Most 100s in a Test match

The recently concluded fourth Test between South Africa and West Indies at St. John’s Antigua turned out to be a great batting feast. Eight individual centuries were scored by eight different batsmen. It thus broke the world record of most number of individual hundreds scored in a Test match. There have been three previous occasions when seven 100’s were scored in a match. The last such instance was also recorded by these two sides at Cape Town in 2003-04. West Indies now lists in three of the first four instances. For readers interest the accompanying table has the complete details.Click to see the table