KL Rahul Total Centuries Across All Formats Of International Cricket

India wicket-keeper batter KL Rahul scored his eighth Test and 17th international century against South Africa in Centurion today. This is his third century for India across formats this year. After making his return to the highest level during Asia Cup 2023, Rahul has been in top form, to say the least.

Rahul, who scored his first international hundred against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2015, remains the only Indian batter to have scored a century on ODI debut till date. Additionally, Rahul is also the first batter to score a century in T20Is while playing at No. 4 (or lower).

First overseas batter to score two Test centuries at the SuperSport Park, seven out of Rahul’s eight tons in the format have come away from home. Furthermore, the 31-year old player has become only the second Indian wicket-keeper after Rishabh Pant to score a Test century in SENA countries.

KL Rahul Total Centuries Across All Formats Of International Cricket

S No.	Format	Runs	Balls	Opoosition	Ground	Year
1	Test	110	262	Australia	Melbourne	2015
2	Test	108	190	Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	2015
3	ODI	100*	115	Zimbabwe	Harare	2016
4	Test	158	303	West Indies	Kingston	2016
5	T20I	110*	51	West Indies	Lauderhill	2016
6	Test	199	311	England	Chennai	2016
7	T20I	101*	54	England	Manchester	2018
8	Test	149	224	England	London (The Oval)	2018
9	ODI	111	118	Sri Lanka	Leeds	2019
10	ODI	102	104	West Indies	Visakhapatnam	2019
11	ODI	112	113	New Zealand	Mount Maunagnui	2020
12	ODI	108	114	England	Pune	2021
13	Test	129	250	England	London (Lord’s)	2021
14	Test	123	260	South Africa	Centurion	2021
15	ODI	111*	106	Pakistan	Colombo	2023
16	ODI	102	64	Netherlands	Bengaluru	2023
17	Test	101	137	South Africa	Centurion	2023

KL Rahul Justifies New Role On Test Comeback

Keen to become a middle-order specialist across formats now, KL Rahul celebrating a Test comeback with an overseas ton is as good as they come.

With him proving his versatility by playing different roles across conditions, batting positions and formats, it would be safe to say that he is finally justifying his potential apart from the decision to make him bat in the middle-order after as many as nine years. Interestingly, the only other time when Rahul had batted outside of the top-order in Test cricket was in his debut innings.

Playing as a specialist wicket-keeper batter for the first time, Rahul found himself in the middle with India struggling at 92/4. With the South African bowlers breathing fire on a damp pitch which was behaving in an oddly manner, the best thing about Rahul’s knock was his counter-attacking approach. Refraining from entering a shell, the right-handed batter successfully punished the bowlers for each mistake of theirs.

Despite all the odds, Rahul kept searching for runs knowing how one good ball would be enough to dismiss any batter on such a pitch. Rahul’s intent can be judged from the fact that he scored most of his runs in the presence of tail-enders before touching the three-figure mark with a maximum. Former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri, calling the match for host broadcaster SuperSport, labelled the knock as Rahul’s best Test century.

A century that KL Rahul will be extremely proud of. Everyone goes through ups and downs but this young man, as some of us have been saying for a while, is a very rare talent.

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) December 27, 2023

Having faced a lot of criticism from both fans and former cricketers with regard to his Test form earlier in the year, Rahul has certainly shut down numerous mouths by scoring yet another overseas Test century after being asked to bat first.