M Vijay of India collected a pair in the ongoing test against India at Lord’s to provide the 55^th occasion of an Indian batsman scoring ducks in both innings of a test. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	FI	SI	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	VS Hazare	0	0	Eng	Kanpur	12 Jan 1952
2	GS Ramchand	0	0	Eng	Leeds	05 Jun 1952
3	P Roy	0	0	Eng	Manchester	17 Jul 1952
4	PG Joshi	0	0	Win	Bridgetown	07 Feb 1953
5	CV Gadkari	0	0	Win	Kingston	28 Mar 1953
6	NS Tamhane	0	0	Win	Kolkata	31 Dec 1958
7	Surendranath	0	0	Eng	Lord’s	18 Jun 1959
8	RB Desai	0	0	Aus	Delhi	12 Dec 1959
9	DN Sardesai	0	0	Win	Port of Spain	04 Apr 1962
10	ML Jaisimha	0	0	NZl	Hyd-LBS	15 Oct 1969
11	BS Bedi	0	0	Eng	Manchester	06 Jun 1974
12	BS Bedi	0	0	Win	Delhi	11 Dec 1974
13	EAS Prasanna	0	0	Win	Chennai	11 Jan 1975
14	FM Engineer	0	0	Win	Mumbai	23 Jan 1975
15	BS Chandrasekhar	0	0	NZl	Wellington	13 Feb 1976
16	BS Bedi	0	0	Eng	Delhi	17 Dec 1976
17	BS Chandrasekhar	0	0	Eng	Delhi	17 Dec 1976
18	BS Chandrasekhar	0	0	Aus	Brisbane	02 Dec 1977
19	BS Chandrasekhar	0	0	Aus	Melbourne	30 Dec 1977
20	DB Vengsarkar	0	0	Win	Chennai	12 Jan 1979
21	Yashpal Sharma	0	0	Aus	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
22	RMH Binny	0	0	Pak	Mumbai	16 Dec 1979
23	DR Doshi	0	0	Pak	Karachi	23 Dec 1982
24	Maninder Singh	0	0	Pak	Karachi	23 Dec 1982
25	S Venkataraghavan	0	0	Win	Kingston	23 Feb 1983
26	M Amarnath	0	0	Win	Kanpur	21 Oct 1983
27	M Amarnath	0	0	Win	Kolkata	10 Dec 1983
28	Maninder Singh	0	0	Win	Mumbai	11 Dec 1987
29	RGM Patel	0	0	NZl	Mumbai	24 Nov 1988
30	BKV Prasad	0	0	Win	Bridgetown	27 Mar 1997
31	Harvinder Singh	0	0	Aus	Bengaluru	25 Mar 1998
32	AB Agarkar	0	0	Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 1999
33	AB Agarkar	0	0	Aus	Sydney	02 Jan 2000
34	J Srinath	0	0	SAF	Mumbai	24 Feb 2000
35	AB Agarkar	0	0	Aus	Mumbai	27 Feb 2001
36	A Nehra	0	0	Zim	Harare	15 Jun 2001
37	Z Khan	0	0	SAF	Bloemfontein	03 Nov 2001
38	Harbhajan Singh	0	0	Win	Port of Spain	19 Apr 2002
39	A Nehra	0	0	Win	Port of Spain	19 Apr 2002
40	J Srinath	0	0	Win	Bridgetown	02 May 2002
41	VVS Laxman	0	0	NZl	Wellington	12 Dec 2002
32	Z Khan	0	0	NZl	Hamilton	19 Dec 2002
43	A Nehra	0	0	Aus	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
44	L Balaji	0	0	Pak	Lahore	05 Apr 2004
45	Z Khan	0	0	Aus	Mumbai	03 Nov 2004
46	W Jaffer	0	0	Ban	Chittagong	18 May 2007
47	I Sharma	0	0	Srl	Galle	31 Jul 2008
48	A Mishra	0	0	SAF	Nagpur	06 Feb 2010
49	V Sehwag	0	0	Eng	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011
50	SK Raina	0	0	Eng	The Oval	18 Aug 2011
51	Pankaj Singh	0	0	Eng	Manchester	07 Aug 2014
52	I Sharma	0	0	Aus	Adelaide	09 Dec 2014
53	SK Raina	0	0	Aus	Sydney	06 Jan 2015
54	S Dhawan	0	0	SAF	Mohali	05 Nov 2015
55	M Vijay	0	0	Eng	Lord’s	09 Aug 2018

M Vijay’s pair provides the eleventh occasion of an Indian batsman collecting a pair against England. All such occasions are tabulated below.

No	Player	FI	SI	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	VS Hazare	0	0	Eng	Kanpur	12 Jan 1952
2	GS Ramchand	0	0	Eng	Leeds	05 Jun 1952
3	P Roy	0	0	Eng	Manchester	17 Jul 1952
4	Surendranath	0	0	Eng	Lord’s	18 Jun 1959
5	BS Bedi	0	0	Eng	Manchester	06 Jun 1974
6	BS Bedi	0	0	Eng	Delhi	17 Dec 1976
7	BS Chandrasekhar	0	0	Eng	Delhi	17 Dec 1976
8	V Sehwag	0	0	Eng	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011
9	SK Raina	0	0	Eng	The Oval	18 Aug 2011
10	Pankaj Singh	0	0	Eng	Manchester	07 Aug 2014
11	M Vijay	0	0	Eng	Lord’s	09 Aug 2018

M Vijay became the sixth Indian opening batsman to collect a pair in a test. All such occasions are listed below. He also became the third Indian opening batsman to collect a pair against England. Others are – P Roy at Manchester in 1952 and V Sehwag at Birmingham in Aug 2011. Thus M Vijay became the first Indian opening batsman to collect a pair at Lord’s – Mecca of Cricket.

No	Player	FI	SI	Oppn	Ground	Start Date
1	P Roy	0	0	Eng	Manchester	17 Jul 1952
2	FM Engineer	0	0	Win	Mumbai	23 Jan 1975
3	W Jaffer	0	0	Ban	Chittagong	18 May 2007
4	V Sehwag	0	0	Eng	Birmingham	10 Aug 2011
5	S Dhawan	0	0	SAF	Mohali	05 Nov 2015
6	M Vijay	0	0	Eng	Lord’s	09 Aug 2018