A century with both bat and ball

In the recent Wellington Test, Daniel Vettori scored a century in the first innings and then conceded hundred runs while bowling during Pakistan's first innings. Turns out that it is a rather rare occurrence. Vettori at Basin Reserve was only the 48th time in 1991 Tests that a player has scored a century, and conceded at least 100 runs in an innings, during the same match. We've listed them all in this week's column.

Vettori's done it twice before as well. The first time was also against Pakistan, in Hamilton, in 2003. Vettori made his maiden Test hundred - an unbeaten 137 off 170 balls - in the first innings and then bowled 36 overs and took 1 for 117 when Pakistan batted. And in Colombo in 2009, Vettori took 3 for 104 in 40.3 overs as Sri Lanka made 416, before battling for 140 in the final innings of the match as New Zealand slid to defeat. In between those efforts, he had toiled for another 24 overs in Sri Lanka's second innings.

The first player to score and concede a hundred in the same Test was former Australian allrounder George Giffen. He did it in the timeless Test at the SCG in 1894, a match famous for being the first instance of a team winning after following on. And Giffen was on the wrong end of the result. He scored 161 to lead Australia to 586 in the first innings and then took 4 for 75 in 43 overs to dismiss England for 325. During the follow-on, Giffen had to bowl 75 overs to claim 4 for 164 and England set Australia a target of 177. Giffen's 41 was the second-best score during the chase and Australia fell short by 11 runs.

West Indies v Australia, Barbados, 1955. It's the only Test in which two players - Keith Miller and Denis Atkinson - scored hundreds and conceded more than 100 runs while bowling. Miller's 137 helped Australia amass 668, of which 108 came off Atkinson's medium-pace offcutters. West Indies were listing at 147 for 6 in reply, when Atkinson and Clairmonte Depeiaza began a record-breaking partnership. Atkinson scored 219 and their stand of 347 is a record for the seventh wicket. Miller bowled 22 overs and conceded 113 runs to West Indies' total of 510.

Most of the great allrounders have had Tests in which they've scored and given a hundred. Benaud, Sobers, Imran, Kapil, Hadlee, Flintoff … they all appear in the table below. Jacques Kallis, however, isn't among them. Kallis has scored 40 Test centuries, but conceded more than 100 in an innings only four times, and never done both in the same Test.

While Kallis surprises by his absence, Saqlain Mushtaq and Graeme Smith are unlikely players to have scored and conceded a hundred respectively. Saqlain scored his only Test century against New Zealand in Christchurch in 2001, a time when a tailender scoring a hundred was far less common than it is now. Anil Kumble, Mitchell Johnson and Harbhajan Singh have done the double. Earlier in that Test, Saqlain had taken 134 for 3 as New Zealand scored 476.

Smith's appearance is surprising because it is unusual that he bowled enough overs of part-time offspin to concede 100 runs in an innings. In happened in 2004, on the flattest of pitches at the Antigua Recreation Ground. Smith was one of four South African batsmen to score a hundred during a first-innings score of 588 for 5. He was also one of four South African bowlers to concede more than a 100 as West Indies amassed 747 in response. All 11 South Africans had a bowl during the innings, which lasted 235.2 overs, and Smith accounted for 43 off them, taking 2 for 145.

