. They are current through the 2025/26 Test series in India.

Test head-to-head record

Result	Matches	Share of all Tests
West Indies wins	30	29.41%
India wins	25	24.51%
Draws	47	46.08%
Ties	0	0%
Total	102	100%

The ESPNcricinfo result summary covers the rivalry from 1948 to 2025 and records 102 matches.

The percentages above use all 102 Tests as the denominator. If draws are removed, West Indies have won 30 of the 55 decisive matches—54.55%—and India 25, or 45.45%.

The overall record belongs to West Indies; the recent record belongs to India

Breaking the results into periods makes the change much clearer.

Period	Tests	India wins	West Indies wins	Draws
1948/49–1966/67	23	0	12	11
1970/71–2002	52	8	18	26
2002/03–2025/26	27	17	0	10
Overall	102	25	30	47

West Indies won the first five series and 12 of the first 23 Tests. India did not record a series victory until their 1970/71 tour of the Caribbean.

The modern sequence runs in the opposite direction. Beginning with the 2002/03 home series, India have won ten consecutive series, taking 17 of 27 Tests and drawing the other ten. The series-by-series record shows that each side has won 12 of the 26 series, with two drawn. West Indies’ greater number of match wins comes largely from their early dominance.

India extended the unbeaten sequence in October 2025. They won the first Test by an innings and 140 runs, according to the Ahmedabad match record, before completing a 2–0 series win with a seven-wicket victory in Delhi.

Leading Test run-scorers

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	100s	Highest
Sunil Gavaskar	India	27	48	2,749	65.45	13	236*
Clive Lloyd	West Indies	28	44	2,344	58.60	7	242*
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	25	44	2,171	63.85	7	140
Rahul Dravid	India	23	38	1,978	63.80	5	146
Viv Richards	West Indies	28	41	1,927	50.71	8	192*

Gavaskar leads both the run and century lists. His average is 2,749 runs divided by 42 dismissals, not by his 48 innings: six not-outs reduce the dismissal count. That distinction is essential when calculating a batting average.

The head-to-head batting table also shows why average needs a workload qualifier. Everton Weekes averaged 106.78 against India, but over 15 innings. Gavaskar sustained 65.45 across 48 innings and made a record 13 hundreds.

Leading Test wicket-takers

Player	Team	Matches	Wickets	Average	Strike rate	Best innings
Kapil Dev	India	25	89	24.89	52.12	9/83
Malcolm Marshall	West Indies	17	76	21.98	46.14	6/37
Ravichandran Ashwin	India	13	75	20.48	42.10	7/71
Anil Kumble	India	17	74	29.78	63.41	6/78
Srinivas Venkataraghavan	India	23	68	39.47	96.17	5/95

Kapil Dev’s 89 wickets are the aggregate record, but aggregate, average and strike rate measure different things. Bowling average is runs conceded per wicket; strike rate is balls bowled per wicket. Ashwin took one fewer wicket than Marshall in four fewer matches and recorded the lower average and strike rate, but the two operated in different periods, conditions and team contexts. The head-to-head bowling records should therefore not be treated as a single automatic ranking.

Kapil’s 9 for 83 at Ahmedabad in 1983 remains India’s best innings analysis against West Indies. Jack Noreiga’s 9 for 95 at Port of Spain in 1971 is the West Indies record.

Highest team and individual scores

India’s highest team total is 649 for 9 declared at Rajkot in 2018; West Indies’ is 644 for 8 declared at Delhi in 1959. The innings-total list adds useful context: India scored at 4.33 runs per over in their record innings and won, whereas West Indies scored at 3.00 in their 644 for 8 and the match was drawn.

Rohan Kanhai’s 256 is the highest individual score in the rivalry. Clive Lloyd’s 242 not out is West Indies’ highest unbeaten innings, while Gavaskar’s 236 not out is India’s highest score.

The useful reading of this rivalry is therefore not merely “West Indies lead 30–25.” West Indies built that lead during decades of superiority; since 2002/03, India have added 17 wins without a defeat. The aggregate is correct, but the era split explains what it cannot.