Scoring a century is a great achievement for a batsman in cricket. A batsman has to stay at the crease for hours to complete 100 runs. Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for most centuries in the history of international cricket, who scored a total of 100 centuries. But if we talk about centuries in the first class career, legendary batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli are also seen far behind in this list. The record for most runs in first-class cricket is held by England’s Jack Hobbs with 199 centuries.

England’s Jack Hobbs tops:

There are six players in first-class cricket who have scored 150 or more centuries in their career. The record for most centuries in this list is held by England’s Jack Hobbs, who scored 199 centuries in his career. Hobbs played a total of 834 first-class matches and scored 61,760 runs in his historic career spanning from 1905 to 1934. During this time he also scored 199 centuries and 275 fifties at an average of 50.70. Second in this list is Elias Henry Hendren, also an England player. Henry scored 170 centuries and over 57 thousand runs in his first-class career. Let us tell you that a match that lasts for three or more days is considered in first-class cricket. That means international test cricket and Ranji Trophy played in India also come under first class cricket. Sachin Tendulkar scored 81 centuries in his first-class career, while Virat Kohli has managed to score only 36 centuries in this format so far.