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On this day, Pauly Umrigar scored the first double century for India in Test cricket.

tekcircNovember 20, 20242 Mins read

Today In History 20th November: Cricket in India has become a passion rather than a game. The history of cricket in the country is more than two hundred years old, but the Indian cricket team played its first Test match at Lord's on 25 June 1932 and India became the sixth country to play Test cricket. Today, even though India dominates all three forms of cricket, it took 23 years for India to score a double century in Test cricket. Polly Umrigar has the credit for scoring the first double century for the country. Before Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar created many records with his bat in the history of Indian cricket, but before him most of the records were in the name of Pauly Umrigar. He scored a double century for India for the first time. He accomplished this feat against New Zealand on 20 November 1955. In the year 2023, on November 20, world number one player Novak Djokovic continued his brilliant performance and won the ATP Finals tennis tournament title for a record seventh time by defeating Yannick Sinner in straight sets. Earlier, the record of winning most titles in ATP Finals was jointly held in the names of Djokovic and Roger Federer.

The sequential details of other major events recorded on the date of November 20 in the history of the country and the world are as follows:-

1750: Birth of Tipu Sultan.
1910: Famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy dies of pneumonia.
1917: Establishment of Bose Research Institute in Calcutta.
1955 – Polly Umrigar scored the first double century for India in a Test match against New Zealand.
1984: Death of famous poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, who mixed the color of romanticism with revolution in his revolutionary works.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.
1989: Birth of Babita Phogat, a talented wrestler from Haryana who brought glory to the country in freestyle wrestling.
1995: Britain's royal bride Diana publicly acknowledged her extramarital affairs for the first time in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
1997: American spacecraft 'Columbia' successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2002: 'Prestige oil tanker', going to Bahamas, sank in the Atlantic Ocean, about 150 miles away from the coast of Spain.
2016: PV Sindhu won her first Super Series title by defeating Sun Yu of China in the China Open Super Series.
2022: FIFA World Cup starts in Qatar. This was the first FIFA World Cup held in West Asia.
2023: World number one player Novak Djokovic, continuing his brilliant performance, won the ATP Finals tennis tournament title for a record seventh time by defeating Yannick Sinner in straight sets.