virender sehwag has most no of double centuries in test cricket.
virender sehwag has most no of double centuries in test cricket.
who has most no of double centuries in test cricket?
virender sehwag
he is the only man to have reclaimed the test record score, having scored 375 against england in 1994, a record that stood until matthew hayden's 380 against zimbabwe in 2003. his 400 not out also made him the second player (after donald bradman) to score two test triple-centuries, and the second (after bill ponsford) to score two first-class quadruple-centuries. he has scored nine double centuries in test cricket, third after bradman's twelve and kumar sangakkara's eleven. as a captain, he scored five double centuries, which is the highest by any one who is in charge. in 1995 lara in the test match away series against england, scored 3 hundreds in three consecutive matches which earned him the man of the series award. the test series was eventually drawn 2–2. he also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a test career, after overtaking allan border in an innings of 226 played at adelaide oval, australia in november 2005. this was later broken by sachin tendulkar of india on 17 october 2008 whilst playing against australia at mohali in the 2nd test of the border-gavaskar trophy 2008.
brian lara
a century is a score of a hundred or more runs in an innings. the first century in women's test cricket was scored in 1935 by myrtle maclagan, who made 119 runs for england against australia. since then, a total of 103 centuries, including seven double centuries, have been scored. betty snowball of england (189 runs) held the record for the highest individual score for over 51 years. she was the second cricketer to hold the record after maclagan, a record which stood until sandhya agarwal of india surpassed it by a single run in 1986. following agarwal the record was held by denise annetts (australia, 1987), kirsty flavell (new zealand, 1996), karen rolton (australia, 2001), mithali raj (india, 2002), and the current record holder kiran baluch of pakistan who, in 2004, scored 242 runs against the west indies. janette brittin of england has scored five centuries in a test career spanning 27 matches and 44 innings, the most hundreds in women's test match history. flavell scored the first double century in women's test cricket in 1996; over the next eight years five more double centuries were scored, by joanne broadbent (australia, 1998), michelle goszko (australia, 2001), karen rolton (australia, 2001), mithali raj (india, 2002), and kiran baluch (pakistan, 2004), which was then succeeded by a 13 year wait until ellyse perry of australia scored the next one in 2017. , australia have the most centurions (23 players) while english players have scored the most centuries (41 times).
list of centuries in women's test cricket