List of Top 20 Players with most Centuries in International Cricket
Hemant Singh
Nov 11, 2019 13:03 IST
Cricket is considered the game of batsman up to a great extent. If a player scores 100 runs in any match, it is called the century of that match. The top-order batsmen have more chance to hit the century because they have the chance to play more balls.
Sachin Tendulkar is the only cricketer who has scored 100 centuries in the cricket world. Ricky Ponting of Australia is on the second spot with 71 centuries and incumbent Indian captain, Virat Kohli is on the third spot in terms of overall highest number of centuries.
Interestingly, Sachin has scored 100 centuries in his 24-year cricket career, while Ricky Ponting has scored 71 centuries in 17 years and Virat Kohli has scored 69 centuries in only 11 years career.
There are 3 Indians in the top 10 list of the cricketers while South Africa and Sri Lanka have 2 players each.
Let us know about players that have scored the highest number of international centuries;
| Player |
Centuries (ODI/ TEST) |
Duration |
| Total- 100, ODI-49, Test-51 |
1989–2013 |
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| 2. Ricky Ponting |
Total- 71, ODI-30, Test-41 |
1995–2012 |
| Total - 69, ODI - 43, Test - 26 |
2008–2019 |
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| 4. Kumar Sangakkara |
Total - 63, ODI - 26, Test - 38 |
2000–2015 |
| 5. Jack Kallis |
Total - 62, ODI - 17, Test - 45 |
1995–2014 |
| 6. Hashim Amla |
Total - 55, ODI - 27, Test - 28 |
2004–2019 |
| 7. Mahela Jayawardene |
Total - 54, ODI - 19, Test - 34, T - 20-1 |
1997–2015 |
| 8. Brian Lara |
Total-53, ODI-19, Test-34 |
1990–2007 |
| 9. Rahul Dravid |
Total-48, ODI-12, Test-36 |
1996–2012 |
| 10. AB de Villiers |
Total-47, ODI-25, Test-22 |
2004–2018 |
| 11. Sanath Jayasuriya |
Total-42, ODI-28, Test-14 |
1989–2011 |
| 12. Chris Gayle |
Total-42, ODI-25, Test-15, T-20-2 |
1999–2019 |
| 13. Shivnarine Chanderpaul |
Total - 41, ODI - 11, Test - 30 |
1994–2015 |
| 14. Younis Khan |
Total - 41, ODI - 7, Test - 34 |
2000–2017 |
| 15. Matthew Hayden |
Total-40, ODI-10, Test-30 |
1993–2009 |
| 16. Mohammad Yusuf |
Total - 39, ODI - 15, Test - 24 |
1998–2010 |
| 17. Tilakaratne Dilshan |
Total-39, ODI-22, Test-16, T-20-1 |
1999–2016 |
| 18. David Warner |
Total-39, ODI-17, Test-21, T-20-1 |
2009–2019 |
| 19. Mark Waugh |
Total - 38, ODI - 18, Test - 20 |
1988–2002 |
| 20. Sourav Ganguly |
Total - 38, ODI - 22, Test - 16 |
1992–2008 |
Apart from the players given in the above table, Virender Sehwag, Ross Taylor, Alastair Cook have also scored 38 centuries each. Rohit Sharma has also scored a total of 37 centuries that includes 27 in ODIs and 6 centuries in Tests.
An important statistic here is that Rohit Sharma is the only batsman in the world who has scored the most 4 centuries in T20 matches; Gayle has scored 2 centuries. Virat Kohli is yet to score a single century in T20 matches.
The list of top 20 batsmen includes 4 players from India, Sri Lanka and Australia each while 3 players from South Africa and West Indies each and 2 players from Pakistan. Thus, all the top 20 players belongs to just 6 nations.
So this was the list of top 20 century scorers in international cricket. We hope that very soon Rohit Sharma will secure place in the list of top 20 players.
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