Playing for the national team is on every cricketer’s checklist. A few worthy make it past the vast number of aspiring cricketers and make their international debuts.
Many cricketers have made debuts for India across formats, and few have even made it memorable by announcing themselves in style. Some batters showed their mettle in the very first match by smashing hundreds.
So, in this article, we’ll look at the list of Indian cricketers who have scored centuries on debut in all formats combined.
Indian Cricketers with Centuries on Debut (All Formats)
| Format | Player | Score | Against | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | Lala Amarnath | 118 | England | Mumbai | 15 Dec 1933 |
| Deepak Shodhan | 110 | Pakistan | Eden Gardens | 12 Dec 1952 | |
| AG Kripal Singh | 100* | New Zealand | Hyderabad (Deccan) | 19 Nov 1955 | |
| Abbas Ali Baig | 112 | England | Manchester | 23 Jul 1959 | |
| Hanumant Singh | 105 | England | Delhi | 8 Feb 1964 | |
| Gundappa Viswanath | 137 | Australia | Kanpur | 15 Nov 1969 | |
| Surinder Amarnath | 124 | New Zealand | Auckland | 24 Jan 1976 | |
| Mohammad Azharuddin | 110 | England | Eden Gardens | 31 Dec 1984 | |
| Pravin Amre | 103 | South Africa | Durban | 13 Nov 1992 | |
| Sourav Ganguly | 131 | England | Lord’s | 20 Jun 1996 | |
| Virender Sehwag | 105 | South Africa | Bloemfontein | 3 Nov 2001 | |
| Suresh Raina | 120 | Sri Lanka | Colombo (SSC) | 26 Jul 2010 | |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 187 | Australia | Mohali | 14 Mar 2013 | |
| Rohit Sharma | 177 | West Indies | Eden Gardens | 6 Nov 2013 | |
| Prithvi Shaw | 134 | West Indies | Rajkot | 4 Oct 2018 | |
| Shreyas Iyer | 105 | New Zealand | Kanpur | 25 Nov 2021 | |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | 171 | West Indies | Roseau | 12 Jul 2023 | |
| ODI | KL Rahul | 100* | Zimbabwe | Harare | 11 Jun 2016 |
Key Insights
1: Lala Amarnath became the first Indian batter to score a century on debut in Tests. He scored 118 runs in what was India’s first Test match on Indian soil. This made the feat even more special, though India lost the Test match against England by 9 wickets.
On the other hand, KL Rahul smacked a hundred on his ODI debut, making him the first Indian to do so and the overall 11th batter across the globe. He scored an unbeaten 100 against Zimbabwe while chasing a target of 169 runs.
3: Mohammad Azharuddin is the only cricketer to score 3 centuries in his first 3 Test matches. Apart from his century on debut (110), Azharuddin scored one century each in the next 2 Tests — 105 and 122 — and all 3 of them came against England.
1: Lala Amarnath and Surinder Amarnath are the first and only father-son pair to smash hundreds on their Test debut.
187: Shikhar Dhawan holds the record for slamming the highest individual score on Test debut among the Indian batters. In his debut match against Australia, Dhawan dished out the fastest hundred by a Test debutant in just 85 balls. And he didn’t stop there, he kept his peddle on the accelerator, accumulating 187 runs off 174 balls.
131: The Prince of Kolkata, Sourav Ganguly, is one of the 6 batters who centuries on their Test debuts while playing at the “Home of Cricket” — the Lord’s.
