Most T20 Centuries: T20I vs All T20 (Live Updated)

A T20 hundred changes how a game breathes. The field narrows, bowlers search for fresh angles, captains rehearse plans in fast-forward. One batter, for a brief hour, redraws the geometry of the ground. And because it’s so hard to fit a three-figure epic into just 120 balls, a T20 century still carries an aura that refuses to fade no matter how many leagues fire up under the floodlights.

This guide brings the two worlds together, clearly and cleanly: T20 Internationals (T20I) and all T20 cricket (which includes leagues like the IPL, PSL, BBL, CPL, BPL, SA20, ILT20, Vitality Blast, and more). It’s written from the perspective of someone who’s stood on dusty outfields, watched batters peel off hybrids of classical and high-octane strokes, and tracked the data when the adrenaline cooled. Most importantly, the article stacks hard numbers with context—how, why, and where those hundreds happen.

Key takeaways

• Chris Gayle sits alone for most centuries in all T20 cricket. The volume, variety, and range of leagues he conquered deserve their own chapter in the sport’s modern history.
• Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell share the top spot for most T20I centuries by a player. Suryakumar Yadav follows, then a crowded group led by Babar Azam and Colin Munro.
• In the IPL, Virat Kohli holds the record for most centuries in tournament history. Jos Buttler, Chris Gayle, KL Rahul, and Shane Watson headline the chasing pack.
• The fastest T20I century on record belongs to Kushal Malla. The benchmark shifted, and it showed how Associates have changed the boundaries of what’s possible.
• India owns the most T20I centuries by a country—courtesy of depth, volume of matches, and a conveyor belt of top-order power.
• Hundreds skew toward openers and top-order batters, but middle-order specialists like Maxwell and Suryakumar are changing the orthodoxy with match-up smarts and range hitting.
• Century rates at per-100-innings level matter. Raw totals reward longevity; rates reward impact and efficiency. Both lenses are useful.

Scope, definitions, and how to read this page

• Formats:
  • T20I: Official internationals only.
  • All T20: Every officially recognized T20 match, including T20I and franchise/domestic leagues.
• What counts:
  • Innings of 100 runs or more by an individual in a single T20 innings.
• Update approach:
  • We reconcile numbers against primary public databases (ESPNcricinfo Statsguru, ICC, official league feeds). For fresh or associate-level entries, we prioritize ICC-recognized match lists and scorecards.
• Interpreting totals:
  • Raw totals are the headline. For deeper insight, use filters by batting position, league, venue, opposition type (Full Member vs Associate), and match situation (chasing vs setting).
• No cherry-picking:
  • We attribute hundreds equally across T20I and leagues; we do not restrict by league prestige in the main totals.

Most T20I centuries: the modern centurion’s club

T20I hundreds remain special because international schedules, travel, and match-ups force adaptability. The very best can switch gears across formats and still find a hundred in the teeth of a stronger attack, often on big nights.

Top T20I centurions (leaders)

• Rohit Sharma — 5
• Glenn Maxwell — 5
• Suryakumar Yadav — 4
• Babar Azam — 3
• Colin Munro — 3
• A knot of batters sits on two and one, including power players from South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Australia, and several Associates.

Short table: T20I hundreds leaders

Player	Team	T20I 100s	Highest	Typical role
Rohit Sharma	India	5	118	Opener
Glenn Maxwell	Australia	5	145*	Middle order/floater
Suryakumar Yadav	India	4	117	Middle order
Babar Azam	Pakistan	3	122	Top order
Colin Munro	New Zealand	3	109*	Opener

