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Record List : Most Century (Hundreds) in Test Match Cricket

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Sachin Tendulkar has most test match century than any other batsman Each and every batsman starts with a duck, a zero. Going off the mark, into double figures, half century and then the magical triple figure individual score.. and in between, you run your partner's runs as non-striker as well as resuming your innings the next day which is very very tiring but less highlighted aspect of cricket. indeed making a test match ton isn't a joke!

Recently, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 42nd test match century against New Zealand at Hamilton which was his second ton in kiwiland..

An array of queries poured into itsonlycricket.com asking how many centuries Sachin's nearest competitor, Ricky Ponting has. Today, the answer stands at 5 but both champion run machines are going strong and it will be interesting to see whether Ricky breaks Sachin's record for most test match century or not by the time he retires.

Dark Horse might turn out to be Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka. He's already close to 30 test match tons and is young. Mahela is ideal batsman of longer version of cricket, is always hungry and since he has given up captaining Sri Lanka, Mahela might rise up the list very quickly in years to come.

Setting the record straight, following is a list of Batsmen who have had a conquered test match career.

Note : Qualification has been set as minimum of 23 test match centuries.
Note : Following list was updated 15 February 2010.
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Most century in test match cricket by a batsman in career.
Batsman (Country) 100s Mts 50s NO Best 0s
Sachin Tendulkar (India) 48 168 55 29 248* 14
Ricky Ponting (Aus) 39 146 52 27 257 13
Jacques Kallis (SA) 35 140 53 35 189* 10
Sunil Gawaskar (India) 34 125 45 16 236* 12
Brian Lara (WI) 34 131 48 6 400* 17
Steve Waugh (Aus) 32 168 50 46 200 22
Mathew Hayden (Aus) 30 103 29 14 380 14
Don Bradman (Aus) 29 52 13 10 334 7
Rahul Dravid (India) 29 140 58 28 270 8
Mahela Jayawardene (SL) 28 112 35 14 374 11
Allan Border (Aus) 27 156 63 44 205 11
Gary Sobers (WI) 26 93 30 21 365* 12
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak) 25 120 46 22 329 15
Greg Chappell (Aus) 24 87 31 19 247* 12
Mohammad Yusuf (Pak) 24 88 32 12 223 10
Vivian Richards (WI) 24 121 45 12 291 10
Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 23 90 32 10 287 4
Justin Langer (Aus) 23 105 32 10 250 11
Javed Miandad (Pak) 23 124 43 21 280* 6



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