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.

100 in 100th Test match full list

Batter	Runs	Team	Opposition	Venue	Year
Colin Cowdrey	104	England	Australia	Edgbaston	1968
Javed Miandad	145	Pakistan	India	Gaddafi Stadium	1989
Gordon Greenidge	149	West Indies	England	Antigua Recreation Ground	1990
Alec Stewart	105	England	West Indies	Old Trafford	2000
Inzamam-ul-Haq	184	Pakistan	India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium	2005
Ricky Ponting	120	Australia	South Africa	Sydney Cricket Ground	2006
Ricky Ponting	143*	Australia	South Africa	Sydney Cricket Ground	2006
Graeme Smith	131	South Africa	England	The Oval	2012
Hashim Amla	134	South Africa	Sri Lanka	Wanderers	2017
Joe Root	218	England	India	MA Chidambaram Stadium	2021
David Warner	In progress	Australia	South Africa	Melbourne Cricket Ground	2022