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Abhimanyu Easwaran joins WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Ricky Ponting, other legends

Abhimanyu Easwaran became the second Indian cricketer to score twin tons in the same city twice.

user-circle cricketcountry.com Written by Abhishek Mukherjee
Published: Dec 11, 2017, 05:16 PM (IST)
Edited: Dec 11, 2017, 05:27 PM (IST)

Image courtesy: Abhimanyu Easawaran's Facebook acount
Image courtesy: Abhimanyu Easawaran’s Facebook acount

Bengal refused to declare their second innings in the quarter-final of the 2017-18 Ranji Trophy against Gujarat. The innings featured the second hundred in the match (114) for Abhimanyu Easwaran: he had earlier scored 129 in the first innings.

Easwaran had been there, done that before. In the previous season he had scored 171 and 102* against Uttar Pradesh at the same ground (Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur). This is a rare feat: of Indians, only Pravanjan Mullick has achieved this, at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack.

The list is headed by Jack Hobbs, who had scored two hundreds in four separate First-Class matches at The Oval. It was expected to be an Englishman, of course, given the amount of domestic cricket they have played over years. With 199 First-Class hundreds, Hobbs was the most obvious candidate — at his home ground, The Oval.

Twin tons at the same ground four times
Inn 1 Inn 2 Player City Ground Team Against Season
104 143* Jack Hobbs London The Oval Surrey Cambridge 1925
112 104 Surrey Hampshire 1927
137 111* Surrey Glamorgan 1930
113 119* Surrey Essex 1932

Seven others have scored three twin-tons at the same ground. Unsurprisingly, the list is dominated by Englishmen and Australians, with Roy Fredericks making an entry.

Twin tons at the same ground thrice
Inn 1 Inn 2 Player City Ground Team Against Season
108 123* CB Fry Hove County Ground Sussex Middlesex 1898
125 229 Sussex Surrey 1900
138 101* Sussex Kent 1903
132 109* George Gunn Nottingham Trent Bridge Nottinghamshire Yorkshire 1913
169 185* Nottinghamshire Surrey 1919
100 110 Nottinghamshire Warwickshire 1927
127 115 Roy Fredericks Georgetown Bourda Guyana Barbados 1966-67
158 118 Guyana Australians 1972-73
112 105* Guyana MCC 1973-74
129 156* Greg Chappell Brisbane The Gabba South Australia Queensland 1969-70
180 101 Queensland Victoria 1973-74
123 109* Australia West Indies 1975-76
185 105 David Hookes Adelaide Adelaide Oval South Australia Queensland 1976-77
135 156 South Australia New South Wales 1976-77
137 107 South Australia Victoria 1982-83
107 100* Ricky Ponting Hobart Bellerive Oval Tasmania Western Australia 1992-93
118* 100* Tasmania Queensland 1995-96
126 145* Tasmania South Australia 1996-97
130 100* Mark Ramprakash London The Oval Surrey Worcestershire 2004
196 130* Surrey Lancashire 2007
223 103* Surrey Middlesex 2010

Apart from the eight instances mentioned above, there are 41 other player-ground combinations featuring two twin-tons. Easwaran is the latest entry on the list.

