Dhoni-Rizwan, Salman Butt-Border-Mohinder Amarnath, Test or ODI; The same number of runs were scored in the first century as well

New Delhi. Life is full of amazing coincidences. Such coincidences are often seen in cricket or other sports. There have been few matches in cricket where team scores, margins of victory, half-centuries scored and winning shots have been very similar. The match between India and Pakistan (India vs Pakistan) in Australia Cup in 1986 and Asia Cup in 2014 is a good example. Apart from the Indian team’s score and margin of defeat, there were many similarities between the two matches. Both these matches were decided in Pakistan’s favor in the last over and the winning stroke came in the form of a six.

Apart from cricket matches, some legendary batsmen’s maiden Test century and maiden ODI century have also seen strange similarities. There are a good number of batsmen in world cricket who have scored as many runs in their maiden ODI century as they have scored in their maiden Test century. These batsmen include India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Mohinder Amarnath, Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Butt and Salim Malik, Australia’s Alan Border and Zimbabwe’s Andy Flower.

Dhoni’s first Test and first ODI century have many things in common.
This, along with the score, has many other parallels to MS Dhoni’s century. Mahi scored his maiden Test and ODI century in his 5th match against the same team. Interestingly, his scores (148 runs) and sixes (four) during the first Test and ODI centuries of both formats were also the same. Dhoni scored his maiden ODI century on 5 April 2005 against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam. His maiden Test century also came in the 5th match against Pakistan. He played the fifth Test of his career against Pakistan in January 2006 in Faisalabad and scored 148 runs, equaling his maiden ODI century.

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Another leading batsman who scored the same score in his first Test century and first ODI century.

Mohinder Amarnath: There was a gap of almost 11 years between the first Test and the first ODI century of Mohinder Amarnath, a member of the world champion Indian cricket team in 1983. Mohinder, popularly known as ‘Jimmy’, scored his first Test century against Australia in December 1977, while his first ODI century came against the West Indies in January 1988. Both times the score remained the same (100 runs). The only difference was that Mohinder got out soon after scoring 100 runs during the first Test century while he remained unbeaten during the first ODI century.

Salim Malik: Former Pakistan captain Salim Malik also scored the same score (100 runs) during the first Test and first ODI century. Another similarity was that both times the opposing team was Sri Lanka. Malik scored a century on his Test debut against Sri Lanka in March 1982 and five years later in 1987 he scored his maiden ODI century against the same team. Both times the score was 100 runs. The difference was that he remained unbeaten during his Test century.

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Alan Border: Australian left-handed batsman Alan Border scored his maiden Test century against Pakistan in March 1979 and his maiden ODI century against India in December 1980. Both times his score was 105 runs. Border remained unbeaten during the ODI century against India.

Neil McKenzie: South African middle order batsman McKenzie scored five centuries in Tests and two centuries in ODIs. The first Test century was scored against New Zealand in November 2000 and the first ODI century against Sri Lanka in December 2000. Both times the score was 120 runs. The only difference was that he remained unbeaten during the ODI century.

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Andy Flower: Andy Flower is counted among the best batsmen in Zimbabwe. Andy also captained Zimbabwe, scoring 12 centuries in Tests and four centuries in ODIs. The left-handed wicketkeeper batsman, who scored an unbeaten century in his maiden ODI against Sri Lanka in February 1992, scored his maiden Test century against India in March 1993. Scored 115 runs both times.

Salman Butt: Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt (Salman Butt) was banned for 5 years for his involvement in spot fixing. Left-handed batsman Salman scored his maiden century against India in November 2004 and his maiden Test century against Australia in January 2005. Both times the score was 108 runs, although he returned to the pavilion unbeaten after leading the team to victory during his century against India.

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Mushfiqur Rahim: Bangladesh wicketkeeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim is 36 years old but still active in international cricket. Scored his maiden Test century against India in January 2010 followed by his maiden ODI century against Zimbabwe in August 2011. He scored 101 runs during his maiden century in both formats and was caught out.

Mohammad Rizwan: Pakistan wicketkeeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan also scored the same score during his maiden Test and maiden ODI century. Rizwan scored his maiden ODI century against Australia in March 2019 and his maiden Test century against South Africa in February 2021. The score remained the same both times (115 runs). He returned to the pavilion unbeaten during the Test innings against South Africa.

Apart from this batsman, England’s Nick Knight (113 runs) and Ben Duckett (107 runs), West Indies’ Larry Gomes (101 runs) and Bangladesh’s Nasir Hossain (100 runs) have also scored the same century during the first Test and ODI. .

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