Younus Khan's Hat-Trick Of Centuries

Prior to 22nd October, Younus Khan had scored Test centuries against every Test-playing nation except Australia. Nine days and just three innings later, he has three.

By doing so, he became the fourth Pakistani and 34th overall to score centuries in three or more consecutive innings.

Warren Bardsley was the first batsman to score three consecutive tons way back in 1909-10 when he made 136 and 130 against England in August 1909 and then had to wait for more than an year to play his next Test but still managed to score 132 against South Africa at Sydney in December 1910 to achieve this feat.

Herbert Sutcliffe and Charlie Macartney had already repeated Bardsley’s achievement in 1924-25 and 1926 respectively, when Jack Fingleton bettered this record by scoring four in four in 1936 (3 vs SA and 1 vs ENG).

This record didn’t stay for long as Everton Weekes recorded five tons in five Test innings in 1948 (4 vs IND, 1 vs ENG) which remains the world record.

Here is the list of players who have scored 3 or more consecutive test innings:

* Same batsman has achieved this feat twice.
* Same batsman has achieved this feat thrice.

Other Stats:

• Vinod Kambli is the only batsman to score all of his three consecutive test-tons against different opponents
• Aarivinda de Silva repeated his feat in almost 100 days
• Kumar Sangakkara has scored three in three in three different calendar years
• The year 2014 has seen three different batsmen achieve this record the most in any calendar year
• David Warner and Younus Khan - the latest names in the record book, still have an ACTIVE sequence
• Australians have achieved this feat for the most times - 7, followed by Sri Lankans - 6
• No player from Bangladesh and Zimbabwe has achieved this feat

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