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Until August 9, 2023, there have been 37 List A double centurions, who have accounted for the 42 double centuries in the format.
Less than a year before the first ever Men’s World Cup, Graeme Pollock slammed 222 in 165 balls in a 60-over match for Eastern Province against Border – the first ever List A double-hundred.
A year later, Natal captain Barry Richards declared after 54.4 overs against a South African XI – you could do that back then – when Alan Barrow reached 202.
Alvin Kallicharran’s 206 for Warwickshire against Oxfordshire in 1984, too, came in a 60-over match, as was Vince Wells’s 201 for Leicestershire against Berkshire in 1996.
Curiously, the next List A double ton – Ali Brown’s 119-ball 203 for Surrey against Hampshire in 1997 – was in a 40-over match. It was not until 2002 that Brown (yes, again) got his 160-ball 268 for Surrey against Glamorgan – the first double-hundred in men’s 50-over cricket.
Brown’s score was not beaten until 2022/23, when N Jagadeesan of Tamil Nadu amassed 277 against Arunachal Pradesh.
In 2009/10, Sachin Tendulkar made exactly 200 not out, the first to reach the milestone in men’s ODIs. Of the ten 200s in the format, three are by Rohit Sharma – who also holds the record of 264 in the format as well as the most double tons in List A cricket.
Apart from Brown and Rohit, the only others to hit two List A double hundreds are Travis Head (202 in 2015/16, 230 in 2021/22) and Prithvi Shaw (227 not out in 2020/21, 244 in 2023). Shaw is the only batter with two entries in the top ten, at sixth and tenth place.
List A double centurions: Full list of players with 200+ scores in List A cricket
(ODIs underlined)
277: N Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu v Arunachal Pradesh, 2022/23)
268: Ali Brown (Surrey v Glamorgan, 2002)
264: Rohit Sharma (India v Sri Lanka, 2014/15)
257: D’Arcy Short (Western Australia v Queensland, 2018/19)
248: Shikhar Dhawan (India A v South Africa A, 2013)
244: Prithvi Shaw (Northamptonshire v Somerset, 2023)
237*: Martin Guptill (New Zealand v West Indies, 2014/15)
230: Travis Head (South Australia v Queensland, 2021/22)
229*: Ben Dunk (Tasmania v Queensland, 2014/15)
227*: Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai v Puducherry, 2020/21)
222*: Graeme Pollock (Eastern Province v Border, 1974/75)
222: Jamie How (Central Districts v Northern Districts, 2012/13)
220*: Ben Duckett (England Lions v Sri Lanka A, 2016)
220*: Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra v Uttar Pradesh, 2022/23)
219: Virender Sehwag (India v West Indies, 2011/12)
215: Chris Gayle (West Indies v Zimbabwe, 2014/15)
212*: Sanju Samson (Kerala v Goa, 2019/20)
210*: Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan v Zimbabwe, 2018)
210: Ishan Kishan (India v Bangladesh, 2022/23)
209: Rohit Sharma (India v Australia, 2013/14)
209*: Abid Ali (Islamabad v Peshawar, 2017/18)
208*: Rohit Sharma (India v Sri Lanka, 2017/18)
208*: Soumya Sarkar (Abahani v Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi, 2018/19)
208: Shubman Gill (India v New Zealand, 2022/23)
207: Mohammad Ali (Pakistan Customs v DHA, 2004/05)
206: Alvin Kallicharran (Warwickshire v Oxfordshire, 1984)
206: Sharjeel Khan (Sindh v Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2021/22)
206*: Ollie Robinson (Kent v Worcestershire, 2022)
206: Ali Orr (Sussex v Somerset, 2022)
204*: Khalid Latif (Karachi Dolphins v Quetta Bears, 2008/09)
203: Ali Brown (Surrey v Hampshire, 1997)
203: Yashasvi Jaiswal (Mumbai v Jharkhand, 2019/20)
202*: Alan Barrow (Natal v South Africa African XI, 1975/76)
202*: Phil Hughes (Australia A v South Africa A, 2014)
202: Travis Head (South Australia v Western Australia, 2015/16)
202: Karanveer Kaushal (Uttarakhand v Sikkim, 2018/19)
201: Vince Wells (Leicestershire v Berkshire, 1996)
201*: Ravi Bopara (Essex v Leicestershire, 2008)
200*: Sachin Tendulkar (India v South Africa, 2009/10)
200: Kamran Akmal (WPDA v Habib Bank, 2017/18)
200: Mitchell van Buuren (Gauteng v Western Province, 2018/19)
200: Samarth Vyas (Saurashtra v Manipur, 2022/23)