Stats: Captains dismissing their counterparts twice in a Test match

A captain taking out his opposite number isn’t a common feat in the recent times with the team managements preferring batsmen or the wicketkeepers to man the biggest responsibility in the team. In Test cricket, it is among the rarest instances where a captain has been dismissed by his counterpart in both the innings.

At the moment, only Windies and Zimbabwe have a captain who bowls regularly in Jason Holder and Graeme Cremer respectively. While Holder has had a tough time in the longer format, Cremer achieved the feat of taking down his opposition captain both times in the one-off Test match against Sri Lanka.

Dinesh Chandimal, who was making his captaincy debut in the game fell to his opposite number in both the innings for 55 and 15 runs respectively. This was the only 15th instance where a captain dismissed his counter part in both the innings and the first such instance since 2010. Thus, Chandimal became the 2nd Sri Lankan captain to be dismissed twice in a Test to his opposite number as Mahela Jayawardene got out to Andrew Flintoff in 2006 Lord’s Test in both the innings.

Among the 15 such instances, Sir Gary Sobers and Richie Benaud are the only ones to dismiss their opposition team skippers twice in a Test on two different occasions. Lord’s Cricket Ground witnessed four of those 15 instances.

Captains dismissing their opposition number twice in a Test match:

(Stats as on July 19, 2017)