On 27 April 2002, during the third and final encounter of the three-match ODI series between Pakistan and New Zealand at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore, young Shoaib Malik fashioned a fine all-round performance to better his career best performance with both bat and ball. Opening the batting, the 20-year old made a superb 115 and later on took 3 wickets for 37 runs to write his name in the elite club of all-rounders scoring a century and also taking three or more wickets in the same match.

It was actually the 11th such performance by the 9th player in the history of shorter version of the game, with Nathan Astle and Viv Richards doing so twice.

Curiously enough, Shoaib who became the first Pakistani to do so, however also provided the 13th instance of a Pakistani scoring a fifty or more besides taking three or more wickets in the match too.

For the interest of the readers here are more details:

Players scoring a century & taking 3 wickets in the same
ODI match (11)
Allrounder         Runs  Wkts  Vs   Ground        Date
DJ Callaghan (SA)  169*  3/32  NZ   Centurion     Dec 11, 1994
SR Tendulkar (Ind) 141   4/38  Aus  Dhaka         Oct 28, 1998
SC Ganguly (Ind)   130*  4/21  SL   Nagpur        Mar 22, 1999
NJ Astle (NZ)      120   3/40  Ind  Rajkot        Nov 05, 1999
IVA Richards (WI)  119   5/41  NZ   Dunedin       Mar 18, 1987
NJ Astle (NZ)      117   4/43  Pak  Mohali        May 09, 1997
IVA Richards (WI)  110*  3/42  Ind  Rajkot        Jan 05, 1988
PA De Silva (SL)   107*  3/42  Aus  Lahore        Mar 17, 1996
CL Cairns (NZ)     103   3/37  Ind  Pune          Nov 24, 1995
RR Singh (Ind)     100   3/20  SL   Colombo (SSC) Aug 23, 1997
Shoaib Malik (Pak) 115   3/37  NZ   Lahore        Apr 27, 2002

Pakistani players scoring a fifty & taking 3 wickets in the
same ODI match (13)
Allrounder     Runs  Wkts  Vs   Ground     Date
Shoaib Malik   115   3/37  NZ   Lahore     Apr 27, 2002
Aamir Sohail   87    3/43  WI   Kingston   Mar 23, 1993
Aamir Sohail   85    4/22  SL   Sharjah    Oct 12, 1995
Abdur Razzaq   70*   5/48  Ind  Hobart     Jan 21, 2000
Aamir Sohail   67    3/46  SL   Centurion  Dec 04, 1994
Mudassar Nazar 64    3/44  Aus  Sharjah    Apr 03, 1987
Majid Khan     61    3/53  Aus  Nottingham Jun 13, 1979
Shahid Afridi  61    5/40  Eng  Lahore     Oct 27, 2000
Imran Khan     58    3/36  Aus  Lahore     Nov 04, 1987
Imran Khan     55*   3/47  WI   Calcutta   Nov 01, 1989
Shahid Afridi  53    3/33  WI   Sydney     Jan 18, 1997
Imran Khan     50*   3/49  SL   Sharjah    Mar 24, 1989
Mudassar Nazar 50    3/20  Aus  Sydney     Dec 17, 1981

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