List of Top 20 Players with most Centuries in International Cricket

Cricket is largely regarded as a batsman's game.  If a player scores 100 runs in any given game, they are considered to have scored the game's century. Top-order batsmen are more likely to play more balls, which increases their likelihood of reaching a century.

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Most centuries in international cricket: (active players)

75 - Virat Kohli
46 - Joe Root
45 - David Warner
44 - Steven Smith
44 - Rohit Sharma

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In the history of cricket, only Sachin Tendulkar has amassed 100 centuries. With 76 centuries, Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is in second place, and Australian Ricky Ponting is in the third place overall for most centuries scored.

Sachin has amassed 100 centuries in his 24-year cricket career, compared to Ricky Ponting's 71 in his 17 years and Virat Kohli's 76 in his 15 years.

There are 4 Indians in the top 10 list of cricketers while South Africa and Sri Lanka have 2 players each.

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Apart from the players given in the above table, Virender Sehwag, Ross Taylor, Alastair Cook have also scored 38 centuries each. Rohit Sharma has also scored a total of 44 centuries that includes 30 in ODIs and 9 centuries in Tests.

An important statistic here is that Rohit Sharma is the only batsman in the world who has scored the most 4 centuries in T20 matches; Gayle has scored 2 centuries. Virat Kohli is yet to score a single century in T20 matches. 

Rohit Sharma has also joined an all-exclusive list of Captains to score a century in all formats of cricket. 

With a smashing century against Sri Lanka, Kohli has equaled Sachin Tendulkar's record of 20 ODI tons at home, achieving another milestone. Kohli accomplished the feat in 101 games as opposed to 164 for Tendulkar.

Additionally, Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar's ODI record for most centuries versus Sri Lanka. As he needs 180 more runs to move into the top 5 all-time ODI run scorers, Kohli has the opportunity to break yet another record. In the elite ranking, he is just behind Tendulkar, Sangakkara, Ponting, Jayasuriya, and Jayawardene.

The list of top 20 batsmen includes 4 players from India, Sri Lanka and Australia each while 3 players from South Africa and West Indies each and 2 players from Pakistan. Thus, all the top 20 players belongs to just 6 nations.

So this was the list of top 20 century scorers in international cricket. 

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