Karachi, 1957/58. After bowling out Bahawalpur for 185, Karachi batted on, amassing runs. Confident of bowling out Bahawalpur on the final day, they let Hanif Mohammad bat on. Having duly gone past Don Bradman’s first-class record of 452, Hanif now had his eyes on the quintuple hundred.

Hanif played the last ball of the day past point. After completing the first run, he decided to go for the second, intending to keep strike. The second run would have been his 500th, but it was not to be: he fell short. He left the ground in dismay. Perhaps the congratulatory telegram from Bradman himself made him feel better.

Hanif became the first batter to fall one short of a multiple of hundred – not only in first-class cricket but in any form of recorded competitive cricket. Test cricket does not have a 499 or even 399, but there have been a couple of 299s along with several 199s and multiple 99s. There have been several instances of the batters remaining unbeaten as well.

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