India, Dec. 28 -- India's 2025 produced a familiar kind of pressure: finals where one quiet over can feel like a storm, and knockouts where a single partnership decides whether a season becomes history or heartbreak.

The best Indian innings of this year weren't just about big scores. They were problem solvers, knocks that controlled chaos, flipped match tempo, and made the biggest stage feel oddly manageable.

This was not just a double hundred; it was an innings that broke a Test open and stayed on top of it. Shubman Gill's 269 became the highest Test score by an Indian captain, and it had the stamp of authority: batting time, draining bowlers, and making England's plans feel irrelevant.

Virat Kohli's hundred came with the most unforgi...