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Elite List: Double Century and Century in the Same Test Match

Scoring a double ton in Test cricket has always been a greater achievement for any batter. Gracing the feat with a century in other innings of the same Test match will only make it more special.

Only 8 batsmen in the entire history of Test cricket have ed scores of 200 and 100 in the same Test match. Let’s look at them.

200 & 100 in a Same Test Match

S.NO PLAYER 1st INNS 2nd INNS OPPONENT VENUE YEAR
1 Greg Chappell (AUS) 247* 133 New Zealand Wellington 1974
2 Sunil Gavaskar (IND) 124 220 West Indies Port of Spain 1971
3 Graham Gooch (ENG) 333 123 India Lord’s 1990
4 Marnus Labuschagne (AUS) 204 104* West Indies Perth 2022
5 Brian Lara (WI) 221 130 Sri Lanka Colombo 2001
6 Lawrence Rowe (WI) 214 100* New Zealand Kingston 1972
7 Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 319 105 Bangladesh Chittagong 2014
8 Doug Walters (AUS) 242 103 West Indies Sydney 1969

Key Stats

Major contributions to this list are from the Australian batters – Greg Chappell and Doug Walters, who represented Australia from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, and Marnus Labuschagne, the recent entrant to the list.

Graham Gooch and Kumar Sangakkara are the only two players with a triple century and a century in the same Test match.