Indian opening batsmen scoring double centuries
MA Agarwal of India scored 243 against Bangladesh in the ongoing test at Indore to provide the 21st occasion of an Indian opening batsman scoring centuries in Test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below
| No | Player | Runs | Opposition | Ground | Start Date |
| 1 | MH Mankad | 223 | v New Zealand | Mumbai (BS) | 02 Dec 1955 |
| 2 | MH Mankad | 231 | v New Zealand | Chennai | 06 Jan 1956 |
| 3 | DN Sardesai | 200* | v New Zealand | Mumbai (BS) | 12 Mar 1965 |
| 4 | SM Gavaskar | 220 | v West Indies | Port of Spain | 13 Apr 1971 |
| 5 | SM Gavaskar | 205 | v West Indies | Mumbai | 01 Dec 1978 |
| 6 | SM Gavaskar | 221 | v England | The Oval | 30 Aug 1979 |
| 7 | AD Gaekwad | 201 | v Pakistan | Jalandhar | 24 Sep 1983 |
| 8 | RJ Shastri | 206 | v Australia | Sydney | 02 Jan 1992 |
| 9 | NS Sidhu | 201 | v West Indies | Port of Spain | 14 Mar 1997 |
| 10 | V Sehwag | 309 | v Pakistan | Multan | 28 Mar 2004 |
| 11 | V Sehwag | 201 | v Pakistan | Bengaluru | 24 Mar 2005 |
| 12 | V Sehwag | 254 | v Pakistan | Lahore | 13 Jan 2006 |
| 13 | W Jaffer | 212 | v West Indies | St John’s | 02 Jun 2006 |
| 14 | W Jaffer | 202 | v Pakistan | Kolkata | 30 Nov 2007 |
| 15 | V Sehwag | 319 | v South Africa | Chennai | 26 Mar 2008 |
| 16 | V Sehwag | 201* | v Sri Lanka | Galle | 31 Jul 2008 |
| 17 | G Gambhir | 206 | v Australia | Delhi | 29 Oct 2008 |
| 18 | V Sehwag | 293 | v Sri Lanka | Mumbai (BS) | 02 Dec 2009 |
| 19 | MA Agarwal | 215 | v South Africa | Visakhapatnam | 02 Oct 2019 |
| 20 | RG Sharma | 212 | v South Africa | Ranchi | 19 Oct 2019 |
| 21 | MA Agarwal | 243 | v Bangladesh | Indore | 14 Nov 2019 |