List of cricketers who scored a century in their hundredth Test
Joe Root has the highest score for a player in their hundredth Test match.Ricky Ponting is the only player to score two centuries in their hundredth Test match.
For a player to score a century (100 runs or more) in their hundredth Test match is considered a notable achievement.[1][2][3][4][5] As of December 2022[update], 73 cricketers have played in at least 100 Test matches,[6] and ten players have achieved the milestone of scoring a century in their hundredth Test.[7][8]
The first player to score a century in their hundredth Test match was Englishman Colin Cowdrey.[2] Cowdrey was the first Test cricketer of any nationality to play 100 Test matches.[9] Pakistan's Javed Miandad was the first batsman to have scored a century on Test debut as well as in their hundredth Test match; West Indian Gordon Greenidge is the only other cricketer to have achieved the feat.[5] Greenidge also scored a century on his 100th One Day International appearance, making him one of two to have made a century in their hundredth ODI and hundredth Test match; he was joined by David Warner.[10] Englishman Joe Root has the highest score in a hundredth Test match; he was the first player to have scored a double century (200 runs or more) in their hundredth Test match.[11] Australian Ricky Ponting is the only player to have scored two centuries in their hundredth Test match;[12] Ponting made scores of 120 and 143 not out against South Africa in Sydney in 2006.[4] David Warner is the latest batsman to score a century in their hundredth Test match and only the second to turn it into a double century, doing so in December 2022.[7]
Australia, England, Pakistan and South Africa are the only teams to have had more than one different player score a century in their hundredth Test match.[3][4] England have had three different players achieve this feat, the most of any country.[13][14] The West Indies is the only other team to have had a player score a century in their hundredth match.[4] No player has ever scored a century in their hundredth Test match and also been on the losing side.[7]