Suresh Raina lone Indian to score a century

Left-handed batsman Suresh Raina is the lone Indian in the short list of four players from all countries to have scored a century in the ICC World T20 Championship's brief history whose fifth edition is set to commence in Bangladesh from Sunday.

Raina, who lost his place in the Test and ODI formats of the game, is part of the squad led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the T20 event. Raina scored 101 with five sixes and nine fours against South Africa at Gros Islet in May, 2010 in the third edition of the tournament held in the West Indies.

The other three century makers in the shortest form of the game are Chris Gayle (West Indies, 117 v South Africa at Johannesburg in September, 2007), Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, 100 v Zimbabwe at Providence in May, 2010) and Brendon McCullum (New Zealand, 123 v Bangladesh at Pallekele in September, 2012), as per the statistics provided by HR Gopalakrishna.

Gayle and Jayawardene had missed out on notching up another hundred each as they scored 98 and 98 not out respectively, both at Bridgetown, in 2010. Incidentally Jayawardene (858 runs) and left-handed Gayle (664) are the top two run-getters in the tournament's history while the stylish Lankan right-hander also holds the record for most fours (91) in the tournament while the feat of scoring the highest number of sixes (43) rests with the powerful West Indian