CT Stats: Batsmen with most hundreds in consecutive ODIs

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Pakistan’s batsman Babar Azam prays after scoring his third successive century during the 3rd ODI cricket match between Pakistan and the West Indies. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

Changes in the playing conditions and more batting friendly pitches have made cricket a batsman’s game. Scoring runs, hundreds and even two-hundred is now easier than ever before. But still, scoring hundreds in consecutive ODIs is not like eating cake and pies. Despite the fact that, since 2013, each year a different player has scored 100s in three or more consecutive ODIs. The latest being Babar Azam from Pakistan who managed to score a hundred in every game of the 3-match ODI series vs West Indies; becoming the third Pakistani to score hundreds in three or more consecutive innings.

Zaheer Abbass was the first batsman to score three consecutive centuries in the same number of ODIs, back in 1982 and 1983, all of them coming against the same opposition, India.

Another Pakistani Saeed Anwar followed him in 1993. He did it against 2 different oppositions in three consecutive days at the same ground Sharjah. Kumar Sangakkara was the latest man, before Babar Azam, to score centuries in consecutive ODIs. He scored four in four matches of the World Cup 2015 – a world record.

The following table contains the names of batsmen who have scored the most hundreds in consecutive innings in One Day Internationals:

BatsmenNo. of 100sCountryScoresYearKumar Sangakkara4Sri Lanka105* vs Bangladesh

117* vs England

104 vs Australia

124 vs Scotland2015Zaheer Abbass3Pakistan108, 105, 113 vs India1982-1983Saeed Anwar3Pakistan107 vs Sri Lanka

131vs West Indies

111 vs Sri Lanka19933South Africa116 vs Kenya

116* vs India

153 vs Bangladesh2002AB de Villiers3South Africa114, 102* vs India102 vs West Indies2010Quinton de Kock3South Africa135, 106, 101 vs India2013Ross Taylor3New Zealand112*, 100 vs India

105* vs Pakistan2014Babar Azam3Pakistan120, 123, 117 vs West Indies2016

Babar Azam, at 21 years and 356 days, is the 2nd youngest to score three consecutive ODI 100s. Quinton de Kock, nearly 21 years old, was the youngest to achieve this feat.

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