From Lala Amarnath to Shreyas Iyer: Know the debut Test centuries for India

Yashasvi Jaiswal became the 17th Indian player to score a century on his Test debut after he made a hundred against West Indies in the first match of a two-game series at Windsor Park in Roseau, Dominica on Thursday. 

Shreyas Iyer was the 16th Indian player to score a century on his Test debut when he made 105 in the first innings of the first match against New Zealand at Kanpur in 2021.

Lala Amarnath was the first Indian batsman to score a century on Test debut when scored 118 against England at the Gymkhana Ground (Azad Maidan) in Mumbai in December 1933.

In July 1959, Abbas Ali Baig became the first Indian player to score an overseas hundred on his debut Test. Baig scored 112 runs against England at Manchester. 

At 20 years and 126 days, Baig holds the record for the youngest Indian batsman to score a hundred overseas on Test debut. Between 1952 to 1980, as many as six Indian players scored a Test hundred on debut. 

Shikhar Dhawan holds the record for fastest Test hundred on debut. The southpaw reached his hundred in 85 balls against Australia at Mohali in March 2013. He also became the oldest Indian to do so at 27 years and 99 days.

Shikhar Dhawan also holds the record for the highest score by an Indian on Test debut with 187 against Australia in Mohali in 2013.

Five years later, in 2018, Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to score a hundred on Test debut at 18 years and 329 days. The Mumbai batsman achieved the feat against West Indies at Rajkot when he scored 134 and helped India win the match by an innings and 272 runs, the biggest margin of victory for India in Test cricket.    

Debut Test century by Indian batsmen: Full list

Author: Kaustubh Potdar

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