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