KNM Fernando of Sri Lanka scored 205 against Ireland in the ongoing test at Galle to post his maiden double century. He became the 43^rd batsman to score 200 plus runs as his maiden double century in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below in the descending order of the runs scored by the batsmen

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	GS Sobers	365*	West Indies	v Pakistan	Kingston	26 Feb 1958
2	RB Simpson	311	Australia	v England	Manchester	23 Jul 1964
3	KK Nair	303*	India	v England	Chennai	16 Dec 2016
4	RE Foster	287	England	v Australia	Sydney	11 Dec 1903
5	BC Lara	277	West Indies	v Australia	Sydney	02 Jan 1993
6	Zaheer Abbas	274	Pakistan	v England	Birmingham	03 Jun 1971
7	Z Crawley	267	England	v Pakistan	Southampton	21 Aug 2020
8	RB Kanhai	256	West Indies	v India	Eden Gardens	31 Dec 1958
9	DJ McGlew	255*	South Africa	v New Zealand	Wellington	06 Mar 1953
10	WR Hammond	251	England	v Australia	Sydney	14 Dec 1928
11	SFAF Bacchus	250	West Indies	v India	Kanpur	02 Feb 1979
12	SG Barnes	234	Australia	v England	Sydney	13 Dec 1946
13	AD Nourse	231	South Africa	v Australia	Johannesburg	24 Dec 1935
14	VG Kambli	224	India	v England	Wankhede	19 Feb 1993
15	JA Rudolph	222*	South Africa	v Bangladesh	Chattogram	24 Apr 2003
16	RWT Key	221	England	v West Indies	Lord’s	22 Jul 2004
17	WJ Edrich	219	England	v South Africa	Durban	03 Mar 1939
18	DS Atkinson	219	West Indies	v Australia	Bridgetown	14 May 1955
19	Paynter	216*	England	v Australia	Nottingham	10 Jun 1938
20	MA Agarwal	215	India	v South Africa	Visakhapatnam	02 Oct 2019
21	D Lloyd	214*	England	` v India	Birmingham	04 Jul 1974
22	LG Rowe	214	West Indies	v New Zealand	Kingston	16 Feb 1972
23	MS Sinclair	214	New Zealand	v West Indies	Wellington	26 Dec 1999
24	HH Gibbs	211*	South Africa	v New Zealand	Christchurch	11 Mar 1999
25	Taslim Arif	210*	Pakistan	v Australia	Faisalabad	06 Mar 1980
26	KR Mayers	210*	West Indies	v Bangladesh	Chattogram	03 Feb 2021
27	DM Jones	210	Australia	v India	Chennai	18 Sep 1986
28	Imtiaz Ahmed	209	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	26 Oct 1955
29	SL Campbell	208	West Indies	v New Zealand	Bridgetow	19 Apr 1996
30	T Chanderpaul	207*	West Indies	v Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	04 Feb 2023
31	MP Donnelly	206	New Zealand	v England	Lord’s	25 Jun 1949
32	Aamer Sohail	205	Pakistan	v England	Manchester	02 Jul 1992
33	KNM Fernando	205	Sri Lanka	v Ireland	Galle	24 Apr 2023
34	BJ Hodge	203*	Australia	v South Africa	Perth	16 Dec 2005
35	DSBP Kuruppu	201*	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Colombo (CCC)	16 Apr 1987
36	GW Flower	201*	Zimbabwe	v Pakistan	Harare	31 Jan 1995
37	JN Gillespie	201*	Australia	v Bangladesh	Chattogram	16 Apr 2006
38	SE Gregory	201	Australia	v England	Sydney	14 Dec 1894
39	SM Nurse	201	West Indies	v Australia	Bridgetown	05 May 1965
40	DN Sardesai	200*	India	v New Zealand	Brabourne	12 Mar 1965
41	Hashmatullah Shahidi	200*	Afghanistan	v Zimbabwe	Abu Dhabi	10 Mar 2021
42	GC Smith	200	South Africa	v Bangladesh	East London	18 Oct 2002
43	DP Conway	200	New Zealand	v England	Lord’s	02 Jun 2021

KNM Fernando became the second Sri  Lankan batsman to perform such a feat after DSBP Kuruppu who had scored 201 not out against New Zealand at Col-CCC in Apr 1987

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	KNM Fernando	205	Sri Lanka	v Ireland	Galle	24 Apr 2023
2	DSBP Kuruppu	201*	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Colombo (CCC)	16 Apr 1987