Abid Ali of Pakistan scored 109 not out against Sri Lanka in the first test of the just concluded two test series at Rawalpindi to provide the 108^th occasion of a batsman scoring a century on debut. He became the 106^th batsman in the history of test cricket to score a century on test debut. All the 108 occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	C Bannerman	165*	Australia	v England	Melbourne	15 Mar 1877
2	WG Grace	152	England	v Australia	The Oval	06 Sep 1880
3	H Graham	107	Australia	v England	Lord’s	17 Jul 1893
4	KS Ranjitsinhji	154*	England	v Australia	Manchester	16 Jul 1896
5	PF Warner	132*	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	14 Feb 1899
6	RA Duff	104	Australia	v England	Melbourne	01 Jan 1902
7	RE Foster	287	England	v Australia	Sydney	11 Dec 1903
8	G Gunn	119	England	v Australia	Sydney	13 Dec 1907
9	MJ Hartigan	116	Australia	v England	Adelaide	10 Jan 1908
10	HL Collins	104	Australia	v England	Sydney	17 Dec 1920
11	WH Ponsford	110	Australia	v England	Sydney	19 Dec 1924
12	A Jackson	164	Australia	v England	Adelaide	01 Feb 1929
13	GA Headley	176	West Indies	v England	Bridgetown	11 Jan 1930
14	JE Mills	117	New Zealand	v England	Wellington	24 Jan 1930
15	Nawab of Pataudi	102	England	v Australia	Sydney	02 Dec 1932
16	BH Valentine	136	England	v India	Mumbai	15 Dec 1933
17	L Amarnath	118	India	v England	Mumbai	15 Dec 1933
18	PA Gibb	106	England	v South Africa	Johannesburg	24 Dec 1938
19	SC Griffith	140	England	v West Indies	Port of Spain	11 Feb 1948
20	AG Ganteaume	112	West Indies	v England	Port of Spain	11 Feb 1948
21	JW Burke	101*	Australia	v England	Adelaide	02 Feb 1951
22	PBH May	138	England	v South Africa	Leeds	26 Jul 1951
23	RH Shodhan	110	India	v Pakistan	Kolkata	12 Dec 1952
24	BH Pairaudeau	115	West Indies	v India	Port of Spain	21 Jan 1953
25	OG Smith	104	West Indies	v Australia	Kingston	26 Mar 1955
26	AG Kripal Singh	100*	India	v New Zealand	Hyd-LBS	19 Nov 1955
27	CC Hunte	142	West Indies	v Pakistan	Bridgetown	17 Jan 1958
28	CA Milton	104*	England	v New Zealand	Leeds	03 Jul 1958
29	AA Baig	112	India	v England	Manchester	23 Jul 1959
30	Hanumant Singh	105	India	v England	Delhi	08 Feb 1964
31	Khalid Ibadulla	166	Pakistan	v Australia	Karachi	24 Oct 1964
32	BR Taylor	105	New Zealand	v India	Kolkata	05 Mar 1965
33	KD Walters	155	Australia	v England	Brisbane	10 Dec 1965
34	JH Hampshire	107	England	v West Indies	Lord’s	26 Jun 1969
35	GR Viswanath	137	India	v Australia	Kanpur	15 Nov 1969
36	GS Chappell	108	Australia	v England	Perth	11 Dec 1970
37	LG Rowe	214	West Indies	v New Zealand	Kingston	16 Feb 1972
38	LG Rowe	100*	West Indies	v New Zealand	Kingston	16 Feb 1972
39	AI Kallicharran	100*	West Indies	v New Zealand	Georgetown	06 Apr 1972
40	RE Redmond	107	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Auckland	16 Feb 1973
41	FC Hayes	106*	England	v West Indies	The Oval	26 Jul 1973
42	CG Greenidge	107	West Indies	v India	Bengaluru	22 Nov 1974
43	L Baichan	105*	West Indies	v Pakistan	Lahore	15 Feb 1975
44	GJ Cosier	109	Australia	v West Indies	Melbourne	26 Dec 1975
45	S Amarnath	124	India	v New Zealand	Auckland	24 Jan 1976
46	Javed Miandad	163	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	09 Oct 1976
47	AB Williams	100	West Indies	v Australia	Georgetown	31 Mar 1978
48	DM Wellham	103	Australia	v England	The Oval	27 Aug 1981
49	Saleem Malik	100*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
50	KC Wessels	162	Australia	v England	Brisbane	26 Nov 1982
51	WB Phillips	159	Australia	v Pakistan	Perth	11 Nov 1983
52	M Azharuddin	110	India	v England	Kolkata	31 Dec 1984
53	DSBP Kuruppu	201*	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Col-CCC	16 Apr 1987
