5 players with most double centuries in Test cricket
Scoring 200 runs in a Test innings is not an easy feat. Virat Kohli made headlines yesterday when he scored his sixth double hundred, going past Brian Lara for the most double-centuries by a captain in Tests. Kohli is sixth on the all-time list of most double hundreds scored by a player.
The list of players with most double hundreds in Tests has some great names and there is no room for legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ricky Ponting, Vivian Richards, Rahul Dravid, Alastair Cook and many more.
On that note, let's take a look at the five players with the most double hundreds in Test cricket:
#5 Mahela Jayawardene (7)
One of the most consistent and prolific players for Sri Lanka, Jayawardene had a penchant for scoring big hundreds. He has two scores of 275+ and was one of the most technically gifted batsmen to have played the game.
Jayawardene played 149 Tests for Sri Lanka, scoring 11814 runs with 34 hundreds and 50 fifties. He often converted starts into big scores, compiling seven double hundreds in his illustrious career, with the highest score of 374 coming against South Africa at Colombo.
His first double hundred was in 2009 at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo against India. Jayawardene scored two double hundreds in Colombo, two in Galle, one in Ahmedabad and one in Dhaka. He has not scored a double hundred outside the sub-continent.