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India.com
11-07-2025
- Sport
- India.com
10 Players With Most Hundreds In Test Cricket: Joe Root Surpasses Rahul Dravid, Steve Smith; Check Full List
photoDetails english 2930414 Updated:Jul 11, 2025, 10:21 PM IST 1. Sachin Tendulkar (India) - 51 Centuries 1 / 10 Legendary Sachin Tendulkar, who is arguably the greatest batter ever, holds the record for scoring most centuries (51) in Test cricket. He is also the highest run-scorer in Test history with 15,921 runs. 2. Jacques Kallis (South Africa) - 45 Centuries 2 / 10 Jacques Kallis, one of cricket's greatest all-rounders, scored second most centuries (45) in Test cricket. Kallis scored 13,289 runs and took 292 wickets, which is a rare feat for an all-rounder. 3. Ricky Ponting (Australia) - 41 Centuries 3 / 10 Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting is third in the list with 41 Test centuries. With 13,378 runs, Ponting is Australia's second-highest Test run-scorer after Allan Border. 4. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) - 38 Centuries 4 / 10 Kumar Sangakkara, one of Sri Lanka's finest batters, scored 38 centuries with an impressive batting average of 57.40. Known for his elegant cover drives and wristy flicks, Sangakkara scored 12,400 runs in Test cricket. 5. Joe Root (England) - 37* Centuries 5 / 10 Former England captain Joe Root has hit 37 centuries In Test cricket. With more than 13,000+ runs, Root is England's leading run-scorer in Test cricket. 6. Steve Smith (Australia) - 36 Centuries 6 / 10 Steve Smith has scored 36 centuries in Test cricket so far. Given his batting quality, Smith is likely to climb higher on the list of Test centuries. 7. Rahul Dravid (India) - 36 Centuries 7 / 10 Rahul Dravid, known as "The Wall" for his resolute defense, scored 36 centuries in Test cricket. His ability to play long, match-saving innings is crucial for India in Test cricket. 8. Younis Khan (Pakistan) - 34 Centuries 8 / 10 Pakistan batter Younis Khan hit 34 centuries in Test centuries. He was one of the biggest match-winners for Pakistan in Test cricket during his playing days. 9. Sunil Gavaskar (India) - 34 Centuries 9 / 10 Sunil Gavaskar, who was the first batter to cross 10,000 Test runs, scored 34 centuries. His technical prowess was unmatched and he faced fearsome pace attacks in the pre-helmet era. 10. Brian Lara (West Indies) - 34 Centuries 10 / 10 West Indies batting great Brian Lara scored 34 centuries in Test cricket. Notably, Lara also holds the record for the highest individual Test score (400* against England in 2004).
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Joe Root paints latest Lord's masterpiece to give old-school England edge against India
Perhaps the first sign of the classical day of Test cricket that lay ahead was the sight of Sachin Tendulkar, immaculately wrapped in a double-breasted jacket, ringing the five-minute bell before play. This was an old-school day that the Little Master would surely have luxuriated in during his playing days, a good – if slightly slow – surface providing enough to encourage batter and bowler and England eschewing some of their extravagant electronica to harmonise with India on a gentler, more melodic tune. To what extent was England's abandonment of their ultra-attacking dogma a reaction to their defeat at Edgbaston? It is a tricky question to answer given how well India's attack operated and far from benign conditions, seam and spin on offer to quench the bowlers' thirst at last in a series in which batters had thus far guzzled. Advertisement Still supping his favourite libation, though, is Joe Root, who ended the day 99 not out to underpin England's total of 251 for 4, a solid start - even if an injury for Ben Stokes looks a major concern. It was an innings that Tendulkar surely would have enjoyed even as it edged his potential conqueror closer to the throne he currently occupies; Root beginning the day 2806 runs behind Test cricket's leading scorer and ending it slightly closer. In doing so, England's No 4 closed in on a couple more modern masters – Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and third place on the all-time list might be within reach tomorrow once a 37th Test ton has been completed. England's Joe Root ended the day 99 not out (PA Wire) If Tendulkar's tally once seemed out of sight, Root's insatiable appetite for runs was evidenced again. The last few months have seen the so-called Fab Four begin to curl at the corners: Virat Kohli has bowed out of Test cricket, while Kane Williamson