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He also holds the record for most centuries in a single World Cup tournament having scored 5 centuries in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In cricket, a player is said to have completed a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. [1] The Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket
The first century in an ICC Men's T20 World Cup match was scored by Chris Gayle of the West Indies. He achieved the feat in the inaugural match of the first Men's T20 World Cup (then called the World Twenty20) against the hosts South Africa on 11 September 2007. He scored 117 runs in 57 balls at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. [5]
A qualification of 15 overall centuries is used for entry onto the men's list. To date, 127 cricketers have scored 15 or more international centuries, 83 of whom went on to score 20 or more centuries, 44 have scored 30 or more centuries, and 21 have a total of 40 or more centuries.
[b] [5] Sharma set the record for most centuries scored in a World Cup when he scored five centuries in the 2019 World Cup. [6] He has scored centuries against nine different opponents and has the joint second-highest number of centuries (eight) against Australia in the format. [c] As of January 2020, Sharma has eight scores in excess of 150 ...
The following month, he scored centuries in three consecutive ODIs against India. This is the equal second highest number of consecutive ODI centuries, behind Kumar Sangakkara's four. [3] de Kock's highest ODI score is 178 against Australia in September 2016. He scored four centuries at the 2023 World Cup, the most by any player.
He made his highest score in the format when he scored 183 against the same team during the 1999 World Cup. As of January 2019, he is joint-eighth in the list of leading century makers in ODIs. [a] Along with Shikhar Dhawan, Herschelle Gibbs, and Chris Gayle, Ganguly holds the record for the most centuries in the ICC Champions Trophy, with ...
Warner scored his first ODI century in 2012, three years after his debut, when he made 163 against Sri Lanka in the first of three finals of the 2011–12 Commonwealth Bank Series. [13] His 178 against Afghanistan in the 2015 World Cup was at the time the highest score by an Australian in the tournament's history. [14]
List of Cricket World Cup centuries; List of World Series Cricket international centuries This page was last edited on 31 January 2014, at 15:40 (UTC). Text ...