It has been quite a year for Inzamam-ul-Haq. In May, he became the 15th player to score a triple-century in Test cricket - 329 against a beleaguered New Zealand attack at Lahore. Today, against Zimbabwe at Harare, he joined an equally exclusive list, by scoring a century before lunch. Inzamam is only the 16th player to achieve this feat in Test history, and only the second Pakistani after Majid Khan, who scored 108 in the opening session against New Zealand at Karachi in 1976-77. Apart from these two and Tuppy Owen-Smith, who added 102 runs to his overnight 27 for South Africa at Headingley in 1929, every other batsman on the list is either an Englishman or an Australian (although Tuppy himself played rugby for England). Twelve of the 16 instances came before the Second World War, the earliest being Ranjitsinhji's 154 not out at Old Trafford in 1896, when he added 113 to his overnight 41. But, of course, in those days the over-rate was a great deal higher.

The last batsman to score a hundred before lunch was Mark Taylor, for Australia against Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998-99. Taylor, who started the day on 112, eventually declared on 334 not out, equalling Don Bradman's 68-year Australian record. Bradman's own innings, at Headingley in 1930, also features on the list - he scored 105 in the first session of that match, and 115 between lunch and tea.

Inzamam, like Taylor before him, was helped in that the morning session was extended by half-an-hour. But his 112 runs came from a mere 107 balls, and uniquely, Inzamam is the only batsmen to start his innings from scratch on any day other than the first.

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