54	MJ Greatbatch	107*	New Zealand	v England	Auckland	25 Feb 1988
55	ME Waugh	138	Australia	v England	Adelaide	25 Jan 1991
56	AC Hudson	163	South Africa	v West Indies	Bridgetown	18 Apr 1992
57	RS Kaluwitharana	132*	Sri Lanka	v Australia	Col-SSC	17 Aug 1992
58	DL Houghton	121	Zimbabwe	v India	Harare	18 Oct 1992
59	PK Amre	103	India	v South Africa	Durban	13 Nov 1992
60	GP Thorpe	114*	England	v Australia	Nottingham	01 Jul 1993
61	GS Blewett	102*	Australia	v England	Adelaide	26 Jan 1995
62	SC Ganguly	131	India	v England	Lord’s	20 Jun 1996
63	Mohammad Wasim	109*	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	21 Nov 1996
64	Ali Naqvi	115	Pakistan	v South Africa	Rawalpindi	06 Oct 1997
65	Azhar Mahmood	128*	Pakistan	v South Africa	Rawalpindi	06 Oct 1997
66	MS Sinclair	214	New Zealand	v West Indies	Wellington	26 Dec 1999
67	Younis Khan	107	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
68	Aminul Islam	145	Bangladesh	v India	Dhaka	10 Nov 2000
69	H Masakadza	119	Zimbabwe	v West Indies	Harare	27 Jul 2001
70	TT Samaraweera	103*	Sri Lanka	v India	Col-SSC	29 Aug 2001
71	Taufeeq Umar	104	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Multan	29 Aug 2001
72	Mohammad Ashraful	114	Bangladesh	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	06 Sep 2001
73	V Sehwag	105	India	v South Africa	Bloemfontein	03 Nov 2001
74	L Vincent	104	New Zealand	v Australia	Perth	30 Nov 2001
75	SB Styris	107	New Zealand	v West Indies	St George’s	28 Jun 2002
76	JA Rudolph	222*	South Africa	v Bangladesh	Chattogram	24 Apr 2003
77	Yasir Hameed	170	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Karachi	20 Aug 2003
78	Yasir Hameed	105	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Karachi	20 Aug 2003
79	DR Smith	105*	West Indies	v South Africa	Cape Town	02 Jan 2004
80	AJ Strauss	112	England	v New Zealand	Lord’s	20 May 2004
81	MJ Clarke	151	Australia	v India	Bengaluru	06 Oct 2004
82	AN Cook	104*	England	v India	Nagpur	01 Mar 2006
83	MJ Prior	126*	England	v West Indies	Lord’s	17 May 2007
84	MJ North	117	Australia	v South Africa	Johannesburg	26 Feb 2009
85	Fawad Alam	168	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Col-PSS	12 Jul 2009
86	IJL Trott	119	England	v Australia	The Oval	20 Aug 2009
87	Umar Akmal	129	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Dunedin	24 Nov 2009
88	AB Barath	104	West Indies	v Australia	Brisbane	26 Nov 2009
89	AN Petersen	100	South Africa	v India	Kolkata	14 Feb 2010
90	SK Raina	120	India	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
91	KS Williamson	131	New Zealand	v India	Ahmedabad	04 Nov 2010
92	KA Edwards	110	West Indies	v India	Roseau	06 Jul 2011
93	SE Marsh	141	Australia	v Sri Lanka	Pallekele	08 Sep 2011
94	Abul Hasan	113	Bangladesh	v West Indies	Khulna	21 Nov 2012
95	F du Plessis	110*	South Africa	v Australia	Adelaide	22 Nov 2012
96	HD Rutherford	171	New Zealand	v England	Dunedin	06 Mar 2013
97	S Dhawan	187	India	v Australia	Mohali	14 Mar 2013
98	RG Sharma	177	India	v West Indies	Kolkata	06 Nov 2013
99	JDS Neesham	137*	New Zealand	v India	Wellington	14 Feb 2014
100	S van Zyl	101*	South Africa	v West Indies	Centurion	17 Dec 2014
101	AC Voges	130*	Australia	v West Indies	Roseau	03 Jun 2015
102	SC Cook	115	South Africa	v England	Centurion	22 Jan 2016
103	KK Jennings	112	England	v India	Mumbai	08 Dec 2016
104	TA Blundell	107*	New Zealand	v West Indies	Wellington	01 Dec 2017
105	KJ O’Brien	118	Ireland	v Pakistan	Dublin (M)	11 May 2018
106	PP Shaw	134	India	v West Indies	Rajkot	04 Oct 2018
107	BT Foakes	107	England	v Sri Lanka	Galle	06 Nov 2018
108	Abid Ali	109*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019

