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Australia’s skipper Ricky Ponting created a new cricketing history at the SCG today. Ponting who was on 98 punched off spinner Johan Botha through the off side to move to his 28th hundred during the final day’s play at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Ponting now becomes the ‘1st player in Cricket history to score centuries in both innings in 100th Test Match’. Six players including Ponting have the honour of scoring a hundred in their 100th Test Match and they are England’s Colin Cowdrey and Alec Stewart, West Indian Gordon Greenidge, Pakistan’s Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq. The 31-year-old Ricky Ponting is now getting closer to Brian Lara’s 31 Test 100s and Sachin Tendulkar’s 35 Test 100s.
Century in 100th Test
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Colin Cowdrey (Eng), 104 Vs Australia at Edgbaston, Birmingham, 1968
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Gordon Greenidge (WI), 149 Vs England at St.John’s Recreation Ground, Antigua, 1989/90
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Javed Miandad (Pak), 145 Vs India at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, 1989/90
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Alec Stewart (Eng), 105 Vs West Indies at Old Trafford, Manchester, 2000
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Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak), 184 Vs India at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, 2004/05
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Ricky Ponting (Aus), 120 & 143* Vs South Africa at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, 2005/06