5 times an Indian batsman scored more than 50% of the team's total outside the subcontinent

4 Sachin Tendulkar 122 v England at Birmingham, 1996

Sachin Tendulkar en route to his 122 at Edgbaston.

Throughout the course of Sachin Tendulkar's long career, he played plenty of innings in which he stood alone among the wreckage, and that was particularly true in the 1990s. In 1996, Tendulkar arrived in England as the world's best batsman and at the peak of his powers.

In the first Test match at Birmingham, India were dismissed for a paltry 214 and after England responded with 313, the tourists had their task cut out for them.

They needed to put up a big second innings score but the batsmen failed miserably again and it was only Sachin Tendulkar, who stood tall and played an imperious innings despite losing batting partners frequently.

He went for his strokes and scored a rapid century that saw India somehow cross the 200 run mark, but that was not enough by any means. He hit 19 boundaries and sixes in his 122, that came off only 177 balls. The rest of the batsmen were however of no use, and the next highest score was 18 by Sanjay Manjrekar, as India crashed to 219 all out. England won the match easily by 8 wickets.