A Balbirnie of Ireland scored 95 against Sri Lanka at Galle in the ongoing test to provide the 125^th occasion of a captain scoring a ninety in a test innings. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	AC MacLaren	92	01	Eng	Aus	Sydney	14 Feb 1902
2	C Hill	98	03	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	12 Jan 1912
3	HW Taylor	93	03	SAF	Eng	Durban	14 Feb 1914
4	HW Taylor	91	02	SAF	Eng	Durban	18 Jan 1923
5	HG Deane	93	02	SAF	Eng	The Oval	17 Aug 1929
6	RK Nunes	92	04	Win	Eng	Kingston	03 Apr 1930
7	NWD Yardley	99	03	Eng	SAF	Nottingham	07 Jun 1947
8	AL Hassett	92	01	Aus	Eng	Melbourne	23 Feb 1951
9	AH Kardar	93	03	Pak	Ind	Karachi	26 Feb 1955
10	PBH May	97	04	Eng	SAF	Leeds	21 Jul 1955
11	PBH May	92	03	Eng	Aus	Sydney	09 Jan 1959
12	NJ Contractor	92	01	Ind	Pak	Delhi	08 Feb 1961
13	PBH May	95	02	Eng	Aus	Manchester	27 Jul 1961
14	JR Reid	92	01	NZl	SAF	Cape Town	01 Jan 1962
15	FMM Worrell	98*	03	Win	Ind	Kingston	13 Apr 1962
16	ER Dexter	99	04	Eng	Aus	Brisbane	30 Nov 1962
17	ER Dexter	93	02	Eng	Aus	Melbourne	29 Dec 1962
18	TL Goddard	93	02	SAF	Aus	Sydney	07 Feb 1964
19	Hanif Mohammad	93	03	Pak	Aus	Melbourne	04 Dec 1964
20	JR Reid	97	01	NZl	Pak	Wellington	22 Jan 1965
21	MC Cowdrey	96	02	Eng	Win	Nottingham	30 Jun 1966
22	GS Sobers	94	03	Win	Eng	Nottingham	30 Jun 1966
23	GS Sobers	95	02	Win	Ind	Chennai	13 Jan 1967
24	RB Simpson	94	03	Aus	SAF	Durban	20 Jan 1967
25	GS Sobers	95*	03	Win	Eng	Georgetown	28 Mar 1968
26	MAK Pataudi	95	01	INd	Aus	Brabourne	04 Nov 1969
27	GS Sobers	93	03	Win	Ind	Kingston	18 Feb 1971
28	AL Wadekar	90	01	Ind	Eng	Kanpur	25 Jan 1973
29	IM Chappell	97	03	Aus	Win	Port of Spain	23 Mar 1973
30	Majid Khan	99	01	Pak	Eng	Karachi	24 Mar 1973
31	IM Chappell	90	01	Aus	Eng	Brisbane	29 Nov 1974
32	AW Greig	96	01	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	31 Jul 1975
33	CH Lloyd	91*	04	Win	Aus	Melbourne	31 Jan 1976
34	AI Kallicharran	92	01	Win	Aus	Port of Spain	15 Apr 1978
35	AI Kallicharran	98	01	Win	Ind	Chennai	12 Jan 1979
36	KJ Hughes	92	01	Aus	Ind	Eden Gardens	26 Oct 1979
37	GS Chappell	98*	04	Aus	Eng	Sydney	04 Jan 1980
38	CH Lloyd	95	02	Win	Eng	Kingston	10 Apr 1981
39	Javed Miandad	92	03	Pak	Srl	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
40	N Kapil Dev	98	01	Ind	Win	St John’s	28 Apr 1983
41	KJ Hughes	94	02	Aus	Pak	Melbourne	26 Dec 1983
42	LRD Mendis	94	03	Srl	Eng	Lord’s	23 Aug 1984
43	JV Coney	98	02	NZl	Aus	Christchurch	28 Feb 1986
