Jonny Bairstow stands on the brink of playing his 100th Test match for England, a feat which is right for celebration, after what has been a tumultuous career. Few players join the exclusive club, and even fewer have faced as many trials and tribulations as Bairstow in their journey to that point. In Dharamsala on Thursday, the 34-year-old will be awarded his 100th cap in front of a group of travelling family and friends under the snow-capped Himalayas, becoming only the 17th Englishman to reach the mark. There are few settings more stunning in world cricket, but it was also under the shadow of Table Mountain in Cape Town that the wicketkeeper-batter made his maiden Test century, an unbeaten 150 back in 2016. That was the first of 12 Test centuries for England at an average of 36.42, and a strike rate of 58.68 - but those stats barely scratch the surface of his career. At times he has been England's poster boy who could do no wrong, at others he has been left out in the cold. Bairstow had already overcome significant obstacles to reach professional cricket. In 1998, David, Jonny's father, took his own life at the age of 46, leaving behind three children, and his wife Janet. Bairstow has credited his mother for the way he was brought up but followed in his father's footsteps as a wicketkeeper-batter for both Yorkshire and England.