Shan Masood of Pakistan joined the select band of batsmen who have scored three or more centuries in successive tests. His 156 against England in rhe ongoing test at Manchester was his third successive test century. Prior to this knock he had scored 5 and 135 against Sri Lanka ar Karachi in Dec 2019 and 100 against Bangladesh at Rawalpindi in Feb 2020.Test cricket has witnessed 77 occasions of batsmen scoring three or more successive test hundreds.

Shan Masood’s feat provides the ninth occasion of a Pakistan batman performing such a feat. The following table lists all such occasions

No	Player	Mat	1st	2nd	Opp	Ground	Match Date
1	Mohd Yousuf	5	192	8	Eng	Leeds	04 Aug 2006
			128	–	Eng	The Oval	17 Aug 2006
			192	DNB	Win	Lahore	11 Nov 2006
			56	191	Win	Multan	19 Nov 2006
			102	124	Win	Karachi	27 Nov 2006
2	Zaheer Abbas	3	215	DNB	Ind	Lahore	10 Dec 1982
			186	–	Ind	Karachi	23 Dec 1982
			168	DNB	Ind	Faisalabad	03 Jan 1983
3	Mudassar Nazar	3	231	–	Ind	Hyd-Pak	14 Jan 1983
			152*	–	Ind	Lahore	23 Jan 1983
			152	–	Ind	Karachi	30 Jan 1983
4	Shoaib Mohd	3	203*	–	NZl	Karachi	10 Oct 1990
			105	42*	NZl	Lahore	18 Oct 1990
			15	142	NZl	Faisalabad	26 Oct 1990
5	Mohd Yousuf	3	223	–	Eng	Lahore	29 Nov 2005
			173	–	Ind	Lahore	13 Jan 2006
			65	126	Ind	Faisalabad	21 Jan 2006
6	Younis Khan	3	106	103*	Aus	Dubai-DSC	22 Oct 2014
			213	46	Aus	Abu Dhabi	30 Oct 2014
			100*	28	NZl	Abu Dhabi	09 Nov 2014
7	Mohd Hafeez	3	96	101*	NZl	Abu Dhabi	09 Nov 2014
			197	24	NZl	Sharjah	26 Nov 2014
			224	–	Ban	Khulna	28 Apr 2015
8	Babar Azam	3	102*	–	Srl	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019
			60	100*	Srl	Karachi	19 Dec 2019
			143	–	Ban	Rawalpindi	07 Feb 2020
9	Shan Masood	3	5	135	Srl	Karachi	19 Dec 2019
			100	–	Ban	Rawalpindi	07 Feb 2020
			156	–	Eng	Manchester	05 Aug 2020