Shreyas Iyer scored a century against New Zeland in Kanpur in the 1st Test of the series. He has now become the 16th Indian cricketer to score a century on Test debut.
Iyer joins the elite list of players which include Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, etc. Lets’s take a look at all the 16 Indian crickets who scored a century on their Test debut.
Indian cricketers who scored a century on their debut
| Player | Runs | Against/year |
| 1. Lala Amarnath | 118 | England (1933) |
| 2. Deepak Shodhan | 110 | Pakistan (1952) |
| 3. A. G. Kripal Singh | 100* | New Zealand (1955) |
| 4. Abbas Ali Baig | 112 | England (1959) |
| 5. Hanumant Singh | 105 | England (1964) |
| 6. Gundappa Viswanath | 137 | Australia (1969) |
| 7. Surinder Amarnath | 124 | New Zealand (1976) |
| 8. Mohammad Azharuddin | 110 | England (1984) |
| 9. Pravin Amre | 103 | South Africa (1992) |
| 10. Sourav Ganguly | 131 | England (1996) |
| 11. Virender Sehwag | 105 | South Africa (2001) |
| 12. Suresh Raina | 120 | Sri Lanka (2010) |
| 13. Shikhar Dhawan | 187 | Australia (2013) |
| 14. Rohit Sharma | 177 | West Indies (2013) |
| 15. Prithvi Shaw | 134 | West Indies (2018) |
| 16. Shreyas Iyer | 105 | New Zealand (2021) |
Shreyas Iyer scored 105 off 171 balls. During his brilliant innings, he stroke 13 fours and a couple of sixes. He was dismissed by Tim Southee. He is also the third successive Mumbai player after Rohit Sharma and Prithvi Shaw to score a hundred on Test debut.
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