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.

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