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[table="head]Batsman|Runs|Opponent|Venue|Date Sachin Tendulkar|143|v Australia|Sharjah|22-Apr-98 Sachin Tendulkar |134|v Australia|Sharjah|24-Apr-98 Rahul Dravid|104*|v Kenya|Bristol|23-May-99 Rahul Dravid|145|v Sri Lanka|Taunton|26-May-99 Sourav Ganguly|141*|v South Africa|Nairobi (Gym)|13-Oct-00 Sourav Ganguly|117|v New Zealand|Nairobi (Gym)|15-Oct-00 VVS Laxman|106*|v Australia|Sydney|22-Jan-04 VVS Laxman|131|v Zimbabwe|Adelaide|24-Jan-04 Yuvraj Singh|138*|v England|Rajkot|14-Nov-08 Yuvraj Singh|118|v England|Indore|17-Nov-08 [/table] An elite group of Indian batsmen who have scored back to back centuries what a bunch of players to be among

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Yuvraj Singh joins three Indian batsmen on ten or more one-day hundreds. Sachin Tendulkar (42), Sourav Ganguly (22) and Rahul Dravid (12), being the others. Yuvraj Singh becomes the fourth batsman to register five or more hundreds on Indian soil. The other two are Sachin Tendulkar (16) and Rahul Dravid (six) and West Indies' Chris Gayle (six). Yuvraj Singh became the tenth all rounder in the world to register a hundred and capture four or more wickets in the same ODI. The complete list is... Vivian Richards, 119 and 5-41, WI v NZ, Dunedin 1987 Nathan Astle, 117 and 4-43, NZ v Pak, Mohali 1997 Sachin Tendulkar, 141 and 4-38, Ind v Aus, Dhaka 1998 Sourav Ganguly, 130* and 4-21, Ind v SL, Nagpur 1999 Sanath Jayasuriya, 122 and 4-39, SL v Aus, Sydney 2003 JF Kloppenburg, 121 and 4-42, Net v Nam, Bloemfontein 2003 Chris Gayle, 112* and 4-24, WI v Zim, Harare 2003 Shoaib Malik, 118 and 4-19, Pak v HKG, Colombo 2004 Paul Collingwood, 112* and 6-31, Eng v Ban, Nottingham 2005 Yuvraj Singh, 118 and 4-28, Ind v Eng , Indore 2008 Yuvraj Singh became the second batsman to aggregate 1000-plus runs against England, after Sachin Tendulkar, with 1274 runs. Yuvraj reached the mark when he was on 58 during his innings of 118.
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