Mayank Agarwal Scores Double Ton Thursday Oct 03,2019

Day Two First Test @ Vizag Vs South Africa Thursday Oct 03,2019

Mayank Agarwal hits Test double hundred in only his 8th innings

Mayank Agarwal became the 7th Indian player to hit 50-plus in his maiden innings in both home and away Tests.

The others to do so before him are -

1. Rusi Modi
2.  Surinder Amarnath
3. Arun Lal
4.  Sourav Ganguly
5. Suresh Raina and 
6. Hardik Pandya

Mayank Agarwal scored 76 on his Test debut at the MCG last year and 84* in the ongoing Test in his highest score for India.

Mayank Agarwal became only the 4th Indian to double up a maiden Test ton.Mayank Agarwal scored his first double-century while featuring in his fifth Test. His 358-ball knock was laced with 22 boundaries and 5 hits over the fence. Agarwal joined Karun Nair, Vinod Kambli and Dilip Sardesai who converted their maiden century into a double-century

Mayank Agarwal had played his first Test in Australia at the MCG and began his career with a gutsy 76 and a fluent 42 as India won by 137 runs.

Mayank Agarwal followed those scores up with another fine 77 in the next in Sydney before scores of 5, 16, 55 and 4 in the 2-Test series against the West Indies.