100 in 100th Test: Century in 100th Test match all batters full list

Australia batter David Warner has become the 10th cricketer to score a century in his 100th Test match. Only the second Australian cricketer after former captain Ricky Ponting to achieve this feat, Warner has registered the third instance of the same among Australian cricketers as Ponting had scored two centuries in his 100th Test (only cricketer to do so).

Warner, who had scored a confident 32* on the first day of the second Test match against South Africa in Melbourne, resumed Day 2 with the same, if not more, amount of confidence and control. Having run three runs off the first ball that he faced today, Warner followed it with a cracking cut against Kagiso Rabada to make his intentions clear.

With Marnus Labuschagne (14) getting out in the first half an hour of the day, Warner was part of a subdued phase alongside vice-captain Steven Smith. Warner, who touched the 50-run mark for the first time in his last 10 Test innings in the 20th over, opened up after the same to hit a couple of fours in consecutive Lungi Ngidi overs.

Not that Warner didn’t score unconvincing runs off both inside and outside edges but those rare occasions were easily overpowered by the insane amount of running which the 36-year old player did on a hot day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

It was eventually on the third delivery of the 45th over when Warner pulled Rabada for a boundary to bring up a Test century for the first time in almost three years. In what is Warner’s 25th Test century, it is his 17th at home, fifth against South Africa and third at this venue.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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