| No | Player | Matches | Inns | Runs | HS | Average | 100s | 50s |
| 1 | Sachin Tendulkar | 32 | 53 | 2535 | 193 | 51.73 | 7 | 13 |
| 2 | Sunil Gavaskar | 38 | 67 | 2483 | 221 | 38.2 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Alastair Cook | 27 | 48 | 2138 | 294 | 47.51 | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | Rahul Dravid | 21 | 37 | 1950 | 217 | 60.93 | 7 | 8 |
| 5 | Gundappa Viswanath | 30 | 54 | 1880 | 222 | 37.6 | 4 | 12 |
| 6 | Graham Gooch | 19 | 33 | 1725 | 333 | 55.64 | 5 | 8 |
| 7 | Dilip Vengsarkar | 26 | 43 | 1589 | 157 | 42.94 | 5 | 6 |
| 8 | Kevin Pietersen | 16 | 28 | 1581 | 202* | 58.55 | 6 | 6 |
| 9 | David Gower | 24 | 37 | 1391 | 200* | 44.87 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Ken Barrington | 14 | 21 | 1355 | 172 | 75.27 | 3 | 9 |
*Updated after second England-India Test
