Today’s History, November 20: Polly Umrigar scored the first double century for India in Test cricket

New Delhi. Cricket in India has become a passion rather than a sport. 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 nation to play Test cricket. Today, even though India is dominant in 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 carved many records in the history of Indian cricket with his bat, but before him most of the records were in the name of Polly Umrigar. He scored a double century for India for the first time. He accomplished this feat against New Zealand on 20 November 1955.

A series of other major events recorded on the date of November 20 in the history of the country and the world

1750 : Birth of Tipu Sultan.
1910 : Famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy died 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 : Famous poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, who mixed the color of romanticism with revolution in his revolutionary works, passed away.
1985 : Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1989 : Birth of Haryana’s talented wrestler Babita Phogat, who brought laurels to the country in freestyle wrestling.
1995 : Britain’s Princess Diana publicly admitted her extramarital affair for the first time in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
1997 : US Space Shuttle Columbia successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2002 : The Prestige oil tanker heading to the Bahamas sank in the Atlantic Ocean, about 150 miles off the coast of Spain.
2016 : PV Sindhu won the first Super Series title by defeating Sun Yu of China in the China Open Super Series.