The Oval Test commencing from September 05 2002 between India and England in the ongoing npower Test series will be the 100th for the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar. He becomes the 4th Indian after Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Kapil Dev and the 26th player in the history of 1614 Tests played which will be inclusive of the Oval Test. Only four players have the distinction of scoring a century in their centenary Test - Colin Cowdrey and the present wicket-keeper Alec Stewart of England, Javed Miandad of Pakistan and Gordon Greenidge of West Indies. Miandad and Greenidge are the only ones to make debut century as well as a century in the 100th Test. It may be interesting to note that Tendulkar would become the youngest to reach the coveted milestone at the age of 29 years 134 days, out beating his fellow countryman Kapil Dev who was hitherto youngest at the age of 30 years 314 days in reaching the 100th Test. Just for the record Sunil Gavaskar who was the first Indian to reach this milestone was 19 years 1 day when Colin Cowdrey had reached this landmark on 11 July 1968 against Australia at Birmingham to become the first ever player in this category. Gavaskar reached the milestone at the age of 35 years 99 days on 17 October 1984 against Pakistan at Lahore when Tendulkar was a young boy at the age of 11 years 176 days. Tendulkar was not even born when Cowdrey had achieved the feat. Geoff Boycott of England at 40 years and 254 had been the oldest to reach the milestone when he reached the milestone on 02 July 1981 against Australia at Lords. Incidentally Geoff Boycott and Sunil Gavaskar are among the panel of commentators before whom Tendulkar would pass the personal milestone. Following are some of the stats pertaining to the players who have passed the milestone of 100 Tests in their career. (All statistics calculated as on 05 September 2002)

Alround Performance of players who have played 100 or more tests
Sl No	Player		For	Mts	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	Ct/St	Balls	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Best
1	Border	AR	Aus	156	265	44	11174	205	50.6	156	4009	1525	39	39.10	7-46
2	Waugh	SR	Aus	148	233	41	9600	200	50.00	102	7193	3197	89	35.92	5-69
3	Walsh	CA	WI	132	185	61	936	30*	7.55	29	30019	12688	519	24.45	7-37
4	Kapil Dev	N	Ind	131	184	15	5248	163	31.1	64	27740	12867	434	29.65	9-83
5	Waugh	ME	Aus	125	205	17	7949	153*	42.3	173	4739	2358	59	39.97	5-40
6	Gavaskar	SM	Ind	125	214	16	10122	236*	51.1	108	380	206	1	206.00	1-34
7	Javed Miandad		Pak	124	189	21	8832	280*	52.6	93/1	1470	682	17	40.12	3-74
8	Richards	IVA	WI	121	182	12	8540	291	50.2	122	5170	1964	32	61.38	2-34
9	Stewart	AJ	Eng	121	216	19	7891	190	40.05	235/13	20	13	0	-	0-5
10	Healy	IA	Aus	119	182	23	4356	161*	27.40	366/29	0	0	0	-	-
11	Gooch	GA	Eng	118	215	6	8900	333	42.6	103	2655	1069	23	46.48	3-39
12	Gower	DI	Eng	117	204	18	8231	215	44.3	74	36	20	1	20.00	1-1
13	Haynes	DL	WI	116	202	25	7487	184	42.30	65	18	8	1	8.00	1-2
14	Vengsarkar	DB	Ind	116	185	22	6868	166	42.1	78	47	36	0	-	0-7
15	Atherton	MA	Eng	115	212	7	7728	185*	37.70	83	408	302	2	151.00	1-60
16	Cowdrey	MC	Eng	114	188	15	7624	182	44.1	120	119	104	0	-	0-9
17	Lloyd	CH	WI	110	175	14	7515	242*	46.7	90	1716	622	10	62.20	2-23
18	Greenidge	CG	WI	108	185	16	7558	226	44.7	96	26	4	0	-	0-0
19	Boycott	G	Eng	108	193	23	8114	246*	47.7	33	944	382	7	54.57	3-47
20	Boon	DC	Aus	107	190	20	7422	200	43.7	99	36	14	0	-	0-5
21	Wasim Akram		Pak	104	147	19	2898	257*	22.6	43	22627	9779	414	23.62	7-119
22	Taylor	MA	Aus	104	186	13	7525	334*	43.50	157	42	26	1	26.00	1-11
23	Salim Malik		Pak	103	154	22	5768	237	43.70	65	734	414	5	82.80	1-7
24	Botham	IT	Eng	102	161	6	5200	208	33.6	120	21815	10878	383	28.40	8-34
25	Warne	SK	Aus	101	139	13	2091	99	16.60	83	28345	11935	450	26.52	8-71
26	Tendulkar	SR	Ind	Playing in his 100th Test
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