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In cricket, a player is said to have scored a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match. An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match is considered a "milestone" by critics. Players from all teams that are full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) have scored centuries in each innings with the exception of Bangladesh.
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The first player to score centuries in both innings of a Test match was Warren Bardsley of Australia, who made 136 and 130 against England in August 1909. Since then, the feat has been accomplished by 63 players on 79 different occasions as of November 2015. As of November 2015, 10 players have scored centuries in both innings of a match two times in their careers, while Sunil Gavaskar of India, and Ricky Ponting and David Warner, both of Australia, have achieved this feat thrice. England's Graham Gooch has the highest aggregate in a match while scoring centuries in both the innings; his combined tally of 456 runs in the match—333 in the first and 123 in the second innings—was entered into The Guinness Book of Records as "Most runs scored by a player in a Test match (male)". Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva is the only player to remain not out in both the innings.
There have been five instances of two players performing the feat in the same match – Denis Compton (England) and Arthur Morris (Australia) in 1947, Greg Chappell and Ian Chappell, both against New Zealand in 1974, Asanka Gurusinha (Sri Lanka) and Andrew Jones (New Zealand) in 1991, Pakistani cricketers Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq against Australia in November 2014, and David Warner (Australia) and Virat Kohli (India) in December 2014. Lawrence Rowe of West Indies and Yasir Hameed of Pakistan are the only debutants to score centuries in both innings of a Test match, doing so in 1972 and 2003 respectively.