Indian opening batsmen scoring double centuries

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
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