HH Pandya scored 50 against Sri Lanka at Galle on his test debut to provide the 42^nd occasion of Indian batsman scoring fifty plus runs on test debut. He became the 40th Indian batsman to accomplish such a feat. All such occasions are tabulated below. Dilawar Hussain and SM Gavaskar scored fifties in both innings on their test debut.

 

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	L Amar Singh	51	4	v England	Lord’s	25 Jun 1932
2	L Amarnath	118	3	v England	Mumbai	15 Dec 1933
3	Dilawar Hussain	59	2	v England	Kolkata	05 Jan 1934
4	Dilawar Hussain	57	3	v England	Kolkata	05 Jan 1934
5	Yuvraj of Patiala	60	4	v England	Chennai	10 Feb 1934
6	C Ramaswami	60	3	v England	Manchester	25 Jul 1936
7	RS Modi	57*	1	v England	Lord’s	22 Jun 1946
8	MH Mankad	63	3	v England	Lord’s	22 Jun 1946
9	DG Phadkar	51	1	v Australia	Sydney	12 Dec 1947
10	KC Ibrahim	85	2	v West Indies	Delhi	10 Nov 1948
11	CD Gopinath	50*	1	v England	Mumbai (BS	14 Dec 1951
12	RH Shodhan	110	2	v Pakistan	Kolkata	12 Dec 1952
13	AG Kripal Singh	100*	1	v New Zealand	Hyd-RGS	19 Nov 1955
14	RG Nadkarni	68*	2	v New Zealand	Delhi	16 Dec 1955
15	AA Baig	112	4	v England	Manchester	23 Jul 1959
16	Hanumant Singh	105	1	v England	Delhi	08 Feb 1964
17	GR Viswanath	137	3	v Australia	Kanpur	15 Nov 1969
18	SM Gavaskar	65	2	v West Indies	Port of Spain	06 Mar 1971
19	SM Gavaskar	67*	4	v West Indies	Port of Spain	06 Mar 1971
20	SS Naik	77	3	v England	Birmingham	04 Jul 1974
21	HS Kanitkar	65	2	v West Indies	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
22	PH Sharma	54	1	v West Indies	Delhi	11 Dec 1974
23	S Amarnath	124	2	v New Zealand	Auckland	24 Jan 1976
24	P Roy	60*	3	v England	Chennai	13 Jan 1982
25	J Arun Lal	63	2	v Sri Lanka	Chennai	17 Sep 1982
26	BS Sandhu	71	2	v Pakistan	Hyd-Pak	14 Jan 1983
27	M Azharuddin	110	1	v England	Kolkata	31 Dec 1984
28	LS Rajput	61	3	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	30 Aug 1985
29	WV Raman	83	3	v West Indies	Chennai	11 Jan 1988
30	PK Amre	103	2	v South Africa	Durban	13 Nov 1992
31	SC Ganguly	131	2	v England	Lord’s	20 Jun 1996
32	R Dravid	95	2	v England	Lord’s	20 Jun 1996
33	VVS Laxman	51	3	v South Africa	Ahmedabad	20 Nov 1996
34	DJ Gandhi	75	3	v New Zealand	Mohali	10 Oct 1999
35	V Sehwag	105	1	v South Africa	Bloemfontein	03 Nov 2001
36	S Badrinath	56	2	v South Africa	Nagpur	06 Feb 2010
37	SK Raina	120	2	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
38	CA Pujara	72	4	v Australia	Bengaluru	09 Oct 2010
39	S Dhawan	187	2	v Australia	Mohali	14 Mar 2013
40	RG Sharma	177	2	v West Indies	Kolkata	06 Nov 2013
41	STR Binny	78	3	v England	Nottingham	09 Jul 2014
42	HH Pandya	50	1	v Sri Lanka	Galle	26 Jul 2017

 

HH Pandya scored 50 against Sri Lanka at Galle on his test debut to provide the fourth occasion of Indian batsman scoring fifty plus runs on test debut against Sri Lanka. All such occasions are tabulated below.

 

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	J Arun Lal	63	2	v Sri Lanka	Chennai	17 Sep 1982
2	LS Rajput	61	3	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	30 Aug 1985
3	SK Raina	120	2	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
4	HH Pandya	50	1	v Sri Lanka	Galle	26 Jul 2017