5 Batters To Score Two Consecutive T20I Centuries

Aakash Saini∙ Updated: Nov 16 2024, 7:30 AM | 4 Min Read

Batters to score consecutive T20I centuries [Source: @BCCI/x]

A century in a T20I innings marks a significant occasion for any batter. Doing so in successive games simply underlines the sheer credibility of the particular player in the game’s truncated format. Here, we take a look at each of the five cricketers in T20I history who have notched up centuries in consecutive innings for their respective teams. 

5. Gustav McKeon (France)

French opener Gustav McKeon stockpiled two centuries in the first three matches of his international career, doing so before turning 19. Making his international debut in July 2022 during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub Regional Europe Qualifier Group B in Finland, the cricketer minted 109 runs off 61 balls the very next day against Switzerland at the Tikkurila Cricket Ground.

McKeon cracked an identical 101 from 53 balls a couple of days later at the Kerava National Cricket Ground, this time brandishing his bat against Norway bowlers in a match-winning cause for his team. Apart from becoming the first batter in history to whack successive T20I hundreds, Gustav McKeon also continues to remain the youngest batter to score a century in the game’s truncated format.

4. Rilee Rossouw (South Africa)

Rilee Rossouw [Source: @ICC/x]

In October 2022, South African middle-order batter Rilee Rossouw delivered twin ‘Player of the Match’ winning performances with the bat, once against hosts India in a dead-rubber game in Indore and then against Bangladesh in a Group 2 clash of the 2022 T20 World Cup at the SCG.

Rossouw stacked up match-winning centuries in both matches, the only two of his T20I career so far, to become the first batter from a Test playing nation to list 100-plus scores in successive T20I innings. Against India, he tonked a 48-ball 100* with seven boundaries and eight sixes before tormenting the Bangladeshi bowlers in Australia with a career-best 109 from 56 balls.

3. Phil Salt (England)

Brash English opener Phil Salt pounded successive centuries against hosts West Indies during the five-match T20I series in the Caribbean in December 2023. Salt started off his juggernaut with a run-chase masterclass in Grenada, where his unbeaten 109* from 56 balls helped England mow down West Indies’ 222-run total with a ball to spare.

A couple of days later in Tarouba, the then 27-year-old pummeled 119 runs off just 57 balls with seven boundaries and ten sixes before getting toppled by an Andre Russell yorker. Regardless, Salt’s raging knock helped England mount 267-3 to secure a 75-run series-levelling victory.

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2. Sanju Samson (India)

Sanju Samson [Source: @BCCI/x]

Indian wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson clattered his maiden T20I century in the tenth year of his international career, doing so against Bangladesh in Hyderabad by raiding 111 runs from just 47 balls with 11 boundaries and eight sixes in October 2024. In his very next innings about three weeks later, the blistering opener unleashed another century, this time against South Africa at the latter’s formidable home ground of Kingsmead, Durban.

Remarkably, Samson’s demolition job of Bangladesh helped India mount 297-6 to record their highest-ever T20I total. His twin match-winning specials also made him the first Indian cricketer in history to belt T20I centuries in successive innings. As it turned out, Sanju Samson unfurled another T20I hundred a week later in Johannesburg to rack up three centuries in the space of just five innings.

1. Tilak Varma (India)

Tilak Varma [Source: @BCCI/x]

Shortly after turning 22, rising Indian star Tilak Varma compounded unbeaten centuries in South Africa in November 2024 to orchestrate India’s emphatic 3-1 series win over the hosts. Batting first on both occasions, the youngster made the most of his promotion to number three as he made 107* off 56 at Centurion, before crashing the South African attack with a 47-ball 120* in Johannesburg.

The youngster was fittingly adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ in both games, and even went on to bag the ‘Player of the Series’ award for his 280-run tally in four innings.

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