Scoring and conceding a century in a Test

Player	Inn 1	Inn 2	Inn 3	Inn 4		Opposition	Ground	Start Date	Scorecard
G Giffen (Aus)	161	4/75	4/164	41		v England	Sydney	Dec 14, 1894	Test 42
LC Braund (Eng)	103*	3/143	17	0/79		v Australia	Adelaide	Jan 17, 1902	Test 67
JH Sinclair (SA)	0/30	101	3/118	18		v Australia	Johannesburg	Oct 18, 1902	Test 76
GA Faulkner (SA)	78	5/120	123	3/40		v England	Johannesburg	Jan 1, 1910	Test 106
MW Tate (Eng)	15	3/108	100*	1/27		v South Africa	Lord's	Jun 29, 1929	Test 182
MH Mankad (India)	4/135	116	0/74	13		v Australia	Melbourne	Jan 1, 1948	Test 292
VS Hazare (India)	2/110	116	145	-		v Australia	Adelaide	Jan 23, 1948	Test 294
MH Mankad (India)	2/107	111	0	-		v Australia	Melbourne	Feb 6, 1948	Test 295
MH Mankad (India)	72	5/196	184	0/35		v England	Lord's	Jun 19, 1952	Test 352
DS Atkinson (WI)	2/108	219	5/56	20*		v Australia	Bridgetown	May 14, 1955	Test 406
KR Miller (Aus)	137	2/113	10	1/66		v West Indies	Bridgetown	May 14, 1955	Test 406
KR Miller (Aus)	6/107	109	2/58	-		v West Indies	Kingston	Jun 11, 1955	Test 408
R Benaud (Aus)	1/115	122	0/15	-		v South Africa	Johannesburg	Dec 23, 1957	Test 444
GS Sobers (WI)	132	2/115	14	0/30		v Australia	Brisbane	Dec 9, 1960	Test 498
CG Borde (India)	1/105	177*	-	-		v Pakistan	Chennai	Jan 13, 1961	Test 503
PR Umrigar (India)	5/107	56	172*	0/17		v West Indies	Port of Spain	Apr 4, 1962	Test 528
RG Nadkarni (India)	2/121	52*	122*	-		v England	Kanpur	Feb 15, 1964	Test 557
GS Sobers (WI)	110	1/106	52	1/107		v Australia	Adelaide	Jan 24, 1969	Test 645
GS Sobers (WI)	2/94	13	3/117	113		v Australia	Sydney	Feb 14, 1969	Test 646
Intikhab Alam (Pak)	4/137	138	3/44	-		v England	Hyderabad (Sind)	Mar 16, 1973	Test 717
AW Greig (Eng)	2	4/33	139	3/101		v New Zealand	Nottingham	Jun 7, 1973	Test 722
AW Greig (Eng)	148	6/164	25	-		v West Indies	Bridgetown	Mar 6, 1974	Test 734
IT Botham (Eng)	8	3/105	119*	1/18		v Australia	Melbourne	Feb 1, 1980	Test 872
N Kapil Dev (India)	2/147	116	-	-		v England	Kanpur	Jan 30, 1982	Test 920
RJ Shastri (India)	102	1/141	9*	-		v West Indies	St John's	Apr 28, 1983	Test 956
IT Botham (Eng)	5/59	138	1/137	-		v New Zealand	Wellington	Jan 20, 1984	Test 975
GRJ Matthews (Aus)	2	3/110	115	-		v New Zealand	Brisbane	Nov 8, 1985	Test 1029
GRJ Matthews (Aus)	130	2/107	-	-		v New Zealand	Wellington	Feb 21, 1986	Test 1035
Imran Khan (Pak)	135*	2/103	-	-		v India	Chennai	Feb 3, 1987	Test 1066
RJ Hadlee (NZ)	4/102	151*	-	-		v Sri Lanka	Colombo (CCC)	Apr 16, 1987	Test 1074
Wasim Akram (Pak)	52	5/100	123	1/29		v Australia	Adelaide	Jan 19, 1990	Test 1135
GRJ Matthews (Aus)	128	1/145	19	2/26		v England	Sydney	Jan 4, 1991	Test 1160
PA Strang (Zim)	106*	5/212	13*	-		v Pakistan	Sheikhupura	Oct 17, 1996	Test 1336
CL Cairns (NZ)	2	4/107	126	2/30		v India	Hamilton	Jan 2, 1999	Test 1438
CL Cairns (NZ)	109	3/110	69	1/45		v Australia	Wellington	Mar 24, 2000	Test 1491
GW Flower (Zim)	2/101	106*	16	-		v India	Nagpur	Nov 25, 2000	Test 1517
Saqlain Mushtaq (Pak)	3/134	101*	0/44	-		v New Zealand	Christchurch	Mar 15, 2001	Test 1536
A Flintoff (Eng)	11	1/115	142	-		v South Africa	Lord's	Jul 31, 2003	Test 1653
DL Vettori (NZ)	137*	1/117	20	-		v Pakistan	Hamilton	Dec 19, 2003	Test 1676
A Flintoff (Eng)	1/109	102*	14	-		v West Indies	St John's	Apr 10, 2004	Test 1696
JDP Oram (NZ)	126*	0/116	8	-		v Australia	Brisbane	Nov 18, 2004	Test 1721
GC Smith (SA)	126	2/145	50*	-		v West Indies	St John's	Apr 29, 2005	Test 1750
A Kumble (India)	110*	3/94	8*	2/123		v England	The Oval	Aug 9, 2007	Test 1842
MG Johnson (Aus)	35	4/148	123*	-		v South Africa	Cape Town	Mar 19, 2009	Test 1916
DL Vettori (NZ)	3/104	23	2/62	140		v Sri Lanka	Colombo (SSC)	Aug 26, 2009	Test 1932
Harbhajan Singh (India)	69	1/112	115	-		v New Zealand	Ahmedabad	Nov 4, 2010	Test 1974
Harbhajan Singh (India)	4/76	111*	1/117	-		v New Zealand	Hyderabad (Deccan)	Nov 12, 2010	Test 1975
DL Vettori (NZ)	110	4/100	1	1/57		v Pakistan	Wellington	Jan 15, 2011	Test 1991

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