List of international cricket centuries at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium

Since Mohali hosted its first Test match in 1994 and first One Day International match in 1993, batsman have scored twenty five centuries in Tests and eight in ODIs

The Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium is a cricket ground in Mohali, near Chandigarh, India. It is popularly known to as the Mohali Stadium, PCA Stadium or Bindra Stadium. It has an official capacity of 26,950 spectators.^[1] The stadium was designed by Arun Loomba and Associates, Panchkula and constructed by R.S. Construction Company, Chandigarh.^[2] It is home to the Punjab cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kings XI Punjab,^[3] as well as being a Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International (T20) venue. The ground has hosted twelve Test matches, the first in 1994 when India played the West Indies.^[4] It has also staged twenty-two One Day International matches, the first of which was in 1993 when South Africa lost to India by 43 runs.^[5] Four T20 Internationals have been played at the ground, the first when India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in 2009.^[6] Of the twenty-two One Day Internationals played at the stadium, three matches (including a semi-final) were staged during the World Cup in 2011. Of the four Twenty20 International staged at the venue, three matches were held during the World Twenty20 in 2016.

The first century at the ground was scored by the West Indian Jimmy Adams. He made 174 not out against India during the third Test of the 1994–95 West Indies tour of India. The first Indian to score a century at the ground was Manoj Prabhakar, who made 120 in the same match. India's Shikhar Dhawan's 187, against Australia in March 2013, is the highest individual score by a batsman at the ground. India's Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar have scored the most centuries at the venue with two each. As of November 2016, 25 Test centuries have been scored at the stadium.

New Zealand's Nathan Astle was the first player to score a century in One Day Internationals at the ground. He made 117 against Pakistan during the first match of the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup.^[7] The first century made by an Indian at the ground is MS Dhoni, who made 139 not out against Australia during the third latter's 2013–14 tour of India.^[8] Rohit Sharma's 208 not out, against Sri Lanka in 2017, is the highest ODI score by a batsman at the ground. As of November 2016, eight ODI centuries have been scored by as many players at the PCA Stadium.

Key

• * denotes that the batsman was not out.
• Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
• Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
• NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
• Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Brabourne Stadium.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.

Test centuries

Shikhar Dhawan's 187 is the highest score in test matches at the ground.

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the PCA Stadium.^[9]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	174*	Jimmy Adams	West Indies	371	1	India	10 December 1994	Won[10]
2	120	Manoj Prabhakar	India	275	2	West Indies	10 December 1994	Lost[10]
3	108	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	244	1	India	19 November 1997	Drawn[11]
4	131	Navjot Singh Sidhu	India	372	2	Sri Lanka	19 November 1997	Drawn[11]
5	109	Sourav Ganguly (1/2)	India	240	2	Sri Lanka	19 November 1997	Drawn[11]
6	110*	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka	263	3	India	19 November 1997	Drawn[11]
7	144	Rahul Dravid (1/2)	India	327	3	New Zealand	10 October 1999	Drawn[12]
8	126*	Sachin Tendulkar	India	248	3	New Zealand	10 October 1999	Drawn[12]
9	100	Deep Dasgupta	India	254	2	England	3 December 2001	Won[13]
10	145	Mark Richardson	New Zealand	410	1	India	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
11	106	Lou Vincent	New Zealand	227	1	India	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
12	119	Scott Styris	New Zealand	231	1	India	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
13	100*	Craig McMillan	New Zealand	130	1	India	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
14	130	Virender Sehwag (1/2)	India	225	2	New Zealand	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
15	104	V. V. S. Laxman	India	262	2	New Zealand	16 October 2003	Drawn[14]
16	173	Virender Sehwag (2/2)	India	244	2	Pakistan	8 March 2005	Drawn[15]
17	109	Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	154	3	India	8 March 2005	Drawn[15]
18	102	Sourav Ganguly (2/2)	India	225	1	Australia	17 October 2008	Won[16]
19	104	Gautam Gambhir (1/2)	India	138	3	Australia	17 October 2008	Won[16]
20	179	Gautam Gambhir (2/2)	India	348	1	England	19 December 2008	Drawn[17]
21	136	Rahul Dravid (2/2)	India	328	1	England	19 December 2008	Drawn[17]
22	144	Kevin Pietersen	England	201	2	India	19 December 2008	Drawn[17]
23	126	Shane Watson	Australia	338	1	India	1 October 2010	Lost[18]
24	153	Murali Vijay	India	317	2	Australia	14 March 2013	Drawn[19]
25	187	Shikhar Dhawan	India	174	2	Australia	14 March 2013	Drawn[19]

One Day International centuries

Rohit Sharma's unbeaten 208 is the highest ODI score at the ground

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the PCA Stadium.^[20]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	117	Nathan Astle	New Zealand	132	1	Pakistan	9 May 1997	Won[21]
2	105	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	129	1	Bangladesh	7 October 2006	Won[22]
3	117	Younis Khan	Pakistan	110	2	India	8 November 2007	Won[23]
4	113	Hashim Amla	South Africa	130	1	Netherlands	3 March 2011	Won[24]
5	134	AB de Villiers	South Africa	98	1	Netherlands	3 March 2011	Won[24]
6	107	Devon Smith	West Indies	133	1	Ireland	11 March 2011	Lost[25]
7	139*	MS Dhoni	India	121	1	Australia	19 October 2013	Lost[26]
8	154*	Virat Kohli	India	134	2	New Zealand	23 October 2016	Won[27]
9	208*	Rohit Sharma	India	153	1	Sri Lanka	13 December 2017	Won[28]
10	111*	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	132	2	India	13 December 2017	Lost[28]

See also

• List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium

References