Who will have most Test centuries?

i think that it has to be ponting

Ponting for sure, its a game of time.

Ponting will play a lot longer than those two.

Ponting by plenty. He may get up as high as 50. If he does, that will take some beating. He still has i think at least 4 years left but the last year or so he may struggle, but at the moment, i have no doubt he will get over 40 centuries, break the most test runs in history and a few more records along the way. (in my opinion)

Lara has just retired...

Originally posted by collingwood123 Lara will u say hes too old he has 3 years left to get 5 100,s

so now he only has one day

For me Ponting has by far the best chance, Lara will over take Tendulkar unless he can find his old form but Ponting has plenty of time and even if he only plays mediocre (for his standards) he could easily make 40. Yousuf ha sleft it a bit late and unless he plays against England for the rest of his career i can't see him challenging.

Ponting is only 2 centuries behind 2 years younger than Tendulkar and given that the other batsmen on the list of most centuries have either retired or are much older than him. Ponting will easily have the most test centuries of all batsmen because at the rate he's going he could easily finish with more 50 centuries.

I have a better chance of getting it than him!

It will be none other than Michael Clarke

Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi It will be none other than Michael Clarke

he'd want to get a move on then really

What the use of that comparison matey, it can't say who will have the most centuries.

Thanks for that Tonks, he's gone to the effort to put it up there BFM and it gives us a good indication of where they stand- appreciate it.

I am not sure. There are plenty of matches played these days and Ponting has age on his side and Australia specially play a lot of matches. But Sachin is in good form and can hit 5 or 6 centuries within a series or two. This series between Aus and India will make things different. and ponting's conversion rate is much better than Tendulkar's. It will be pretty good to have more centuries than half-centuries. Both players are great and their form in these years can also decide who ends up with more centuries.

 Kallis has a nice home series against the Windies coming up too - surely chances for a couple of more tons lads.

Ponting and Kallis have played the same amount of matches and are relatively the same age, however, Ponting is ahead of kallis by quite a bit in terms of the no. of test centuries.