Century (cricket)

"Hundred (cricket)" and "Double century" redirect here. For the English 100-ball cricket competition, see The Hundred (cricket). For the racehorse, see Double Century (horse).

Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the record of highest number of runs and centuries scored in Test Cricket.
A big screen showing Harmanpreet Kaur has reached a score of 150 not out.
The Lord's honours board commemorating English centuries at Lord's.

In cricket, a century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings by a batter. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for batters and a player's number of centuries is generally recorded in their career statistics. Scoring a century is loosely equivalent in merit to a bowler taking a five-wicket haul, and is commonly referred to as a ton or hundred. Scores of more than 200 runs are still statistically counted as a century, although these scores are referred to as double (200–299 runs), triple (300–399 runs), and quadruple centuries (400–499 runs), and so on. Reaching 50 runs in an innings is known as a half-century.

Scoring a century at Lord's cricket ground in London earns the batter a place on the Lord's honours boards.[1]

  1. ^ "About The Honours Boards". Lord's. Retrieved 20 December 2021. By scoring a century, taking five wickets in an innings or ten wickets in a match, a player ensures that their name is added to one of the famous Honours Boards in the Pavilion.