Oldest player to score a hundred

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Oldest player to score a hundred

Rank	Player	Age	Runs	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
🥇 1	JB Hobbs	46y 82d	142	England	v Australia	Melbourne	8 Mar 1929	Test # 180
🥈 2	EH Hendren	45y 151d	132	England	v Australia	Manchester	6 Jul 1934	Test # 235
🥉 3	W Bardsley	43y 202d	193*	Australia	v England	Lord's	26 Jun 1926	Test # 164
4	AW Nourse	42y 291d	111	South Africa	v Australia	Johannesburg	12 Nov 1921	Test # 146
5	FE Woolley	42y 61d	154	England	v South Africa	Manchester	27 Jul 1929	Test # 184
6	Misbah-ul-Haq	42y 47d	114	Pakistan	v England	Lord's	14 Jul 2016	Test # 2206
7	EAB Rowan	42y 6d	236	South Africa	v England	Leeds	26 Jul 1951	Test # 337
8	RB Simpson	41y 359d	100	Australia	v India	Adelaide	28 Jan 1978	Test # 816
9	WW Armstrong	41y 265d	123*	Australia	v England	Melbourne	11 Feb 1921	Test # 138
10	TW Graveney	41y 263d	105	England	v Pakistan	Karachi	6 Mar 1969	Test # 650
11	HW Taylor	41y 241d	117	South Africa	v England	Cape Town	1 Jan 1931	Test # 202
12	B Sutcliffe	41y 108d	151*	New Zealand	v India	Eden Gardens	5 Mar 1965	Test # 581
13	G Boycott	41y 63d	105	England	v India	Delhi	23 Dec 1981	Test # 914
14	GA Gooch	40y 314d	210	England	v New Zealand	Nottingham	2 Jun 1994	Test # 1260
15	AD Nourse	40y 207d	208	South Africa	v England	Nottingham	7 Jun 1951	Test # 334
16	CH Lloyd	40y 84d	114	West Indies	v Australia	Brisbane	23 Nov 1984	Test # 999
17	S Chanderpaul	40y 28d	101*	West Indies	v Bangladesh	Gros Islet	13 Sep 2014	Test # 2139
18	CG Macartney	40y 27d	109	Australia	v England	Manchester	24 Jul 1926	Test # 166
19	VM Merchant	40y 21d	154	India	v England	Delhi	2 Nov 1951	Test # 339

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