Thursday 11 December 2014

Kohli and other centurions on captaincy debut



The emotionally anticipated Adelaide test match saw as many 4 hundreds in the first 3 days of play. An aggressive one from Warner, a neatly placed one from Steve Smith, a gusty one from Clarke and one on captaincy debut by Virat Kohli. It was the 20th occasion where captains from both sides scoring a century in the first innings of the respective teams. Last time it happened was in the first test of the Australian tour of India in 2013 at Chennai when Clarke scored 130 and MS Dhoni replied with a strokefull 224. Kohli became the 4th Indian to score a century on captaincy debut after Vijay Hazare, Sunil Gavaskar & Dilip Vengsarkar.


Virat Kohli - 28th player to score a century on captaincy debut



The table below lists all the players who scored a century on their captaincy debut:

Player
Team
Vs
Inngs 1
Inngs 2
Total
Venue
Date
Billy Murdoch
Aus
Eng
0
153*
153
Oval
06Sep 1880
Archie MacLaren 
Eng
Aus
109
50*
159
SCG
13Dec1897
Hary Trott
Aus
Eng
0
143
143
Lord's
22Jun 1896
Monty Noble
Aus
Eng
133
22
155
SCG
11-Dec-03
Clem Hill
Eng
SA
191
DNB
191
SCG
09-Dec-10
Herbie Taylor
SA
Eng
109
8
117
Durban
13-Dec-13
Warwick Armstrong
Aus
Eng
12
158
170
SCG
17-Dec-20
Lindsay Hassett
Aus
SA
112
DNB
112
Johannesburg
24-Dec-49
Vijay Hazare
Ind
Eng
164*
DNB
164
Delhi
02-Nov-51
Jeffrey Stollmeyer
WI
Aus
10
104
114
SCG
25-Jan-52
Geoff Rabone
NZ
SA
107
68
175
Durban
11-Dec-53
Jackie McGlew
SA
Eng
104*
48
152
Manchester
07-Jul-55
Graham Dowling
NZ
Ind
239
5
244
Christchurch
22-Feb-68
Bev Congdon
NZ
WI
126
DNB
126
Bridgetown
23-Mar-72
Clive Lloyd
WI
Ind
30
163
193
Bangalore
22-Nov-74
Greg Chappell
Aus
WI
123
109*
232
Brisbane
28-Nov-75
Sunil Gavaskar
Ind
NZ
116
35*
151
Auckland
24-Jan-76
Grahm Yallop
Aus
Eng
7
102
109
Brisbane
01-Dec-78
Jeff Crowe
NZ
SL
120*
DNB
120
Colombo(SSC)
16-Apr-87
Dilip Vengsarkar
Ind
WI
10
102
112
Delhi
25-Nov-87
Allan Lamb
Eng
WI
119
10
129
Bridgetown
05-Apr-90
Dave Houghton
Zimb
Ind
121
41*
162
Harare
18-Oct-92
S Chanderpaul
WI
SA
203*
DNB
203
Georgrtown
31-Mar-05
Andrew Strauss
Eng
Pak
30
128
158
Lord's
13-Jul-06
Kevin Pietersen
Eng
SA
100
13
113
The Oval
07-Aug-08
Alistair Cook
Eng
Bang
173
39
212
Chittagong
12-Mar-10
Brendan Taylor
Zimb
Bang
71
105*
176
Harare
04-Aug-11
Virat Kohli
Ind
Aus
115
141
256
Adelaide
09-Dec-14


# Graham Dowling & Shivnarine Chanderpaul are the only players to score double hundreds on captaincy debut.

# Greg Chappell and Virat Kohli scored 2 hundreds in their first test as captain.

# Don Bradman got dismissed for a duck in his first & final test as captain.

# Mark Taylor, Rashid Latif and Habiul Bashar registered pairs on captaincy debut.

# Vijay Hazare scored 2 centuries in his 1st 2 innings as captain (164* & 155).

# Double hundreds in 2nd test as captain - Herbie Collins, Wally Hammond, Dennis Atkinson, Sunil Gavaskar

# Alistair Cook scored a century in each of his first 5 tests as captain.

# Hundreds in final test as captain - Ian Chappell, Jack Kallis, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Kevin Pietersen, Daniel Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara & Ross Taylor.


# The players who took a 5-fer on captaincy debut are Stanley Jackson (5/52 vs Aus, Nottingham, 1905), Imran Khan (7/52 vs Eng, Birmingham, 1982) and Shakib al Hasan (5/70 vs WI, St George’s, 2009).



** This article has been re-edited on 13 Dec 2014 after Kohli's ton in the 2nd innings.

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