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With a double hundred against West Indies in December 2020 and another one in the next series against Pakistan in January 2021, Kane Williamson doubled his tally of double centuries from two to four.

With that, he has now levelled fellow Kiwi and wicketkeeper batsman Brendon McCullum (nicknamed Baz) as the New Zealand player with the maximum number of Test double hundreds.

Kane Williamson's fourth double century came against Pakistan in the Test match that was played at the Hagley Oval, Christchurch in January 2021.

Like each of the three double tons before this one, this knock of 238 too ended in victory for his side.

Each of his four double centuries have come while playing at home in New Zealand. While the first one was at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, the second and third were scored at Seddon Park, Hamilton.

PLAYERS WITH MOST DOUBLE HUNDREDS

12 - Don Bradman (Aus)

11 - Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

9 - Brian Lara (WI)

7 - Wally Hammond (Eng), Mahela Jayawardene (SL) and Virat Kohli (Ind)*

6 - Ricky Ponting (Aus), Younis Khan (Pak), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Javed Miandad (Pak) and Marvan Atapattu (SL)

5 -Rahul Dravid (Ind), Graeme Smith (SA) and Alastair Cook (Eng)

4 - Williamson and McCullum are tied with eight others with four double centuries

Kohli is the only active player above Williamson in this list.

Name: Kane Williamson Date of birth: August 8, 1990 Role: Top-order batsman Batting style: Right-hand bat

Williamson's four double hundreds so far:

242 not out against Sri Lanka in January 2015.

200 not out against Bangladesh in February 2019.

251 against West Indies in December 2020.

238 against Pakistan in January 2021.

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Name: Brendon McCullum Date of birth: September 27, 1981 Role: Wicket-keeper batsman Batting style: Right-hand bat

McCullum's four double hundreds:

225 against India at Hyderabad, India in November 2010. Match ended as a draw.

224 against India at Auckland, NZ in February 2014. NZ won the match.

302 against India at Wellington, NZ in February 2014. Match ended as a draw.

202 against Pakistan at Sharjah, UAE in November 2014. NZ won the match.

McCullum took a particular liking towards Indian attacks, scoring three of his four 200+ scores against them.

 

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On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, Bayern Munich came from behind to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 in the Bundesliga. Both goals were scored by Bayern's Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who claimed FIFA's The Best prize for being the year’s top footballer the next day.

The two goals that Lewandowski scored were his 250th and 251st in Bundesliga. That makes him just the third footballer to notch up over 250 Bundesliga goals, and the first non German to achieve the milestone.

Gerd Muller

 

Goals scored: 365 Matches played: 427 Minutes played: 38,157 Minutes per goal: 105 Club(s) played for: Bayern Munich

Country: Germany

Gerd 'Der Bomber Muller broke innumerable records in his Bundesliga career with Bayern. His goals tally is almost a hundred more than his nearest rival. He finished as the top scorer at the end of a season a record five times in the 14 seasons he played. He also holds the record for most goals scored in a single Bundesliga season - 40 in 1971-72.

Klaus Fischer

Goals scored: 268

Matches played: 535

Minutes played: 46,252

Minutes per goal: 173

Club(s) played for: TSV 1860 Mu nich, FC Schalke 04, FC Koln, Vfl Bochum

Country: Germany

Klaus Fischer had a long

Bundesliga career, spending his 19 seasons with four different clubs and scoring goals for all of them. He is among a handful of players to have played more than 500 Bundesliga matches. Even though he scored more than 20 goals in a season six times, he finished as the top-scorer of the league only once in 1975-76.

Robert Lewandowski

Goals scored: 253

Matches played: 333

Minutes played: 26,661

Minutes per goal: 105

Club(s) played for: Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich

Country: Poland

Robert Lewandowski has moved from strength to strength in his Bundesliga career since he started out with Borussia Dortmund in 2010-11. Having moved to Bayern Munich in 2014-15, Lewandowski certainly has more records within his sight in the time to come. Lewandowski has been the highest scoring non-German in the competition for some time now and the Polish forward became the first non-German to go past the 250 Bundesliga goals mark.

After Maximilian Philipp volleyed home in the fifth minute to give Wolfsburg the lead, Lewandowski headed home (top most) the equaliser in first-half stoppage time. He scored the winner (above) five minutes into the second half, following a strong run. The two goals were

Lewandowski's 250th and 251st in Bundesliga, making him just the third to reach the landmark.

 

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