Scoring a century in cricket is an impressive achievement, but what’s more impressive is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most number of international centuries in cricket
Ex Indian captain Virat Kohli, scored his 71st century on Thursday after a long wait.
Top 10 List Of Cricketers With Most Centuries In International Cricket
It was an amazing knock @imVkohli 😍 Congratulations for scoring Century No. 71 🤗 Well played 👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/c9wSKI2dZp
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) September 8, 2022
Kohli is now at par with Ricky Ponting at the second position in the list of batters with the highest number of international centuries.
Cricket Players With The Most International Centuries
Every batter’s ultimate milestone is to score a century. Scoring a century on a regular basis is impossible and few players have made a habit of scoring them regularly. Virat Kohli is one such player.
However, Kohli has experienced a dip in form since 2019 failing to get the three-figure mark by small margins. Despite the recent hurdles, Virat managed to finally score a century in the current Asia Cup 2022.
Virat’s most recent century has brought him closer to Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Although reaching the Master Blaster might not happen anytime soon, Virat can enjoy the No.2 position on this list for some time.
Top 10 Cricketers With The Most Number Of Centuries
Given below is a list of the top 10 cricketers with the most number of centuries
- Sachin Tendulkar – 100
- Virat Kohli – 71*
- Ricky Ponting – 71
- Kumar Sangakkara – 63
- Jacques Kallis – 62
- Hashim Amla – 55
- Mahela Jayawardene – 54
- Brian Lara – 53
- Rahul Dravid – 48
- AB de Villiers – 47
Some Current Batters Who Have A Chance To Get Into This List
The Top 10 list is currently filled with retired cricketers except for Virat Kohli. This will however, change soon as a number of current batters are closing in on the list.
Batters like Joe Root (44), David Warner (43), and Rohit Sharma (41) are pretty close to the Top 10 List. In fact, all of them also have high chances of hitting 50 international centuries.
However, for the upcoming batters, scoring centuries could prove more difficult. Excluding the Test cricket format, the other two formats now see impactful contributions as a more necessary requirement. Hence, players could opt to play with a different approach in the future.
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