India Matches Australia’s Record with Multiple Centuries in Headingley Test

LEEDS: Rishabh Pant’s twin centuries, combined with centuries from Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, and Yashasvi Jaiswal, enabled India to equal a long-standing record held by Australia during the first Test against England at Headingley on Monday.

The former World Test Championship (WTC) finalists commenced their 2025-27 campaign impressively, marking a fresh era under Shubman Gill’s captaincy after Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s retirements.

Entering the five-match series as underdogs, the visiting team demonstrated their batting prowess by overwhelming England’s bowling attack, which included the returning Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, skipper Ben Stokes, and spinner Shoaib Bashir. Their batting lineup has thus far produced five individual centuries in this high-scoring contest.

Consequently, India has now matched Australia’s 70-year-old achievement of recording the most centuries in a Test match played away from home.

Australia established this benchmark in the 1955 Kingston Test against the West Indies, where Colin McDonald (127), Neil Harvey (204), Keith Miller (109), Ron Archer (128), and Richie Benaud (121) all scored centuries in the first innings.

For India, Jaiswal scored 101 and Gill scored 147 in the first innings, Rahul contributed 137 in the second, while Pant scored 134 and 118 in the respective innings.

Pant’s performance also marked him as the first Indian wicketkeeper to score centuries in both innings of a Test match.

Globally, he is only the second wicketkeeper to reach this milestone, following Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower, who scored twin centuries against South Africa in 2001.

Wicketkeeper batters with centuries in each innings of a Test