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500-Plus in 4 or fewer Tests M. Shoaib Ahmed - 27 March 2001
Australia's Matthew Hayden and India's VVS Laxman became "just the tenth and eleventh player in Test history to aggregate 500-plus in a 3-Test rubber". Gooch, Zaheer Abbas, Nurse, Saleem Malik, Adams, Andrew Jones Mark Taylor, Shoaib Mohammad and Miandad are the other nine. England's Walter Hammond, Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya and Zimbabwe's Andy Flower compiled 500-plus in 2-Test rubbers. In the 1932-33 tour to New Zealand, Hammond scored 227 in the first Test at Christchurch and an unbeaten 336 in the second at Auckland, in just two innings in the 2-Test rubber. Let us expand this study to include all those who have aggregated 500-plus in 4 or fewer Tests, even if the actual rubber may have been of 5 Tests, as applicable to Doug Walters 1968-69, Gavaskar and Charlie Davis 1970-71 and Vivian Richards 1976 (see table below). It is interesting to note that there are only 31 instances of 29 batsmen performing this feat, Sunil Gavaskar and Vivian Richards being the only ones to figure twice in the list. There are eight West Indians, six Australians, four Pakistanis, four Englishmen, four Indians, two South Africans and a solitary New Zealanders in this record section. Only four of the 28 batsmen had the supreme distinction of performing the feat on their Test debut – West Indies George Headley (1930), South Africa's Barry Richards (1970) and Pakistan's Javed Miandad (1976).
In 2 Tests Runs Opponents Seasons Inns HS 100s 50s Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 571 v Ind in SL 1997-98 3 340 2 - Walter Hammond (Eng) 563 v NZ in NZ 1932-33 2 336* 2 - Andy Flower (Zim) 540 v Ind in Ind 2000-01 4 232* 2 2 © CricInfo
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