Century on birthday

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Australia have some excellent wins behind them while coming into the one-day series against India but Australian captain Ricky Ponting and all other players still fears about Sachin Tendulkar.
Sachin Tendulkar always played excellent cricket against Oz and this time around he is the most dangerous player. It recalls those two knocks of the master blaster at Sharjah when we talk about Sachin and Australia. It has been 11 years gone but still it refreshes our mind. I was just thinking about that 134 Sachin hit at Sharjah on his 25th birthday in 1998.
Century on birthday is not too often happened in cricket and particularly in ODI as there are only 3 batsmen have done. Sachin scored 134 at Sharjah on 24 April 1998 but before that his best friend Vinod Kambli scored an unbeaten 100 at Jaipur against England on 18 January 1993.
However the only other batsman to hit a ton on the birthday is Sanath Jayasuriya and he has done this on his 39th birthday in 2008. Jayasuriya scored masterful 130 against Bangladesh at Karachi on 30 June 2008 during the Asia Cup.
There are 9 batsmen scored hundred on their respective birthday in test cricket history. Here is the list.
RG Pollock (23rd birthday) 105, S Africa Vs Australia, 27-2-1967, Port Elizabeth.
CC Lewis (25) 117, England Vs India, 14-2-93, Chepauk.
RR Sarwan (26) 116, WI Vs India, 23-6-2006, Bessetere.
BL Irvin (26) 102, S Africa Vs Australia, 9-3-1970, Port Elizabeth.
PE Richardson (26) 126, England Vs WI, 4-7-1957, Trent Bridge.
Imran Khan (28) 123, Pakistan Vs WI, 25-11-1980, Lahore.
AC Hudson (29) 102, S AfricaVs Australia, 17-3-94, Cape Town.
RT Simson (31) 156*, England Vs Australia, 27-2-1951, Melbourne.
AJ Stewart (31) 118, England Vs WI, 8-4-94, Bridgetown.

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