page_title: List of international cricket centuries by Gary Kirsten
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hierarchical_section_title: List of international cricket centuries by Gary Kirsten / Key
caption_attribution_description: English: Kingsmead during AUS vs RSA match, 2009
context_page_description: Gary Kirsten is a former international cricketer who represented South Africa between 1993 and 2004. A left-handed batsman who primarily played as an opener, Kirsten took part in 101 Test matches and 185 One Day Internationals for his country and scored centuries on 21 and 13 occasions respectively.
  Kirsten made both his Test and ODI debuts against Australia in December 1993. He made his first Test century in November 1995, when he scored 110 against England. A year later Kirsten made centuries in both innings of a Test when he scored 102 and 133 in the second Test of the 1996–97 series against India. He achieved his highest Test score in 1999, when he made 275 against England in Durban. In an attempt to prevent South Africa from losing the match, he batted for almost 14 hours, spread across the last three of the match's five days. The innings remains the second-longest by any batsman in Test cricket in terms of time span, behind an innings of over 16 hours recorded by Hanif Mohammad for Pakistan in 1958. His most prolific series was against England in 2003, when he made 462 runs at an average of 66.00 including two centuries.
caption: Kirsten made centuries in both innings of a match at the Kingsmead Cricket Ground, Durban in 1999.
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