Players who had scored a century in both of their first and last Test match

By Umangkumar Vijaybhai Pabari

Updated - 01 Feb 2016, 19:50 IST

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Every batsman’s dream is to make a hundred for his country at the international level although some batsmen have found it tough to get to the triple figures in their careers but some have got there quite regularly like Sachin Tendulkar and we all know he had made 51 centuries in Tests while playing for India and after him Jacques Kallis scored most no. of centuries and to be precise 45. Like these two players, there are many players who had scored more than 20 hundreds in their international Test careers but to score a century in a debut match and a farewell match is something special and there are only four players in Test cricket who had achieved the feet of scoring hundreds in their first and last match.

For these players, we can say that they have started their career with a mighty impression and ended with the same but somehow out of four, only two are famous in World Cricket named India’s M Azharuddin and Australia’s Greg Chappell while other two are not that much famous in the world but they had achieved this achievement in their careers.

Finding it hard to believe?

Here, we have presented a table which included details regarding those players who had scored tons in their first and last Test match.

 Note: There are 100 players who had scored a ton in their debut match and 19 players who had scored a ton in their last match (Played min.10 Tests) while there are only four players in Test cricket history who have scored a ton in their last and first match.

Player name Country Matches Innings Runs Average No. of career hundreds Highest score First match runs Last match runs
Mohammad Azharuddin India 99 147 6215 45.04 22 199 110 & DNB 9 & 102
Greg Chappell Australia 87 151 7110 53.86 24 247* 108 & DNB 182 & DNB
Reginald Duff Australia 22 40 1317 35.59 2 146 32 & 104 146 & DNB
William Ponsford Australia 29 48 2122 48.23 7 266 110 & 27 266 & 22

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