In the Kolkata Test Wasim Jaffer [Images] followed his marathon score of 202 in the first innings with yet another impressive show in the second dig, scoring 56 at a brisk pace.

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Jaffer thus became only the fifth Indian batsman to score a double century and a fifty in the same Test. He is only the second Indian opener after Sunil Gavaskar [Images] to perform this feat.

Jaffer is the first Indian to do so against Pakistan. In fact there had been only two previous such instances against Pakistan.

Indian batsmen scoring a double hundred & a fifty in the same Test

Batsman	Scores	Opp	Venue	Season
SM Gavaskar	124 & 220	WI	Port-of-Spain	1970-71
SM Gavaskar	205 & 73	WI	Mumbai WS	1978-79
R Dravid	200* & 70*	Zim	Delhi	2000-01
VVS Laxman	59 & 281	Aus	Kolkata	2000-01
R Dravid	222 & 73	NZ	Ahmedabad	2003-04
R Dravid	233 & 72*	Aus	Adelaide	2003-04
SR Tendulkar	241* & 60*	Aus	Sydney	2003-04
W Jaffer	202 & 56	Pak	Kolkata	2007-08

A double hundred & a fifty in the same Test against Pakistan

Batsman	Scores	For	Venue	Season
MA Taylor	334* & 92	Aus	Peshawar	1998-99
MS Sinclair	204* & 50*	NZ	Christchurch	2000-01
W Jaffer	202 & 56	Ind	Kolkata	2007-08

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