Many players have hit various milestones, but only a select handful have climbed the mountain of success. A century is regarded as a significant score and a career high point for batsmen.
Too many players occasionally put on outstanding performances, and some simply break records every time they step up to the plate. Today, we’ll take a look at five of the players who hold the record for the most centuries in international cricket.
Here we Look at 5 Such Players with most centuries in international cricket
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Jacques Kallis
Jacques Kallis, who is regarded as the best all-around cricket player ever, ranks fifth in the list of most international centuries.
Kallis began his playing career in 1995 and continued till 2014. The all-rounder has played 519 matches and 617 innings during the course of his 19-year career, having scored 62 hundreds in the process.
Total Matches: 519
Total Hundreds: 62
(Test- 45, ODI- 17)
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Kumar Sangakkara
In terms of centuries, Kumar Sangakkara holds the top in cricket. He is unarguably one of the most loved Asian players having played cricket.
In comparison to other players, his career was quite brief, lasting only 15 years when he decided to retire in 2015. In 594 games, Sangakkara has participated in he has scored 63 centuries and 153 half centuries in 666 innings overall.
Total Matches: 594
Total Hundreds: 63
(Test- 38, ODI-25)
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Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting is one of the most dangerous batsmen to have played the game. Ponting was the captain of a very strong Australian side that went on to dominate cricket for quite some time.
The world cup winning captain is also as per statistics the best captain in cricket till date.
Ponting has scored 71 international centuries in his 17-year-long cricketing career and has played 560 matches and 668 innings. He has also scored 146 half centuries with a career-best score of 257.
Total Matches: 560
Total Hundreds: 71
(Test- 41, ODI- 30)
The run-machine Kohli, is the only active player in the list with the most hundreds in international cricket. The 33-year-old has scored 72 international hundreds, including 27 in Test matches, 44 in One Day Internationals, and one in Twenty20 cricket.
He recorded his first hundred against Sri Lanka in 2009 and has never stopped since. The daring batsman scored 107 runs off 114 balls alongside Gautam Gambhir (150 not out), helping India win by seven wickets at Kolkata in a 316-run chase game.
Kohli is also the only among the other four who have scored a century in T20 too.
Total Matches: 482
Total Hundreds: 72
(Test-27, ODI-44, T20I-1)
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Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, who often called as the ‘God of cricket’, is the player who holds the record of scoring most centuries in international cricket.
The illustrious Indian cricket batsman, whose career lasted from 1989 to 2013, scored his 100th century in a match against Bangladesh during the 2012 Asia Cup.
Sachin Tendulkar scored an incredible 18,426 runs at an average of 44.83 in 452 innings throughout the course of a record-breaking 463 ODIs. Overall, the legend has played in 664 games and 782 innings, scoring 100 international centuries. He has smashed a record total of 34,357 international runs during his cricketing career.
Tendulkar has a huge lead over everyone, therefore it will be extremely unlikely for anyone to surpass his record.
Total Matches: 664
Total Hundreds: 100
(Test – 51, ODI – 49)
