5 batsmen who have scored 3 consecutive centuries twice in their career
Australian batsman David Warner must be over the moon at the moment as he racked up 3 consecutive hundreds against New Zealand in the ongoing Trans-Tasman Test series.This included a highest score of 253 which he got in his last completed innings at the WACA Test. Warner’s feat has landed him into an elite list of Test batsmen who have scored centuries in 3 consecutive innings at least twice in their career.Others include two Sri Lankans, a West Indian and a solitary Indian batsman, all of them legends in their own right. Here we take a look at all 5 members of this exclusive club:
#5 Sunil Gavaskar (India)
The word ‘record’ seems to be synonymous with India’s legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar. You will rarely find a list of Test batting records that does not include his name and he makes it to this one too. Everyone is aware of Gavaskar’s love affair with the West Indies, so it is very obvious that he achieved the feat of 3 consecutive hundreds against them for the first time.
It happened during India’s historic triumph over West Indies in the 1971 Test series between the two teams. The Little Master scored two centuries in the 4th Test at Barbados and another one in the 1st innings of the final Test played at Port of Spain. The second instance came in the year 1978 when he scored back-to-back tons against arch rivals Pakistan in the last match of a 3-Test series that India lost. In the 1st Test of the following home series against the West Indies, Gavaskar became the only Indian player and the then second in the world to get this distinction.
One notable fact is that in both insatnces, the third one was a double century for the Indian champion.