Cricket has always been considered the best sport in India. A different passion has been seen among Indians regarding this game. Even though the country got independence in 1947, India played its first test match in international cricket only in 1932. Often, fans of Indian cricket are very interested in knowing the statistics related to this game. In such a situation, you must find out which Indian was the first to score a double century in the Test.
Now it must have come to your mind that why did we suddenly start talking about the Indian who scored the first double century in Test cricket, then let us tell you that this feat happened on this very day. It was on 20th November that an Indian scored the first double century in Test cricket. The surprising thing is that that Indian was not Sachin Tendulkar or Sunil Gavaskar, rather this was before the era of these two greats.
About 80 years ago, on this day, Polly Umrigar scored a double century in Test cricket. Then he became the first Indian cricketer to score a double century in this format. No Indian before him could accomplish this feat.
The Indian cricket team played its first Test match at Lord’s on 25 June 1932 and India became the sixth country to play Test cricket. Today, even though India dominates all three formats of international cricket, it took a long time of 23 years for India to score a double century in Test cricket.
Polly Umrigar has the credit for scoring the first double century for the country. Before Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar created many records with his bat in the history of Indian cricket, but before him most of the records were in the name of Pauly Umrigar. He scored a double century for India for the first time. He accomplished this feat against New Zealand on 20 November 1955.
