Which batsman has scored the most international centuries in a calendar year?

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The sport of cricket has largely been a batsman's game since the turn of the century. The change in perspective of the sport has brought a paradigm shift in the viewership, a metric that betters itself with every passing year.

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Batting is one of, if not the most exciting aspect of cricket. The batters improved and upgraded themselves with the evolution of the game. A batter must have consistency in his playing form, as well as his fitness to leave a mark on the audience.

Widely regarded as the best metric of judging a cricketer's batting form, is the number of centuries scored by the player in a calendar year. Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, and all the other batting greats have performed exceptionally year-on-year, to become some of the best to ever play the sport. 

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Which batsman has scored the most international centuries in a calendar year?

India legend Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most number of centuries in a calendar year, 12, followed by Virat Kohli and Ricky Ponting who have scored 11 each in a year. Kohli has achieved this feat twice in his career, in 2017 and 2018.

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Can any batsman break Sachin Tendulkar's record for most centuries in a calendar year in 2024?

New Zealand's Kane Williamson leads the charts for the most centuries scored so far in 2024. The Kiwi has three hundreds to his name this year and would aim to break Sachin Tendulkar's 25-year-old milestone of 12 centuries.

With a flurry of Test series coming up, Williamson would hope he can score at least ten more, however mammoth the task might seem!