is picking and choosing his trips as he enters his international dotage. Even Steve Smith seems to spend as much time in New York as the nets, though a second-innings 71 in Grenada last week for Australia was perhaps worth double. Root, though, remains right at the peak of his powers, and England needed him to be here on an day plucked from their past, starts squandered around their middle order linchpin. A portrait of Tendulkar had been hung in the pavilion gallery on Thursday morning and Root's image will surely join him, the Yorkshireman having painted many a masterpiece on this patch of north London pasture himself. Advertisement The old adage at Lord's is to look up not down and the steepling sunshine of high summer overhead perhaps made Ben Stokes's call to bat straightforward. So established, however, is England's chasing modus operandi that the decision to bat drew coos of excitation from the galleries, even the birds in the trees over the road in Regent's Park seeming to warble a tune of pleasant surprise as Jofra Archer's return to Test action was delayed by a day, at least. Sachin Tendulkar had rung the five-minute bell before the start of play (Getty Images) India skipper Shubman Gill, intriguingly, would have bowled. He, and the gathered patrons, might have anticipated the cacophony that usually accompanies England with bat in hand to soon sound but Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley kept the volume low in testing conditions. India poked and probed with the ball doing plenty, a returning Jasprit Bumrah drawing an edge from the left-hander in his opening over, only to find the ball falling short of Rishabh Pant's gloves. Crawley was dancing to his own tune, moving around the crease with the skittish energy of a deer at a discotheque, but he and Duckett stuck in there, putting away some of their more daring deeds. Indeed, the tall Crawley's only real misstep before drinks was when he fell flat on his face turning for a second at the striker's end; yet more ammunition, perhaps, for critics of his uncertain footwork. Advertisement Surviving the first hour without a wicket did feel like a real achievement, though, but the sense of success was shattered immediately after the break by Nitish Kumar Reddy. India's fourth seamer, a batting all-rounder, would probably not take the new ball for a strong club side yet proved all but unplayable: Duckett was strangled down the legside for 23 before one nipped down the slope into the gloves of Rishabh Pant via the outside edge of Crawley's poking Gray-Nicolls. Nitish Kumar Reddy struck twice in his first over for India (Bradley Collyer/PA Wire) With Ollie Pope put down in the gully in between the dismissals, fears of a frenzy grew after a sedate start by England's standards, but affairs were soon steadied again. Root exuded calm from the moment he sashayed down the pavilion steps and he and Pope combined well, the No 3 clearly backing himself against Bumrah as he negotiated 28 balls of a five-over spell after lunch. It was certainly slow going – a 100 brought up in 35.4 overs was England's most pedestrian progress at home since the dawn of this avant-garde new movement – but the roundheads calling for less cavalier cricket from England in the wake of defeat last week had perhaps been heard. Joe Root largely played sensibly to ease towards a 37th Test ton (AP) Root pootled to 50 from 102 balls just prior to tea and Pope (44) seemed certain to follow him soon after until Ravindra Jadeja drew a thin edge with the first ball after the interval. A sharp catch was taken by wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel - deputising for a stricken Pant, whose finger injury is not thought to be serious. A returning Bumrah then burst one through the defences of Harry Brook. Joe Root and Ben Stokes were together at the close (Action Images via Reuters) That brought Stokes to the crease, the skipper under scrutiny almost two years after his last Test hundred, made here in a flurry of fury after Jonny Bairstow's stumping by Alex Carey. In the image of his team, his attacking instincts were tempered, though - Stokes surviving his injury, a probing spell from India's tweakers, Jadeja and Washington Sundar, a three-over new-ball burst and – most bizarrely – flying insects to remain with his captaincy predecessor to the close, the late swarm of ladybugs denying Root his ton. Will the current captain be able to bowl on Friday if required? It could be a key question but the immediate instruction will be for he his side to bat on and bat big.
