Fastest century in international cricket
Then scored another 20 of them in his remaining 176. It took 94 ODIs for Dilly to reach three-figures, and another 60 to get his second. November 1999įirst ODI hundred: 117* v Netherlands, July 2006įirst T20I hundred: 104* v Australia, August 2011įor someone who would go on to be remembered as a great innovator and white-ball champion, Dilshan got his first Test hundred almost seven years before his first against the white ball. One of only two players on this list to complete the set with his Test century.įirst Test hundred: 163* v Zimbabwe. Scored his maiden hundreds in all three formats across a span of barely two years, which is pretty decent. Didn’t score another hundred in his other 30. And as for Chris Gayle’s Grand Slam Club: misses out by 56 runs – nothing better than a measly 144 in ODIs for Mahela.įirst Test hundred: 120 v Sri Lanka, July 2010įirst ODI hundred: 101 v Hong Kong, June 2008įirst T20I hundred: 101 v South Africa, May 2010įitting indeed that India’s greatest ever batsman should be the first from his country to score a century in all three formats. Took him a good few years, but he got there. The classy right-hander knocked off the first two-thirds of the task with swift, almost indecent ease at the start of his international career and then had to sit and wait six years just for T20 to be invented so he could set about completing the set. Like Gayle, a white-ball specialist who accidentally has a very fine record across over 100 Test matches.įirst Test hundred: 167 v New Zealand, June 1998įirst ODI hundred: 120 v England, January 1999įirst T20I hundred: 100 v Zimbabwe, May 2010 Of course he’s here in this list, smashing the thing around like a maniac. Nor, for that matter, does Sanath Jayasuriya, who is agonisingly only 23 runs shy of a spot but spread across ODIs (189) and T20s (88). We haven’t checked everyone, but we think Virender Sehwag – two of the three ticked off and 32 runs away in the other thanks to a T20 best of 68 – is the only player closer, and he doesn’t even get into the all-format hundreds club. Just 34 runs away from a place in Chris Gayle’s Grand Slam club due to an ODI best of ‘only’ 166. He is undoubtedly the greatest T20 batsman of all time and boasts a Test record – 7000+ runs, 100+ matches, 42+ average – that plenty of five-day-only specialists would happily take for their own.įirst Test hundred: 143 v Bangladesh, October 2004įirst ODI hundred: 166 v Ireland, July 2008įirst T20I hundred: 116* v Australia, February 2010 If only so we can call Chris Gayle the greatest batsman ever to play the game and then sit back and enjoy the response.
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The only player to complete the all-format batting Grand Slam – Test triple hundred, ODI double hundred, T20I hundred. Here they all are, along with those who’ve so far come closest for the three Test nations not yet represented in this particular club – which are (hilariously) England and (more understandably) Zimbabwe and Afghanistan.įirst Test hundred: 175 v Zimbabwe, July 2001įirst ODI hundred: 152 v Kenya, August 2001įirst T20I hundred: 117 v South Africa, September 2007 He joins a list including a West Indian, two New Zealanders, three Indians, a couple of Sri Lankans, a pair of Aussies, a Bangladeshi, a South African, a Pakistani… and no Englishmen.
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Kevin O’Brien has become the 14th man, and Ireland’s first, to score centuries in all three international formats after making 124 in a T20I against Hong Kong.