AK Markram of South Africa collected a pair in the just-concluded Test against India at Pune to provide the 66^th occasion of an opening batsman dismissed for a pair in the annals of Test cricket. All such occasions are tabulated below. AK Markram became the first South African opening batsman to suffer such an ignominy against India.

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	AC Bannerman	0	0	Aus	Eng	Lord’s	16 Jul 1888
2	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	Leeds	29 Jul 1907
3	VT Trumper	0	0	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	07 Feb 1908
4	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	The Oval	12 Aug 1912
5	GAL Hearne	0	0	SAF	Eng	Cape Town	01 Jan 1923
6	P Holmes	0	0	Eng	SAF	Durban	04 Feb 1928
7	JHW Fingleton	0	0	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	13 Jan 1933
8	VY Richardson	0	0	Aus	Eng	Sydney	23 Feb 1933
9	CA Roach	0	0	Win	Eng	Lord’s	24 Jun 1933
10	J Moroney	0	0	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	01 Dec 1950
11	P Roy	0	0	Ind	Eng	Manchester	17 Jul 1952
12	DJ McGlew	0	0	SAF	Eng	Lord’s	23 Jun 1955
13	TE Bailey	0	0	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	13 Feb 1959
14	G Pullar	0	0	Eng	Pak	Lahore	21 Oct 1961
15	BW Luckhurst	0	0	Eng	Pak	Leeds	08 Jul 1971
16	R Edwards	0	0	Aus	Eng	Leeds	27 Jul 1972
17	TW Jarvis	0	0	NZl	Pak	Wellington	02 Feb 1973
18	KR Stackpole	0	0	Aus	NZl	Auckland	22 Mar 1974
19	FM Engineer	0	0	Ind	Win	Mumbai	23 Jan 1975
20	DL Amiss	0	0	Eng	Aus	Adelaide	25 Jan 1975
21	CG Greenidge	0	0	Win	Aus	Brisbane	28 Nov 1975
22	Majid Khan	0	0	Pak	Aus	Perth	24 Mar 1979
23	BA Edgar	0	0	NZl	Aus	Perth	12 Dec 1980
24	GM Wood	0	0	Aus	NZl	Perth	12 Dec 1980
25	Mudassar Nazar	0	0	Pak	Eng	Birmingham	29 Jul 1982
26	KR Rutherford	0	0	NZl	Win	Port of Spain	29 Mar 1985
27	JG Wright	0	0	NZl	Eng	Lord’s	24 Jul 1986
28	W Larkins	0	0	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	05 Apr 1990
29	Saeed Anwar	0	0	Pak	Win	Faisalabad	23 Nov 1990
30	BR Hartland	0	0	NZl	Eng	Auckland	30 Jan 1992
31	Aamer Sohail	0	0	Pak	NZl	Hamilton	02 Jan 1993
32	GW Flower	0	0	Zim	Pak	Rawalpindi	09 Dec 1993
33	MA Taylor	0	0	Aus	Pak	Karachi	28 Sep 1994
34	GJ Rennie	0	0	Zim	NZl	Auckland	26 Feb 1998
35	DP Viljoen	0	0	Zim	Pak	Bulawayo	14 Mar 1998
36	MA Atherton	0	0	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 1998
37	RG Twose	0	0	NZl	Eng	Birmingham	01 Jul 1999
38	MA Atherton	0	0	Eng	SAF	Jo’burg	25 Nov 1999
39	AFG Griffith	0	0	Win	Zim	Trinidaf	16 Mar 2000
40	GW Flower	0	0	Zim	Ind	Delhi	18 Nov 2000
41	MS Atapattu	0	0	Srl	Eng	Col-SSC	15 Mar 2001
42	G Kirsten	0	0	SAF	Win	Bridgetown	29 Mar 2001
43	Saleem Elahi	0	0	Pak	Eng	Lord’s	17 May 2001
44	CH Gayle	0	0	Win	Srl	Col-SSC	29 Nov 2001
45	Taufeeq Umar	0	0	Pak	Aus	Sharjah	11 Oct 2002
46	RP Arnold	0	0	Srl	SAF	Jo’burg	08 Nov 2002
47	DS Smith	0	0	Win	Aus	Port of Spain	19 Apr 2003
48	MA Vermeulen	0	0	Zim	Eng	Ch-le-St	05 Jun 2003
49	MS Atapattu	0	0	Srl	Pak	Faisalabad	20 Oct 2004
50	WU Tharanga	0	0	Srl	Eng	Birmingham	25 May 2006
51	CH Gayle	0	0	Win	Ind	Kingston	30 Jun 2006
52	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Ind	Jo’burg	15 Dec 2006
53	W Jaffer	0	0	Ind	Ban	Chattogram	18 May 2007
54	Javed Omar	0	0	Ban	Ind	Dhaka	25 May 2007
55	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Win	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2007
56	TG McIntosh	0	0	NZl	Ind	Ahmedabad	04 Nov 2010
57	V Sehwag	0	0	Ind	Eng	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011
58	H Masakadza	0	0	Zim	NZl	Napier	26 Jan 2012
59	Khurram Manzoor	0	0	Pak	SAF	Dubai-DSC	23 Oct 2013
60	BB Chari	0	0	Zim	Ban	Chattogram	12 Nov 2014
61	R Chandrika	0	0	Win	Aus	Kingston	11 Jun 2015
62	S Dhawan	0	0	Ind	SAF	Mohali	05 Nov 2015
63	KOA Powell	0	0	Win	NZl	Hamilton	09 Dec 2017
64	M Vijay	0	0	Ind	Eng	Lord’s	09 Aug 2018
65	DA Warner	0	0	Aus	Eng	Manchester	04 Sep 2019
66	AK Markram	0	0	SAF	Ind	Pune	10 Oct 2019

