List of batsmen who have scored 100 centuries in first-class cricket
Introduction Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe walk out to the middle at the Sydney Cricket Ground in a Test match. Both Hobbs and Sutcliffe scored over 100 first-class centuries; with Hobbs holding the record for most centuries in a first-class career.In the sport of cricket, a batsman 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, 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 are included as first-class centuries (as shown in the Table below).The first cricketer to achieve the feat was W. G. Grace, who completed his hundredth century in May 1895.Grace remains the only batsman to have achieved the feat and finished with a batting average below 40.The English County Championship 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 of Pakistan, Glenn Turner of New Zealand and West Indian Viv Richards. Zaheer Abbas (Gloucestershire), Turner (Worcestershire) and Richards (Somerset) 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. He also achieved the feat in the fewest innings and at the highest average.Geoffrey Boycott became the first player to score his 100th century in a Test match, doing so against Australia at his home ground of Headingley in August 1977.Subsequently Zaheer Abbas is the only other player to achieve the feat in a Test match.
Batsmen with 100 centuries or above :'''''Note:''' this list uses the figures accepted by the ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack''. For details on the difference between these figures and those used by other sources, see Variations in first-class cricket statistics. '';Key* '''100s''' denotes how many centuries 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. * '''♠''' denotes the batsman scored their hundredth century in a Test match. Rank  100s  Player  Nation (100s)    County (100s)  100th  ItH  Career  Inns  Runs  Ave Notes   199     ('''15''')  Surrey ()  1923  821  1905–1934  1,315  61,237  50.65    170     (''''''+1)  Middlesex ()  1928–29  740  1907–1938  1,300  57,611  50.80    167     ('''22'''+4)  Gloucestershire (113) 1935  680  1923–1950  1,005  50,551  56.10    153     ('''''')  Hampshire (138)  1927  892  1905–1936  1,340  55,061  47.67    151   ♠   ('''22'''+3)  Yorkshire ()  1977  645  1962–1986  1,014  48,426  56.83    149     ('''16'''+2)  Yorkshire ()  1932  700  1919–1945  1,088  50,138  51.95    145     (''''''+3)  Kent  ()  1929  1,031  1906–1938  1,532  58,969  40.75    136     ('''''')  Worcestershire (106)  1998  574  1983–2008  871  41,112  52.23    129     ('''19'''+1)  Yorkshire ()  1951  619  1934–1960  814  40,140  55.51  10  128     ('''20''')  Essex (94)  1992–93  820  1973–2000  990  44,846  49.01  11  126     (''''''+2)  Gloucestershire (49)  1895  1,113  1865–1908  1,493  54,896  39.55  12  123     ('''17''')  Middlesex ()  1952  552  1936–1964  839  38,942  51.85  13  122     ('''11''')  Gloucestershire (50)Worcestershire (27)  1964  940  1948–1972  1,223  47,793  44.91  14  117     ('''29'''+36)  —  1947–48  295  1927–1949  338  28,067  95.14  15  114     ('''24'''+23)  Somerset (47)Glamorgan (10)  1988–89  658  1971–1993  796  36,212  49.40  15=  114      (''''''+3)  Middlesex ()Surrey (60)  2008  676  1987–2012  764  35,659 53.14  16  108  Zaheer Abbas ♠   ('''12'''+17)  Gloucestershire  (49)  1982–83  658  1965–1987  768  34,843  51.54  17=  107     ('''''')  Surrey ()  1935  871  1911–1938  1,000  41,284  44.82  17=  107     ('''22'''+1)  Kent ()  1973  1,035  1950–1976  1,130  42,719  42.89  18  104     ('''''')  Surrey ()  1913  1,076  1893–1914  1,138  43,551  41.79  19=  103     (''''''+9)  Worcestershire (72)  1982  779  1964–1983  792  34,346  49.70  19=  103     ('''12''')  Surrey ()  1977  945  1956–1978  979  39,790  45.47  20=  102     (''''''+4)  Kent ()  1950  916  1926–1951  951  37,248  43.51  20=  102     (''''''+1)  Lancashire (90)  1934  919  1909–1936  961  38,874  45.46  20=  102     ('''11'''+1)  Warwickshire (78)  1986  1,081  1960–1987  1,139  43,423  42.86
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