Bangalore: Gary Kirsten of South Africa by scoring 150 against Bangladesh in the 1st Test at East London in 2002 became only the first player in Test history to perform the feat of scoring centuries against all Test playing countries.

Only two others have recorded centuries against eight Test playing countries and they are Steve Waugh of Australia and Sachin Tendulkar of India. While Tendulkar has played against Bangladesh and did not score a century, Australia is yet to play a Test against Bangladesh.

The following are the FIRST hundreds scored by Gary Kirsten against each of the Test playing nations. It is interesting to note that Kirsten has opened his account with 150 plus runs against six of the nine opponents he has played.

Vs	Score	Test	Venue	Year
Ind	133	2nd Test	Calcutta	1996/97
Pak	100*	3rd Test	Faisalabad	1997/98
NZ	128	1st Test	Auckland	1998/99
Eng	275	3rd Test	Durban	1999/00
WI	150	1st Test	Port of Spain	2000/01
SL	180	1st Test	Durban	2000/01
Zim	220	1st Test	Harare	2001/02
Aus	153	3rd Test	Sydney	2001/02
BD	150	1st Test	East London	2002/03

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