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In the sport of cricket
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, a batsman
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is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket
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, the highest form of the game below international level, a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions. For statistical purposes, any centuries scored in a Test match Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
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* Test match (association football)
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are included as first-class centuries (as shown in the Table below).
The first cricketer to achieve the feat was W. G. Grace
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players. He played first-class cricket for a record-equal ...
, who completed his hundredth century in May 1895. Grace remains the only batsman to have achieved the feat and finish with a batting average
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below 40.
The English County Championship
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has historically always been the first-class competition in which the most matches are played per season, hence the most conducive competition to prolific run-scoring. Of the 25 men to have scored 100 first-class centuries, all have been either natively English or English-qualified except Donald Bradman of Australia, Zaheer Abbas
Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani PP, (in Punjabi and Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی; born 24 July 1947), popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer. He is among few professional cricketers who used to wear spectacles ...
of Pakistan, Glenn Turner
Glenn Maitland Turner (born 26 May 1947) played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel.
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of New Zealand and West Indian Viv Richards
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (born 7 March 1952) is an Antiguan retired cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Batting generally at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely ...
. Zaheer Abbas (Gloucestershire
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), Turner (Worcestershire
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) and Richards (Somerset
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) all had substantial county careers as overseas players; Bradman, the first non-English batsman to achieve the feat, therefore remains the only batsman to have done so despite never having played for an English county side.
Batsmen with 100 centuries or above
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''. For details on the difference between these figures and those used by other sources, see Variations in first-class cricket statistics
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* 100s denotes how many centuries
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A centennial or ...
the batsman scored in first-class cricket.
* Nation denotes the country for which the batsman played Test cricket was from; the number following indicates the number of centuries scored in Test cricket (in bold) plus the number of other first-class centuries scored for the national side.
* 100th denotes the year in which the batsman scored his one-hundredth century in first-class cricket.
* ItH denotes how many innings it took the batsman to reach his hundredth century in first-class cricket.
* Inns denotes how many innings the batsman played.
* Runs denotes the number of runs scored by the batsman in his first-class career.
* Ave denotes the batsman's career batting average
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* ♠ denotes the batsman scored their hundredth century in a Test match Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
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