44	JV Coney	93	02	NZl	Aus	Auckland	13 Mar 1986
45	DI Gower	90	02	Eng	Win	St John’s	11 Apr 1986
46	MW Gatting	96	04	Eng	Aus	Sydney	10 Jan 1987
47	JG Wright	98	02	NZl	Eng	Lord’s	21 Jun 1990
48	Imran Khan	93*	02	Pak	Srl	Sialkot	12 Dec 1991
49	AR Border	91*	03	Aus	Ind	Adelaide	25 Jan 1992
50	KC Wessels	95*	04	SAF	Ind	Gqeberha	26 Dec 1992
51	Javed Miandad	92	01	Pak	NZl	Hamilton	02 Jan 1993
52	MD Crowe	98	01	NZl	Aus	Wellington	04 Mar 1993
53	KC Wessels	92	02	SAF	Srl	Col-SSC	06 Sep 1993
54	MA Atherton	99	01	Eng	SAF	Leeds	04 Aug 1994
55	M Azharuddin	97	01	Ind	Win	Nagpur	01 Dec 1994
56	Saleem Malik	99	02	Pak	SAF	Johannesburg	19 Jan 1995
57	MA Taylor	90	02	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	26 Jan 1995
58	A Ranatunga	90	03	Srl	NZl	Dunedin	18 Mar 1995
59	RB Richardson	93	02	Win	Eng	The Oval	24 Aug 1995
60	MA Atherton	95	03	Eng	Win	The Oval	24 Aug 1995
61	MA Taylor	96	02	Aus	Srl	Perth	08 Dec 1995
62	MA Atherton	94*	02	Eng	NZl	Christchurch	14 Feb 1997
63	SR Tendulkar	92	02	Ind	Win	Bridgetown	27 Mar 1997
64	SP Fleming	91	02	NZl	Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 1997
65	BC Lara	93	01	Win	Eng	Georgetown	27 Feb 1998
66	MA Taylor	92	03	Aus	Pak	Peshawar	15 Oct 1998
67	SR Tendulkar	97	01	Ind	SAF	Wankhede	24 Feb 2000
68	JC Adams	98	02	Win	Eng	Birmingham	15 Jun 2000
69	SP Fleming	99	03	NZl	SAF	Bloemfontein	17 Nov 2000
70	SC Ganguly	98*	04	Ind	Srl	Kandy	22 Aug 2001
71	SR Waugh	90	02	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	26 Dec 2001
72	ST Jayasuriya	92	01	Srl	Zim	Col-SSC	27 Dec 2001
73	SC Ganguly	99	03	Ind	Eng	Nottingham	08 Aug 2002
74	SM Pollock	99*	02	SAF	Srl	Centurion	15 Nov 2002
75	RD Jacobs	91*	02	Win	Ban	Dhaka	08 Dec 2002
76	BC Lara	91	02	Win	Aus	Port of Spain	19 Apr 2003
77	HP Tillakaratne	93	02	Srl	NZl	Kandy	03 May 2003
78	RT Ponting	92	01	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	24 Mar 2004
79	SP Fleming	97	01	NZl	Eng	Leeds	03 Jun 2004
80	BC Lara	95	02	Win	Eng	Birmingham	29 Jul 2004
81	RT Ponting	98	03	Aus	Pak	Perth	16 Dec 2004
82	Habibul Bashar	94	01	Ban	Zim	Chattogram	06 Jan 2005
83	T Taibu	92	02	Zim	Ban	Chattogram	06 Jan 2005
84	S Chanderpaul	92	01	Win	Pak	Bridgetown	26 May 2005
85	Inzamam-ul-Haq	97	02	Pak	Eng	Lahore	29 Nov 2005
86	R Dravid	95	02	Ind	Eng	Mohali	09 Mar 2006
87	SP Fleming	97	02	NZl	Win	Wellington	17 Mar 2006
88	GC Smith	94	02	SAF	Ind	Cape Town	02 Jan 2007
89	Inzamam-ul-Haq	92*	02	Pak	SAF	Gqeberha	19 Jan 2007
