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Australian batsman Shaun Marsh on Tuesday became only the 16th player in the history of Test cricket to be run out on 99.
Marsh, attempting a risky single, was run out at the non-striker's end by Virat Kohli throw on the fifth and final day in the ongoing third Test against India in Melbourne.
Marsh had patiently grafted for more than four and a half hours through the new ball on day four and then rain delays in the final morning, and had been given every chance to post his third Test century and first on home soil.
But pinned down on the brink of a century for five balls by paceman Umesh Yadav, he had a moment of madness, rushing through for a single after poking a shot in close, which Virat Kohli swooped on and flung down the stumps from a few metres away. Marsh trudged off with head bowed.
He became the third Australian to have this unwanted record against his name after Bill Brown (1948) and Arthur Morris (1953).
Interestingly, all the three dismissal took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.