Captains who have scored fifties in both innings of a test on five or more occasions – V Kohli joins the elite list

Captains who have scored fifties in both innings of a test on five or more occasions – V Kohli joins the elite list

V Kohli scored 97 and 103 in the ongoing test against England at Nottingham as at the lunch on the third day of the test providing the fifth occasion of his scoring fifties in both innings of a test as Indian captain. He became the first Indian captain to score the fifties in both innings of the test and joined the ten other captains who have performed such a feat on five or more occasions to become the eleventh captain to achieve such a feat in the annals of test cricket. The performance of these  eleven captains is tabulated below

No No Player FI SI Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 1 RT Ponting 105 86* Aus NZl Auckland 26 Mar 2005
  2 RT Ponting 149 104* Aus Win Brisbane 03 Nov 2005
  3 RT Ponting 71 53 Aus SAF Perth 16 Dec 2005
  4 RT Ponting 120 143* Aus SAF Sydney 02 Jan 2006
  5 RT Ponting 103 116 Aus SAF Durban 24 Mar 2006
  6 RT Ponting 196 60* Aus Eng Brisbane 23 Nov 2006
  7 RT Ponting 101 99 Aus SAF Melbourne 26 Dec 2008
  8 RT Ponting 209 89 Aus Pak Hobart 14 Jan 2010
  9 RT Ponting 77 72 Aus Ind Bengaluru 09 Oct 2010
                 
2 1 GC Smith 277 85 SAF Eng Birmingham 24 Jul 2003
  2 GC Smith 126 50* SAF Win St John’s 29 Apr 2005
  3 GC Smith 63 68 SAF NZl Johannesburg 05 May 2006
  4 GC Smith 94 55 SAF Ind Cape Town 02 Jan 2007
  5 GC Smith 62 75 SAF Aus Melbourne 26 Dec 2008
  6 GC Smith 53 115 SAF NZl Dunedin 07 Mar 2012
  7 GC Smith 52 52 SAF Eng Leeds 02 Aug 2012
                 
3 1 GS Chappell 123 109* Aus Win Brisbane 28 Nov 1975
  2 GS Chappell 68 54* Aus Win Melbourne 31 Jan 1976
  3 GS Chappell 52 70 Aus Pak Adelaide 24 Dec 1976
  4 GS Chappell 121 67 Aus Pak Melbourne 01 Jan 1977
  5 GS Chappell 74 124 Aus Win Brisbane 01 Dec 1979
  6 GS Chappell 56 57 Aus Pak Lahore 18 Mar 1980
                 
4 1 BC Lara 51 79 Win SAF Durban 26 Dec 1998
  2 BC Lara 67 75 Win NZl Wellington 26 Dec 1999
  3 BC Lara 91 122 Win Aus Port of Spain 19 Apr 2003
  4 BC Lara 68 60 Win Aus St John’s 09 May 2003
  5 BC Lara 115 86 Win SAF Cape Town 02 Jan 2004
  6 BC Lara 61 122 Win Pak Lahore 11 Nov 2006
                 
5 1 Misbah-ul-Haq 77 58* Pak SAF Abu Dhabi 20 Nov 2010
  2 Misbah-ul-Haq 99 70* Pak NZl Wellington 15 Jan 2011
  3 Misbah-ul-Haq 53 52 Pak Zim Harare 03 Sep 2013
  4 Misbah-ul-Haq 63 68* Pak Srl Sharjah 16 Jan 2014
  5 Misbah-ul-Haq 101 101* Pak Aus Abu Dhabi 30 Oct 2014
  6 Misbah-ul-Haq 102 87 Pak Eng Dubai (DSC) 22 Oct 2015
                 
6 1 AR Border 140 114* Aus NZl Christchurch 28 Feb 1986
  2 AR Border 70 100* Aus Eng Adelaide 12 Dec 1986
  3 AR Border 66 60* Aus Eng Leeds 08 Jun 1989
  4 AR Border 76 51* Aus Eng The Oval 24 Aug 1989
  5 AR Border 106 78 Aus Srl Moratuwa 08 Sep 1992
                 
7 1 GA Gooch 333 123 Eng Ind Lord’s 26 Jul 1990
  2 GA Gooch 85 88 Eng Ind The Oval 23 Aug 1990
  3 GA Gooch 59 54 Eng Aus Sydney 04 Jan 1991
  4 GA Gooch 87 117 Eng Aus Adelaide 25 Jan 1991
  5 GA Gooch 65 133 Eng Aus Manchester 03 Jun 1993
                 
8 1 Inzamam-ul-Haq 57 86 Pak Ind Mohali 08 Mar 2005
  2 Inzamam-ul-Haq 50 117* Pak Win Kingston 03 Jun 2005
  3 Inzamam-ul-Haq 53 72 Pak Eng Multan 12 Nov 2005
  4 Inzamam-ul-Haq 109 100* Pak Eng Faisalabad 20 Nov 2005
  5 Inzamam-ul-Haq 69 56* Pak Eng Lord’s 13 Jul 2006
                 
9 1 V Kohli 115 141 Ind Aus Adelaide 09 Dec 2014
  2 V Kohli 167 81 Ind Eng Visakhapatnam 17 Nov 2016
  3 V Kohli 243 50 Ind Srl Delhi 02 Dec 2017
  4 V Kohli 149 51 Ind Eng Birmingham 01 Aug 2018
  5 V Kohli 97 103 Ind Eng Nottingham 18 Aug 2018
                 
10 1 RB Simpson 67 71 Aus Ind Kolkata 17 Oct 1964
  2 RB Simpson 153 115 Aus Pak Karachi 24 Oct 1964
  3 RB Simpson 59 67 Aus Eng Melbourne 30 Dec 1965
  4 RB Simpson 55 103 Aus Ind Adelaide 23 Dec 1967
  5 RB Simpson 100 51 Aus Ind Adelaide 28 Jan 1978
                 
11 1 SPD Smith 117 71 Aus Ind Sydney 06 Jan 2015
  2 SPD Smith 134* 70* Aus Win Melbourne 26 Dec 2015
  3 SPD Smith 138 53* Aus NZl Christchurch 20 Feb 2016
  4 SPD Smith 130 63 Aus Pak Brisbane 15 Dec 2016
  5 SPD Smith 76 102* Aus Eng Melbourne 26 Dec 2017

 

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