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Century (cricket)

1 Innings • Run • ________ • Century • Strike rate • Not out • Four and Six

2 His career total of 124 centuries was subsequently passed by ________, whose total of 199 first-class centuries is the current record[6][7].

3 ________ was the first batsman to score 100 career centuries in first-class cricket, reaching the milestone in 1895.

4 Overs • Run • Wickets • No ball • Wide • Bowling average • ________

5 The current holder of the record for most centuries in Test cricket is ________ of India, who has scored 43 centuries.

6 In the sport of cricket, a ________ reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in the innings.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
  • Rachael Haynes (pictured) narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98?
  • aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket?
  • cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener?
  • in Test cricket, Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with 39 centuries, leads the list of batsmen making centuries?
  • in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
  • Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
  • Loots Bosman scored the first century in South African domestic Twenty20 cricket?
  • Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings?
  • Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
  • Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International, making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20?
  • Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century?
  • Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team?
  • English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
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