100s on Test debut, both home and away

asid...@iupui.edu

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Dec 20, 2004, 11:52:27 AM12/20/04

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Here is a list of batsmen who have scored a Test century both in their
first Test matches at home and away. The innings of the match is given
at the end of the lines.

H Graham (Aus)
107 v Eng Lord's 1893 1st
105 v Eng Sydney(4) 1894-95 1st

KS Ranjitsinhji (Eng)
154* v Aus Manchester 1896 2nd
175 v Aus Sydney(1) 1897-98 1st

LG Rowe (WI)
214 v NZ Kingston 1971-72 1st
(scored 100* in the second innings)
107 v Aus Brisbane 1975-76 2nd

KC Wessels (Aus)
162 v Eng Brisbane 1982-83 1st
141 v SL Kandy 1982-83 1st

Azhar Mahmood (Pak)
128* v SAf Rawalpindi 1997-98 1st
136 v SAf Johannesburg 1997-98 1st

AJ Strauss (Eng)
112 v NZ Lord's 2004 1st
126 v SAf Port Elizabeth 2004-05 1st

MJ Clarke (Aus)
151 v Ind Bangalore 2004-05 1st
141 v NZ Brisbane 2004-05 1st

aslam
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Phil. Felton

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Dec 20, 2004, 4:32:50 PM12/20/04

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"asid...@iupui.edu" wrote:

Aslam, those Colts are looking pretty good right now!

Last week it was said that Strauss was the first to score 100 in his
debut Test against his first 3 opponents, can you confirm that?

Phil.

Brian Lawrence

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Dec 21, 2004, 9:43:53 AM12/21/04

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"Phil. Felton" <fel...@princeton.edu> wrote:

> Last week it was said that Strauss was the first to score 100 in his
> debut Test against his first 3 opponents, can you confirm that?

Yes he is.

Very few have scored 100s on debut against three separate countries.

KC Sangakkara SL 4
MA Taylor AUS 4
KC Wessels ... 4 ( AUS 2 & SA 2) [1]

KF Barrington ENG 3
DCS Compton ENG 3
JP Crawley ENG 3
AJ Strauss ENG 3
CD McMillan NZ 3
SM Gavaskar IND 3
Zaheer Abbas PAK 3
PA de Silva SL 3

The only other one on that list who scored a century on his Test debut was
Kepler Wessels. He added a second on his debut vs. Sri Lanka, but failed to
do so on his debut vs. West Indies.

1. Wessels managed to score a century on debut vs. England twice, once for
Australia and once for South Africa.

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Brian Lawrence
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Phil. Felton

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Dec 21, 2004, 2:02:57 PM12/21/04

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Brian Lawrence wrote:

Health, fitness etc. permitting Strauss's next debut Test will be against
Bangladesh.

Phil.

alvey

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Dec 22, 2004, 3:01:43 PM12/22/04

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Phil. Felton wrote:

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> Health, fitness etc. permitting Strauss's next debut Test will be against
> Bangladesh.
>

Note to self: Save this post as a possible example of the Supreme Woof.

asid...@iupui.edu

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Dec 23, 2004, 2:01:10 PM12/23/04

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Three others should be added to the list of batsmen who have scored
centuries in their first Test against three different opponent.

V Sehwag (for Ind against SAf, WI and Pak)
GC Smith (for SAf against BD, Eng and WI)
SR Waugh (for Aus against SAf, Zim and BD)

Also, I can find only two such instances for Crawley (against Zim and
SL).

aslam
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Mark Banfield

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Dec 23, 2004, 2:35:56 PM12/23/04

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The third was against India, of course :) (Lord's 2002)

Phil. Felton

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Dec 23, 2004, 11:06:44 PM12/23/04

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"asid...@iupui.edu" wrote:

Thanks Aslam, in Strauss's case of course it's also his first three Test
series.

Phil.

Brian Lawrence

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Dec 24, 2004, 5:17:01 AM12/24/04

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<asid...@iupui.edu> wrote:

> Three others should be added to the list of batsmen who have scored
> centuries in their first Test against three different opponent.
>
> V Sehwag (for Ind against SAf, WI and Pak)
> GC Smith (for SAf against BD, Eng and WI)
> SR Waugh (for Aus against SAf, Zim and BD)

Thanks Aslam. I probably should have mentioned that I used Wisden 2003 to
build my list and that was only up to Sep 2002. Wisden have now stopped
including that data.

> Also, I can find only two such instances for Crawley (against Zim and
> SL).

As Mark posted, it was at Lord's in 2002 vs. India.

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Brian