Ranji Doubles Up
On this day in 1896, London County Cricketing ‘Great’ KS Ranjitsinhji achieved the unique feat of scoring two first-class hundreds on the same day, for Sussex against Yorkshire at Hove.
His county partnerships for Sussex, with another London County ‘Great’, CB Fry, were legendary.
A month earlier, the Indian-born Ranji had made an unbeaten 154 on his debut for England, against Australia at Old Trafford.
Ranji followed WG Grace’s lead (152 v Australia at The Oval 1880) by scoring a century on Test debut, a feat equalled on this day in history last year by Warwickshire’s Jonathan Trott at The Oval in the deciding Ashes Test of 2009.
Trott became the 18th England player to achieve this, joining teammates Matt Prior, Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss in this select club.
