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A rare feat for Wasim Jaffer
Rajneesh Gupta
December 03, 2007

In the Kolkata Test Wasim Jaffer [Images] followed his marathon score of 202 in the first innings with yet another impressive show in the second dig, scoring 56 at a brisk pace.

Jaffer thus became only the fifth Indian batsman to score a double century and a fifty in the same Test. He is only the second Indian opener after Sunil Gavaskar [Images] 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
BatsmanScoresOppVenueSeason
SM Gavaskar124 & 220WIPort-of-Spain1970-71
SM Gavaskar205 & 73WIMumbai WS1978-79
R Dravid200* & 70*ZimDelhi2000-01
VVS Laxman59 & 281AusKolkata2000-01
R Dravid222 & 73NZAhmedabad2003-04
R Dravid233 & 72*AusAdelaide2003-04
SR Tendulkar241* & 60*AusSydney2003-04
W Jaffer202 & 56PakKolkata2007-08

A double hundred & a fifty in the same Test against Pakistan
BatsmanScoresForVenueSeason
MA Taylor334* & 92AusPeshawar1998-99
MS Sinclair204* & 50*NZChristchurch2000-01
W Jaffer202 & 56IndKolkata2007-08

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