Australian batsmen scoring a century and a half century on five or more occasions – SPD Smith joins the list

Australian batsmen scoring a century and a half century on five or more occasions – SPD Smith joins the list

SPD Smith of Australia scored 134 not out and 70 not out in the just concluded Boxing day test at Melbourne to provide the fifth occasion of his scoring a century and a half century in a test. He became the seventh Australian batsman to score a century and a half century in a test on five occasions. All such occasions are listed below. RT Ponting leads the list with ten such occasions and he is followed by AR Border who has performed the feat on nine occasions.

No No Player FI SI Opposition Ground Start Date
1 1 RT Ponting 144 72 v England Leeds 16 Aug 2001
  2 RT Ponting 169 53* v Zimbabwe Sydney 17 Oct 2003
  3 RT Ponting 105 86* v New Zealand Auckland 26 Mar 2005
  4 RT Ponting 149 104* v West Indies Brisbane 03 Nov 2005
  5 RT Ponting 120 143* v South Africa Sydney 02 Jan 2006
  6 RT Ponting 103 116 v South Africa Durban 24 Mar 2006
  7 RT Ponting 196 60* v England Brisbane 23 Nov 2006
  8 RT Ponting 101 99 v South Africa Melbourne 26 Dec 2008
  9 RT Ponting 209 89 v Pakistan Hobart 14 Jan 2010
  10 RT Ponting 221 60* v India Adelaide 24 Jan 2012
               
2 1 AR Border 162 50 v India Chennai 11 Sep 1979
  2 AR Border 150* 153 v Pakistan Lahore 18 Mar 1980
  3 AR Border 106* 84 v England The Oval 27 Aug 1981
  4 AR Border 78 126 v West Indies Adelaide 30 Jan 1982
  5 AR Border 117* 66 v Pakistan Adelaide 09 Dec 1983
  6 AR Border 98* 100* v West Indies Port of Spain 16 Mar 1984
  7 AR Border 140 114* v New Zealand Christchurch 28 Feb 1986
  8 AR Border 70 100* v England Adelaide 12 Dec 1986
  9 AR Border 106 78 v Sri Lanka Moratuwa 08 Sep 1992
               
3 1 GS Chappell 116* 62 v Pakistan Melbourne 29 Dec 1972
  2 GS Chappell 247* 133 v New Zealand Wellington 01 Mar 1974
  3 GS Chappell 84 144 v England Sydney 04 Jan 1975
  4 GS Chappell 123 109* v West Indies Brisbane 28 Nov 1975
  5 GS Chappell 121 67 v Pakistan Melbourne 01 Jan 1977
  6 GS Chappell 74 124 v West Indies Brisbane 01 Dec 1979
               
4 1 JL Langer 179* 52 v England Adelaide 11 Dec 1998
  2 JL Langer 51 127 v West Indies St John’s 03 Apr 1999
  3 JL Langer 59 127 v Pakistan Hobart 18 Nov 1999
  4 JL Langer 146 78* v West Indies Georgetown 10 Apr 2003
  5 JL Langer 191 97 v Pakistan Perth 16 Dec 2004
  6 JL Langer 82 100* v England Brisbane 23 Nov 2006
               
5 1 MA Taylor 136 60 v England Leeds 08 Jun 1989
  2 MA Taylor 52 101 v Pakistan Melbourne 12 Jan 1990
  3 MA Taylor 59 144 v West Indies St John’s 27 Apr 1991
  4 MA Taylor 64 142* v New Zealand Perth 12 Nov 1993
  5 MA Taylor 334* 92 v Pakistan Peshawar 15 Oct 1998
               
6 1 ML Hayden 197 103 v England Brisbane 07 Nov 2002
  2 ML Hayden 136 53* v India Melbourne 26 Dec 2003
  3 ML Hayden 117 132 v Sri Lanka Cairns 09 Jul 2004
  4 ML Hayden 111 77 v ICC World XI Sydney 14 Oct 2005
  5 ML Hayden 65 137 v South Africa Melbourne 26 Dec 2005
               
7 1 SPD Smith 162* 52* v India Adelaide 09 Dec 2014
  2 SPD Smith 117 71 v India Sydney 06 Jan 2015
  3 SPD Smith 199 54* v West Indies Kingston 11 Jun 2015
  4 SPD Smith 215 58 v England Lord’s 16 Jul 2015
  5 SPD Smith 134* 70* v West Indies Melbourne 26 Dec 2015

 

 

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