List of the top 10 youngest centurions in Test cricket 

One of the finest ever Australian left-handed batsmen Neil Harvey  is celebrating his 87^th birthday. Wish him long life! Harvey was the supremely brilliant and was one of the favourite cricketing sons of Australia. 

Harvey was a gloriously elegant left-hander who remains his country’s youngest ever  batsmen to have scored a century.  He was 19 years 121 days old when he played 153 run innings against India  in the second Test of his career at Melbourne Cricket Ground, MCG in 1947-48.

He was an electrifying batsman who could entertain the spectators with his splendour of strokeplay. He possessed a masterly technique as well as a full range of shots. And he displayed to cricket followers a superbly steadfast temperament right from the moment he was a teenager, that he played his opening first-class cricket.

In 1947-48, Australia won the series 3-0 against India, in the fourth match series captain Don Bradman winning the toss chose to bat first at MCG.  After Bill Brown scored 99, Neil Hervey entertained everyone, who attended the match. Wisden Almanack  wrote, “ 19-year-old Hervey scored 153, “showing the confidence of an experienced player. His innings came in just four hours and his only mistake occurred shortly before his dismissal. He hit a five and 11 boundaries”.  

He followed up with 112 in his next innings at Headingley  in the following summer, when the Wisden Almanack said he and Keith Miller “scattered England attack in a hurricane assault.”

When Harvey turned 22, he played 13 Tests and hit remarkable six centuries. He played  total 79 Tests in his career with career highest 205, which also came at MC G.

Neil Hervey is the youngest Australian to score a hundred, but who is youngest in international cricket?

To feed your cricket hunger Sportzwiki compiled a list of the top 10 youngest centurions in international cricket

Name	Country	Age	Opposition	Score
Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	17 years 61 days	Sri Lanka	114
Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan	17 years 78 days	India	101
Sachin Tendulkar	India	17 years 107 days	England	119*
Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe	17 years 352 days	West Indies	119
Imran Nazir	Pakistan	18 years 154 days	West Indies	131
Saleem Malik	Pakistan	18 years 323 days	Sri Lanka	100*
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	18 years 333 days	India	141
Mohammad Ilyas	Pakistan	19 years 21 days	New Zealand	126
Nafees Iqbal	Bangladesh	19 years 75 days	Zimbabwe	121