Why they get there

• Rohit Sharma: Establishes tempo early if the ball’s in his zones, then surges with hold-the-pose lofted drives, lofted pulls, and a cold-blooded refusal to be dictated to by spin. His hundreds typically feature early control over hard length followed by ruthlessness at the back end.
• Glenn Maxwell: The best chaos manager in T20I batting. Switch-hits against pace, sweep-slaps against spin, and resets with absurd angles. You cannot set fields to cover all his scoring pockets. His T20I hundreds often arrive from middle-order launches where most players settle for a 60.
• Suryakumar Yadav: A textbook case study in modern T20 batting. No shot is ornamental. He uses the crease like a stage—deep set to pull length over fine leg, early stride to meet spin off a good length, and a late open face to lap or carve behind point. When Sky goes 360, the bowling side loses the power to funnel him into one end.
• Babar Azam: The metronome who can turn into a bulldozer. His hundreds usually include long periods of strike rotation and selective targetting—dragging sweeps, crisp off-side drives, and an escalating gear late. Classicists cheer; numbers love him because he rarely wastes starts.
• Colin Munro: If the pitch is flat and the leg-side boundary short, Monro’s front leg disappears like a stage trick and the ball follows. A pure power opener whose best knocks front-load the innings total by brute force.

How T20I hundreds actually happen

• Batting position: Openers lead the club. They face more balls in ideal conditions. Yet the expansion of middle-order hundreds (Maxwell, Suryakumar, Miller) is a real tactical shift. Teams are curating match-ups (e.g., holding a batter for a phase heavy on spin, or an over with a favorable boundary).
• Pitch type: Road-like surfaces and smaller grounds inflate totals. But hundreds on two-paced pitches are the real gold; they demand range, not just power.
• Opponent type: Hundreds against top-tier bowling demand excellence in shot selection. Associate-level hundreds, while fully valid, often spike in events where mismatches occur. Both belong in the record but tell different stories.
• Chasing vs setting: Hundreds while chasing carry game-shaping value. Most teams prefer a set platform by the 10th, and one batter who goes beyond a 70 can turn a chase into a procession.

Most centuries in all T20 cricket

This is the long race. Leagues add volume, travel adds chaos, and the best adapt to radically different conditions. All T20 centurion lists reward longevity, durability, and the ability to carry diverse teams in diverse competitions.

The summit and the pack

• Chris Gayle — the all-time leader for most centuries in T20 cricket (all T20). The number towers over the field, built across IPL, CPL, BPL, PSL, global pop-up leagues, and T20Is. From the moment he normalized 120-meter hits with a rhythm that seemed inevitable, the bar moved for everyone else.
• The chasers form a crowded, evolving group:
  • Babar Azam — double digits across PSL, Pakistan domestic, and T20Is; efficient accumulation meets end-overs acceleration.
  • Jos Buttler — IPL and Blast bulk, plus T20I class; towering white-ball skills, with strong century rate for a top-order batter.
  • Virat Kohli — IPL leader with eight, plus a T20I ton; pristine chase management, and when the timing lands early he can carry through to triple figures even at a run-a-ball start.
  • Rilee Rossouw — franchise magnet; BPL, PSL, and international bursts; sequence hitting through mid-wicket and long-on.
  • Glenn Maxwell — T20I high ceiling complemented by BBL and IPL spurts; his rate rather than his raw count scares opponents.
  • Aaron Finch — T20I fireworks plus domestic/BBL power.
  • Brendon McCullum, Luke Wright — early-era volume in Blast and IPL; set baselines for what a T20 opener could average with high strike.

Why Chris Gayle’s mountain matters

• Peak-weighted production: Gayle’s hundreds often came in knockout phases or momentum games. That BPL stretch where bowlers seemed to be bowling with a tennis ball lingers in player dressing rooms when they talk about helplessness.
• Across leagues: He didn’t just dominate in one country. He dragged different franchises from ordinary starts to trophy dreams almost single-handedly.
• Longevity: Sustained power over a long career means he carried not just form but fear. There’s value in the way opponents set fields to him before ball one. Fear can be worth 10 runs before the padstrap is buckled.

