On this day in 1923: Sir Jack Hobbs hits landmark hundred
The England great scored his 100th first-class hundred.
On May 8, 1923 a 40-year-old Sir Jack Hobbs became just the third batsman to score 100 first-class centuries, posting the landmark while on duty for Surrey against Somerset at Bath.
Hobbs would go on to retire with a world record 197 first-class tons, with two more awarded that status subsequently. At 46 he also holds the title as oldest centurion in Test cricket.
Here, the PA news agency looks at the last three men to enter the group and three big names who fell short more recently.
The ground-breaker
The most recent
The first non-Englishman
The near misses
John Hearne: Nobody came closer than ‘Young Jack’, who retired in 1936 with 96 first-class hundreds.
Sir Garfield Sobers: The game’s greatest all-rounder was the first man to hit six sixes in an over and once posted the record Test score of 365 not out, but ended his career 14 short of a hundred hundreds.
