Andy Flower in 199 club

Zimbabwe batsman Andy Flower, who was left stranded, one run short of a double century in the first Test against South Africa on Tuesday, became the sixth batsman in Test cricket history to record a score of 199. However, his feat is unique, as he is the only batsman to remain unbeaten.

Zimbabwe were dismissed for 391 on the final day of the first Test on Tuesday, leaving South Africa a victory target of 78 runs.

Australian Lindsay Hassett had remained unbeaten on 198 against India at Adelaide in January 1948, which was then the highest unbeaten score made by a Test batsman without reaching a double hundred.

Flower, meanwhile, also missed the rare feat of scoring a 100 and a 200 in the same Test match. Only five batsmen (Doug Walters, Sunil Gavaskar, Lawrence Rowe, Greg Chappell and Graham Gooch) have had the distinction of doing so, with the last-named scoring a triple and a hundred in the same match, against India in 1990.

By aggregating 341 runs (142+199) in the Harare match, Flower became the first batsman to score 300-plus runs against South Africa in a Test match. Don Bradman's unbeaten 299 in one innings (at Adelaide in January 1932) was the previous best.

The full 199 list in chronological order:
Mudassar Nazar - Pak v Ind at Faisalabad, October 1984
Mohammad Azharuddin - Ind v SL at Kanpur, December 1986
Matthew Elliott - Aus v Eng at Leeds, July 1997
Sanath Jayasuriya - SL v Ind at Colombo (SSC), August 1997
Steve Waugh - Aus v WI at Bridgetown, March 1999
Andy Flower - Zim v SA at Harare, September 2001

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