[6] West Indian batsman Alvin Kallicharran's record was similarly poor, dismissed in the nineties 7 times for 12 career centuries.
Ashton Agar, playing on debut for Australia against England, came in as the last bat and compiled the highest ever score for a number 11 batter, but fell for 98 with a rash pull shot from a bouncer, after nervously swatting and missing at two previous deliveries.
It is relatively rare for a player to be dismissed for 99 more than once in a Test career, although this fate did befall M. J. K. Smith, Saleem Malik, John Wright, Richie Richardson, Greg Blewett, Sourav Ganguly, Simon Katich and Mike Atherton.
Nine players have been dismissed on 99 in Test cricket without ever making a century including Warne, Dipak Patel and Martyn Moxon.
A statistical oddity occurred at the Karachi test between England and Pakistan in March 1973 when three players (including two in the same innings, Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammed) were dismissed for 99.
Batters in the 90s also score at an accelerated pace — possibly because opposing fielders crowd closer, opening room for more aggressive and higher-scoring shots to the boundary.
With 100 runs in reach, batters tend to accelerate scoring and boundary making, with no apparent cost to the probability of dismissal.
Taking these results together, we surmise that the approach to 100 (including the nineties) is a productive, even successful time for international cricketers to bat.