How many times did 3 batsmen or more score centuries in the same test innings?
New Zealand’s win in a low-scoring match in Mumbai saw India beaten 3-0 by the Kiwis at home, which is the first time in India’s Test cricket history that they have lost all matches of a series of three or more Tests at home. However, they had also lost the series 2-0 to South Africa in 1999-00.
This is the 10th time a team has achieved a clean sweep in a Test series of at least three matches away from home. Yes, if you count Australia’s 3-0 win over Pakistan in 2002-03, the number would be 11 but then the first Test of the series was played in Sri Lanka and the other two Tests in Sharjah as Australia was not willing to travel to Pakistan due to security reasons.
Highest Consecutive score in Test Cricket
Daryl Mitchell scored 18 in the Bengaluru Test and then scored 18 in both innings in Pune. He scored 82 in the first innings in Mumbai.
This is definitely the highest score in terms of scoring the same score in three consecutive innings. Before Mitchell, Andrew Flintoff had scored 16 three times in a row but West Indies all-rounder Norbert Phillip is at the forefront in this matter. He scored 26 and 26 not out against Australia at Kingston in 1978 and then 26 against India at Bombay and Bangalore later that year. In his short tests career, Philip played just 15 innings, scoring 26 five times.
Best score made in consecutive innings
If we leave aside the question of scoring the highest consecutive score, then the best score in terms of scoring the same score five times in a Test career is in the name of Virat Kohli, who has scored 103 runs five times so far. While Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya scored 85 five times and England’s Kane Berrington scored 80.
Three batsmen who scored maiden centuries in the same Test Innings
Tony DeZorzi (177), Tristan Stubbs (106), and all-rounder Wiaan Mulder (105) scored centuries in the second Test of the series played between South Africa and Bangladesh in the Chattogram Test. There has only been one other instance of three batsmen scoring their first centuries in an innings of a Test match before this. This feat was achieved by West Indies batsmen against India in Delhi in November 1948. In the same match, India’s Hemu Adhikari also scored his first century (114 not out).
Two bowlers to take all 20 wickets
This was the seventh time recently that two bowlers have taken all 20 wickets together. Pakistan’s spin duo Sajid Khan and Noman Ali took all 20 wickets against England in Multan. However, this was the first such incident in the last 50 years of the Test
cricket and 1850 Tests. The last time Australian pair Bob Massie (on his debut) and Dennis Lillee took all 20 wickets against England at Lord’s in 1972 was in 1972.
Noman and Sajid would have repeated the feat by taking 19 wickets again in Rawalpindi but Zahid Mahmood took the wicket of England’s top scorer Jamie Smith. This was the 18th time two bowlers have taken 19 wickets together in a Tests.
Visiting bowlers who took 10 or more wickets in India
As this list suggests, only 12 visiting spinners have taken 10 wickets in a Test match in India so far. Ejaz Patel and Saqlain Mushtaq, who took 11 wickets in the Mumbai Test, are the only two bowlers to achieve this feat twice in India.
Ajaz took 14 wickets in Mumbai in 2021 but he did not take six wickets in both innings. As per your question, Mitchell Santner took seven wickets for 53 runs and six wickets for 104 runs in the second Test played in Pune. Before him, this feat was achieved in 2017 by Australia’s Steve O’Keefe who took six wickets for 52 runs in both innings in Pune.
The bowlers who have taken five-wicket hauls in both innings of a Tests by a visiting spinner in India are Richie Benaud (November 1956), Ashley Mallett (December 1969), Greg Matthews (in a tied match at Madras in September 1986), Saqlain (at Chennai and Delhi in 1999) and Monty Panesar (November 2012).
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