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Ponting joins elite company

By Rajneesh Gupta
December 29, 2003 19:33 IST
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Ricky Ponting became only the fifth batsman in Test cricket to score double centuries in two successive Tests by scoring 257 in Australia's first innings in the third Test against India at Melbourne.

Ponting had also made 242 in the first innings of the Adelaide Test that Australia lost by four wickets.

England's Wally Hammond, Australia's Don Bradman, India's Vinod Kambli and South Africa's Graeme Smith are the others to do so.

Bradman performed the feat thrice, while Hammond did so on two occasions. Kambli is the only batsman whose two double centuries in the successive Tests came against different opponents.

Batsman Score Opponents Venue Season
Wally Hammond (Eng) 251 v Aus Sydney 1928-29
200 v Aus Melbourne 1928-29
Don Bradman (Aus) 254 v Eng Lord's 1930
334 v Eng Leeds 1930
Wally Hammond (Eng) 227 v NZ Christchurch 1932-33
336* v NZ Auckland 1932-33
Don Bradman (Aus) 304 v Eng Leeds 1934
244 v Eng The Oval 1934
Don Bradman (Aus) 270 v Eng Melbourne 1936-37
212 v Eng Adelaide 1936-37
Vinod Kambli (Ind) 224 v Eng Bombay WS 1992-93
227 v Zim Delhi 1992-93
Graeme Smith (SA) 277 v Eng Birmingham 2003
259 v Eng Lord's 2003
Ricky Ponting 242 v Ind Adelaide 2003-04
257 v Ind Melbourne 2003-04

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