Ton-up Indians in Tests

Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday will become only the seventh Indian to complete a century of Test matches and he will be the oldest among Indians to accomplish this feat.

• Sachin celebrates Sourav's 100

Ganguly will be 35 years and 171 days old at the start of the Melbourne Test and he will break Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record. Sachin Tendulkar is the youngest Indian to do so, while Rahul Dravid took least time (from the date of debut) in playing his 100th Test.

Indian players with 100 Test appearances

Player	First Test	100th Test	Time Span	Age
Sunil Gavaskar	Mar 6, 1971	Oct 17, 1984	13 yrs 225 days	35 yrs 99 days
	v W.Indies, Port-of-Spain	v Pakistan, Lahore
Dilip Vengsarkar	Jan 24, 1976	Nov 24, 1988	12 yrs 305 days	32 yrs 232 days
	v New Zealand, Auckland	v New Zealand, Mumbai
Kapil Dev	Oct 16, 1978	Nov 15, 1989	11 yrs 30 days	30 yrs 313 days
	v Pakistan, Faisalabad	v Pakistan, Karachi
Sachin Tendulkar	Nov 15, 1989	Sep 5, 2002	12 yrs 294 days	29 yrs 134 days
	v Pakistan, Karachi	v England, The Oval
Anil Kumble	Aug 9, 1990	Dec 18, 2005	15 yrs 131 days	35 yrs 62 days
	v England, Manchester	v Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad
Rahul Dravid	Jun 20, 1996	Mar 18, 2006	9 yrs 271 days	33 yrs 66 days
	v England, Lord's	v England, Mumbai
Sourav Ganguly	Jun 20, 1996	Dec 26, 2007	11 yrs 189 days	35 yrs 171 days
	v England, Lord's	v Australia, Melbourne

Note: Dravid's tally included World XI-Australia Super 'Test' played at Sydney in October 2005. His 100th game for India was against West Indies at St. John's in June 2006

The following table shows the career aggregate of Indians before the start of their 100th Test:

Player	Inns	Runs	Hs	Avg	100s	50s	0s	Wkts	Avg
Sunil Gavaskar	174	8394	236*	52.46	30	36	10	1	177.00
Dilip Vengsarkar	159	6331	166	46.21	17	31	12	0	-
Kapil Dev	143	4087	163	31.20	6	21	12	347	29.02
Sachin Tendulkar	159	8351	217	57.99	30	33	10	27	43.74
Anil Kumble	126	1687	88	16.87	0	3	13	478	28.03
Rahul Dravid	167	8492	270	58.16	22	41	6	1	39.00
Sourav Ganguly	161	6346	239	43.17	15	30	9	32	49.47

Note: M Azharuddin ended his career with 99 Tests having scored 6215 runs (avg 45.04) with 22 centuries and 21 fifties

Kumble is the only player to see India win in his 100th

Test. Gavaskar, Kapil and Tendulkar's 100th Test were drawn games, whereas Vengsarkar and Dravid ended on the losing sides.

The following table lists Indian players' performances in their 100th Test along with the result of that Test:

Player	Batting		Bowling		Fielding	Result for India
	Inns1	Inns2	Inns1	Inns2	Ct
Sunil Gavaskar	48	37	-	-	3	Drawn
Dilip Vengsarkar	25	0	-	-	2	lost by 136 runs
Kapil Dev	55	-	4-69	3-82	0	Drawn
Sachin Tendulkar	54	-	0-4	-	0	Drawn
Anil Kumble	21	29*	2-87	5-89	0	won by 259 runs
Rahul Dravid	52	9	-	-	2	lost by 212 runs
Sourav Ganguly	To be seen