"More hundreds than Tendulkar at Lord's" fans hail Gus Atkinson as he hits hundred in 2nd ENG vs SL test

Gus Atkinson now has a hundred and a five-for at the Lord’s.

England speedster Gus Atkinson has had a dream start to his test career. He picked 22 wickets in three tests against West Indies and bagged the Player of the Series award in his debut series.

He has followed it up with a century against Sri Lanka to go on the Lord’s batting honour board after being on the bowlers’ honour board already.

On his test debut last month against West Indies at Lord’s, Atkinson picked up a seven-wicket haul and a five-wicket haul. In the 2nd ENG vs SL test at Lord’s, the 26-year-old cracked a terrific century that helped England go past 400 in their first innings.

On day 1, Sri Lanka had won the toss and elected to bowl first. The Lankan bowlers did well to pick up three wickets in the first session before Joe Root carried the side with his majestic century, his 33rd test ton that put him alongside Alastair Cook for the most centuries by an Englishman.

Root formed brief partnerships with others but got significant support from Atkinson, who was 74* at stumps on day 1 after the centurion had departed for 143 with England still 92 runs away from 400.

Atkinson carried on his superb touch on day 2 and played his strokes to reach his maiden test century in 103 balls. He was eventually dismissed for 118 off 115 balls. His knock included 14 fours and four sixes and helped England post 427.

Atkinson became only the sixth player in men’s test cricket to record a 10-wicket match haul and a century at Lord’s.

Following Atkinson’s hundred at the Lord’s, cricket fans across social media hailed the fast bowler for his feat.

Fans hail Gus Atkinson for his terrific century at Lord’s in 2nd test vs Sri Lanka:

Gus Atkinson has more hundreds at Lord’s than Sachin Tendulkar and more 5-fers at Lord’s than Shane Warne

— Will 🚾🏆 (@ohlookitswill_) August 30, 2024

Gus Atkinson becomes the fastest man in history to get on all three Lord’s honours boards taking just 4 innings across two games. Ian Botham also managed it in two games but took six innings.

— Charlie Reynolds (@cwjreynolds) August 30, 2024

Gus Atkinson in his first Test summer at Lord’s:– 5 wicket honours board– 10 wicket honours board– 100 honours boardProductive 😍 pic.twitter.com/rYZGCstmrm

— England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy) August 30, 2024

Next time Tim Paine talks about the England cricket team, which will be very soon as he can’t go 2 hours without doing so, it’s probably a good time to remind him that Gus Atkinson now has more test tons than him

— Matty (@mattylufc_) August 30, 2024

Gus Atkinson’s first hundred of his professional career, and it’s in a Test at Lord’s. What dreams are made of 🤩 pic.twitter.com/VmHl0GyuE9

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) August 30, 2024

Gus Atkinson currently averages 41 with the bat and 19 with the ball in Test cricket, making him England's greatest all rounder since Alastair Cook, who averaged 45 and 7 respectively #ENGV

— Chris Murphy (@Gribbler79) August 30, 2024

Hell of a first Test summer for Gus Atkinson. Twelve wickets on debut, now a century from No 8 – both at Lord's.

— Lawrence Booth (@BoothCricket) August 30, 2024

To reference an apocryphal quote ‘when Alexander The Great was 28 he wept salt tears because there were no worlds left to conquer. Gus Atkinson is just 26’.

— daniel norcross (@norcrosscricket) August 30, 2024

Gus Atkinson, without wish to put the mockers on him, could finish his first summer of Test cricket on all three Lord's honours boards…

— Ali Martin (@Cricket_Ali) August 29, 2024

Gus Atkinson is on the Lord’s Honours Board for batting!Tendulkar, Lara and Ponting are not!!

— Nishad Pai Vaidya (@NishadPaiVaidya) August 30, 2024

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