The 34-year-old follows in the footsteps of long-time teammates Ben Youngs, Dan Cole, Owen Farrell, Courtney Lawes and Danny Care, as well as World Cup winner Jason Leonard in joining the hundred club.
It comes in his 10th year of international rugby, during which time he has enjoyed huge success both for club and country, as well as touring twice with The British & Irish Lions.
George has spoken of his ambitions of making that a hat-trick of Tours with the Lions in Australia this summer, but ahead of his landmark appearance, we have picked out some of the highlights of his career so far:
England debut
Having broken onto the scene with Saracens, George earned a call-up to England’s World Cup training squad ahead of the 2015 World Cup on home soil.
He made his debut away to France at the Stade de France, replacing Tom Youngs for the final 30 minutes of the 25-20 defeat.
George did enough in that game and the subsequent warm-up win over Ireland to be included in England’s squad for the tournament, making a solitary appearance in the win over Uruguay in Manchester.
By this stage, he was already a Premiership champion, firstly as an unused substitute when Saracens won their first title in 2011, before starting the win over Bath in 2015, immediately before making his England bow.
Australia success
Following Eddie Jones’ arrival as England coach, George settled into a role as the bench option at hooker behind Dylan Hartley, who had taken over the captaincy.
He came off the bench in three games as England won the Grand Slam in 2016, before making two appearances as a replacement on the historic tour of Australia, which England won 3-0.
On that tour, he appeared in the second and third Tests, making a crucial intervention as England completed the whitewash as he grabbed his first Test try in a 44-40 victory in Sydney.
He has since gone onto score 15 tries for England and is closing in on Lawrence Dallaglio’s mark of 17, the most ever by an England forward.
First Test start
George’s performances saw him called up by Warren Gatland for the Lions in 2017 on the Tour to New Zealand, by which point he had won 17 caps for England, but was still waiting for a first start.
That was a world record for most appearances off the bench to begin a career, but that long-awaited first Test start came not for England but for the Lions.
George made six appearances on the Tour, including starting the wins over the Crusaders and the Maori All Blacks.
He went onto start all three Tests against the All Blacks, even playing the full 80 minutes of the dramatic 24-21 win in Wellington, when he set up Conor Murray for the winning try.
World Cup run
Following that Lions Tour, George enjoyed continued success at club level with Saracens, including a hat-trick of Champions Cup titles, while he also succeeded Hartley as England’s first-choice No.2
And in 2019, he was an integral part of the England team that made it all the way to the World Cup final in Japan.
Along the way, he started the quarter-final win over Australia, and the semi-final success against the All Blacks, meaning that he had now beaten New Zealand for both the Lions and England.
While England ultimately came up short in the final against South Africa in Yokohama, George had enhanced his reputation as one of the greatest hookers England had ever produced.
England captaincy
Four years on from Japan, England came close to reaching another World Cup final, losing out to the Springboks by a single point in a game where George played the full 80 minutes.
Following the international retirement of Courtney Lawes, and with Owen Farrell taking a break from the Test game, George was handed the England captaincy by Steve Borthwick.
It meant a lot to George, and was particularly poignant as he found out that his mum Jane had been diagnosed with cancer on the day that it was announced.
She passed away during the 2024 Six Nations, with George dedicating his performance to her memory.
Under his leadership, England won a memorable encounter against Ireland at Twickenham, their only defeat in the Championship in the last three years.
In 2025, he relinquished the captaincy to Saracens colleague Maro Itoje, but George has continued to break records, becoming England’s most capped hooker during this year’s campaign, and now set to make his 100th appearance for his country against Italy on Sunday.
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