Stats to back Jaffer's 'resurrection'

Jaffer is the first Indian opener since Sidhu to score a hundred and a fifty in the same Test, writes Rajneesh Gupta.

In the Nagpur Test, Wasim Jaffer followed his first innings 81 with a maiden Test hundred in the second innings.

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Jaffer, thus became only the seventh Indian opener to score a hundred and a fifty in the same Test.

He is the first since Navjot Sidhu (in 1994-95) to do so.

Only three others – Vinoo Mankad, Farokh Engineer and Sunil Gavaskar – have performed this feat against England before the opener.

Batsman	Inns1	Inns2	Runs	Vs	Venue	Season
Mushtaq Ali	54	106	160	WI	Calcutta	1948-49
MH Mankad	72	184	256	Eng	Lord's	1952
Pankaj Roy	85	150	235	WI	Kingston	1952-53
SM Gavaskar	116	64*	180	WI	Georgetown	1970-71
SM Gavaskar	124	220	344	WI	Port-of-Spain	1970-71
FM Engineer	121	66	187	Eng	Bombay (BS)	1972-73
SM Gavaskar	101	58	159	Eng	Old Trafford	1974
SM Gavaskar	111	137	248	Pak	Karachi (NS)	1978-79
SM Gavaskar	205	73	278	WI	Bombay (WS)	1978-79
SM Gavaskar	107	182*	289	WI	Calcutta	1978-79
NS Sidhu	82	104	186	SL	Colombo (SSC)	1993-94
NS Sidhu	107	76	183	WI	Nagpur	1994-95
W Jaffer	81	100	181	Eng	Nagpur	2005-06