Consecutive hundreds in test matches

India’s Gautam Gambhir scored hundred against Bangladesh on Wednesday. This was his fifth consecutive hundred in FIVE test matches. Thus became the 4th batsmen to do so in the history of test cricket.

Sir Donald George Bradman is the only batsman to hit SIX consecutive ton in 11 innings of six consecutive tests from January 1937 to July 1938, while Mohammad Yousuf scored five in five from August 2006 to December 2006 for Pakistan. South African batsman Jacques Kallis hit five ton in five consecutive from December 2003 to March 2004 and now Gautam Gambhir joined this elite club.Gambhir scored 137 and 167 against New Zealand in March 2009 at Napier and Wellington respectively and then went on to score 114 at Ahmedabad and 167 at Kanpur against Sri Lanka in November 2009. He missed a test at Brabourne (While taking a break due to his sister’s marriage) against Sri Lanka. And now in Bangladesh at Chittagong again he reached hundred and scored 116 before becomes the first test victim of Shafiul Islam.
There are 18 batsmen who scored hundred in 4 consecutive centuries in test history.