Did you know ...

• Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
• Rachael Haynes (pictured) narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98?
• aged just 13, Eileen Hurly scored the first recorded century in South African women's cricket?
• cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener?
• in Test cricket, Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with 39 centuries, leads the list of batsmen making centuries?
• in 1892, George Brann became only the third cricketer to score two centuries in a match, after W. G. Grace and William Lambert?
• Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
• Loots Bosman scored the first century in South African domestic Twenty20 cricket?
• Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings?
• Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
• Deandra Dottin scored the first century in a women's Twenty20 International, making 112 not out in the opening match of the 2010 ICC Women's World Twenty20?
• Johann Myburgh, a South African cricketer playing in New Zealand, broke Graeme Pollock's mark for the fastest first-class double century?
• Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team?
• English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?