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A rare hundred by a Pakistan captain

Bishen Jeswant11 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter CommentAzhar Ali became the eighth Pakistan captain to score an ODI hundred and the first in five years shares 11

Azhar Ali's century in the 3rd ODI against Bangladesh made him the eighth Pakistan captain to score an ODI hundred.India have had the most such captains, 11, with Australia having 10. While this difference may not seem stark, it isinteresting that captains from India and Australia have cumulatively scored 78 ODI centuries (39 each) while Azhar Ali'scentury is only the 10th by a Pakistan captain.

Teamwise performance of captains in ODIs

Team Mat 100 Mat/100 Players* Runs Ave

India 880 39 22.56 11 27378 41.16

Australia 856 39 21.95 10 25970 36.99

New Zealand 682 19 35.89 9 17920 32.64

England 644 17 37.88 9 17333 31.74

West Indies 731 18 40.61 8 17676 33.73

Pakistan 840 10 84.00 8 19704 32.84

Sri Lanka 752 21 35.81 7 21857 35.13

South Africa 536 19 28.21 4 15846 39.71

*Number of players to have scored ODI centuries as captain

The last Pakistan captain to score an ODI hundred was Shahid Afridi, also against Bangladesh, during the 2010 AsiaCup. In fact, Afridi scored two centuries during that Asia Cup. The only other Pakistan batsman to score twohundreds as captain was Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Most ODI hundreds as captain

Player Mat Runs Ave SR 100s

RT Ponting 230 8497 42.91 83.41 22

SC Ganguly 147 5104 38.66 76.2 11

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ST Jayasuriya 118 4377 38.73 88.05 10

AB de Villiers 68 3418 69.75 111.8 9

GC Smith 150 5416 38.96 83.06 8

The only captain to score more than 20 ODI centuries is Ricky Ponting (22), followed by Saurav Ganguly (11) andSanath Jayasuriya (10). Two among the top-four regular batsmen to captain their respective teams in the most ODIswithout scoring a single century are from Pakistan - Misbah-ul-Haq (87) and Javed Miandad (62). The others areHansie Cronje (138) and Habibul Bashar (69).

ODI Hundreds by Pakistan captains

Player Runs Opposition Ground Year

Imran Khan 102* v Sri Lanka Leeds 1983

Rameez Raja 104* v West Indies Sharjah 1995

Aamer Sohail 105 v India Sharjah 1996

Saeed Anwar 115 v Sri Lanka Nairobi (Gym) 1996

Inzamam-ul-Haq 122 v India Karachi 2004

Inzamam-ul-Haq 123 v India Lahore 2004

Shoaib Malik 125* v India Karachi 2008

Shahid Afridi 109 v Sri Lanka Dambulla 2010

Shahid Afridi 124 v Bangladesh Dambulla 2010

Azhar Ali 101 v Bangladesh Dhaka 2015

Azhar Ali has scored 209 runs in this series making it only the ninth instance of a Pakistan captain scoring 200-plus runsin a bilateral ODI series. Inzamam has achieved this feat on three occasions while Misbah has done it twice.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor with ESPNcricinfo.

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