Stats: Paul Gibb to Hashim Amla, players scoring 100 and 90 in a Test match

Instances

There have been 81 instances in Test cricket when players had scored centuries in both innings of a Test match. Every player’s dream is to score a century for his team but to get a century in both innings is like a dream come true and that shows us the potential of a player and consistency too.

But there are many players who are unlucky to get this milestone of scoring 100s in both innings of a Test match but they had scored 100 in any one of inning and 90 in other innings. Actually, there are 49 players who were unlucky to make 100s in both the innings of a Test match.

Recently concluded Test series between South Africa and England, Hashim Amla got out for 109 in 1^st innings and in 2^nd innings got out for 96 runs to Broad and there he missed his second innings century by just for runs and certainly that is cricket is all about.

Here, we have presented those 49 instances when players scored a century and 90 in a same Test match.

There are 20 players who had scored a century in 1^st innings and missed second century in other innings by getting out between 90-99 runs while Sourav Ganguly is the only player who had scored a double ton in 1^st innings and missed a century in 2^nd innings after getting out for 91 against Pakistan in 2007 while Australia’s Mark Taylor is the only player who scored a triple ton in 1^st innings and got out for 92 runs in 2^nd innings and missed a century by just 8 runs in 1998 against Pakistan. There are 27 players who had scored a century in 2^nd innings and missed out on scoring a ton in 1^st innings by getting out between 90-99.

All stats updated till 27th Jan 2016.