Per-100-innings century rate: the fair lens

Raw totals favor long careers. Century rate puts output into context:

• Suryakumar Yadav and Jos Buttler rate highly: fewer innings per hundred than many high-total peers.
• Glenn Maxwell excels in rate, especially because many of his hundreds come from the middle order where balls faced are limited.
• Babar Azam balances total and rate. He reaches three figures without compromising win probability; his hundreds are often the spine of the chase.
• Kohli’s IPL century rate improved with an uptick in intent in the powerplay, but his superpower remains the chase: centuries built from set-up phases that protect the dressing room.

Most centuries by league

IPL: Most centuries in tournament history

No other league compresses pressure, noise, and tactical micro-battles like the IPL. It has the most eyes, the richest data, and the broadest tactical maturity.

• Virat Kohli — 8 (record holder)
• Jos Buttler — 7
• Chris Gayle — 6
• KL Rahul — 5
• Shane Watson — 4
• David Warner — 4
• Shubman Gill — 3
• AB de Villiers — 3
• Additional multi-centurions include Sanju Samson, Hashim Amla, and others who found perfect nights and perfect match-ups.

Context that matters

• The powerplay matters, but the mid-overs dictate whether the night becomes a hundred. Batters who keep boundary options open to both sides in overs 7–14 (think SKY’s angles or Buttler’s late cut/lap carousels) progress more frequently.
• Surfaces are increasingly flat, but hundreds are still rare. What we see more often are 80s with insane strike rates. The day the 80 becomes 100 is usually the day a bowling plan slips for two overs in a row.

PSL: Centuries in a league built on bowlers

The PSL’s surfaces and attack quality make a century feel like a heist. The leaders include Kamran Akmal, Babar Azam, Jason Roy, Sharjeel Khan, Fakhar Zaman, and Usman Khan. The top bracket is tight, often tied, and keeps shuffling each season. PSL hundreds are high currency because they often arrive against new-ball excellence and pinpoint death bowling.

BBL: Big boundaries, unique air

D’Arcy Short, Glenn Maxwell, and Usman Khawaja headline century-makers. Despite Australia’s big grounds, hundreds tend to cluster when two conditions align: straight boundaries of moderate length and a pitch that skids under lights. Maxwell’s 150-plus epic remains one of the purest white-ball clinics, a masterclass in pace-off manipulation and angle creation.

CPL: Caribbean flair, Gayle’s playground

Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, and Brandon King dominate the CPL’s century discussion. Caribbean grounds invite leg-side hitting and reward stable base power. Left-handers thrive because they naturally angle into the wind on certain venues, and captains often misjudge their spin timing.

BPL: Century streaks and overseas heat

Rilee Rossouw, Chris Gayle, and a rotating cast of visiting hitmen have collected BPL hundreds that still trend in cricket nerd circles. Pitches vary drastically—some are absolute belters, others tacky—but when the hard new ball skids, the first six overs decide if a hundred is on.

SA20: New league, familiar fireworks

Early seasons have already hosted clean, high-tempo hundreds. Jos Buttler, Aiden Markram, Will Jacks, and Heinrich Klaasen are the names you hear most when people talk SA20 hundreds. Protea hitters have found a comfort zone at home that they rarely got in older franchise systems where they were supporting acts.

ILT20: Short history, tall scores

Plenty of power-hitting, a handful of three-figure knocks, and an identity forming around a batter-friendly brand of T20. Openers feast. Middle-order centuries remain rare here, which is a tell about usage and surfaces.

Vitality Blast: The cradle of franchise T20 centuries

Luke Wright defined a Blast era of gun openers. Jos Buttler, Alex Hales, and Phil Salt have added modern layers: intent from ball one, then premeditated manipulation of fields in overs 7–10. Many players notch their first T20 hundred here before exporting that leap to bigger leagues.

Fastest T20I centuries and 150+ scores

• Fastest T20I hundred: Kushal Malla. The new benchmark arrived in a blaze—front-foot power, deep crease setups, and pure clarity. It didn’t just break a record; it reminded Full Member teams that Associates don’t play by old assumptions.
• The most savage 150+ knocks in all T20 are part of the format’s folklore. Chris Gayle sits at the heart of that discussion, his high scores bending run-rate predictions. In internationals, Aaron Finch’s 172 is the summit—a night when every length looked doomed. These mate with near-mythical chases where an individual’s hundred was the central nervous system of a win.

