Breaking the chain of low scores and missed opportunities, Mayank Agarwal brought up his fourth century in the second Test of the series against New Zealand in Mumbai. He reached the landmark with a spanking drive off Daryl Mitchell off 196 balls. Now, he has two double centuries and two centuries to his name.
He had to see off the tough spells with the new ball from Kyle Jamieson and Tim Southee but once he got his eyes in, played some delightful strokes against spinners. He got stuck into the off-spinner William Somerville and kept attacking spinners albeit India lost wickets in the cluster.
He missed out in the first Test in Kanpur and there were question marks over his place with the likes of Shubman Gill in the squad. He was destined to play in the Test series against England before hurting his head and facing concussion to be replaced by KL Rahul right before the start of the first Test in Nottingham.
He was dropped from the playing XI after a series of failures with the bat on the tour of Australia where he was visibly struggling against the likes of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.