Rival batsmen scoring double centuries in a test match – Perth witnesses such an instance

Rival batsmen scoring double centuries in a test match – Perth witnesses such an instance

DA Warner of Australia and LRPL Taylor of New Zealand scored 253 and 290 respectively in the ongoing test between Australia and New Zealand at Perth to provide the 24th occasion of rival batsmen scoring double hundreds in a test. All such occasions are listed below

No No Player Runs Inns Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 1 A Sandham 325 1 Eng Win Kingston 03 Apr 1930
  2 GA Headley 223 4 Win Eng Kingston 03 Apr 1930
                 
2 1 E Paynter 216* 1 Eng Aus Nottingham 10 Jun 1938
  2 SJ McCabe 232 2 Aus Eng Nottingham 10 Jun 1938
                 
3 1 WR Hammond 240 1 Eng Aus Lord’s 24 Jun 1938
  2 WA Brown 206* 2 Aus Eng Lord’s 24 Jun 1938
                 
4 1 RB Simpson 311 1 Aus Eng Manchester 23 Jul 1964
  2 KF Barrington 256 2 Eng Aus Manchester 23 Jul 1964
                 
5 1 WM Lawry 210 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
  2 RB Simpson 201 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
  3 SM Nurse 201 2 Win Aus Bridgetown 05 May 1965
                 
6 1 LG Rowe 214 1 Win NZl Kingston 16 Feb 1972
  2 GM Turner 223* 2 NZl Win Kingston 16 Feb 1972
                 
7 1 IVA Richards 291 1 Win Eng The Oval 12 Aug 1976
  2 DL Amiss 203 2 Eng Win The Oval 12 Aug 1976
                 
8 1 GS Chappell 235 1 Aus Pak Faisalabad 06 Mar 1980
  2 Taslim Arif 210* 2 Pak Aus Faisalabad 06 Mar 1980
                 
9 1 SV Manjrekar 218 1 Ind Pak Lahore 01 Dec 1989
  2 Shoaib Mohammad 203* 2 Pak Ind Lahore 01 Dec 1989
                 
10 1 PA de Silva 267 2 Srl NZl Wellington 31 Jan 1991
  2 MD Crowe 299 3 NZl Srl Wellington 31 Jan 1991
                 
11 1 SR Tendulkar 201* 1 Ind Zim Nagpur 25 Nov 2000
  2 A Flower 232* 3 Zim Ind Nagpur 25 Nov 2000
                 
12 1 MS Sinclair 204* 1 NZl Pak Christchurch 15 Mar 2001
  2 Mohammad Yousuf 203 2 Pak NZl Christchurch 15 Mar 2001
                 
13 1 BC Lara 221 1 Win Srl Col-SSC 29 Nov 2001
  2 HP Tillakaratne 204* 2 Srl Win Col-SSC 29 Nov 2001
                 
14 1 GP Thorpe 200* 3 Eng NZl Christchurch 13 Mar 2002
  2 NJ Astle 222 4 NZl Eng Christchurch 13 Mar 2002
                 
15 1 RT Ponting 242 1 Aus Ind Adelaide 12 Dec 2003
  2 R Dravid 233 2 Ind Aus Adelaide 12 Dec 2003
                 
16 1 Younis Khan 267 1 Pak Ind Bangalore 24 Mar 2005
  2 V Sehwag 201 2 Ind Pak Bangalore 24 Mar 2005
                 
17 1 DPMD Jayawardene 240 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
  2 TT Samaraweera 231 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
  3 Younis Khan 313 2 Pak Srl Karachi 21 Feb 2009
                 
18 1 KC Sangakkara 219 1 Srl Ind Col-SSC 26 Jul 2010
  2 SR Tendulkar 203 2 Ind Srl Col-SSC 26 Jul 2010
                 
19 1 Taufeeq Umar 236 2 Pak Srl Abu Dhabi 18 Oct 2011
  2 KC Sangakkara 211 3 Srl Pak Abu Dhabi 18 Oct 2011
                 
20 1 LRPL Taylor 217* 1 NZl Win Dunedin 03 Dec 2013
  2 DM Bravo 218 3 Win NZl Dunedin 03 Dec 2013
                 
21 1 KC Sangakkara 203 2 Srl NZl Wellington 03 Jan 2015
  2 KS Williamson 242* 3 NZl Srl Wellington 03 Jan 2015
                 
22 1 Mohammad Hafeez 224 2 Pak Ban Khulna 28 Apr 2015
  2 Tamim Iqbal 206 3 Ban Pak Khulna 28 Apr 2015
                 