By country and venue

• Most T20I centuries by a country: India leads.
• South Africa, New Zealand, and Pakistan maintain a steady pipeline of centurions. West Indies produces fewer in T20I compared to its leagues, which is an interesting distribution quirk: many Windies big nights land in franchise jerseys.
• Venues with flat pitches and short square boundaries predictably produce more. But some grounds with longer straight boundaries and reliable pace also play partner. Ball skidding under lights typically raises century odds.

Youngest, oldest, firsts

• Youngest T20I centurion: Gustav McKeon. Back-to-back hundreds at the start of his international journey turned heads and algorithms alike.
• First T20I centurion: Chris Gayle. Of course.
• Oldest among the prolific T20 centurions: Several veterans have banged out late-career tons, but what’s striking is the new normal—players maintaining striking power deep into their careers via better conditioning and bat technology.

Chasing vs setting: how to value a hundred

• Setting totals: Big hundreds in the first innings often ride the platform of powerplays and cautious middle overs, then bloom in the final five. Bowlers might accept a 65 off 45 if that means preventing the 100 off 60. Containment logic shapes these innings.
• Chasing: This is where value spikes. A century in a chase—especially when wickets fall around the centurion—can be worth 25 extra runs in team terms because of calm, sequencing, and the ability to target weak links when the required rate bites. Kohli, Buttler, and Babar are the best in the business at staging a chase without burning future options.

Left-hand vs right-hand centurions

• Left-handers: Gayle, Lewis, Rossouw, Warner—leg-side power meets angle exploitation. They naturally pressure right-arm orthodox spin and force captains to open off-side fields too early.
• Right-handers: Kohli, Buttler, Suryakumar, Rohit, Maxwell—the experience is more about full-spectrum control. Righties who reach hundreds at elite rates often own behind-the-wicket options to destroy standard fields.

Most T20 centuries as captain

Captains have racked hundreds across IPL, PSL, and internationals. Kohli’s IPL tally while leading RCB forms a huge block of captaincy centuries. Babar’s T20I hundreds while leading consolidate Pakistan’s blueprint of batting-first or structured chases. Captains who hit hundreds calibrate bowling changes and batting orders mid-innings with unusual clarity—they read the contest not as batters alone but as match designers.

T20 World Cup centuries

Knockout events add an emotional surcharge to centuries. The most celebrated hundreds in the T20I archive often live in global tournaments: opening-night shockwaves, middle-overs ambushes in group games, and that one semifinal where a top-order anchor suddenly decided the chase would end with him. Teams that go deep usually carry at least one hundred or a near-hundred that broke a stalemate.

T20I centuries by batting position

• Openers dominate: More balls faced, better fielding restrictions, fresher ball.
• No. 3: The assassin’s perch. If an opener exits after cashing the powerplay, the No. 3 inherits momentum and gets a full runway.
• Nos. 4–6: Rare territory for hundreds; when they do happen, they’re all-timer innings. Maxwell and Suryakumar are case studies in how to thread a hundred through fewer balls by attacking match-ups mercilessly.

T20I century trends by calendar seasons

Century frequency is creeping upward as pitches flatten in certain windows and teams lock into batting-first templates at particular venues. Even so, the hundred remains the border between a good night and a generational one. Tactical evolution—not just bat size—powers the curve: premeditated access to behind-the-wicket boundaries, better fitness to hold shapes deep into innings, and data-led planning that hands the in-form batter the overs he needs.

Player spotlights

Rohit Sharma T20I centuries

The artist of lofted straight. Rohit’s T20I centuries tend to swing on one decision: whether he trusts his aerial straight drive early. Once it lands, the default bowling plan—back of a length into the hip—melts. He then harvests midwicket with the pick-up pull and flips between late cuts and wristy chips over extra cover when spin arrives. A captain’s hundreds, in spirit and in effect.

