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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 2021, 70 cricketers have played in at least 100 Test matches,[6] and nine 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 the only person who have made a century in their hundredth ODI and hundredth Test match.[10] Englishman Joe Root has the highest score in a hundredth Test match; he is the only 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] Joe Root is the latest batsman to score a century in their hundredth Test match, doing so in February 2021.[7]

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] West Indies and Australia are the only other nations 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]

Key

Key

Symbol	Meaning
Runs	Number of runs scored by the batsman
Inn	Innings in which the batsman made a century
Date	Date on which the match started

Players

No.	Name	Runs	Inn	Team	Opposition	Venue	Date	Result	Ref(s)
1	Colin Cowdrey	104	1	England	Australia	Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom	11 July 1968	Draw	[15]
2	Javed Miandad	145	2	Pakistan	India	Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan	1 December 1989	Draw	[16]
3	Gordon Greenidge	149	2	West Indies	England	Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda	12 April 1990	Won	[17]
4	Alec Stewart	105	2	England	West Indies	Old Trafford, Manchester, United Kingdom	3 August 2000	Draw	[18]
5	Inzamam-ul-Haq	184	2	Pakistan	India	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India	24 March 2005	Won	[19]
6	Ricky Ponting[lower-alpha 1]	120	2	Australia	South Africa	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia	2 January 2006	Won	[20]
		143*	4
7	Graeme Smith	131	2	South Africa	England	The Oval, London, United Kingdom	19 July 2012	Won	[21]
8	Hashim Amla	134	1	South Africa	Sri Lanka	Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa	12 January 2017	Won	[22]
9	Joe Root	218	1	England	India	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, India	5 February 2021	Won	[23]
Last updated: 9 February 2021[7]

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