List of international cricket centuries by Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin is a former international cricketer who represented and captained the India national cricket team. Considered to be one of the greatest batsman to emerge from Indian cricket,^[1] he was well known for his "wristy strokeplay".^[2] A right-handed middle order batsman, Azharuddin scored 29 international centuries before the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) accused him of match-fixing in 2000, which marked the end of his cricket career.^[3] In a career that spanned 15 years, he played 99 Tests and 334 One Day Internationals (ODI) accumulating 6,215 and 9,378 runs respectively.^[4] Azharuddin was the first cricketer to score 9,000 runs in ODI cricket and remained the leading run-scorer until October 2000.^[a] He was named the "Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year" before being included by Wisden as one of their five Cricketers of the Year in 1991.^[7][8]

Azharuddin made his Test and ODI debuts during England's 1984–85 tour of India. In Tests, he made centuries against all nations except West Indies and Zimbabwe.^[b] In his first Test appearance Azharuddin made 110, thus becoming the eighth Indian player to score a century on debut.^[10] With scores of 105 and 122 in the subsequent matches of the series, he became the first player to score a century in each of his first three Tests.^[1][4] Azharuddin equalled the record of Kapil Dev for the fastest century by an Indian in Test cricket, when he scored a century from 74 balls against South Africa in 1996.^[11] His highest score of 199 came against Sri Lanka at Kanpur in 1986. Azharuddin's 22 Test centuries were made at fifteen cricket grounds, nine of which were outside India.^[12] He scored a century in his last Test innings—against South Africa—in March 2000.^[13] As of July 2024, he is joint thirty-first among all-time century makers in Test cricket,^[c] and sixth in the equivalent list for India.^[15]

Azharuddin's first ODI century came two years after his debut when he made 108 against Sri Lanka. In 1987, he scored a 62-ball century against New Zealand at the Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara;^[d] the performance ensured India's victory and he was made the man of the match.^[17] His highest score of 153 not out was achieved in the later part of his career, against Zimbabwe, during which he was involved in a record partnership of 275 with Ajay Jadeja.^[e] Azharuddin made scores between 90 and 99 seven times during his ODI career.^[19]

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