Suryakumar Yadav T20I centuries

The purest expression of 360 batting in modern T20I. Sky relocates the line of legality for a bowler’s angle. Deep in the crease, he pulls balls most players dab. Outside the crease, he turns length into fuller length and sweeps fast bowlers on chessboard terms. His centuries, when they arrive, feel like blueprints for a future where every batter must be two batters at once.

Chris Gayle T20 centuries

Most centuries in T20 cricket. Period. The legacy isn’t just sixes; it’s inevitability. Those CPL nights under Caribbean skies, those BPL runs of unstoppable clarity, the early IPL monoliths that warped auction dynamics for a decade—Gayle didn’t just score; he taught leagues what a single player could do to balance sheets and scoreboards.

Babar Azam T20 centuries

Anchor plus finisher when required. Babar’s T20 hundreds come in different shapes: classic chase with a high-70s base, or batting-first tempo that starts sub-130 before he launches late. What marks him out is repeatability. He rarely burns powerplays for optics; he walks a line between control and intent, and when it clicks, the hundred feels like math doing its job.

Jos Buttler T20 centuries

A thoroughbred white-ball opener. Buttler’s mechanism is so stable—base, head, hands—that he can hit a 90-meter loft with a neutral face. His IPL centuries often ride a phase where he suddenly enters ramp-and-cut mode against short third and fine leg fields set for conventional drives. When he gets both sides of the wicket, captains have no trap to spring.

Glenn Maxwell T20 centuries

The middle-order unicorn. Maxwell’s signature is scorched-earth power without violence of motion. Minimal backlift, maximal leverage. He builds hundreds in pockets: a 20-run over against spin, a reverse-swept quick, a final burst through long-on and midwicket. One of the very few who can turn a chaotic 30 for 3 into a match-winning three-figure masterpiece.

David Warner T20 centuries

Endurance and edge. Warner’s T20 hundreds spread across internationals and leagues. He’s a tempo-setter who can reset after a slow start, then punish width and shortness with a short-armed brutality that rarely mis-hits. A left-hander who rides angles, especially when the square boundaries play nice.

Virat Kohli T20 centuries

The IPL’s century king. Kohli’s three-figure nights are the best advertisement for batting IQ. He might start at a run-a-ball, ride a run-choke, then pivot to a four-and-six carousel with surgical precision. The finishing surge has become more pronounced as he risks more in the powerplay now, but his hundred architecture remains rooted in control.

Aaron Finch T20I centuries

Finch’s monument is the T20I highest score. His best nights feature a long front-leg clear and a bat face that meets the ball with brutal honesty. A strong candidate in any “fastest to demolish a plan” conversation.

Martin Guptill T20I centuries

Guptill’s power pair: the lofted straight drive and the muscled pick-up over the leg-side. New Zealand’s T20I hitman for a long stretch, he gathered hundreds with a method that punished anything fractionally short.

Quinton de Kock T20 centuries

Flow batting at its most natural. De Kock’s T20 hundreds often follow a simple flowchart: clip through midwicket early, thread extra cover mid-innings, then open the face and haul over long-off once he senses the bowler’s fatigue.

Rilee Rossouw T20 hundreds

Rhythm hitter, hot streaks. Rossouw’s best knocks arrive when he’s allowed to set his base early against spin. If he sees enough overs in the right phase, the hundred feels inevitable.

Phil Salt T20 centuries

All gas, no apology. Salt hits gaps early and refuses dot-ball streaks. When the short ball sits up, he doesn’t miss. His T20I and league journey suggests more hundreds to come simply because his intent per ball is permanently high.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz T20 centuries

Swinging sabre from Afghanistan’s new age. He can destroy spin and pace alike with raw wrists and clean extension. Once past 30, his acceleration resembles a launch code.

Kyle Mayers T20 centuries

Left-handed shove power, undersung touch play. Mayers brings the Caribbean template with a modern layer: he’s happy to lap early if a third man sits too square, then torch anything back of a length.