Twin tons at the same ground twice
Inn 1 Inn 2 Player City Ground Team Against Season
101 103* WG Grace Clifton College Close Ground Gloucestershire Kent 1887
148 153 Gloucestershire Yorkshire 1888
136 139 Bernard Bosanquet London Lord’s Middlesex Leicestershire 1900
103 100* Middlesex Sussex 1905
170 102* Peter Perrin Nottingham Trent Bridge Essex Nottinghamshire 1903
112 100* Essex Nottinghamshire 1911
100 167* Dodger Whysall Nottingham Trent Bridge Nottinghamshire Gloucestershire 1926
117 101* Nottinghamshire Hampshire 1930
119* 177 Wally Hammond Adelaide Adelaide Oval England Australia 1928-29
104 136 MCC South Australia 1936-37
116 102* KS Duleepsinhji London Lord’s Sussex Middlesex 1930
125 103* Gentlemen Players 1930
101 101 Patsy Hendren London Lord’s Middlesex Kent 1933
104 101 Middlesex Surrey 1936
131* 100* Laurie Fishlock London The Oval Surrey Sussex 1936
113 105 Surrey Yorkshire 1937
197 128 Bert Sutcliffe Dunedin Carisbrook Otago MCC 1946-47
118 125 Otago Canterbury 1947-48
115 127* Harold Gimblett Taunton County Ground Somerset Hampshire 1949
146 116 Somerset Derbyshire 1952
210* 157 Mark Hallam Leicester Grace Road Leicestershire Glamorgan 1959
107* 149* Leicestershire Worcestershire 1965
130 104* Barry Richards Northampton County Ground Hampshire Northamptonshire 1968
159 108 Hampshire Kent 1976
111 124 John Edrich London The Oval Surrey Warwickshire 1971
140 115 Surrey Kent 1977
138 136* Rick McCosker Sydney SCG New South Wales Western Australia 1974-75
123* 118* New South Wales Victoria 1981-82
163* 150 Sadiq Mohammad Bristol County Ground Gloucestershire Derbyshire 1976
171 103 Gloucestershire Glamorgan 1979
173* 103 Peter Kirsten Cape Town Newlands Western Province Eastern Province 1976-77
173 105* South Africa Australian XI 1986-87
100 118 Javed Miandad Lahore Gaddafi Stadium Habib Bank PIA 1977-78
107 123 Habib Bank NBP 1980-81
152 118* Alvin Kallicharran Birmingham Edgbaston Warwickshire Sussex 1983
200* 117* Warwickshire Northamptonshire 1984
176 102* Ali Zia Lahore Gaddafi Stadium United Bank PAC 1984-85
112 103 United Bank Railways 1987-88
103 130* Tim Robinson Swansea St Helen’s Nottinghamshire Glamorgan 1985
119 139* Nottinghamshire Glamorgan 1993
135 105* Kepler Wessels Port Elizabeth St George’s Park Australian XI South Africa 1986-87
115 147* Eastern Province Orange Free State 1991-92
175 102 Jamie Cox Hobart Bellerive Oval Tasmania New South Wales 1989-90
106 128* Tasmania New South Wales 2000-01
129 126 Matthew Maynard Cheltenham College Ground Glamorgan Gloucestershire 1991
140 118* Glamorgan Gloucestershire 2002
126 155 Matthew Hayden Brisbane The Gabba Queensland Victoria 1993-94
197 103 Australia England 2002-03
158 111* Mark Ramprakash Uxbridge Uxbridge CC Ground Middlesex Leicestershire 1995
122 108 Middlesex Worcestershire 1998
138* 103* Aravinda de Silva Colombo SSC Sri Lanka Pakistan 1996-97
146 120 Sri Lanka India 1997
104 132 Graeme Hick Worcester New Road Worcestershire Sussex 1998
104 105* Worcestershire Essex 2006
113 100* Pravanjan Mullick Cuttack Barabati Stadium Orissa Delhi 1998-99
108 111* Orissa Bengal 1999-00
108 103* Matthew Elliott Melbourne MCG Victoria New South Wales 1998-99
166 102* Victoria Tasmania 2003-04
142 199* Andy Flower Harare Harare SC Zimbabwe South Africa 2001-02
114 156* Mashonaland Mashonaland A 2001-02
126 154 Ricky Ponting Sydney SCG Tasmania New South Wales 2001-02
120 143* Australia South Africa 2005-06
101* 102* Chris Rogers Perth WACA Western Australia South Australia 2001-02
115 147* Victoria Western Australia 2008-09
157 100* Matthew Walker Canterbury St Lawrence Ground Kent Sussex 2004
142 157 Kent Lancashire 2007
105 107 Marcus Trescothick Birmingham Edgbaston England West Indies 2004
108 107* Somerset Warwickshire 2009
106 100 Michael Bevan Hobart Bellerive Oval Tasmania South Australia 2004-05
190 114* Tasmania Western Australia 2004-05
110 143* Marcus North Perth WACA Western Australia South Australia 2005-06
103 141 Western Australia Victoria 2008-09
172* 102* Jason Arnberger Melbourne MCG Victoria Tasmania 2002-03
103 126 Victoria Queensland 2004-05
128 106* Faisal Athar Hyderabad (Pakistan) Niaz Stadium Hyderabad Karachi Whites 2004-05
171 158 Hyderabad Lahore Ravi 2005-06
131 120 Alviro Petersen Johannesburg New Wanderers Lions Warriors 2008-09
129 105* Lions Titans 2008-09
171 102* Brendan Taylor Harare Harare SC Zimbabwe Bangladesh 2013
102 150* Mid West Rhinos Mashonaland Eagles 2013-14
142 110* Abhimanyu Easwaran Jaipur Sawai Mansingh Stadium Bengal Uttar Pradesh 2016-17
129 114 Bengal Gujarat 2017-18

Note:

– Ponting (thrice at Bellerive, twice at SCG) and Ramprakash (thrice at The Oval, twice at Uxbridge CC) have done this at two separate grounds.

– Aravinda’s matches at SSC were both Tests, against Pakistan and India.

– Duleep (at Lord’s), Hendren (at Lord’s), Hookes (at Adelaide), Flower (at Harare SC), Bevan (at Bellerive), and Petersen (at New Wanderers) have done it twice in the same season.

TRENDING NOW

Twin tons in the same city (but different grounds) twice
Inn 1 Inn 2 Player City Ground Team Against Season
118 109 Agha Zahid Lahore Bagh-e-Jinnah Lahore Blues Rawalpindi 1973-74
102 119 Gaddafi Stadium Habib Bank Railways 1982-83
107 113 Don Bradman Brisbane The Gabba South Australia Queensland 1937-38
131 133* Exhibition Ground New South Wales Queensland 1928-29
113* 175 Rizwan-uz-Zaman Lahore Gaddafi Stadium Karachi Blues Lahore City Blues 1985-86
139 217* Lahore City CA Ground PIA PACO 1989-90

These men have scored two hundreds in the same match in the same city twice, but at different grounds.

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