NEW DELHI: India batting legend Sachin Tendulkar scored six double centuries in Take a look at cricket all through his illustrious profession. Every of those innings demonstrated Tendulkar’s unparalleled ability, consistency, and skill to ship in difficult circumstances.
However the first double hundred took some time coming and when a batsman of the calibre of Sachin Tendulkar retains scoring centuries however fails to transform it right into a double century even ten years after his Take a look at debut, individuals do have a tendency to sit down up and take discover.
Throughout New Zealand tour to India in 1999, within the third Take a look at at Ahmedabad, Tendulkar broke that hoodoo and eventually obtained to the landmark double.
It was the then Indian captain’s 71st match (one hundred and tenth innings).
Profitable the toss and batting first, opener Sadagoppan Ramesh reached his century within the firm of Tendulkar after the dismissals of Devang Gandhi and Rahul Dravid.
Tendulkar obtained to his maiden double century on Day 2 of the Take a look at amidst loud cheers on the Motera and powered by his 217 and Sourav Ganguly’s 125, India declared their first innings at 583/7.
Anil Kumble took 5 wickets as New Zealand had been bowled out for 308 runs of their first innings. India declared their second innings at 148/5 to set the Kiwis a 424-run goal.
Opener Gary Stead, the present Head coach of the New Zealand aspect, made a affected person 78, but it surely was the unbroken 121-run stand for the third wicket between Craig Spearman (54*) and captain Stephen Fleming (64*) that helped the Kiwis draw the Take a look at, however India gained the 3-Take a look at sequence 1-0.