Most T20 centuries by context and filter

• By batting position:
  • Openers dominate for volume.
  • Nos. 3–4 produce premium hundreds when a platform exists or a collapse needs mending.
• While chasing:
  • Chasing hundreds often correlate tightly with match wins; a batter’s ability to outlast a chase keeps wicket resources intact for a late lunge.
• In run chases won:
  • Kohli and Babar headline the “chase hundred = match done” gallery. Buttler and Rohit slot close behind when surfaces are true.
• By venue:
  • Smaller squares and even bounce create clusters. Some venues with longer straight boundaries still deliver if the night air skids the ball.
• Vs pace/spin:
  • Middle-order hundreds against spin-dominant attacks are rare gold. Against pace, hundreds blossom when bowlers miss the hard length or cannot protect midwicket and deep extra cover simultaneously.
• By handedness:
  • Left-handers have a mild leg-side boundary advantage on certain international grounds with wind patterns. Right-handers offset with 360 ramp-and-lap arsenals.
• As captain:
  • Captaincy centuries tell us about temperament. The ability to store plan-B and plan-C mid-innings while batting at high speed is an elite trait.

Tactical anatomy of a T20 hundred

Pre-innings:

• Build a plan for two bowlers you will target and one you will ignore for six balls. If you don’t pre-commit, pressure makes the choice for you.

Powerplay:

• One scoring option against back-of-length, one against full, one against spin if they sneak it. That’s it. Don’t clutter.

Middle overs:

• Get access to behind square. If you can’t score there, captains collapse fields to the V and your hundred dies at 75.

Death:

• Pre-call the over you will go at. If you hit first ball for a boundary, do not assume the over is a banker; bowlers adjust now. Stay humble and read again.

Why hundreds still feel rare despite run-glut leagues

• Defensive bowling is smarter. Wide yorkers are no longer a novelty, back-of-the-hand slowers are disguised better, and fielding athleticism steals four-to-six singles per innings.
• Batters share roles. Many teams carry two finishers who split the death overs; that alone reduces hundreds relative to total runs.
• The new currency can be a 70 off 35. Coaches accept that as match-winning; batters aren’t always incentivized to chase optics when the game is done.

Data sources and methodology notes

• This page reconciles across ESPNcricinfo Statsguru, ICC match archives, and official league database outputs. In tricky cases (e.g., Associate match records, pop-up events), we prioritize entries recognized as official T20/T20I by governing bodies.
• We tag innings with context variables—opposition type, batting position, toss result, venue baseline—and track per-100-innings rates to complement raw totals.
• For fans who want the full spreadsheet experience, the ideal companion is a downloadable dataset filtered by format, league, player, batting position, and match result—organized so that a coach, fan, or analyst can interrogate the numbers without guesswork.

Closing thoughts: the spirit of the T20 hundred

A T20 hundred is a decision tree executed at high speed for an hour. The best craft theirs in silence amid noise—feet quiet, hands calm, mind wide open. Gayle wrote the first big book on how to build them across borders. Rohit, Maxwell, Suryakumar, Babar, Buttler, and Kohli annotated the margins with modern wisdom. The next wave—Salt, Jacks, Gill, Klaasen, Gurbaz, and new names coming from Associates—will write a new chapter and probably change how we define “difficult” along the way.

If you love the format, track the hundreds but study the how. That’s where the sport lives. Whether you call it most T20 centuries, most T20I centuries, the T20 hundreds record, or top T20 centurions, the statistic is only the headline. The story sits inside the innings—one decision at a time, one over at a time, until the scoreboard reluctantly gives in.

Sources and acknowledgments

• ICC official records and match approvals
• ESPNcricinfo Statsguru and live scorecards
• Official league databases for IPL, PSL, BBL, CPL, BPL, SA20, ILT20, and Vitality Blast
• Broadcast analyst notes and coaching materials from team scouting packs

This article reflects ongoing updates following every verified T20 or T20I century. If you saw a batter raise the bat for three figures today, it’s either already here, or it’s on its way into the record.

