9 players who scored a hundred in their 100th Test match

The 100th Test is always a special milestone for any cricketer. For, playing 100 Tests for your country means that you have the ability to adapt, the ability to see through rough patches in your career, and have emerged as the lynchpin of your side.

The very fact that in more than 14 decades of Test match cricket, there have just been 69 players who have played 100 Tests or more speaks about the enormity of the milestone. And, how about the willow wielders who made their 100th Test match special, by scoring a century in their milestone Test? Well, in the history of the game, there have just been 9 batsmen who have managed to score a hundred in their 100th Test match.

9 players who scored a hundred in their 100th Test match

9.Joe Root

Joe Root will be the happiest man in the cricketing world right now. Once again, the England skipper rose to the occasion for his side, and scored a flawless double century, to allow the visitors to post a commanding total of 578 runs on the board in the first innings of the first Test against India. The batting legend faced 377 deliveries in his innings, and scored 218 runs, as the Indian bowling attack was rendered ineffective by Root’s dexterous stroke play.

In fact, Root played a pivotal role in England obtaining stranglehold of the first Test match against the Indian side. They have the hosts on the mat now, and the visitors are in a good position to dominate the rest of the Test match. It is not common that the Indian side is pushed to the backfoot on its home turf. But, Root has made it happen. Root is also the only batsman to score a double hundred in his 100th Test.

At the age of 30, Root is already one of the most prolific run scorers for England, and might even end up as the all time leading run scorer for his country. In exactly a 100 Tests, he has scored close to 8500 runs(8467), and scored his runs at an average in excess of 50(50.39). He has also scored 49 fifties and 20 hundreds in his Test career. And surely, these are numbers that qualify him as one of the greats of the game.