Indian Batsmen with Centuries Across Formats: Scoring a Hundred in one format is a huge task. But in Indian Cricket, these four current players have achieved this feat of smashing centuries in One Day Internationals, T20 Internationals and Test matches. Today in this segment, we shall name 4 current players who have achieved this feat in their careers with India.
Indian Batsmen with Centuries Across Formats: In the Indian Cricket Team, there have been many of the best batters in cricketing history across all generations and across the three formats of this gentlemen’s game. In today’s time, where the competition is so high and it demands a lot from the players, the batsmen have done well in the limited opportunities they have had until now.
The players are also blessed to get an ideal platform like the Indian Premiere League. This cash-rich league tournament of the T20 format has spotted many young and raw talents who will serve Indian Cricket in future. The IPL can be a potential window where the young guns of India can be selected for the national side.
Scoring just one century in one format is itself a huge task. But the Indian cricket team have batters who are always up for the challenge in all situations. There are batters who have smashed a ton in each of the three forms of the game. These four current batters have smashed a ton in red-ball format and the white ball game.
Table of Contents
Indian Batsmen With Centuries Across Three Formats –
1. Rohit Sharma –
The Indian skipper has smashed tons in all three forms of the game. Rohit Sharma has scored 5 centuries in the shortest format, 12 tons in the red ball format, 31 hundreds in the fifty-overs format and two tons in the IPL. HITMAN’s first century in the shortest format against South Africa in 2015 at Dharamshala.
Rohit scored 106 runs in that game and his first ton in the red ball format was in 2013 against The Windies. He smashed 177 runs on his Test debut and he smashed his first hundred in the fifty overs format in 2010 against Zimbabwe. He scored 114 runs in a losing cause.
2. KL Rahul –
The Karnataka wicketkeeper-batsman has been a talented batter in the Indian team line up and that too in all three forms of the game. This player from Mangaluru has scored 8 tons in Tests, 7 centuries in ODIs, 2 tons in the T20I format and 4 centuries in the IPL.
Rahul’s first T20I ton was against West Indies in 2016. He scored an unbeaten 110 runs, which almost took India to a famous win. In the ODI format, KL scored his ton in his very first match of the fifty overs format. Against Zimbabwe at Harare, Rahul was not out on 100 runs in 2016. His Test ton came on Sydney Cricket Ground when India toured Down Under. In 2015, KL Rahul scored 110 runs against Australia.
3. Virat Kohli –
The King has also scored tons in all three formats of the game. He has been named third in this list of the players who have achieved this mammoth feat in their international cricket careers. Virat Kohli scored his first and only ton in the shortest format in the 2022 Asia Cup, which was played in the T20I format.
King Kohli scored 122 runs in that game which India won by 101 runs against Afghanistan. Earlier Kohi had scored tons in the fifty-over format and red ball format matches as well. VK has smashed 30 tons in the red ball format and 50 centuries in the ODIs. The King also went past Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 hundreds in the fifty overs format during ODI World Cup 2023.
Virat slammed his first ODI ton in 2017 against Sri Lanka where he scored 107 runs at Eden Gardens and his first ever ton in test matches was against Australia in Adelaide. He scored 116 runs in that red ball match played in 2011. With that, Kohli also has scored the most centuries in the IPL as well. He has scored 8 tons to his name.
4. Shubman Gill –
This list ends with another current opener of the Indian team. Shubman Gill is the current star of the team who has also smashed tons in all three forms of the game. Gill also scored centuries in the TATA IPL. Shubman scored 4 tons in that cash-rich league event of the shortest form of the game.
For India, Gill has translated his good run in Tests, ODIs and T20I matches. Shubman has scored 5 Test hundreds, 6 ODI centuries and 1 ton in the shortest format. His first ton in the fifty overs format was against Zimbabwe where he scored 130 runs. In the same year of 2022, Gill also smashed his maiden Test ton against Bangladesh. In the second innings of the first Test match, Gill slammed 110 runs to his name. While his first-ever T20I ton was against New Zealand at Hyderabad. Gill scored an unbeaten 126 runs against The Kiwis.
Also Read – India In ODIs In 2024: How Many Fifty Overs Matches Did The Men In Blue Win Last Year?
