5 Highest Individual Test Scores for India outside Asia

#1 Sachin Tendulkar 241* v Australia, Sydney, 2004

The Master's Magnum Opus

Rahul Dravid's record for the highest Test Score by an Indian away from home, lasted all of 3 weeks, as Sachin Tendulkar bludgeoned the Aussie attack into submission at the SCG in the fourth and final Test of the same series.

Sachin Tendulkar had scored a Test Century on each of his previous two trips to the country down under. But in the 2003-04 series, he entered the last Test with scores of 0, 1, 37, 0, 44. Having been dismissed in the previous innings edging a delivery that he was looking to drive through the covers, Tendulkar showed great restraint, not playing even a single cover drive throughout his 436-minute marathon innings.

Playing an unusual compact inning sans any expansive drives or uppish cuts, Tendulkar broke the back of the Aussies with patience. He and Laxman (178) out on a display of elan and grace as India plundered the runs, declaring with 705 on the board.

Though the match ended in a draw, it would be long remembered for Steve Waugh's farewell and Tendulkar's Magnum Opus.