New Delhi. Every batsman has the desire to score a century in both the innings of a test. Many batsmen have achieved this feat in the 146-year history of Test cricket. India’s Sunil Gavaskar and Australia’s Ricky Ponting and David Warner have accomplished this feat thrice. Gavaskar had achieved this feat in 1971 against West Indies and in 1978 against Pakistan and West Indies. Ricky Ponting did this in the Sydney and Durban Tests against Indies in 2005 and South Africa in 2006. Similarly, left-handed batsman Warner had registered his name in this exclusive club against South Africa and India in 2014 and New Zealand in 2015. Among the current cricketers of the Indian team, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have also made a special record of scoring centuries in both the innings of a Test.
Apart from this, there have also been three occasions when two batsmen of the same team have scored centuries in both the innings. Australia’s brother duo, Ian and Greg Chappell, first achieved this feat in 1974 against New Zealand in Wellington. After Ian and Greg, Pakistan’s Azhar Ali and Misbah Ul Haq achieved this feat against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014 and last time Sri Lanka’s Dhananjay de Silva and Kamindu Mendis achieved this feat against Bangladesh in the Sylhet Test this year.
Younger brother Greg was overshadowed by elder brother Ian.
In March 1974, in the Test match played against New Zealand in Wellington, Ian and Greg Chappell achieved the feat of scoring centuries in both the innings. This is the only pair of brothers to score centuries in both the innings of the same Test. In the Test, elder brother Ian scored 145 runs in the first innings and 121 runs in the second innings, while Greg, after scoring unbeaten 247 runs in the first innings, scored 133 runs in the second innings. Chappell brothers made a partnership of 264 runs in the first innings of this match and 86 runs in the second innings. In this match full of runs, Australia declared the first innings at 511 runs for six wickets and the second innings at 460 runs for 8 wickets. The match ended in a draw.
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Pakistan’s Azhar and Misbah did ‘double miracle’
On 30 October 2014, Pakistan’s Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq scored centuries in both the innings against Australia. This test was played in the neutral venue Abu Dhabi. Azhar Ali had scored 109 runs in the first innings of the match and 100 unbeaten runs in the second innings while captain Misbah ul Haq had made the same score of 101 runs in both the innings. Both the batsmen returned to the pavilion unbeaten in the second innings. Pakistan’s first innings Apart from the centuries of Azhar and Misbah, Younis Khan also scored a double century (213). Due to this brilliant performance of the batsmen, Pakistan team was successful in making a big score of 570 runs for 6 wickets (declared innings) in the first innings and 293 runs for 3 wickets (declared innings) in the second innings and winning the test by a huge margin of 356 runs. Was.
Same score, last over and six…many things similar in the two matches of India-Pakistan
Dhananjay and Kamindu of Sri Lanka are also in this special list
Sri Lanka’s Dhananjay de Silva and Kamindu Mendis are the last batsman pair to score centuries in both the innings of the same Test. In the Sylhet Test against Bangladesh in March 2024, captain Dhananjay de Silva scored 102 runs in the first innings and 108 runs in the second innings, while Kamindu scored 102 runs in the first innings and 164 runs in the second innings. The interesting thing is that Dhananjay and Kamindu, both are lower order batsmen. Thanks to the centuries of both these batsmen, Sri Lanka scored 280 runs in the first innings and 418 runs in the second innings and won the test by 328 runs by dismissing the host Bangladesh before 200 runs in both the innings. Was.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 15, 2024, 07:32 IST