Understanding Centuries in Cricket Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986.

Rachael Haynes (pictured) narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98.

aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket.

cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener.

in Test cricket, Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with 39 centuries, leads the list of batsmen making centuries.

in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert.

Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents.

Loots Bosman scored the first century in South African domestic Twenty20 cricket.

Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings.

Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963.

Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International, making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20.

Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century.

Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team.

English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary.

Understanding Centuries in Cricket

1 Innings • Run • ________ • Century • Strike rate • Not out • Four and Six

2 His career total of 124 centuries was subsequently passed by ________, whose total of 199 first-class centuries is the current record[6][7].

3 ________ was the first batsman to score 100 career centuries in first-class cricket, reaching the milestone in 1895.

4 Overs • Run • Wickets • No ball • Wide • Bowling average • ________

5 The current holder of the record for most centuries in Test cricket is ________ of India, who has scored 43 centuries.

6 In the sport of cricket, a ________ reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in the innings.

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