List Of Batters Who Batted On All Days Of A Test Match

Dixit Bhargav | 20/06/2023
List Of Batters Who Batted On All Days Of A Test Match

Australia opening batter Usman Khawaja has become the 13th batter to bat on all five days of a Test match. Khawaja achieved the feat during the ongoing first Ashes 2023 Test against England in Birmingham. Having scored a century and a half-century in a potentially match-winning performance, Khawaja missed out on becoming the 15th cricketer to score two centuries in a Test match twice.

Khawaja, who had become the 17th Australian batter to score two hundreds in the same Test at the time of his Test comeback against the same opposition last year, would’ve become the sixth Australian cricketer to achieve the milestone twice.

Speaking of batters who got an opportunity to bat on each day of a five-day Test, the left-handed batter is only the second Australian batter after former captain Kim Hughes to enter this elite club.

Furthermore, such an incident has happened for the fourth time in an Ashes series. Although not part of the current squad, England opener Rory Burns was the last cricketer to do so in the Ashes. Co-incidentally, Burns had also batted on all the days of a Test at Edgbaston four years ago.

With the West Indian opening pair of Kraigg Brathwaite and Tagenarine Chanderpaul batting on all the days of the Bulawayo Test earlier this year, 2023 has become the first year in the history of cricket to witness such an incident three times.

List Of Batters Who Batted On All Days Of A Test Match

S. No. Batter Team Opposition Venue Year
1 ML Jaisimha India Australia Eden Gardens 1960
2 Geoffrey Boycott England Australia Trent Bridge 1977
3 Kim Hughes Australia England Lord’s 1980
4 Allan Lamb England West Indies Lord’s 1984
5 Ravi Shastri India England Eden Gardens 1984
6 Adrian Griffith West Indies New Zealand Seddon Park 1999
7 Andrew Flintoff England India PCA Stadium 2006
8 Alviro Petersen South Africa New Zealand Basin Reserve 2012
9 Cheteshwar Pujara India Sri Lanka Eden Gardens 2017
10 Rory Burns England Australia Edgbaston 2019
11 Kraigg Brathwaite West Indies Zimbabwe Queen’s Park Oval 2023
12 Tagenarine Chanderpaul West Indies Zimbabwe Queen’s Park Oval 2023
13 Usman Khawaja Australia England Edgbaston 2023
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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