List of international cricket centuries by Garfield Sobers

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Sir Garfield Sobers (also known as Gary or Garry Sobers) is a former international cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1954 and 1974. He scored centuries (100 or more runs in an innings) on 26 occasions. Widely acknowledged as the "greatest all-rounder",{{cite web|title=Sobers' sporting tales|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/2012132.stm|publisher=BBC Sport|access-date=29 January 2013|date=28 May 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306052722/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/2012132.stm|archive-date=6 March 2016}}{{cite web|title=Sir Garry Sobers – profile|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52946.html#profile|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130142331/http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/52946.html#profile|archive-date=30 January 2013}} he was described by Australian cricketer Don Bradman as a "five-in-one cricketer".{{#tag:ref|In addition to batting and fielding, Sobers could bowl three different types of deliveries—left-arm seam and swing, slow left-arm orthodox and left-arm wrist spin.{{cite web|last=S|first=Rajesh|title=An allrounder like no other|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/491636.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2012|date=13 December 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630144145/http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/491636.html|archive-date=30 June 2012}}|group=N}} In 93 Tests, Sobers scored 8,032 runs{{emdash}}at a batting average of 57.78{{emdash}}and claimed 235 wickets. He held the record for most runs by a player in Test cricket until 1981.{{#tag:ref|England's Geoffrey Boycott surpassed his record.{{cite web|last=Finlay|first=Ric|title=Record-holders for most number of Test runs|url=http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/itfigures/archives/2008/10/record_holders_for_most_number.php|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 January 2013|date=29 October 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722032321/http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/itfigures/archives/2008/10/record_holders_for_most_number.php|archive-date=22 July 2012}}|group=N}} Sobers was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1964, and one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century in 2000.{{cite web|title=How they were chosen, 2000 – Five cricketers of the century|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153387.html|department=Wisden|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=31 December 2012|year=2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525095928/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153387.html|archive-date=25 May 2011}} He entered into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame when the International Cricket Council (ICC) formally inducted him alongside 55 initial inductees in 2009.{{cite news|title=Hanif, Imran and Miandad in ICC Hall of Fame|url=http://archives.dawn.com/archives/20838|access-date=31 December 2012|newspaper=Dawn|location=Pakistan|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104003535/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63113.html|archive-date=4 November 2012}}

Sobers made his Test debut against Pakistan in 1954. He scored his first century (365 not out) against the same team during the third Test of the 1957–58 home series. In the event, he became the youngest player to complete a triple century.{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Youngest player to score a triple hundred|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/india/content/records/284141.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=1 January 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113181255/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/india/content/records/284141.html|archive-date=13 November 2012}} Sobers' innings remained the highest individual score in Test cricket for 36 years until it was transcended by Brian Lara in 1994;{{cite web|title=There it is... for the first time – Lara scales a mountain|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149597.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=20 January 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702144133/http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149597.html|archive-date=2 July 2012}} the innings, however, remains the highest maiden century for a player in Tests.{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Highest maiden hundred|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/230132.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102034233/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/230132.html|archive-date=2 November 2012}} In the fourth Test of the same series, Sobers went on to score centuries in both the innings; he ended up scoring 824 runs at an average of 137.33 in the series.{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most runs in a series|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282849.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=29 December 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218170430/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282849.html|archive-date=18 February 2017}} In terms of centuries scored, he was most successful against England (10 centuries).{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most hundreds against one team|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284160.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=20 January 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025181529/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284160.html|archive-date=25 October 2012}} Sobers made scores of 150 or more in a Test match innings on thirteen occasions, and was dismissed five times between scores of 90 and 99.{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most nineties in career|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283010.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=31 December 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429040154/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283010.html|archive-date=29 April 2012}} {{As of|2019|3}}, he has the third-highest number of centuries for West Indies in Tests.{{cite web|title=Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most hundreds in a career|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/227046.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=31 December 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215215132/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/227046.html|archive-date=15 December 2012}}

Sobers made his solitary One Day International (ODI) appearance in a match against England in September 1973;{{cite web|title=Statistics / Statsguru / GS Sobers / One-Day Internationals / Match by match list|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/52946.html?class=2;template=results;type=allround;view=match|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=20 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130215235617/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/52946.html?class=2;template=results;type=allround;view=match|archive-date=15 February 2013}} he was dismissed for a duck.