List of international cricket centuries by Viv Richards
[4] After four years, he received the Most Exalted Order of National Hero award in his native Antigua.In 1976, he scored seven Test centuries in a calendar year, passing Garfield Sobers' record of six, which had been set in 1958.[note 1][7] He scored his maiden double century in the first Test of that year's tour of England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham making 232.[note 2][9] Richards has the third-highest number of centuries for the West Indies, behind Brian Lara's 34 and Sobers' 26.He holds the two highest scores by a West Indian batsman in ODI cricket, 181 against Sri Lanka in 1987 and 189 not out against England in 1984.
Viv RichardsTest matchesOne Day InternationalsVivian RichardscricketerWest Indies cricket teamcenturiesOne Day InternationalknightedWisden Cricketers of the CenturyWisdenAntiguaunbeatenGarfield SobersTrent BridgeNottinghamThe OvalWisden Cricketers of the YearEnglandAntigua Recreation GroundBrian Lara1975 Cricket World Cupnot outSri LankaSaeed AnwarLord'sWest IndiesFeroz Shah KotlaAustraliaAdelaide OvalAdelaideKensington OvalBridgetownQueen's Park OvalPort of SpainOld TraffordBrisbane Cricket GroundBrisbanePakistanIbn-e-Qasim Bagh StadiumMultanSt. John'sBourdaGeorgetownWankhede StadiumBombayEdgbastonMelbourne Cricket GroundMelbourneNew ZealandWACA GroundSabina ParkKingstonNorth Marine RoadScarboroughKeenan StadiumJamshedpurSydney Cricket GroundCarisbrookDunedinNational Stadium, KarachiMunicipal StadiumRajkotAravinda de SilvaRicky PontingMohammad YousufJack GregoryCharles CoventrySachin TendulkarThe ObserverThe TimesCricinfoList of international cricket centuriesInternational cricketSachin Tendulkar (100)Virat Kohli (81)Ricky Ponting (71)Kumar Sangakkara (63)Jacques Kallis (62)Hashim Amla (55)Mahela Jayawardene (54)Brian Lara (53)Joe Root (52)David Warner (49)Rahul Dravid (48)Rohit Sharma (48)AB de Villiers (47)Steve Smith (47)Kane Williamson (46)Chris Gayle (42)Sanath Jayasuriya (42)Shivnarine Chanderpaul (41)Younis Khan (41)Matthew Hayden (40)Ross Taylor (40)Mohammad Yousuf (39)Tillakaratne Dilshan (39)Mark Waugh (38)Sourav Ganguly (38)Virender Sehwag (38)Alastair Cook (38)Graeme Smith (37)Michael Clarke (36)Sunil Gavaskar (35)Desmond Haynes (35)Steve Waugh (35)Inzamam-ul-Haq (35)Herschelle Gibbs (35)Gary Kirsten (34)Adam Gilchrist (33)Kevin Pietersen (32)Javed Miandad (31)Aravinda de Silva (31)Saeed Anwar (31)Babar Azam (31)Allan Border (30)Gordon Greenidge (30)Don Bradman (29)Mohammad Azharuddin (29)Graham Gooch (28)Quinton de Kock (28)Greg Chappell (27)Marvan Atapattu (27)Nathan Astle (27)Andrew Strauss (27)Garfield Sobers (26)