Most consecutive centuries in 1st class cricket
Aslam Siddiqui
Most successive first-class centuries:
SIX:
CB Fry (Sussex) in 1901:
106 v Hampshire (Portsmouth)
209 v Yorkshire (Hove)
149 v Middlesex (Hove)
105 v Surrey (Oval)
140 v Essex (Hove)
105 for Rest of England v Yorkshire (Lord`s)
DG Bradman (South Australia) in 1938-39:
118 for DG Bradman's XI v KE Rigg's XI (Melbourne)
143 v NSW (Adelaide)
225 v Queensland (Adelaide)
107 v Victoria (Melbourne)
186 v Queensland (Brisbane)
135* v NSW (Sydney)
MJ Procter (Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) in 1970-71:
119 v Natal B (Bulawayo)
129 v Transvaal B (Salisbury/Harare)
107 v OFS (Bloemfontein)
174 v N.E. Transvaal (Pretoria)
106 v Griqualand West (Kimberley)
254 v W. Province (Salisbury/Harare)
FIVE:
ED Weekes 1955-56
BC Lara 1993-94/1994
FOUR:
TW Hayward 1906
CB Fry 1911
HTW Hardinge 1913
JB Hobbs 1920
CG Macartney 1921
JB Hobbs 1925
E Tyldesley 1926
FE Woolley 1929
WW Whysall 1930
KS Duleepsinhji 1931
Nawab of Pataudi Sr 1931
H Sutcliffe 1931
DG Bradman 1931-32
A Mitchell 1933
WR Hammond 1936-37
H Sutcliffe 1939
VM Merchant 1941-42
WR Hammond 1945/1946
DCS Compton 1946-47
DG Bradman 1948-49
JG Langridge 1949
PBH May 1956-57
NJ Contractor 1957-58
Saeed Ahmed 1961-62
Pankaj Roy 1962-63
Zaheer Abbas 1970-71
LG Rowe 1971-72
Sadiq Mohammmad 1976
DW Hookes 1976-77
PN Kirsten 1976-77
KS McEwan 1977
Zaheer Abbas 1982-83
M Azharuddin 1984-85
AR Border 1985
CG Greenidge 1986
CWJ Athey 1987
SJ Cook 1989
Rizwan-uz-Zaman 1989-90
MG Bevan 1990-91
MV Sridhar 1990-91/1991-92
Ijaz Ahmed jun 1994-95
SR Tendulkar 1994-95
RS Kaluwitharana 1996-97
GA Hick 1998
Notes:
1. Hayward (Surrey v Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire) and Hookes
(South Australia v Queensland and New South Wales) are the only players
listed above to score two hundreds in two successive matches.
2. The record for most fifties in consecutive first-class innings is ten
- by
E Tyldesey in 1926, by DG Bradman in 1947-48 and 1948 seasons and by
RS Kaluwitharana in 1994-95.
aslam
shantha
Aslam Siddiqui wrote:
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> Most successive first-class centuries:
I thought Gihan Mendis had some sort of record in this line.
> E Tyldesey in 1926, by DG Bradman in 1947-48 and 1948 seasons and by
> RS Kaluwitharana in 1994-95.
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Do you take Sri Lankan local cricket in to these records ??