A batter can witness 2 extreme results personally in a game of cricket. One is the happiness of reaching the 3-figure mark (100), and the other one is agony of getting out on a zero or duck. For a batsmen, crossing 100 run-mark in an innings is an significant achievement as it requires a great deal of skill to battle the opposition bowlers and a long period of concentration, dedication at the crease. Hence, for even for the best batters, completing a century will give them a lot of satisfaction.
At the other end of spectrum, the disappointment that getting out on a duck gives a batter is enormous, especially given that they have to sit in the dressing room watch rest of his teammates bat. While there is only one innings in white-ball cricket, Test cricket offers batters with two opportunities and there are instances where a batter has seen the both extremes (scoring a duck and century in same Test). Meanwhile you can find here the list of cricketers with the most number of ducks in Test cricket here.
Here in this article, we will see the list of Indian batters who have secured a duck and scored a century in the same Test match.
Team India cricketers with a century and a duck in two innings of the same Test match
| PLAYER | SCORES | OPPOSITION | DATE AND VENUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinoo Mankad | 111 & 0 | Australia | 6 Feb 1948, Melbourne |
| Pankaj Roy | 140 & 0 | England | 14 Dec 1951, Brabourne |
| Vijay Manjrekar | 133 & 0 | England | 5 Jun 1952 , Headingley |
| Madhav Apte | 0 & 163* | West Indies | 19 Feb 1953, Port of Spain |
| Vijay Manjrekar | 108 & 0 | England | 10 Jan 1964, Chennai |
| Gundappa Viswanath | 0 & 137 | Australia | 15 Nov 1969, Kanpur |
| Sunil Gavaskar | 0 & 118 | Australia | 30 Dec 1977, Melbourne |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | 0 & 103 | England | 2 Aug 1979, Lord’s |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | 116 & 0 | West Indies | 28 Apr 1989, Kingston |
| Mohammad Azharuddin | 0 & 109 | Pakistan | 23 Nov 1989, Faisalabad |
| Nayan Mongia | 152 & 0 | Australia | 10 Oct 1996, Delhi |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 0 & 136 | Pakistan | 28 Jan 1999, Chennai |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 117 & 0 | West Indies | 19 Apr 2002, Port of Spain |
| Virender Sehwag | 106 & 0 | England | 8 Aug 2002, Nottingham |
| Rahul Dravid | 136 & 0 | England | 19 Dec 2008, Mohali |
| Virender Sehwag | 109 & 0 | Sri Lanka | 3 Aug 2010, Colombo |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 0 & 115 | New Zealand | 6 Feb 2014, Auckland |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 145* & 0 | Sri Lanka | 28 Aug 2015, Colombo |
| Virat Kohli | 0 & 104* | Sri Lanka | 16 Nov 2017, Kolkata |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 106 & 0 | Australia | 26 Dec 2018, Melbourne |
Key Insights:
Overall, there have been 180 instances of a player securing a duck and century in the same Test match. West Indies’ Kavem Hodge is the latest one to the list and he did so in a game against England at Nottingham, on July 2024.
20 Indian players have made a century and gotten out for a duck in the same Test. Vijay Manjrekar, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Cheteshwar Pujara are the only 4 who have done it twice in Test matches.
Vinoo Mankad was the first among Indians and 15th in Test history to make a century & grab a duck in the same Test. Overall, Billy Murdoch (0 & 153*) was the first to make the list while playing for England against Australia in 1890 at the Oval.
Madhav Apte’s 163* is the highest score by an Indian batter post making a duck in the first innings of the Test. Similarly, Nayan Mongia’s 152 is the highest first innings score for an India batter whose second innings ended in a duck.
