How many centuries has Babar Azam scored? All 32, by format and by year

Babar Azam has 32 centuries in international cricket — nine in Tests, 20 in ODIs and three in T20 internationals — from 354 matches since his debut in May 2015. That is the figure as of 16 September 2026.

The number has moved slowly of late, and that is the part most pages on this subject miss. Babar scored eight international hundreds in 2022 alone. He has scored four in the four calendar years since.

Babar Azam’s centuries by format

Format	Matches	Runs	Ave	100s	50s	HS
Tests	66	4,771	42.98	9	34	196
ODIs	143	6,626	53.43	20	38	158
T20Is	145	4,596	38.94	3	39	122
All international	354	15,993	45.30	32	111	196

Two of those rows are records for Pakistan. His 20 ODI hundreds are level with Saeed Anwar’s 20, the most any Pakistan batter has made, and Babar is the only one of the two still playing. His three T20I hundreds are the most by a Pakistan batter, ahead of Sahibzada Farhan on two.

Babar Azam’s centuries by year

Year	Centuries	Runs	Ave
2015	0	—	—
2016	3	1,063	50.61
2017	4	1,408	42.66
2018	2	1,688	49.64
2019	6	2,082	57.83
2020	2	835	69.58
2021	3	1,760	40.93
2022	8	2,598	54.12
2023	3	1,399	39.97
2024	0	1,168	32.44
2025	1	1,065	33.28
2026	0	697	41.00

Read down the last three rows and the shape is clear. 2024 was the first calendar year since his debut year of 2015 in which Babar did not score an international century, and he has managed one since — 1,168 runs in 2024, 1,065 in 2025 and 697 so far in 2026, all of it at an average in the low thirties rather than the fifties he made his name on.

He is still scoring. The fifties have kept coming: nine in 2024, eight in 2025, six already in 2026. It is the conversion that has stopped.

When was Babar Azam’s last century?

His most recent hundred of any kind is 102 not out from 119 balls against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi on 14 November 2025, made batting second in an ODI.

Before that you have to go back more than two years, to three hundreds in 2023: 101 not out off 58 balls in a T20I against New Zealand at Lahore in April, 107 in an ODI against the same side at Karachi in May, and 151 against Nepal at Multan in August.

Babar Azam’s Test centuries — all nine, and none since 2022

Babar has not scored a Test century since 26 December 2022. All nine came in a four-year window between November 2018 and the end of 2022.

Score	Opposition	Ground	Date
127*	New Zealand	Dubai	24 Nov 2018
104	Australia	Brisbane	21 Nov 2019
102*	Sri Lanka	Rawalpindi	11 Dec 2019
100*	Sri Lanka	Karachi	19 Dec 2019
143	Bangladesh	Rawalpindi	7 Feb 2020
196	Australia	Karachi	12 Mar 2022
119	Sri Lanka	Galle	16 Jul 2022
136	England	Rawalpindi	1 Dec 2022
161	New Zealand	Karachi	26 Dec 2022

The 196 at Karachi is his highest score in any format. It came in the fourth innings of a Test Pakistan were asked to save, off 425 balls across more than ten hours, and it is the innings his reputation rests on.

Where Babar Azam stands among Pakistan’s centurions

Thirty-two international hundreds puts him fourth on Pakistan’s all-time list, and he is the only man in the top six still playing.

#	Player	Span	Matches	Runs	100s
1	Younis Khan	2000-2017	408	17,790	41
2	Mohammad Yousuf	1998-2010	374	17,134	39
3	Inzamam-ul-Haq	1991-2007	495	20,541	35
4	Babar Azam	2015-2026	354	15,993	32
5	Javed Miandad	1975-1996	357	16,213	31
6	Saeed Anwar	1989-2003	302	12,876	31

Younis Khan’s 41 is the record, and the honest arithmetic is that Babar needs ten more. At the rate of the last four years — four hundreds in four years — that is a long way off. At the rate of 2019 and 2022, when he made six and eight, it is two good seasons. What has not been lacking is runs; what has been lacking is conversion.

Babar Azam and Virat Kohli

The comparison follows Babar everywhere, and on centuries it is not close. Virat Kohli has 85 international hundreds to Babar’s 32. Kohli made his international debut in 2008, seven years before Babar, but the gap is wider than the head start explains.

Where Babar holds his own is the one-day game: 20 ODI hundreds at an average of 53.43 from 143 matches. Kohli has more of everything, though he has batted 629 international innings to Babar’s 398 to get there. If you want the longer version of that argument, we keep a full Kohli versus Babar comparison.

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All figures from ESPNcricinfo Statsguru, pulled 16 September 2026.