Mayank Agarwal joins Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag and other Indians with multiple List A 150s

Mayank Agarwal scored 176 for India A against South Africa A at Chennai on August 13, 2015. It was his second score in excess of 150 in his List A career. Bharath Seervi lists Indians who scored two or more individual scores of 150 in their List A careers.

Playing in just his 23rd match, Mayank Agarwal scored the second 150 of his List A career. He scored 176 for India A against South Africa A at Chennai on August 13, 2014 in the sixth match of the triangular A-series tournament involving Australia A, India A and South Africa A. He had earlier scored 162 for his home team Karnataka against Andhra in Secunderabad in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on November 7, 2014.

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Mayank joined the elite club of Indians making more multiple List A 150s. Before him, only ten Indian cricketers have gone on to score do the same in their List A careers, but Mayank has taken the fewest matches (23). Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most 150s by Indians in List A cricket (5). No other Indian has got even four.

Sachin Tendulkar’s five 150s:

–          All five of Tendulkar’s 150s have come in One-Day internationals (ODIs). He also holds the world record for most ODI 150s.

Indians with three List A 150s:

–          Dinesh Mongia also has a First-Class triple century, also for Punjab against Jammu & Kashmir (his two 150s have been against them) in 2000-01 season of Ranji Trophy.

–          Two of Shikhar Dhawan’s 150s have come for India A.

–          The 248 by Dhawan is the third-highest individual score in List A cricket behind Alistair Brown’s 268 Rohit Sharma’s 264.

Indians with two 150s in List-A career

–          For Gautam Gambhir, Rohit, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag, both 150s have come in ODIs.

–          Wasim Jaffer’s 150s (178* and 170*) came while chasing targets (359 and 298). He remained not out and won both matches for Mumbai — in a span of just four innings!

Mayank scored his second 150 in just his 23rd innings. He is by far the quickest Indian to score two 150s in List A cricket. Only one more Indian achieved this in his first 100 innings — Wasim Jaffer (in his 57th innings). Everyone else has taken more than 100.

(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at @SeerviBharath and on Facebook here)