It also provides the 13^th occasion of a Pakistan batsman scoring a century on debut. He became the 12^th Pakistan batsman in the history of test cricket to score a century on test debut. All the thirteen occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	Khalid Ibadulla	166	Pakistan	v Australia	Karachi	24 Oct 1964
2	Javed Miandad	163	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	09 Oct 1976
3	Saleem Malik	100*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
4	Mohammad Wasim	109*	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	21 Nov 1996
5	Ali Naqvi	115	Pakistan	v South Africa	Rawalpindi	06 Oct 1997
6	Azhar Mahmood	128*	Pakistan	v South Africa	Rawalpindi	06 Oct 1997
7	Younis Khan	107	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
8	Taufeeq Umar	104	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Multan	29 Aug 2001
9	Yasir Hameed	170	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Karachi	20 Aug 2003
10	Yasir Hameed	105	Pakistan	v Bangladesh	Karachi	20 Aug 2003
11	Fawad Alam	168	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Col-PSS	12 Jul 2009
12	Umar Akmal	129	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Dunedin	24 Nov 2009
13	Abid Ali	109*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019

It also provides the eighth occasion of a batsman scoring a century on debut against Sri Lanka. All the eight occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	Saleem Malik	100*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
2	Younis Khan	107	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
3	Mohammad Ashraful	114	Bangladesh	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	06 Sep 2001
4	Fawad Alam	168	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Col-PSS	12 Jul 2009
5	SK Raina	120	India	v Sri Lanka	Col-SSC	26 Jul 2010
6	SE Marsh	141	Australia	v Sri Lanka	Pallekele	08 Sep 2011
7	BT Foakes	107	England	v Sri Lanka	Galle	06 Nov 2018
8	Abid Ali	109*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019

It also provides the fourth occasion of Pakistan batsman scoring a century on debut against Sri Lanka. All the eight occasions are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	Saleem Malik	100*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
2	Younis Khan	107	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
3	Fawad Alam	168	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Col-PSS	12 Jul 2009
4	Abid Ali	109*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019

It also provides the fourth occasion of Pakistan batsman scoring a century on debut against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi. Both the occasions are tabulated below. Abid Ali’s 109 not out represent the highest individual score by a batsman on debut against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi and also on Pakistan soil

No	Player	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
1	Saleem Malik	100*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	05 Mar 1982
2	Younis Khan	107	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	26 Feb 2000
3	Abid Ali	109*	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019