Question: who holds the record for the most double centuries in first class cricket
Answer: Double - centuries Player Matches Career span 37 Donald Bradman ( twelve for Australia in Test matches , seven for touring Australian sides , eight for New South Wales , eight for South Australia , one for WM Woodfull 's XI and one for DG Bradman 's XI ) 234 from 1927 -- 28 to 1948 -- 49 36 Wally Hammond ( seven for England in Test matches , twenty - four for Gloucestershire , five for touring MCC sides ) 634 from 1920 to 1951 22 Patsy Hendren ( one for England in a Test match , four for touring MCC sides , fifteen for Middlesex and two for MCC ) 833 from 1907 to 1938 1