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His total of 51 centuries in Test matches is a world record for highest number of centuries by a batsman and his 49 centuries in ODI matches are the second highest number of centuries after Virat Kohli. [4] [5] He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against Bangladesh in March 2012. [3]
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.
On 16 March 2012, Tendulkar accomplished a remarkable feat by scoring his 100th international century in a match against Bangladesh in the Asia Cup, held at Mirpur. [263] This was a pioneering achievement, as he became the first cricketer to ever reach this landmark. [ 264 ]
He was the sport's first batsman to score a double century (200 runs not out) in a single One Day International match, and is so far the only player to have scored 100 centuries in internationals. He played first-class cricket for 26 years and one day, whilst his international career spanned exactly 24 years from 15 November 1989 to 16 November ...
In February 2021, Joe Root played his 100th Test during England's tour of India, in which he became the quickest player to reach that landmark, [3] and the first to score a double century in their 100th Test. [4] Sachin Tendulkar of India is the only cricketer to have played in 200 Test matches, a milestone he reached in his final match, on 13 ...
Sachin Tendulkar holds multiple records—most appearances (200 matches), most runs (15,921) and highest numbers of both centuries (51) and half-centuries (68). [6] In terms of innings , West Indian Brian Lara , Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara are the fastest (195) to reach the 10,000 run mark, while Australia's Steve Waugh is the slowest ...
In cricket, a player is said to have scored a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match. An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match, a feat which is called "Twin centuries," is considered a "milestone" by critics.
[1] [2] For statistical purposes, any centuries scored in a Test match are included as first-class centuries (as shown in the Table below). The first cricketer to achieve the feat was W. G. Grace, who completed his hundredth century in May 1895. [3] Grace remains the only batsman to have achieved the feat and finished with a batting average ...