23 1 Shoaib Malik 245 1 Pak Eng Abu Dhabi 13 Oct 2015
  2 AN Cook 263 2 Eng Pak Abu Dhabi 13 Oct 2015
                 
24 1 DA Warner 253 1 Aus NZl Perth 14 Nov 2015
  2 LRPL Taylor 290 2 NZl Aus Perth 14 Nov 2015

 

Apart from the captioned 24 occasions, there are 15 occasion of two batsmen scoring double hundreds in a test innings which are listed below. This list is a part of this article under the criteria to two batsmen scoring hundreds in a test match.

 

No No Player Runs Inns Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 1 WH Ponsford 266 1 Aus Eng The Oval 18 Aug 1934
  2 DG Bradman 244 1 Aus Eng The Oval 18 Aug 1934
                 
2 1 SG Barnes 234 2 Aus Eng Sydney 13 Dec 1946
  2 DG Bradman 234 2 Aus Eng Sydney 13 Dec 1946
                 
3 1 CC Hunte 260 2 Win Pak Kingston 26 Feb 1958
  2 GS Sobers 365* 2 Win Pak Kingston 26 Feb 1958
                 
4 1 WM Lawry 210 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
  2 RB Simpson 201 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
                 
5 1 Mudassar Nazar 231 1 Pak Ind Hyd-Pak 14 Jan 1983
  2 Javed Miandad 280* 1 Pak Ind Hyd-Pak 14 Jan 1983
                 
6 1 G Fowler 201 2 Eng Ind Chennai 13 Jan 1985
  2 MW Gatting 207 2 Eng Ind Chennai 13 Jan 1985
                 
7 1 Qasim Umar 206 2 Pak Srl Faisalabad 16 Oct 1985
  2 Javed Miandad 203* 2 Pak Srl Faisalabad 16 Oct 1985
                 
8 1 ST Jayasuriya 340 2 Srl Ind Col-RPS 02 Aug 1997
  2 RS Mahanama 225 2 Srl Ind Col-RPS 02 Aug 1997
                 
9 1 Ijaz Ahmed 211 2 Pak Srl Dhaka 12 Mar 1999
  2 Inzamam-ul-Haq 200* 2 Pak Srl Dhaka 12 Mar 1999
                 
10 1 MS Atapattu 249 2 Srl Zim Bulawayo 14 May 2004
  2 KC Sangakkara 270 2 Srl Zim Bulawayo 14 May 2004
                 
11 1 WW Hinds 213 1 Win SAF Georgetown 31 Mar 2005
  2 S Chanderpaul 203* 1 Win SAF Georgetown 31 Mar 2005
                 
12 1 KC Sangakkara 287 2 Srl SAF Col-SSC 27 Jul 2006
  2 DPMD Jayawardene 374 2 Srl SAF Col-SSC 27 Jul 2006
                 
13 1 ND McKenzie 226 1 SAF Ban Chittagong 29 Feb 2008
  2 GC Smith 232 1 SAF Ban Chittagong 29 Feb 2008
                 
14 1 G Gambhir 206 1 Ind Aus Delhi 29 Oct 2008
  2 VVS Laxman 200* 1 Ind Aus Delhi 29 Oct 2008
                 
15 1 DPMD Jayawardene 240 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
  2 TT Samaraweera 231 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
                 

 

Apart from the captioned 24 occasions of rival batsmen scoring double hundreds in a test and 15 occasions of two batsmen scoring double hundreds in a test innings, there are two occasions of three batsmen scoring hundreds in a test which are listed below. This list is a part of this article under the criteria to two or more batsmen scoring hundreds in a test match.

 

This list contains two occasions of two batsmen scoring hundreds in a test innings, which are included in the list of 15 occasions.

 

This list contains two occasions of two batsmen scoring hundreds in a test innings and also a rival batsmen scoring hundred in the same test which are included in the list of 23 occasions.

 

No No Player Runs Inns Team Oppn Ground Start Date
1 1 WM Lawry 210 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
  2 RB Simpson 201 1 Aus Win Bridgetown 05 May 1965
  3 SM Nurse 201 2 Win Aus Bridgetown 05 May 1965
                 
2 1 DPMD Jayawardene 240 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
  2 TT Samaraweera 231 1 Srl Pak Karachi 21 Feb 2009
  3 Younis Khan 313 2 Pak Srl Karachi 21 Feb 2009

 

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