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Detailed explanation-1: -Kohli also became the first player in history to play a hundred matches for India in all game formats.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sachin Tendulkar is the first and only cricketer who has scored 100 centuries in the international cricket history. Let us know the name of the top 20 century scorers in international cricket. Cricket is largely regarded as a batsman’s game.

Detailed explanation-3: -UPSC Mains. Q. Who is the first cricketer to play 100 matches in all three formats of the game? Notes: Veteran Cricketer of the New Zealand Team, Ross Taylor recently created history by becoming the first cricketer to play 100 matches in all three formats of the game- Test, ODI, T20 I.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 144 years of Test cricket, only 72 cricketers are able to complete 100 Test matches. This proves how special the milestone is. But, not for Sachin Tendulkar; he has played 200 of it – the only player to do so. Out of these 72 cricketers, only 9 crossed the 150-mark.

Detailed explanation-5: -Harmanpreet Kaur, the Indian Women Cricket team Captain has become the 1st Indian cricket player to play 100 T20 International matches. She is the first Indian to achieved this. Harmanpreet achieved this at the final T20 International against South Africa at Surat, India.