da winzada777： Sachin Ramesh Tendulker who is hailed as modern cricket’s most complete player and whose stroke play once reminded Late Sir Don Bradman of his own batting, a rare tribute, scored his 29th Test Century at Port of Spain Trinidad on 20th April 2002
Arshad Chughtai07-May-2002Sachin Ramesh Tendulker who is hailed as modern cricket’s most complete player and whose stroke play once reminded Late Sir Don Bradman of his own batting, a rare tribute, scored his 29th Test Century at Port of Spain Trinidad on 20th April 2002 and thus equaled the record of legendary Sir Don. To date 17 batsmen have scored 20 or more centuries in Test Cricket and at the moment India’s Sunil Gavaskar heads this list with 34 Test Centuries. 6 Australians, 5 Englishmen, 3 Indians, 2 West Indians, and one Pakistani currently enjoy the distinction of having scored 20 or more centuries in Tests.A study of history of test centuries reveals following interesting facts:Australia’s Charles Bannerman was the first batsman to hit a test century when he scored 165 Not-out in the inaugural Test match at Melbourne in 1876 – 77.England’s Hon. F. S. Jackson was the first batsman to score 5 Test Centuries (5thv Australia 113 at Manchester in 1905)Sir Jack Hobbs was the first batsman to score 10 Test Centuries (10th – v South Africa, 211 at Lords in 1924) and also the first to score 15 Test Centuries (15th – v Australia, 142 at Melbourne in 1928-29)Sir Donald George Bradman was the first batsman to score 20 (20th – 102 v England at Lords in 1938), 25 (25th – 132 v India at Melbourne in 1947-48) and 29 Centuries (29th – 173 v England at Leeds in 1948) in Test Cricket.Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to score 30 (30th – 236* v West Indies at Madras in 1983-84) and 34 centuries (34th – 103 v Australia at Bombay in 1986-87) in Test Cricket.Below is the list of batsmen having scored 20 or more centuries in Test Cricket.
Name Country Centuries Test InningsSM Gavaskar India 34 125 214DG Bradman Australia 29 52 80SR Tendulkar India 29 93 149AR Border Australia 27 156 265SR Waugh Australia 27 148 233GS Sobers West Indies 26 93 160GS Chappell Australia 24 87 151IVA Richards West Indies 24 121 182Javed Miandad Pakistan 23 124 189Azharuddin India 22 99 147GF Boycott England 22 108 193MC Cowdrey England 22 114 188WR Hammond England 22 85 140DC Boon Australia 21 107 190RN Harvey Australia 21 79 137KF Barrington England 20 82 131GA Gooch England 20 118 215