Associated Press
11-07-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Most test hundreds in men's cricket
51 Sachin Tendulkar, India 45 Jacques Kallis, South Africa/ICC 41 Ricky Ponting, Australia 38 Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka 37 x-Joe Root, England 36 Rahul Dravid, India/ICC 36 x-Steve Smith, Australia 34 Sunil Gavaskar, India 34 Brian Lara, West Indies 34 Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka 34 Younis Khan, Pakistan x-active
The Independent
10-07-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Joe Root paints latest Lord's masterpiece to give old-school England edge against India
Perhaps the first sign of the classical day of Test cricket that lay ahead was the sight of Sachin Tendulkar, immaculately wrapped in a double-breasted jacket, ringing the five-minute bell before play. This was an old-school day that the Little Master would surely have luxuriated in during his playing days, a good – if slightly slow – surface providing enough to encourage batter and bowler and England eschewing some of their extravagant electronica to harmonise with India on a gentler, more melodic tune. To what extent was England's abandonment of their ultra-attacking dogma a reaction to their defeat at Edgbaston? It is a tricky question to answer given how well India's attack operated and far from benign conditions, seam and spin on offer to quench the bowlers' thirst at last in a series in which batters had thus far guzzled. Still supping his favourite libation, though, is Joe Root, who ended the day 99 not out to underpin England's total of 251 for 4. It was an innings that Tendulkar surely would have enjoyed even as it edged his potential conqueror closer to the throne he currently occupies; Root beginning the day 2806 runs behind Test cricket's leading scorer and ending it slightly closer. In doing so, England's No 4 closed in on a couple more modern masters – Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and third place on the all-time list are well within reach tomorrow once a 37th Test ton has been completed. If Tendulkar's tally once seemed out of reach, Root's insatiable appetite for runs was evidenced again. The last few months have seen the so-called Fab Four begin to curl at the corners: Virat Kohli has bowed out of Test cricket, while Kane Williamson is picking and choosing his trips as he enters his international dotage. Even Steve Smith seems to spend as much time in New York as the nets, though a second-innings 71 in Grenada last week for Australia was perhaps worth double. Root, though, remains right at the peak of his powers, and England needed him to be here on an day plucked from their past, starts squandered around their middle order linchpin. A portrait of Tendulkar had been hung in the pavilion gallery on Thursday morning and Root's image will surely join him, the Yorkshireman having painted many a masterpiece on this patch of north London pasture himself. The old adage at Lord's is to look up not down and the steepling sunshine of high summer overhead perhaps made Ben Stokes 's call to bat straightforward. So established, however, is England's chasing modus operandi that the decision to bat drew coos of excitation from the galleries, even the birds in the trees over the road in Regent's Park seeming to warble a tune of pleasant surprise as Jofra Archer 's return to Test action was delayed by a day, at least. India skipper Shubman Gill, intriguingly, would have bowled. He, and the gathered patrons, might have anticipated the cacophony that usually accompanies England with bat in hand to soon sound but Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley kept the volume low in testing conditions. India poked and probed with the ball doing plenty, a returning Jasprit Bumrah drawing an edge from the left-hander in his opening over, only to find the ball falling short of Rishabh Pant 's gloves. Crawley was dancing to his own tune, moving around the crease with the skittish energy of a deer at a discotheque, but he and Duckett stuck in there, putting away some of their more daring deeds. Indeed, the tall Crawley's only real misstep before drinks was when he fell flat on his face turning for a second at the striker's end; yet more ammunition, perhaps, for critics of his uncertain footwork. Surviving the first hour without a wicket did feel like a real achievement, though, but the sense of success was shattered immediately after the break by Nitish Kumar Reddy. India's fourth seamer, a batting all-rounder, would probably not take the new ball for a strong club side yet proved all but unplayable: Duckett was strangled down the legside for 23 before one nipped down the slope into the gloves of Rishabh Pant via the outside edge of Crawley's poking Gray-Nicolls. With Ollie Pope put down in the gully in between the dismissals, fears of a frenzy grew after a sedate start by England's standards, but affairs were soon steadied again. Root exuded calm from the moment he sashayed down the pavilion steps and he and Pope combined well, the No 3 clearly backing himself against Bumrah as he negotiated 28 balls of a five-over spell after lunch. It was certainly slow going – a 100 brought up in 35.4 overs was England's most pedestrian progress at home since the dawn of this avant-garde new movement – but the roundheads calling for less cavalier cricket from England in the wake of defeat last week had perhaps been heard. Root pootled to 50 from 102 balls just prior to tea and Pope (44) seemed certain to follow him soon after until Ravindra Jadeja drew a thin edge with the first ball after the interval. A sharp catch was taken by wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel - deputising for a stricken Pant, whose finger injury is not thought to be serious. A returning Bumrah then burst one through the defences of Harry Brook. That brought Stokes to the crease, the skipper under scrutiny almost two years after his last Test hundred, made here in a flurry of fury after Jonny Bairstow's stumping by Alex Carey. In the image of his team, his attacking instincts were tempered, though - Stokes surviving cramp, a probing spell from India's tweakers, Jadeja and Washington Sundar, a three-over new-ball burst and – most bizarrely – flying insects to remain with Root to the close.
