About this chart race
Sachin Tendulkar's 100 international hundreds lead all 15 years of this race, and the number never moves - he retired in 2013. The whole story is underneath him.
Virat Kohli started 2012 on 12 centuries and ends on 85. That is +73, by far the biggest climb in the field; Joe Root is next on +47. Kohli passed Ricky Ponting for second place in 2022 and has cut Tendulkar's lead from 88 centuries to 15.
The catch is the pace. Kohli added 8 hundreds in 2023 alone, then only 5 in the three years since. Of the current top 12, just four are still adding to their totals - Kohli, Root, Rohit Sharma on 51 and Steve Smith on 49. The other eight have retired, so their bars are frozen for good.
This animated ranking shows how international centuries changed across 21 series between 2012 and 2026. The bars re-order themselves as the years advance, so overtakes are visible as they happen rather than hidden inside a table. Use the list on the left to choose exactly who competes, drag the slider to jump to any year, or open the table view to read the underlying numbers.
As of 2026, Sachin Tendulkar leads with 100.
Included in this race
Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara, Jacques Kallis, Joe Root, Hashim Amla, Mahela Jayawardene, Brian Lara, Rohit Sharma, Steve Smith, David Warner, Rahul Dravid, AB de Villiers, Sanath Jayasuriya, Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Matthew Hayden, Mohammad Yousuf, Sourav Ganguly, Mark Waugh.
Source
Data from Wikipedia - List of cricketers by number of international centuries scored (year-end revisions). Every figure shown comes from this source — nothing is estimated or generated.
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