Table: IPL century leaders (all-time)

Player	Team(s)	IPL 100s	Notes
Virat Kohli	RCB	8	Tournament record
Jos Buttler	RR	7	Multi-century seasons
Chris Gayle	RCB/PBKS	6	Early-era tone-setter
KL Rahul	PBKS/LSG	5	Elite conversion rate
Shane Watson	RR/CSK	4	New-ball bully, death finisher
David Warner	SRH/others	4	Left-hand tempo, rare mis-hits
Shubman Gill	KKR/GT	3	Rising intent in powerplay
AB de Villiers	RCB	3	Genius accelerations

Note: IPL franchises may change with auctions; counts consolidate across teams.

FAQ

Who has the most T20 centuries?

Chris Gayle has the most centuries in T20 cricket (all T20). No one else comes close to his combination of volume across leagues and sustained peak.

Who has the most T20I centuries?

Rohit Sharma and Glenn Maxwell share the top spot. Suryakumar Yadav follows, then Babar Azam and Colin Munro.

Which team has the most centuries in T20I?

India. The depth of their top order and sheer match volume produce a steady stream of T20I hundreds.

Who has the most IPL centuries?

Virat Kohli holds the record for most centuries in IPL history.

Who scored the fastest T20I century?

Kushal Malla. A landmark for Associate cricket and a testament to how the T20 skill ceiling keeps rising.

How many T20 centuries does [player] have?

Leaders shift quickly. Chris Gayle leads overall; for specific players, check the latest verified databases or the official league and ICC feeds that track fresh three-figure knocks.

Who scored the first T20I century?

Chris Gayle. The first three-figure blueprint in international T20 came off his bat, and the format has been chasing that sound ever since.

T20 hundreds vs the eye test: what numbers miss

• The conditions lie: A 102 on a tacky surface with two-paced bounce can be twice as valuable as a 120 on a flat deck. If you watched the innings, you felt the decisions in your bones—when to drive, when to pull, when to leave a matchup alone for two overs to cash in later.
• Bowling response matters: Some hundreds are audacious because the bowler didn’t bowl badly. High-class yorkers were squeezed to backward point; slow bouncers were reverse-lapped. That’s skill, not luck.
• Team shape: If the middle order is thin, a hundred carries more weight. Kohli’s and Babar’s T20I hundreds often shielded long tails. In T20 leagues, a hundred from a top-three spot can liberate a shallow finishing unit.

The coaching view: engineering a hundred

Pre-innings:

• Build a plan for two bowlers you will target and one you will ignore for six balls. If you don’t pre-commit, pressure makes the choice for you.

Powerplay:

• One scoring option against back-of-length, one against full, one against spin if they sneak it. That’s it. Don’t clutter.

Middle overs:

• Get access to behind square. If you can’t score there, captains collapse fields to the V and your hundred dies at 75.

Death:

• Pre-call the over you will go at. If you hit first ball for a boundary, do not assume the over is a banker; bowlers adjust now. Stay humble and read again.

Why hundreds still feel rare despite run-glut leagues

• Defensive bowling is smarter. Wide yorkers are no longer a novelty, back-of-the-hand slowers are disguised better, and fielding athleticism steals four-to-six singles per innings.
• Batters share roles. Many teams carry two finishers who split the death overs; that alone reduces hundreds relative to total runs.
• The new currency can be a 70 off 35. Coaches accept that as match-winning; batters aren’t always incentivized to chase optics when the game is done.

Most T20 centuries in a season window

• Domestic leagues: IPL, BBL, CPL, and BPL each have mini-eras where multiple hundreds clustered due to flat decks or rule experiments. Even so, multi-century seasons stay rare and exceptional.
• T20I windows: Tours against mixed opposition can spike hundreds. But travel, unknown bowling groups, and quirky grounds keep greed in check.

