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A rare successful double ton in a chase

Deepu Narayanan 
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No team has successfully chased a higher total in Asia ©AFP

4 Targets higher than 395 chased down successfully by sides in the fourth innings. West Indies sit on top of that table when they chased down 418 against Australia in St John's in 2003.

Highest successful chases in Tests

TeamTargetWkts remainingAgainstVenueSeason
4182003St John'sWest Indies3Australia
4142008/09PerthSouth Africa6Australia
4041948LeedsAustralia7England
4031975/76Port of SpainIndia6West Indies
3952020/21ChattogramWest Indies3Bangladesh
3881917Colombo (RPS)Sri Lanka4Zimbabwe
3872008/09ChennaiIndia6England

395 chased down by West Indies is the highest ever by any team in Asia. The previous highest being Sri Lanka's 388 against Zimbabwe in Colombo RPS in 2017. This was only the third successful 300+ chases by a visiting team in Asia after New Zealand's chase of 317 in Chattogram in 2008/09 and Australia's chase of 307 in Fatullah in 2006, both against Bangladesh.

6 Kyle Mayers became only the sixth player to score a double hundred in the fourth innings of a Test. He was the first to do so since Nathan Astle in 2002 and third West Indies player after George Headley and Gordon Greenidge. Before Mayers, Greenidge was the only other player to score 200+ in a successful fourth-innings chase.

Double hundreds in 4th innings

PlayerRunsForAgainstVenueSeasonResult
West IndiesGA Headley1929/30KingstonEnglandDraw223
EnglandWJ Edrich1938/39DurbanSouth AfricaDraw219
IndiaSM Gavaskar1979The OvalEnglandDraw221
West IndiesCG Greenidge1984Lord'sEnglandWon214*
New ZealandNJ Astle2001/02ChristchurchEnglandLost222
West IndiesKR Mayers2020/21ChattogramBangladeshWon210*

6 Mayers also became the sixth batsman to score a double century on debut and the first to do in the second innings. He became the second West Indies player to do so after Lawrence Rowe, who scored 214 and 100 against New Zealand in Kingston in 1971/72. The previous highest by any player in the second innings on debut was George Headly's 176 against England in Bridgetown in 1929/30.

Double hundreds on debut

PlayerRunsForAgainstVenueSeason
EnglandRE Foster1903/04SydneyAustralia287
West IndiesLG Rowe1971/72KingstonNew Zealand214
Sri LankaDSBP Kuruppu1987Colombo (CCC)New Zealand201*
New ZealandMS Sinclair1999/00WellingtonWest Indies214
South AfricaJA Rudolph2003ChattogramBangladesh222*
West IndiesKR Mayers (WI)2020/21ChattogramBangladesh210*

216 The stand of 216 between debutants Mayers and Nkrumah Bonner is the second-highest partnership involving two debutants in the history of Test cricket. The only pair to score more is Khalid Ibadullah and Abdul Kadir, who put together 249 for the opening wicket for Pakistan against Australia in Karachi in 1964/65.

171 The first-innings lead of 171 runs conceded by West Indies is the highest ever they have overturned to win a Test. The previous highest being 161 against Australia in Bridgetown in 1998/99, when Brian Lara's 153* helped them to a one-wicket victory.

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