List of Indians to Play 100 Test Matches

Cricket is not just a sport but more or a culture and an outright religion in India. Furthermore, cricketers are not just sportsmen but are worshipped and adored like mini Gods in this country. And thus, those who play long and good careers for India often turn out to be legends in the game. With so much competition and talent in the country, having a long career is always going to be difficult.

And when you talk about longevity, you often think about the longest format of the game. Test cricket is often considered to be the toughest challenge in any cricketer’s career and today, we’re going to discuss the Indian cricketers who played the longest Test careers. In particular, we’re listing down the Indian cricketers to have played 100 or more Tests…

If you’re reading this some day much after it was the article was published, remember that all stats in this article are updated as of 4th March 2022. At the time of writing this, only twelve Indian cricketers had managed to reach 100 Tests in their careers, with Sunil Gavaskar becoming the first of the lot and former captain Virat Kohli becoming the latest to do so.

From the lot, a few just got over 100 Tests and then retired from the longest format. As for the most number of Tests, Sachin Tendulkar played 200 Tests for India and no other cricketer from around the world has even come close to playing so many games in whites. A special mention also goes out to Mohammad Azharuddin who narrowly missed this list, with his career ending at 99 Tests for India!

List of Indians to play 100 Test matches

Date	Cricketer	Total Tests	Runs	Wickets
17 Oct 1984	Sunil Gavaskar	125	10,122	1
24 Nov 1988	Dilip Vengsarkar	116	6,868	0
15 Nov 1989	Kapil Dev	131	5,248	434
5 Sep 2002	Sachin Tendulkar	200	15,921	46
18 Dec 2005	Anil Kumble	132	2,506	619
18 Mar 2006	Rahul Dravid	164	13,265	1
26 Dec 2007	Sourav Ganguly	113	7,212	32
6 Nov 2008	VVS Laxman	134	8,781	2
23 Nov 2012	Virender Sehwag	104	8,503	40
22 Feb 2013	Harbhajan Singh	103	2,224	417
24 Feb 2021	Ishant Sharma	105*	785	311
4 Mar 2022	Virat Kohli	100*	7,962	0

A majority of the names mentioned on this list are cricketers who have long retired from the game. Only the last two entrants on the list are still currently playing Test cricket for India and that’s Ishant Sharma and Virat Kohli. At the time of writing this, two Indians in the eighties with rest to career Test matches are Ajinkya Rahane and Ravi Ashwin, so they could also make the list soon.

Usually, the careers of batsmen tend to be much longer than bowlers and that’s why we haven’t seen many genuine bowlers in the list. Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh got there but with fitness always being a concern for pace bowlers, Ishant Sharma is the only fast bowler in the list to have played 100 Tests for India, while Kapil Dev used to bowl medium pace as well.

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List of Indians to play 100 Test matches

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