{"id":34124,"date":"2017-11-08T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=34124"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T11:29:04","slug":"first-indian-cricketer-score-highest-double-century-first-class-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-indian-cricketer-score-highest-double-century-first-class-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"First Indian cricketer to score highest double century in first-class cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following cricketers recently broke the record of Vijay Merchant by scoring the 12th double century in first-class cricket?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Gautam Gambhir<br \/>\n(b) Anmolpreet Singh<br \/>\n(c) Gurkirat Singh<br \/>\n(d) Cheteshwar Pujara<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (d)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In a Ranji Trophy 2017-18 match Cheteshwar Pujara, playing for Saurashtra hit a double century (204 runs) against Jharkhand (November 2, 2017).<\/li>\n<li>With this, Pujara became the first Indian cricketer to score 12 double centuries in first-class cricket.<\/li>\n<li>Before this double century, the record of 11 double centuries of cricketer Vijay Merchant broke.<\/li>\n<li>3 Triple Centuries are also in the names of Pujara in domestic cricket.<\/li>\n<li>His highest individual score in the first-class match is 352 runs.<\/li>\n<li>Pujara has scored a total of 42 centuries and 43 half-centuries in the first-class match.<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, and Vijay Hazare have scored 10 double centuries in the first class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/cheteshwar-pujara-double-hundred-ranji-trophy\/1\/1080697.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/cheteshwar-pujara-double-hundred-ranji-trophy\/1\/1080697.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-domestic\/ranji-trophy\/cheteshwar-pujara-records-12th-first-class-double-century-most-by-india-batsman\/articleshow\/61463719.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-domestic\/ranji-trophy\/cheteshwar-pujara-records-12th-first-class-double-century-most-by-india-batsman\/articleshow\/61463719.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/india\/content\/player\/32540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/india\/content\/player\/32540.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following cricketers recently broke the record of Vijay Merchant by scoring the 12th double century in first-class cricket? (a) Gautam Gambhir (b) Anmolpreet Singh (c) Gurkirat Singh (d) Cheteshwar Pujara Answer: (d) Related Facts: In a Ranji Trophy 2017-18 match Cheteshwar Pujara, playing for Saurashtra hit a double century (204 runs) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-34124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsper","tag-sports-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}