Sangakkara Scores Record Double Hundred HR Gopala Krishna, Saturday, October 22, 2011

Kumar Sangakkara's innings of 211 in Abu Dhabi is his eighth Test double hundred, moving him past England great Wally Hammond, who had seven.

Sangakkara trails only Don Bradman, who made 12 scores of 200 or more - in just 52 Tests - and Brian Lara, who had nine. Both those batsmen had two triple hundreds, while Sangakkara's highest is 287.

The batsmen with the most doubles:

DG BRADMAN - 12 DOUBLE HUNDREDS
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	254	England	Lord's	Jun 1930
2	334	England	Leeds	Jul 1930
3	232	England	The Oval	Aug 1930
4	223	West Indies	Brisbane	Jan 1931
5	226	South Africa	Brisbane	Nov 1931
6	299*	South Africa	Adelaide	Jan 1932
7	304	England	Leeds	Jul 1934
8	244	England	The Oval	Aug 1934
9	270	England	Melbourne	Jan 1937
10	212	England	Adelaide	Jan 1937
11	234	England	Sydney	Dec 1946
12	201	India	Adelaide	Jan 1948
BC LARA - NINE
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	277	Australia	Sydney	Jan 1993
2	375	England	St John's	Apr 1994
3	213	Australia	Kingston	Mar 1999
4	221	Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	Nov 2001
5	209	Sri Lanka	Gros Islet	Jun 2003
6	202	South Africa	Johannesburg	Dec 2003
7	400*	England	St John's	Apr 2004
8	226	Australia	Adelaide	Nov 2005
9	216	Pakistan	Multan	Nov 2006
KC SANGAKKARA - EIGHT
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	230	Pakistan	Lahore	Mar 2002
2	270	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	May 2004
3	232	South Africa	Col-SSC	Aug 2004
4	287	South Africa	Col-SSC	Jul 2006
5	200*	Bangladesh	Col-PSS	Jul 2007
6	222*	Bangladesh	Kandy	Jul 2007
7	219	India	Col-SSC	Jul 2010
8	211	Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	Oct 2011
WR HAMMOND - SEVEN
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	251	Australia	Sydney	Dec 1928
2	200	Australia	Melbourne	Dec 1928
3	227	New Zealand	Christchurch	Mar 1933
4	336*	New Zealand	Auckland	Mar 1933
5	217	India	The Oval	Aug 1936
6	231*	Australia	Sydney	Dec 1936
7	240	Australia	Lord's	Jun 1938
MS ATAPATTU - SIX
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	223	Zimbabwe	Kandy	Jan 1998
2	216*	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	Nov 1999
3	207*	Pakistan	Kandy	Jun 2000
4	201*	England	Galle	Feb 2001
5	201	Bangladesh	Col-SSC	Sep 2001
6	249	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo	May 2004
JAVED MIANDAD - SIX
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	206	New Zealand	Karachi	Oct 1976
2	280*	India	Hyd-Pak	Jan 1983
3	203*	Sri Lanka	Faisalabad	Oct 1985
4	260	England	The Oval	Aug 1987
5	211	Australia	Karachi	Sep 1988
6	271	New Zealand	Auckland	Feb 1989
DPMD JAYAWARDENE - SIX
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	242	India	Col-SSC	Feb 1999
2	237	South Africa	Galle	Aug 2004
3	374	South Africa	Col-SSC	Jul 2006
4	213*	England	Galle	Dec 2007
5	240	Pakistan	Karachi	Feb 2009
6	275	India	Ahmedabad	Nov 2009
V SEHWAG - SIX
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	309	Pakistan	Multan	Mar 2004
2	201	Pakistan	Bangalore	Mar 2005
3	254	Pakistan	Lahore	Jan 2006
4	319	South Africa	Chennai	Mar 2008
5	201*	Sri Lanka	Galle	Jul 2008
6	293	Sri Lanka	Mumbai (BS	Dec 2009
SR TENDULKAR - SIX
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	217	New Zealand	Ahmedabad	Oct 1999
2	201*	Zimbabwe	Nagpur	Nov 2000
3	241*	Australia	Sydney	Jan 2004
4	248*	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Dec 2004
5	203	Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	Jul 2010
6	214	Australia	Bangalore	Oct 2010
RT PONTING - FIVE
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	206	West Indies	Port of Spain	Apr 2003
2	242	India	Adelaide	Dec 2003
3	257	India	Melbourne	Dec 2003
4	207	Pakistan	Sydney	Jan 2005
5	209	Pakistan	Hobart	Jan 2010
R DRAVID - FIVE
No	Runs	Opposition	Ground	Mon/Year
1	200*	Zimbabwe	Delhi	Nov 2000
2	217	England	The Oval	Sep 2002
3	222	New Zealand	Ahmedabad	Oct 2003
4	233	Australia	Adelaide	Dec 2003
5	270	Pakistan	Rawalpindi	Apr 2004

SOME INTERESTING FACTS

Atapattu and Sehwag are the two opening batsmen in the list to score six double hundreds.

Bradman, Lara and Sehwag have scored triple hundreds on two occasions

Sehwag is the only opening batsman to score two triples. He is the only batsman to score three double against Pakistan.

Dravid is the only batsman in Test history who improved his highest score each time he passed 200. He also hasn't made a double in over seven years now.

Sangakkara's 211 was his 26th Test hundredand he equaled Gary Sobers.