Pair and century at the same venue

With the retirement of Virender Sehwag, Shikhar Dhawan is India's most attacking opener available in domestic circuit for India. After a sensational debut against Australia at Mohali back in 2013 where he scored the fastest century by a debutant in tests, he has had a topsy-turvy curve in recent times. He scored just one fifty in the seven innings in the limited overs leg of the South Africa tour of India. His scored two hundreds and three ducks in his last six tests innings including a pair at Mohali. He became the second batsman in test cricket history to bag a pair in the same venue where one scored a century on debut. Let us delve deep into the other instances of players scoring hundred and bagging a pair at the same venue.

Shikhar Dhawan became the fifth Indian opener to bag a pair in test cricket

Player	Team	Venue	Hundred(s)			Pair
			Score	Vs	Year	Score	Vs	Year
P McDonnell	Aus	SCG	147 & 9	Eng	1882	0 & 0	Eng	1883
V Trumper	Aus	MCG	0 & 0	Eng	1908	34 & 159	Eng	1910
F Worrell	WI	MCG	108 & 30	Aus	1951	0 & 0	Aus	1960
N Harvey	Aus	Manchester	122 & 0	Eng	1953	0 & 0	Eng	1956
W Mohammed	Pak	Port of Spain	0 & 0	WI	1958	189	WI	1958
D Sardesai	Ind	Port of Spain	0 & 0	WI	1963	112 & 3	WI	1971
A Kallicharan	WI	Port of Spain	101 & 18	NZ	1972	0 & 0	Eng	1974
			158 & 21	Eng	1974
			0 & 103*	Ind	1976
			127	Aus	1978
G Gooch	Eng	Birmingham	0 & 0	Aus	1975	154 & 30	NZ	1990
M Amarnath	Ind	Kanpur	101*	WI	1979	0 & 0	WI	1983
M Nazar	Pak	Birmingham	0 & 0	Eng	1982	124 & 10	Eng	1987
I Botham	Eng	Lord's	108	Pak	1978	0 & 0	Aus	1981
G Wood	Aus	Perth	0 & 0	NZ	1980	111 & 42	WI	1988
K Hughes	Aus	MCG	100* & 8	WI	1981	0 & 0	WI	1984
A Border	Aus	Perth	4 & 115	Eng	1979	0 & 0	WI	1993
			125 & 16	Eng	1986
S Malik	Pak	Karachi	12 & 100*	SL	1982	0 & 0	Aus	1998
			50 & 119*	NZ	1984
			36 & 102*	Ind	1989
			102 & 30*	WI	1990
M Atapattu	SL	Colombo(SSC)	0 & 0	Eng	2001	108	Ind	2001
						201	Ban	2001
						118 & 14	Aus	2004
H Streak	Zim	Harare	0 & 0	NZ	1997	127* & 7*	WI	2003
G Thorpe	Eng	Manchester	0 & 0	SA	1998	138 & 10	Pak	2001
						114	WI	2004
M Atherton	Eng	Johannesburg	9 & 185*	SA	1995	0 & 0	SA	1999
J Kallis	SA	Durban	105	Pak	2002	0 & 0	SL	2011
			177	WI	2003
			162	Eng	2004
			114	Aus	2006
			115	Ind	2013
H Gibbs	SA	Port Elizabeth	196 & 12	Ind	2001	0 & 0	WI	2007
R Ponting	Aus	Hobart	0 & 0	Pak	1999	157*	NZ	2001
						209 & 89	Aus	2010
H Gibbs	SA	Johannesburg	161 & 98	Eng	2005	0 & 0	Ind	2006
C Gayle	WI	Kingston	0 & 0	Ind	2006	104	Eng	2009
M Samuels	WI	Kingston	123 & 52	NZ	2012	0 & 0	NZ	2014
M Ashraful	Ban	Chittagong	0 & 0	NZ	2004	158* & 3	Ind	2004
R Sarwan	WI	Kingston	0 & 0	Eng	2004	261*	Ban	2004
						107	Eng	2009
A Flintoff	Eng	St John's	102* & 14	WI	2004	0 & 0	WI	2009
I Bell	Eng	Oval	0 & 0	Aus	2005	235	Ind	2011
B Stokes	Eng	Lord's	0 & 0	Ind	2014	92 & 101	NZ	2015
S Dhawan	Ind	Mohali	187	Aus	2013	0 & 0	SA	2015

# Players doing it in the first two test matches at a ground - Worrell, Harvey, Stokes and Dhawan.

# Players doing it in the last two test matches at a ground - Mudazzar Nassar and Samuels

# Players doing it in their only test matches at a ground  - Wazir Mohammed, Atherton & Flintoff.

# Players doing it in consecutive test matches at a ground apart from the above instances - McDonnell, Trumper, Sardesai, Sarwan and Gayle.

# Players scoring a double century and bagging a pair at the same venue - Atapattu, Ponting & Sarwan.

# Players doing it in their home grounds - Wood, Ponting, Gayle and Samuels.

 

Other Trivia

#Venues where it happened on most occasions - thrice each in MCG, Port of Spain & Kingston.

 

# Percy McDonnell played for Victoria when this feat was achieved. Later he moved to NSW and SCG became his home ground.

# Neil Harvey's scored 3 consecutive ducks after scoring a century on his very first innings at Manchester.

# Wazir Mohammed's and Alwyn Kalicharan's (158 & 21 and pair) instances came in the same series.

# Graham Gooch's pair against Aus at Birmingham came on his debut test match. He scored his first test century there 15 years later - the longest interval between a pair and a hundred or vice-versa at the same venue.

# Ian Botham was the captain on both occasions when  he scored 108 against Pak in 1978 and bagged the pair against Aus in 1981.

# Ian Botham scored 3 ducks consecutive innings at Lord's including the pair - all against Australia.

# Kim Hughes' pair against WI came in his last ever test.

# Allan Border was captain against England in 1986 (125 & 16) & WI in 1993 (pair).

# Saleem Malik scored 102 against SL on his test debut at Karachi in 1982 and on his last test there he bagged a pair against Aus in 1998.
 

# Marvan Atapattu scored 3 consecutive ducks followed by 2 centuries at SSC.

# Herschelle Gibbs is the only player to do it twice - at Johannesburg & Port Elizabeth.

# Jack Kallis scored his first 4 hundreds at Durban in a span of 5 innings. His last century against India in 2013 was his final test.

# The 298 runs scored by Ponting at his home ground Hobart is his highest aggregate in a test match.

# The 235 scored by Ian Bell against India is his career best score.