Cricketers with the highest percentage of boundaries in a Test century

#2 Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) – 124 out of 147 (84.35%)

Gibbs was one of the hardest hitting batsmen in world cricket

Herschelle Gibbs was a slow starter in the Test arena, taking 11 Tests to score his first century. But once he found his groove, there was no more prolific boundary hitter in world cricket than the swashbuckling right-hander.

Consider this, for batsmen with more than 5000 Test runs, only Chris Gayle (66.1%) and Virender Sehwag (63.8%) have scored a higher proportion of career runs in boundaries than Gibbs (62.1%). It is, therefore, no surprise that Gibbs appears so high on this list, when in a Test vs Zimbabwe he plundered 84% of his runs in boundaries, doing a bulk of the scoring in a 256-run opening stand with Gary Kirsten. South Africa eventually won the match by 9 wickets.