90	DL Vettori	94	02	NZl	Ban	Wellington	12 Jan 2008
91	MS Dhoni	92	01	Ind	Aus	Mohali	17 Oct 2008
92	RT Ponting	99	03	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	26 Dec 2008
93	Shakib Al Hasan	96*	04	Ban	Win	St George’s	17 Jul 2009
94	DL Vettori	99	01	NZl	Pak	Dunedin	24 Nov 2009
95	Shakib Al Hasan	96	03	Ban	Eng	Mirpur	20 Mar 2010
96	GC Smith	90	03	SAF	Win	Port of Spain	10 Jun 2010
97	MS Dhoni	98	02	Ind	NZl	Nagpur	20 Nov 2010
98	MS Dhoni	90	03	Ind	SAF	Centurion	16 Dec 2010
99	Misbah-ul-Haq	99	02	Pak	NZl	Wellington	15 Jan 2011
100	TM Dilshan	92	01	Srl	Pak	Sharjah	03 Nov 2011
101	M Jayawardene	91	02	Srl	NZl	Galle	17 Nov 2012
102	MS Dhoni	99	02	Ind	Eng	Nagpur	13 Dec 2012
103	MJ Clarke	91	01	Aus	Ind	Hyderabad	02 Mar 2013
104	Mushfiqur Rahim	93	03	Ban	Zim	Harare	25 Apr 2013
105	AD Mathews	91	01	Srl	Pak	Abu Dhabi	31 Dec 2013
106	Misbah-ul-Haq	97	03	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	08 Jan 2014
107	AD Mathews	91	01	Srl	Pak	Sharjah	16 Jan 2014
108	AN Cook	95	01	Eng	Ind	Southampton	27 Jul 2014
109	AD Mathews	91	02	Srl	Pak	Galle	06 Aug 2014
110	BRM Taylor	93	01	Zim	SAF	Harare	09 Aug 2014
111	AN Cook	96	02	Eng	Aus	Lord’s	16 Jul 2015
112	KS Williamson	91	02	NZl	Zim	Bulawayo	28 Jul 2016
113	Misbah-ul-Haq	96	01	Pak	Win	Abu Dhabi	21 Oct 2016
114	Misbah-ul-Haq	99*	02	Pak	Win	Kingston	21 Apr 2017
115	Misbah-ul-Haq	99	02	Pak	Win	Bridgetown	30 Apr 2017
116	V Kohli	97	01	Ind	Eng	Nottingham	18 Aug 2018
117	Sarfaraz Ahmed	94	01	Pak	Aus	Abu Dhabi	16 Oct 2018
118	KS Williamson	91	02	NZl	Srl	Wellington	15 Dec 2018
119	F du Plessis	90	03	SAF	Srl	Durban	13 Feb 2019
120	BRM Taylor	92	04	Zim	Ban	Harare	07 Jul 2021
121	KC Brathwaite	97	02	Win	Pak	Kingston	12 Aug 2021
122	SPD Smith	93	01	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	16 Dec 2021
123	D Elgar	96*	04	SAF	Ind	Johannesburg	03 Jan 2022
124	KC Brathwaite	94	02	Win	Ban	North Sound	16 Jun 2022
125	A Balbirnie	95	01	Ire	Srl	Galle	24 Apr 2023

It also provides the ninth occasion of a captain scoring a ninety in a test innings against Sri Lanka. All such occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	KC Wessels	92	02	SAF	Srl	Col-SSC	06 Sep 1993
2	MA Taylor	96	02	Aus	Srl	Perth	08 Dec 1995
3	SC Ganguly	98*	04	Ind	Srl	Kandy	22 Aug 2001
4	SM Pollock	99*	02	SAF	Srl	Centurion	15 Nov 2002
5	RT Ponting	92	01	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	24 Mar 2004
6	Misbah-ul-Haq	97	03	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	08 Jan 2014
