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[caption id="attachment_27335" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Top 5 Indian batsman to score centuries at home ground. Image Source: Xtra Time[/caption] Internet Desk: Scoring his 9th Test century on his home ground at Rajkot Cheteshwar Pujara listed himself to the elite list of Indian players who has scored centuries on their home ground. xtratime.in looks back at the elegant and classic Indian players who else has accomplished the feat in the recent past. 1) Sunil Gavaskar: Leading the list is none other than Sunil Gavaskar, widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsman in cricket history. Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any batsman. He held the record of 34 Test tons for almost two decades before it was broken by Sachin Tendulkar in December 2005. He was the first person to score centuries in both innings of a Test match three times, but unlike Ricky Ponting and David Warner (who also achieved the feat twice like Gavaskar) after him, none of his games yielded a win. He was the first Test batsman to score 10,000 Test Runs in a Career and now stands at number 12 on the group of 12 players of with 10,000 Test Runs. Gavaskar was not to score a century on home soil until November 1976.In an eight Test summer, three and five against New Zealand and England respectively, Gavaskar scored tons in the first and last Tests of the season. The first was 119 in front of his home crowd at the Wankhede Stadium, helping India to a victory. Gavaskar then went on to score five test tons on home soil. The other four are 108 against England on 11th February 1977. 205 vs West Inies on December 1 1978. The next was against Australia on 3rd November 1979 were he scored 123. The last century in Wankhede was also against Australia on 15th October 1986. 2) Dilip Vengsarkar: He was known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s. He went on to play till 1992. He represented Bombay in the Ranji Trophy. At this pinnacle of his career, Vengsarkar was rated as the best batsmen in the Coopers and Lybrand rating (a predecessor of the PWC ratings) and he held the number one slot for 21 months in a row till March 2, 1989. Vengsarkar scored his first home ground ton in Wankhede Stadium on 24th November 1983 against the mighty West Indies were he scored 100. The next century was against the Australians on 15th October 1986 his score was unbeaten 164. 3) Sachin Tendulkar: Widely regarded as the greatest batsman ever. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international hundreds, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the number of runs in both ODI and test cricket, and the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. His first home ton of 148 at Wankhede stadium was against Sri-Lanka on 3rd December 1997. 4) Sourav Ganguly: affectionately known as Dada (meaning "elder brother" in Bengali), is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. Currently, he is appointed as the honorable President of the CAB and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times,[3] and one of the greatest ODI batsmen of all time. He started his career by playing in state and school teams. Currently, he is the 8th highest run scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and was the 3rd batsman in history to cross the 10,000 run landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan. Ganguly has played 113 tests and scored 7212 runs. His only home ton at Eden Gardens of 102 runs was scored on 30th November 2007. 5) Cheteshwar Pujara: The latest in the list is Cheteshwar Pujara, who notched his first test hundred on Friday at his home ground Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium. Pujara scored 124 runs in 206 balls, during this period he smashed seventeen boundaries against the England bowlers. He reached the milestone in presence of his family members.