HowSTAT! Test Cricket - Youngest Players Scoring a Double Century

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Youngest Players Scoring a Double Century

(Only first double century for each player shown)

	Player	Country	Born	Match	Ground	Age at Match Start	Score
1	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	12/06/1957	30/10/1976 v. New Zealand	National Stadium (Karachi)	19 years 140 days	206
2	G A Headley	West Indies	30/05/1909	03/04/1930 v. England	Sabina Park	20 years 308 days	223
3	V G Kambli	India	18/01/1972	19/02/1993 v. England	Wankhede Stadium	21 years 32 days	224
4	G S A Sobers	West Indies	28/07/1936	26/02/1958 v. Pakistan	Sabina Park	21 years 213 days	365*
5	G C Smith	South Africa	01/02/1981	18/10/2002 v. Bangladesh	Buffalo Park	21 years 259 days	200
6	D P M D Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	27/05/1977	24/02/1999 v. India	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground	21 years 273 days	242
7	S M Gavaskar	India	10/07/1949	13/04/1971 v. West Indies	Queen's Park Oval	21 years 277 days	220
8	K C Brathwaite*	West Indies	01/12/1992	05/09/2014 v. Bangladesh	Arnos Vale Ground	21 years 278 days	212
9	D G Bradman	Australia	27/08/1908	27/06/1930 v. England	Lord's	21 years 304 days	254
10	J A Rudolph	South Africa	04/05/1981	24/04/2003 v. Bangladesh	MA Aziz Stadium	21 years 355 days	222*
11	L Hutton	England	23/06/1916	20/08/1938 v. Australia	Kennington Oval	22 years 58 days	364
12	D I Gower	England	01/04/1957	12/07/1979 v. India	Edgbaston	22 years 102 days	200*
13	Z Crawley*	England	03/02/1998	21/08/2020 v. Pakistan	The Rose Bowl	22 years 200 days	267
14	C H Gayle*	West Indies	21/09/1979	28/06/2002 v. New Zealand	National Cricket Stadium (Grenada)	22 years 280 days	204
15	R G Pollock	South Africa	27/02/1944	31/12/1966 v. Australia	Newlands	22 years 307 days	209
16	W J Edrich	England	26/03/1916	03/03/1939 v. South Africa	Kingsmead	22 years 342 days	219
17	R B Kanhai	West Indies	26/12/1935	31/12/1958 v. India	Eden Gardens	23 years 5 days	256
18	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan	21/12/1934	17/01/1958 v. West Indies	Kensington Oval	23 years 27 days	337
19	Nawab of Pataudi Jr	India	05/01/1941	08/02/1964 v. England	Arun Jaitley Stadium	23 years 34 days	203*
20	L G Rowe	West Indies	08/01/1949	16/02/1972 v. New Zealand	Sabina Park	23 years 39 days	214
21	K D Walters	Australia	21/12/1945	14/02/1969 v. West Indies	Sydney Cricket Ground	23 years 55 days	242
22	E J Barlow	South Africa	12/08/1940	24/01/1964 v. Australia	Adelaide Oval	23 years 165 days	201
23	J E Root*	England	30/12/1990	12/06/2014 v. Sri Lanka	Lord's	23 years 164 days	200*
24	B C Lara	West Indies	02/05/1969	02/01/1993 v. Australia	Sydney Cricket Ground	23 years 245 days	277
25	Zaheer Abbas	Pakistan	24/07/1947	03/06/1971 v. England	Edgbaston	23 years 314 days	274
26	R R Sarwan	West Indies	23/06/1980	04/06/2004 v. Bangladesh	Sabina Park	23 years 347 days	261*
27	D J McGlew	South Africa	11/03/1929	06/03/1953 v. New Zealand	Basin Reserve	23 years 360 days	255*
28	G W Flower	Zimbabwe	20/12/1970	01/02/1995 v. Pakistan	Harare Sports Club	24 years 43 days	201*
29	A B de Villiers	South Africa	17/02/1984	03/04/2008 v. India	Narendra Modi Stadium	24 years 46 days	217*
30	M S Sinclair	New Zealand	09/11/1975	26/12/1999 v. West Indies	Basin Reserve	24 years 47 days	214

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