It also provides the eighth occasion of a South African opening batsman collecting a pair in a test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	Leeds	29 Jul 1907
2	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	The Oval	12 Aug 1912
3	GAL Hearne	0	0	SAF	Eng	Cape Town	01 Jan 1923
4	DJ McGlew	0	0	SAF	Eng	Lord’s	23 Jun 1955
5	G Kirsten	0	0	SAF	Win	Bridgetown	29 Mar 2001
6	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Ind	Jo’burg	15 Dec 2006
7	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Win	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2007
8	AK Markram	0	0	SAF	Ind	Pune	10 Oct 2019

It also provides the sixth occasion of an opening batsman collecting a pair in a test against India.  All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	GW Flower	0	0	Zim	Ind	Delhi	18 Nov 2000
2	CH Gayle	0	0	Win	Ind	Kingston	30 Jun 2006
3	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Ind	Jo’burg	15 Dec 2006
4	Javed Omar	0	0	Ban	Ind	Dhaka	25 May 2007
5	TG McIntosh	0	0	NZl	Ind	Ahmedabad	04 Nov 2010
6	AK Markram	0	0	SAF	Ind	Pune	10 Oct 2019

CH Gayle, GW Flower, HH Gibbs, LJ Tancred. MA Atherton and MS Atapattu are the six opening batsmen who have collected pairs in a Test on two occasions.

No	Player	FI	SI	Team	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	CH Gayle	0	0	Win	Srl	Col-SSC	29 Nov 2001
	CH Gayle	0	0	Win	Ind	Kingston	30 Jun 2006
2	GW Flower	0	0	Zim	Pak	Rawalpindi	09 Dec 1993
	GW Flower	0	0	Zim	Ind	Delhi	18 Nov 2000
3	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Ind	Jo’burg	15 Dec 2006
	HH Gibbs	0	0	SAF	Win	P Elizabeth	26 Dec 2007
4	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	Leeds	29 Jul 1907
	LJ Tancred	0	0	SAF	Eng	The Oval	12 Aug 1912
5	MA Atherton	0	0	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 1998
	MA Atherton	0	0	Eng	SAF	Jo’burg	25 Nov 1999
6	MS Atapattu	0	0	Srl	Eng	Col-SSC	15 Mar 2001
	MS Atapattu	0	0	Srl	Pak	Faisalabad	20 Oct 2004