Stats: Test players with most career runs without scoring a hundred

Shane Warne is the player who had scored most runs in a career without scoring a hundred

This record might sound strange to many. However, scoring 50s and centuries is only one criterion of judging how well a batsman plays. There are other factors to be considered too. Batting as an opener and as a middle order batsman usually requires different techniques in the game.

Also, the game plan might change if the ball is new or old and also if the bowler is spinner or pacer.

But making a century in Test cricket is every batsman’s dream and many of them have fulfilled it in early in their career or at the fag end of their career. But some have the misfortune of not making any in their entire career.

The list given below is headed by none other than Australian legend Shane Warne. He might have broken numerous records as a leg-spinner but one thing he doesn’t have is a three figure score in a Test match, about which he is extremely disappointed. He is followed by a surprise inclusion, a former India opener and right arm off spinner Chetan Chauhan, who had scored 2084 runs.

Finding it hard to believe? Take a look at top 30 players who have scored their most career runs without scoring a single century in test cricket till this day.

Player Name	Country	Matches	Runs	Highest score	Career
Shane Warne	Australia	145	3154	99	1992-2007
Chetandra Chauhan	India	40	2086	97	1969-1981
Deryck Murray	West Indies	62	1993	91	1963-1980
Malcolm Marshall	West Indies	81	1810	92	1978-1991
John Emburey	England	64	1713	75	1978-1995
Kenneth Mackay	Australia	37	1507	89	1956-1963
Brett Lee	Australia	76	1451	64	1999-2008
Frederick Titmus	England	53	1449	84*	1955-1975
Mike Brearley	England	39	1442	91	1976-1981
Curtly Ambrose	West Indies	98	1439	53	1988-2000
William Oldfield	Australia	54	1427	65*	1920-1937
Ashley Giles	England	54	1421	59	1998-2006
Graeme Swann	England	60	1370	85	2008-2013
Wasim Bari	Pakistan	81	1366	85	1967-1984
Bruce Laird	Australia	21	1341	92	1979-1982
Alan Davidson	Australia	44	1328	80	1953-1963
Nicky Boje	South Africa	43	1312	85	2000-2006
Kiran More	India	49	1285	73	1986-1993
Upul Hathurusinghe	Sri Lanka	26	1274	83	1991-1999
Rusi Surti	India	26	1263	99	1960-1969
M Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	133	1261	67	1992-2010
Horace Cameron	South Africa	26	1239	90	1927-1935
Zaheer Khan	India	92	1230	75	2000-2015
Dion Ebrahim	Zimbabwe	29	1226	94	2001-2005
Geoffrey Miller	England	34	1213	98*	1976-1984
Dipak Patel	New Zealand	37	1200	99	1987-1997
Robert Taylor	England	57	1156	97	1971-1984
Tim Southee	New Zealand	44	1150	77*	2008-Running
Rajin Saleh	Bangladesh	24	1141	89	2003-2008
Dale Steyn	South Africa	81	1124	76	2008-Running