Two centuries in a Test match: Full list of Australian cricketers with two hundreds in one Test match

Dixit Bhargav | 08/01/2022
Two centuries in a Test match: Full list of Australian cricketers with two hundreds in one Test match

Two centuries in a Test: 35-year old Usman Khawaja has become the 18th Australian batter to hit two centuries in the same Test.

During the fourth day of the ongoing fourth Ashes 2021-22 Test match between Australia and England in Sydney, Australia batter Usman Khawaja has become the 17th Australian batter to score a couple of centuries in the same Test match.

In what is the 24th such instance among Australian batters, the likes of David Warner (3), Ricky Ponting (3), Matthew Hayden (2), Allan Border (2) and Greg Chappell (2) have achieved the milestone on multiple occasions.

Making a Test comeback after more than two years, Khawaja couldn’t have registered a better re-inclusion into the Australian XI. Khawaja, who had hoped to score a century upon his Test comeback, has scored back-to-back hundreds to enter an elite list of Australian batters.

It all happened on the first delivery of the 67th over when Khawaja pushed a Dawid Malan delivery towards the leg-side to run a couple of runs and complete his 10th Test century. In what is his third Test century against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground, it is also his second in as many Test innings at No. 5.

Coming in to bat at No. 5 in the 22nd over, Khawaja ensured that England don’t run past the Australian batting lineup in the second innings to chase an achievable target. The 35-year old batter’s knock means that England will now have to chase a record chase at the SCG.

Two centuries in a Test by Australian batters (updated on December 3, 2022)

 

Batter 1st 2nd Opposition Ground Year
Warren Bardsley 136 130 England The Oval 1909
Arthur Morris 122 124* England Adelaide Oval 1947
Don Bradman 132 127* India MCG 1948
Jack Moroney 118 101* South Africa Wanderers 1950
Bob Simpson 153 115 Pakistan National Stadium 1964
Doug Walters 242 103 West Indies SCG 1969
Greg Chappell 247* 133 New Zealand Basin Reserve 1974
Ian Chappell 145 121 New Zealand Basin Reserve 1974
Greg Chappell 123 109* West Indies Gabba 1975
Allan Border 150* 153 Pakistan Gadaffi Stadium 1980
Allan Border 140 114* New Zealand Lancaster Park 1986
Dean Jones 116 121* Pakistan Adelaide Oval 1990
Steve Waugh 108 116 England Old Trafford 1997
Matthew Hayden 197 103 England Gabba 2002
Matthew Hayden 117 132 Sri Lanka Bundaberg Rum Stadium 2004
Ricky Ponting 149 104* West Indies Gabba 2005
Ricky Ponting 120 143* South Africa SCG 2006
Ricky Ponting 103 116 South Africa Kingsmead 2006
Phil Hughes 115 160 South Africa Kingsmead 2009
David Warner 135 145 South Africa Newlands 2014
David Warner 145 102 India Adelaide Oval 2014
David Warner 163 116 New Zealand Gabba 2015
Steven Smith 144 142 England Edgbaston 2019
Usman Khawaja 137 101* England SCG 2022
Marnus Labuschagne 204 104* West Indies Perth Stadium 2022
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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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