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How often do we see a batsman get out on 99 and score a hundred in his next innings in Test cricket?

Murali Vijay is only the eighth batsman (on the ninth occasion) to do so. Rajneesh Gupta provides the details.

Murali Vijay carried his sublime form into the Brisbane Test. He was unfortunate to miss out on a well-deserved hundred at Adelaide, falling short by just one run. He, however, made amends by reaching the three-figure mark on the opening day of the second Test against Australia at the Gabba on Wednesday.

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How often do we see a batsman get out on 99 and score a hundred in his next innings in Test cricket?

Photos from Gabba Test, Day 1

India opener Vijay is only the eighth batsman (on the ninth occasion) to do so.

Interestingly, four of the eight batsmen are Indians, Sourav Ganguly being the only one to do so more than once.

The details:

Batsmen getting out on 99 and scoring a hundred in next innings

Batsman	Score	Opponent	Venue	Year
Geoff Boycott (Eng)	99	West Indies	Port-of-Spain	1974
	112	West Indies	Port-of-Spain	1974
Richie Richardson (WI)	99	India	Port-of-Spain	1989
	156	India	Kingston	1989
Michael Slater (Aus)	99	New Zealand	Perth	1993
	168	New Zealand	Hobart	1993
Sourav Ganguly (Ind)	99	Sri Lanka	Nagpur	1997
	173	Sri Lanka	Mumbai WS	1997
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak)	99	Sri Lanka	Lahore	2002
	329	New Zealand	Lahore	2002
Sourav Ganguly (Ind)	99	England	Nottingham	2002
	128	England	Leeds	2002
Virender Sehwag (Ind)	99	Sri Lanka	Colombo SSC	2010
	109	Sri Lanka	Colombo PSS	2010
MS Dhoni (Ind)	99	England	Nagpur	2012
	224	Australia	Chennai	2013
Murali Vijay (Ind)	99	Australia	Adelaide	2014
	144	Australia	Brisbane	2014

Note: Ganguly had a sequence of 109, 99 and 173 in 1997.

Inzamam did so against different opponents at the same ground.

Boycott remains the only batsman to score a hundred after a 99 in the same Test. 

Vijay is the first opening batsman from a visiting side to score a hundred on the first day of a Test at Brisbane.

The previous best was a paltry 83 by West Indian Joey Carew in 1968.

His 144 is now the fourth highest by a visiting opening batsman on the first day of any Test in Australia.

Former teammate Virender Sehwag tops the list.

The details: 

Most runs by an opening batsman on first day of a Test vs Australia in Australia

Runs	Batsman	For	Venue	Season
195	Virender Sehwag	Ind	Melbourne	2003-04
185	’Bill’ Barber	Eng	Sydney	1965-66
177	Michael Vaughan	Eng	Adelaide	2002-03
144	Murali Vijay	Ind	Brisbane	2014-15
141	Herbert Sutcliffe	Eng	Melbourne	1924-25

Vijay is only the sixth Indian batsman to score a hundred on the opening day of a Test in Australia. The complete list:

Most runs by an Indian batsman on opening day of a Test in Australia

Runs	Batsman	Venue	Season
195	Virender Sehwag	Melbourne	2003-04
144	Murali Vijay	Brisbane	2014-15
132	Sunil Gavaskar	Sydney	1985-86
124	Sachin Tendulkar	Adelaide	2007-08
116	Krish Srikkanth	Sydney	1985-86
114	Gundappa Viswanath	Melbourne	1980-81

-RAJNEESH GUPTA