List of international cricket centuries at the Asgiriya Stadium

Asgiriya Stadium is a sports ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It has a capacity of 10,300. The ground hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1983 when Sri Lanka played Australia.[1] 21 Test matches have been played at the ground[2] along with 6 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1986 when Sri Lanka played Pakistan.[3]

Australia batsman Kepler Wessels became the first man to score a Test century at Asgiriya Stadium when he made 141 against Sri Lanka in 1983. The highest Test individual score at the ground was scored by Sri Lanka batsman Marvan Atapattu, who scored 223 runs against Zimbabwe in 1998. Three double centuries have been scored at the venue. Overall, there are 24 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.[4]

Only 2 ODI centuries have been scored at Asgiriya Stadium, and the first by Sri Lanka maestro Aravinda de Silva who scored 145 from 115 deliveries against Kenya in 1996, to achieve the highest ODI team total of 398, ever recorded before passing 400 in 2006 by Australia.[5]

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 Asgiriya Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Asgiriya Stadium.

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 141Kepler Wessels Australia 1881 Sri Lanka22 April 1983Won
2 143David Hookes Australia 1521 Sri Lanka22 April 1983Won
3 116*Mohinder Amarnath India NA3 Sri Lanka14 September 1985Drawn
4 106Roy Dias Sri Lanka 2164 India14 September 1985Drawn
5 124Duleep Mendis Sri Lanka 2284 India14 September 1985Drawn
6 100*Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistan 1252 Sri Lanka26 August 1994Won
7 223Marvan Atapattu (1/3) Sri Lanka 4481 Zimbabwe7 January 1998Won
8 207*Marvan Atapattu (2/3) Sri Lanka 4571 Pakistan28 June 2000Drawn
9 188Sanath Jayasuriya (1/3) Sri Lanka 3581 Pakistan28 June 2000Drawn
10 118*Lance Klusener South Africa 2191 Sri Lanka30 July 2000Won
11 120Marvan Atapattu (3/3) Sri Lanka 2192 Sri Lanka30 July 2000Won
12 101Mahela Jayawardene (1/3) Sri Lanka 1651 England7 March 2001Lost
13 109Nasser Hussain England 2552 Sri Lanka7 March 2001Won
14 104Mahela Jayawardene (2/3) Sri Lanka 1491 India22 August 2001Lost
15 139Sanath Jayasuriya (2/3) Sri Lanka 2122 Zimbabwe4 January 2002Won
16 100Tillakaratne Dilshan Sri Lanka 1293 England10 December 2003Drawn
17 105Michael Vaughan England 3334 Sri Lanka10 December 2003Drawn
18 144Adam Gilchrist Australia 1853 Sri Lanka16 March 2004Won
19 161Damien Martyn Australia 3493 Sri Lanka16 March 2004Won
20 144Sanath Jayasuriya (3/3) Sri Lanka 1454 Sri Lanka16 March 2004Lost
21 157*Kumar Sangakkara (1/3) Sri Lanka 2843 West Indies22 July 2005Won
22 222*Kumar Sangakkara (2/3) Sri Lanka 2772 Bangladesh11 July 2007Won
23 165Mahela Jayawardene (3/3) Sri Lanka 2102 Bangladesh11 July 2007Won
24 152Kumar Sangakkara (3/3) Sri Lanka 2693 England1 December 2007Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Asgiriya Stadium.

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1145Aravinda de Silva Sri Lanka1151 Kenya6 March 1996Won
2106*Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka942 West Indies15 December 2001Won

See also

References
  1. "Asgiriya Stadium — Cricinfo profile". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  2. "Records / Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  3. "Records / Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  4. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  5. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
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