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In the sport of cricket, playing 100 Test matches is considered to be a significant achievement. Colin Cowdrey of England was the first cricketer to have reached this landmark,[1] celebrating the occasion with a score of 104 runs against Australia in 1968 during the 1968 Ashes series.[2] In February 2021, Joe Root played his 100th Test during England's tour of India, in which he became the quickest player to reach that landmark,[3] and the first to score a double century in their 100th Test.[4]

Sachin Tendulkar of India is the only cricketer to have played in 200 Test matches, a milestone he reached in his final match, on 13 November 2013 against the West Indies, at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium.[5]

as of August 2022^[update], 72 cricketers have reached this landmark, including 15 from England, the most among all Test-playing teams.[6]

Players with 100+ Test matches

Following is the list of cricketers who have played 100 or more Test matches.[7][8]

Date	Player	Team(s)	Span	Total matches	Ref.
11 July 1968	Colin Cowdrey	England	1954–1975	114	[9]
2 July 1981	Geoffrey Boycott	England	1964–1982	108	[10]
28 April 1984	Clive Lloyd	West Indies	1966–1985	110	[11]
17 October 1984	Sunil Gavaskar	India	1971–1987	125	[12]
21 July 1988	David Gower	England	1978–1992	117	[13]
18 November 1988	Viv Richards	West Indies	1974–1991	121	[14]
24 November 1988	Dilip Vengsarkar	India	1976–1992	116	[15]
24 December 1988	Allan Border	Australia	1978–1994	156	[16]
15 November 1989	Kapil Dev	India	1978–1994	131	[17]
1 December 1989	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	1976–1993	124	[18]
12 April 1990	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies	1974–1991	108	[19]
4 July 1991	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	1978–1994	116	[20]
6 February 1992	Ian Botham	England	1977–1992	102	[21]
29 January 1993	Graham Gooch	England	1975–1995	118	[22]
21 April 1995	David Boon	Australia	1984–1996	107	[23]
2 January 1998	Steve Waugh	Australia	1985–2004	168	[24]
30 January 1998	Ian Healy	Australia	1988–1999	119	[25]
27 February 1998	Courtney Walsh	West Indies	1984–2001	132	[26]
20 November 1998	Mark Taylor	Australia	1989–1999	104	[27]
10 December 1998	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	1982–1999	103	[28]
2 January 2000	Mark Waugh	Australia	1991–2002	128	[29]
3 August 2000	Alec Stewart	England	1990–2003	133	[30]
3 August 2000	Michael Atherton	England	1989–2001	115	[31]
29 November 2000	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	1985–2002	104	[32]
8 March 2002	Shane Warne	Australia	1992–2007	145	[33]
5 September 2002	Sachin Tendulkar	India	1989–2013	200	[34]
9 October 2002	Carl Hooper	West Indies	1987–2002	102	[35]
26 December 2003	Brian Lara	West Indies / ICC World XI	1990–2006	131	[36]
18 March 2004	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	1993–2004	101	[37]
26 October 2004	Glenn McGrath	Australia	1993–2007	124	[38]
24 March 2005	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan / ICC World XI	1992–2007	120	[39]
3 June 2005	Graham Thorpe	England	1993–2005	100	[40]
20 September 2005	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	1991–2007	110	[41]
18 December 2005	Anil Kumble	India	1990–2008	132	[42]
2 January 2006	Ricky Ponting	Australia	1995–2012	168	[43]
28 February 2006	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka / ICC World XI	1992–2010	133	[44]
18 March 2006	Rahul Dravid	India / ICC World XI	1996–2012	164	[45]
31 March 2006	Justin Langer	Australia	1993–2007	105	[46]
15 April 2006	Jacques Kallis	South Africa / ICC World XI	1995–2013	166	[47]
15 April 2006	Shaun Pollock	South Africa	1995–2008	108	[48]
15 April 2006	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	1994–2008	111	[49]
19 November 2006	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	1994–2015	164	[50]
11 January 2007	Mark Boucher	South Africa / ICC World XI	1997–2012	147	[51]
1 December 2007	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	1994–2009	111	[52]
26 December 2007	Sourav Ganguly	India	1996–2008	113	[53]
6 November 2008	VVS Laxman	India	1996–2012	134	[54]
28 November 2008	Matthew Hayden	Australia	1994–2009	103	[55]
3 January 2009	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	1997–2014	149	[56]
16 December 2009	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa	1998–2009	101	[57]
27 March 2010	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand / ICC World XI	1997–2014	113	[58]
16 September 2011	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	2000–2015	134	[59]
19 July 2012	Graeme Smith	South Africa / ICC World XI	2002–2014	117	[60]
16 August 2012	Andrew Strauss	England	2004–2012	100	[61]
23 November 2012	Virender Sehwag	India / ICC World XI	2001–2013	104	[62]
22 February 2013	Harbhajan Singh	India	1998–2015	103	[63]
21 November 2013	Kevin Pietersen	England	2005–2014	104	[64]
13 December 2013	Alastair Cook	England	2006–2018	161	[65]
13 December 2013	Michael Clarke	Australia	2004–2015	115	[66]
8 June 2014	Chris Gayle	West Indies	2000–2014	103	[67]
20 June 2014	Ian Bell	England	2004–2015	118	[68]
13 April 2015	James Anderson	England	2003–present	174	[69]
25 June 2015	Younis Khan	Pakistan	2000–2017	118	[70]
14 November 2015	AB de Villiers	South Africa	2004–2018	114	[71]
12 February 2016	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	2004–2016	101	[72]
9 November 2016	Stuart Broad	England	2007–present	158	[73]
12 January 2017	Hashim Amla	South Africa	2004–2019	124	[74]
21 February 2020	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	2007–2022	112	[75]
15 January 2021	Nathan Lyon	Australia	2011–present	110	[76]
5 February 2021	Joe Root	England	2012–present	123	[77]
24 February 2021	Ishant Sharma	India	2007–present	105	[78]
4 March 2022	Virat Kohli	India	2011–present	102	[79]
24 July 2022	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	2009–present	100	[80]
Last updated: 27 August 2022

 Still playing

By teams

Team	#Players
England	15
Australia	13
India	12
West Indies	9
South Africa	8
Sri Lanka	6
Pakistan	5
New Zealand	4
Total	72

References

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