Ajinkya Rahane became only the second Indian player to score a century in his maiden Test innings at Lord’s, during the second Test between India and England. Bharath Seervi lists all batsmen from visiting countries to who scored a century in their maiden Test innings at the Lord’s.
Ajinkya Rahane scored a fine century to take India out of troubles in the first innings of the second Test of the series at Lord’s against England. He scored 103 batting at No 5 when at one point India was seven down for 145. This is Rahane’s first match at Lord’s and he got his century in his very first innings at this venue.
Rahane became only the second Indian batsman to score a century in his maiden Test innings at Lord’s. He emulated Sourav Ganguly, who had scored 131 runs in his debut Test innings at Lord’s. Overall, he is the 34th batsman from the visiting teams to achieve the feat. The first batsman to reach this feat was Henry Graham in 1893 when he scored 107 runs at no. 7. Angelo Mathews was the last one to have achieved this feat before Rahane.
Below is the table listing all the visiting batsmen who scored a century in their maiden Test innings at Lord’s:
Batsman
Runs
Bat Position
Year
Result
H Graham (Aus)
107
7
1893
Drawn
VT Trumper (Aus)
135*
6
1899
Won
VS Ransford (Aus)
143*
5
1909
Won
C Kelleway (Aus)
102
2
1912
Won
RH Cotterall (SA)
120
5
1924
Lost
DG Bradman (Aus)
254
3
1930
Won
WA Brown (Aus)
105
2
1934
Lost
A Melville (SA)
117
2
1947
Lost
AR Morris (Aus)
105
2
1948
Won
AF Rae (WI)
106
1
1950
Won
RA McLean (SA)
142
5
1955
Lost
WM Lawry (Aus)
130
1
1961
Won
CA Davis (WI)
103
3
1969
Drawn
GS Chappell (Aus)
131
4
1972
Won
BD Julien (WI)
121
8
1973
Won
GP Howarth (NZ)
123
3
1978
Lost
KJ Hughes (Aus)
117
4
1980
Drawn
GM Wood (Aus)
112
1
1980
Drawn
DL Haynes (WI)
184
2
1980
Drawn
IVA Richards (WI)
145
3
1980
Drawn
S Wettimuny (SL)
190
1
1984
Drawn
LRD Mendis (SL)
111
6
1984
Drawn
SR Waugh (Aus)
152*
6
1989
Won
TJ Franklin (NZ)
101
1
1990
Drawn
MJ Slater (Aus)
152
2
1993
Won
SC Ganguly (Ind)
131
3
1996
Drawn
MTG Elliott (Aus)
112
2
1997
Drawn
MJ Horne (NZ)
100
1
1999
Won
MS Atapattu (SL)
185
1
2002
Drawn
DPMD Jayawardene (SL)
107
4
2002
Drawn
GC Smith (SA)
259
1
2003
Won
AG Prince (SA)
101
5
2008
Drawn
AD Mathews (SL)
102
6
2014
Drawn
AM Rahane (Ind)
103
5
2014
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– Among the 34 players above, 14 are from Australia, five each from Sri Lanka, South Africa and West Indies, three from New Zealand and two from India.
– Graham (1893) and Ganguly (1996) were making their Test debut.
– Don Bradman (254 in 1930) and Graeme Smith (259 in 2003) are the only players to score double centuries in their maiden Test innings at Lord’s. Incidentally, these are the top two individual scores by visiting batsmen at Lord’s.
– The pairs of Kim Hughes and Graeme Wood (1980), Desmond Haynes and Viv Richards (1980), Sidath Wettimuny and Duleep Mendis (1984), and Marvan Atapattu and Mahela Jayawardene (2002) achieved the feat in the same innings.
Indians scoring 50+ in their maiden Test innings at Lord’s: Nine batsmen from India before Rahane scored 50 runs or more in their maiden Test innings at Lord’s. The first to achieve this was Rusi Modi in 1946 tour when he scored 57 not out batting at no. 5 in the first inning.
Below is the table listing the Indian batsmen who scored 50+ in their maiden Test innings at Lord’s:
Batsman
Runs
Bat Position
Year
Result
RS Modi
57*
5
1946
Lost
NJ Contractor
81
2
1959
Lost
AL Wadekar
57
3
1967
Lost
ED Solkar
67
7
1971
Drawn
GR Viswanath
68
5
1971
Drawn
M Amarnath
69
3
1986
Won
R Dravid
95
7
1996
Drawn
SC Ganguly
131
3
1996
Drawn
V Sehwag
84
2
2002
Lost
AM Rahane
103
5
2014
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Footnotes:
– If Rahane can manage a half century in the second innings of this Test he would become only the second Indian player after VinooMankad (72 & 184 in 1952) to score a century and a half century in same Test at Lord’s.
– If Rahane can manage another century in the second innings of this Test he would become only the fourth player in the history to score centuries in both innings of a Test at Lord’s emulating George Headley ( 106 and 107 in 1939), Gooch (333 and 123 in 1990) and Michael Vaughan (103 and 101 not out in 2004).
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