Monday, December 03, 2007

A rare feat for Wasim Jaffer

In the Kolkata Test Wasim Jaffer followed his first innings marathon innings of 202 with yet another impressive show in the second dig,scoring 56 at a brisk pace. Jaffer, in the course, became only the fifth Indian batsman to score a double century and a fifty in the same Test. Jaffer is only the second Indian opener after Sunil Gavaskar to perform this feat.

Jaffer is the first Indian to do so against Pakistan. In fact there had been only two previous such instances against Pakistan.

Indian batsmen scoring a double hundred & a fifty in the same Test
 
Batsman Scores Opp Venue Season
SM Gavaskar 124 & 220 WI Port-of-Spain 1970-71
SM Gavaskar 205 & 73 WI Mumbai WS 1978-79
R Dravid 200* & 70* Zim Delhi 2000-01
VVS Laxman 59 & 281 Aus Calcutta 2000-01
R Dravid 222 & 73 NZ Ahmedabad 2003-04
R Dravid 233 & 72* Aus Adelaide 2003-04
SR Tendulkar 241* & 60* Aus Sydney 2003-04
W Jaffer 202 & 56 Pak Calcutta 2007-08

A double hundred & a fifty in the same Test against Pakistan
 
Batsman Scores For Venue Season
MA Taylor 334* & 92 Aus Peshawar 1998-99
MS Sinclair 204* & 50* NZ Christchurch 2000-01
W Jaffer 202 & 56 Ind Calcutta 2007-08