England’s Test double century list is lead their former captain Wally Hammond with 7 200+ scores for his country. Hammond converted his first ever 100+ score into a Test double century. He completed his career with 22 100s including 7 200s to his name.
PLAYERS | 200S | INNINGS |
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WALLY HAMMOND | 7 | 140 |
JOE ROOT | 6 | 268 |
ALASTAIR COOK | 5 | 291 |
LEN HUTTON | 4 | 138 |
KEVIN PIETERSEN | 3 | 181 |
Alastair Cook, with an incredible looking stat, has contributed five 200s on his name.
Joe Root, the one of the top two leading run-scorers and century-makers for England in Tests, also has 6 double centuries.
Len Hutton, one of the greatest batsmen to play the game from England, had scored four double tons, including England’s highest individual Test score innings of 364*.
England stands second in the list of most individual 200s by teams.
Apart from Joe Root, Ollie Pope, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, and Zak Crawley are the only others among the current English batters with a Test 200. Stokes, especially, scored some remarkable double century knocks, specifically the innings of 258 in South Africa against the home team, which comes under one of our epics Ben Stokes innings.
Harry Brook, recently became the sixth English batter to score a triple century.