Stats: Ajinkya Rahane becomes fifth Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test match

Unstoppable Ajinkya Rahane

India’s new ‘Mr.Consistent’, who goes by the name of Ajinkya Rahane, has scored another century in the second innings of the fourth test between India and South Africa at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. Prior to this century, he has also scored a century in India’s first innings, which was to take India to past 300 first time in the series.

After having failures in first three test matches of the series, he came into this test match short of runs under his belt, but now by scoring centuries in both innings, he has become the fifth Indian batsman to score centuries in both innings of a test match.

In the first innings, he made 127 runs and in the second innings, he made 100* runs.

Here is a table that shows the list of Indian batsmen who have scored centuries in both innings of a test match.

Player Name	Runs : 1st Innings	Runs : 2nd Innings	Opposition	Venue	Year
Vijay Hazare	116	145	Australia	Adelaide	1948
Sunil Gavaskar	124	220	West Indies	Port of Spain	1971
Sunil Gavaskar	111	137	Pakistan	Karachi	1978
Sunil Gavaskar	107	182*	West Indies	Kolkata	1978
Rahul Dravid	190	103*	New Zealand	Hamilton	1999
Rahul Dravid	110	135	Pakistan	Kolkata	2005
Virat Kohli	115	141	Australia	Adelaide	2014
Ajinkya Rahane	127	100*	South Africa	Delhi	2015

He became the 81st batsman in the world who have ever achieved this milestone of scoring centuries in both innings of a test match. He also became overall the ninth batsmen to have scored centuries in both innings of a test match after coming to bat at no.5 or lower, also the first Indian to achieve this.

Here is a table that shows how Ajinkya Rahane has scored runs against all countries in his test career.

Country	Matchees	Runs
Australia	5	407
Bangladesh	1	98
England	5	299
New Zealand	2	162
South Africa	6	475
Sri Lanka	3	178

Here is a table that shows how Ajinkya Rahane has scored runs year wise in his test career.

Year	Matches	Runs
2013	3	217
2014	10	809
2015	9	593

Here is a table that shows how Ajinkya Rahane has scored runs at various batting positions in test cricket. He has scored 1619 runs in 22 test matches so far in his career by batting at four different positions.

Batting Position	Innings	Runs
3	4	142
5	27	1018
6	8	341
7	1	118

Here is another table which includes details related to how Rahane has performed in home and away test matches.

Home/Away	Matches	Runs
Home	4	274
Away	17	1345