CT Stats: Batsmen with most hundreds in consecutive ODIs
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:
117* vs England
104 vs Australia
124 vs Scotland131vs West Indies
111 vs Sri Lanka116* vs India
153 vs Bangladesh105* vs Pakistan
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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