5 Players With Most Test Runs But Without A Century

Test cricket is majorly known as the batting-friendly version of the game. While bowlers have the time limit to pick 20 wickets to win the game, the batters have absolutely no limit for scoring runs. Notably, several cricketers have piled up most centuries, half-centuries and boundaries in the five-day-long cricket.

However, few cricketers were unable to bag any century in the red-ball game. Most of these players served with the ability to pick quick wickets. Nevertheless, they compiled most runs without scoring a single century.

Here is the list of the top five players with most runs in Test career, but without a century.

Five Players with most runs in Test career but without a century

Malcolm Marshall (WI) – 1810 runs

The former West Indies cricketer is the fifth-highest run-scorer without a century in his Test career. Malcolm Marshall is regarded as one of the greatest fast-bowler to have ever played for the West Indies. Marshall made his Test debut in the 2^nd Test against India in 1978 at Bangalore.

He is among the top wicket-takers in the red-ball game. Marshall has picked a total of 376 wickets including stunning 22 five-fors and four 10-wickets hauls. Although he was among the best bowlers of his era, Marshall also batted in the lower order.

The right-hander had piled up total 1810 runs in the 81 matches with total 10 half-centuries. However, Marshall couldn’t bag a single century in his spectacular cricketing career.

Niroshan Dickwella (SL) – 1921 runs

Niroshan Dickwella is the professional wicketkeeper-batsman who plays for the Sri Lanka National Cricket Team. After giving consistent best performances in the domestic circuit, Dickwella finally made his Test debut against South Africa in July 2014. Ever since then he has played a total 37 Test matches.

Dickwella has played the last Test match in January 2020 against Zimbabwe. He came into the game as a promising allrounder cricketer for the team. He has piled up a total of 1921 runs in the Test career till now.

Dickwella has scored a total of 15 half-centuries at an average of 30.98. He is the fourth-highest run-scorer in Test cricket who hasn’t scored a single century.

Deryck Murray (WI) – 1993 runs

Deryck Murray is the former West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman who played from 1963-80. Murray was also the vice-captain of the Caribbean sides that won the 1975 and 1979 World Cups. He had played a total of 62 Test matches that included 189 Test dismissals.

Apart from keeping the wickets for the team, he was also the middle-order batsman.

However, the right-hander went without hitting even a single Test century in his cricketing career.

Batting in the middle-order for the Windies team, Murray’s highest came in the match against India in 1975. He scored 91 runs in the 250 runs partnership with Clive Lloyd.

As a batsman, Murray arranged the third-highest Test runs – 1993 runs without a century in his Test career.

CPS Chauhan (IND) – 2084 runs

The second most runs without a century in his Test career is achieved by a former Indian cricketer, Chetan Pratap Singh Chauhan. Unlike most players in the list, Chauhan was the right-handed opening batsman of the Indian cricket team.

Chauhan has played total 40 Test matches ever since his Test debut in 1969. He has scored total 2084 runs with 16 half-centuries but hadn’t scored a single century throughout his cricket career.

Shane Warne (AUS) – 3154 runs

Shane Warne is the greatest all-time bowler the Australia National Cricket Team has produced. The leg-spinner is well known for his consistent accuracy in line and length while spinning the ball off the pitch.

Although Warne bamboozled all the batsmen in his time, he himself was a good lower-order batsman. In fact, he is the only lower-order batsman who has scored more than 3000 runs in Test cricket. He had scored a total of 3154 runs in 145 Test matches scoring 12 half-centuries.