7	KS Williamson	91	02	NZl	Srl	Wellington	15 Dec 2018
8	F du Plessis	90	03	SAF	Srl	Durban	13 Feb 2019
9	A Balbirnie	95	01	Ire	Srl	Galle	24 Apr 2023

The following table lists the captains who have scored nineties on three or more occasions. Misbah-ul-Huq of Pakistan holds the record for most nineties by a captain – five occasions. GS Sobers of West Indies, MS Dhoni of India and  SP Fleming of New Zealand have scored nineties on four occasions. AD Mstthews of Sri Lanka, BC Lara of West Indies, MA Atheron of England, MA Taylor of Australia, PBH May of England and RT Ponting of Australia are the captains who have scored nineties on three occasions

No	Player	Runs	I	Team	Opp	Ground	Start Date
1	Misbah-ul-Haq	99	02	Pak	NZl	Wellington	15 Jan 2011
2	Misbah-ul-Haq	97	03	Pak	Srl	Dub-DSC	08 Jan 2014
3	Misbah-ul-Haq	96	01	Pak	Win	Abu Dhabi	21 Oct 2016
4	Misbah-ul-Haq	99*	02	Pak	Win	Kingston	21 Apr 2017
5	Misbah-ul-Haq	99	02	Pak	Win	Bridgetown	30 Apr 2017
1	GS Sobers	94	03	Win	Eng	Nottingham	30 Jun 1966
2	GS Sobers	95	02	Win	Ind	Chennai	13 Jan 1967
3	GS Sobers	95*	03	Win	Eng	Georgetown	28 Mar 1968
4	GS Sobers	93	03	Win	Ind	Kingston	18 Feb 1971
1	MS Dhoni	92	01	Ind	Aus	Mohali	17 Oct 2008
2	MS Dhoni	98	02	Ind	NZl	Nagpur	20 Nov 2010
3	MS Dhoni	90	03	Ind	SAF	Centurion	16 Dec 2010
4	MS Dhoni	99	02	Ind	Eng	Nagpur	13 Dec 2012
1	SP Fleming	91	02	NZl	Aus	Brisbane	07 Nov 1997
2	SP Fleming	99	03	NZl	SAF	Bloemfontein	17 Nov 2000
3	SP Fleming	97	01	NZl	Eng	Leeds	03 Jun 2004
4	SP Fleming	97	02	NZl	Win	Wellington	17 Mar 2006
1	AD Mathews	91	01	Srl	Pak	Abu Dhabi	31 Dec 2013
2	AD Mathews	91	01	Srl	Pak	Sharjah	16 Jan 2014
3	AD Mathews	91	02	Srl	Pak	Galle	06 Aug 2014
1	BC Lara	93	01	Win	Eng	Georgetown	27 Feb 1998
2	BC Lara	91	02	Win	Aus	Port of Spain	19 Apr 2003
3	BC Lara	95	02	Win	Eng	Birmingham	29 Jul 2004
1	MA Atherton	99	01	Eng	SAF	Leeds	04 Aug 1994
2	MA Atherton	95	03	Eng	Win	The Oval	24 Aug 1995
3	MA Atherton	94*	02	Eng	NZl	Christchurch	14 Feb 1997
1	MA Taylor	90	02	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	26 Jan 1995
2	MA Taylor	96	02	Aus	Srl	Perth	08 Dec 1995
3	MA Taylor	92	03	Aus	Pak	Peshawar	15 Oct 1998
1	PBH May	97	04	Eng	SAF	Leeds	21 Jul 1955
2	PBH May	92	03	Eng	Aus	Sydney	09 Jan 1959
3	PBH May	95	02	Eng	Aus	Manchester	27 Jul 1961
1	RT Ponting	92	01	Aus	Srl	Col-SSC	24 Mar 2004
2	RT Ponting	98	03	Aus	Pak	Perth	16 Dec 2004
3	RT Ponting	99	03	Aus	SAF	Melbourne	26 Dec 2008