Times of Oman
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Times of Oman
Bosch becomes first SA player since Kallis in 2002 to achieve unique double
Bulawayo: South African all-rounder Corbin Bosch on Tuesday became just the fourth from his country and first since legendary Jacques Kallis in 2002 to score a century and take a five-wicket haul in the same Test match. Bosch achieved this accomplishment during his side's win at Bulawayo in the first Test of the two match series against Zimbabwe on Tuesday. During the match, Bosch started with a scintillating century at number eight in first innings, scoring 100 in 124 balls, with 10 fours. While he went wicketless in his first innings with the ball and scored 36 runs in the next innings, Bosch came in clutch during the last innings, taking a magnificent fifer that destroyed Zimbabwe during the chase of 537 runs. Kallis had achieved this last time in October 2002, scoring 139* and taking 5/21 and 2/26 against Bangladesh in Potchefstroom. He is the only South African to have achieved this feat twice, the first time against the West Indies in January 1999 at Cape Town when he scored 110 and 88* across both innings and took figures of 2/34 and 5/90. The other two South Africans to achieve this feat are: James Sinclair against England in Cape Town in April 1899, and George Faulkner against England in January 1910. Bosch has had a fine start to his Test career, with 217 runs in two matches at an average of 108.50, with a century and a fifty each. He has also taken 10 wickets at an average of 19.10, with a four-fer and five-for to his name. He has also played two ODIs and made his international debut just last year. During the match, South Africa won the toss and opted to bat first and were in a soup at Tanaka Chivanga (4/83) rattling their top-order and leaving them at 55/4. However, a counter-attacking partnership of 95 runs between Dewald Brevis (51 in 41 balls, with three fours and four sixes) and Lhuan dragged the Proteas out of troubled waters. The best partnership of the innings was a 138-run seventh-wicket stand between Lhuan (153 in 160 balls, with 11 fours and four sixes) and Bosch. Lhuan became the youngest South African centurion ever at the age of 19 years and 93 days. Later, a century from Bosch (100 in 127 balls, with 10 fours) and useful knocks from skipper Keshav Maharaj (21) and Codi Yusuf (27) took SA to 418 in 90 overs. In reply, a 96-run third-wicket stand between Craig Ervine, the skipper (36 in 90 balls, with four boundaries), and Sean Williams was a major highlight for Zimbabwe in their first innings. Williams battled the wickets falling at the other end, crafting a 137 in 164 balls, with 16 fours to take Zimbabwe to 251 in 67.4 overs. This was his sixth Test ton. Zimbabwe trailed by 167 runs. Wiaan Mulder (4/50) was the top bowler for SA, while Maharaj and Codi also took three wickets each. During their second innings, the Proteas lost wickets regularly and were restricted to 155/5. However, their new number three batter, Mulder (147 in 206 balls, with 17 fours and two sixes) scored a brave century, putting a 104-run sixth wicket stand with wicketkeeper Kyle Verreyne (36). Later, lower-order scores from Bosch (36) and Maharaj (51 in 70 balls, with four boundaries and a six) took Proteas to 369/10. Bosch and Maharaj put 92-run stand for the eighth wicket. Proteas led by 536 runs, setting 537 for Zimbabwe to win. Bosch (5/43) and Yusuf (3/22) led a disciplined effort from SA as except for Wellington Masakadza (57 in 92 balls, with nine fours) and skipper Ervine (49 in 77 balls, with seven fours), no one put up much of a fight for Zimbabwe, skittling out for 208 runs. Lhuan got the 'Player of the Match' honours for his efforts on his debut.