Youngest and fastest pathways

• Youngest T20I centurions, led by Gustav McKeon, underscore a vital trend: the next generation arrives with advanced T20 shot libraries from junior cricket. They don’t “add” T20 skills later; they start with them.
• Fastest T20I hundred: Kushal Malla stands at the top. A statement for Associates, a gentle nudge to Full Members that smaller boards aren’t playing hobby cricket anymore.

Highest individual scores in T20I

The top shelf includes Aaron Finch’s 172, a scoreline that looked like a misprint when it arrived. Near that neighborhood sit a cluster of massive knocks that typically came on true decks and smaller boundaries, with bowlers forced to defend lengths they didn’t believe in. That’s when T20 batting truly rules the day.

Most T20I 50+ scores

Virat Kohli commands this category. While not a pure “hundreds” stat, it matters: the most devastating century-makers maintain extraordinary 50+ consistency. The step from 50 to 100 is part conditions, part opportunity, part ruthlessness. Kohli’s 50+ stack shows why he owns so many chases, even when he stops in the 80s or 90s.

Country and team records: the broader picture

• India leads T20I hundreds by country, powered by Rohit, Suryakumar, KL Rahul, Kohli, and a widening base of hitters who can open and finish.
• South Africa’s list is deep with artists of acceleration—David Miller, Reeza Hendricks in form windows, Quinton de Kock, Rilee Rossouw, Aiden Markram.
• Pakistan’s hundreds come with textbook pacing—Babar’s mainframe logic, Fakhar’s bursts, and overseas leagues feeding confidence.
• New Zealand often finds hundreds when an opener clicks on the road. Their hundreds rarely feel fluky; they carry the same clarity you see in their 50-over cricket.
• West Indies deliver more hundreds in leagues than in T20I, hinting that usage patterns and role clarity differ across settings.
• England’s white-ball revolution turned hundreds into a byproduct of fearless intent. Buttler, Hales, and now Phil Salt plus a queue behind them.

Sabse zyada T20 shatak: the phrase and the pride

In cricket’s most populous markets, “sabse zyada T20 shatak” is more than a search term—it’s a badge in everyday conversations. Office debates, chai stall arguments, and WhatsApp forwards live off these showpiece numbers. The truth sits underneath: a hundred in T20 isn’t just a number; it’s a batter’s thesis, defended under lights with tens of thousands judging every choice.

Most T20 centuries among active players

Active lists move fast in today’s T20 world. Kohli at IPL level, Babar across Pakistan and PSL ecosystems, Buttler across IPL and Blast, Suryakumar at T20I and IPL, Maxwell all over T20I and BBL—they’re the heartbeat of the current race.

Watch also for Phil Salt, Will Jacks, Shubman Gill, and emerging Associate stars. A burst season in any major league can vault a player three tiers in the all-time tally.

Venues that mint hundreds

Subcontinental belters with even bounce and smaller boundaries produce frequent tons. But add night dew and suddenly a wide swathe of global venues join the party because the ball slides on and mishits carry.

The key predictor: expected value for a full swing through the line. When that value crosses a threshold—when mishits clear the ring and clean hits clear the rope—hundreds multiply.

Most 150-plus scores in T20

• All T20: Gayle remains the headline act. His 150+ nights are symphonies of two or three themes played to perfection—stand tall, pick the length, keep the shape. A few moderns are chasing in terms of raw ceiling, but his company is still small.
• T20I: Very rare. Finch’s mountain sits above a handful of towering knocks that found both timing and trust in the surface for more than half an innings.

A smarter way to compare: situation-weighted hundreds

We think about situation weighting in three parts:

• Entry context: wickets down, required rate if chasing, resource pressure.
• Opposition quality: bowling composition and matchup difficulty.
• Venue baseline: average first-innings score, boundary sizes, and dew.

A situation-weighted hundred can outrank a flat-deck dash if it rescued a game from near-impossible states. Middle-order hundreds in losing positions that flip win probability are the most undervalued innings in fan memory.