List of international cricket centuries at the Green Park Stadium

The Green Park Stadium—formerly known as Modi Stadium—is a cricket ground in Kanpur, India. It is the home ground of the Uttar Pradesh cricket team and has played host to Ranji Trophy matches, as well as being a Test and One Day International (ODI) venue.[2][3] The ground has hosted 21 Test matches, since the first one in 1952 when India played England.[4] It has also staged 14 ODIs, the first of which was in 1986 when India lost to Sri Lanka by a margin of 17 runs.[5] As of February 2016, no T20 International has been played at the ground.[6]

Green Park Stadium hosting the 3rd ODI between India and New Zealand.[1]

The first century at the ground was scored by the West Indian Garfield Sobers. He made 198 during the second Test of the 1958–59 West Indies tour of India. The first Indian to score a century at the ground was Polly Umrigar, who made 147 not out against England in December 1961. West Indian Faoud Bacchus' 250, against India in February 1979, is the highest individual score by a batsman at the ground. India's Gundappa Viswanath and Mohammed Azharuddin have scored the most centuries at the venue with three each. The latter also holds the record for the highest score by an Indian at the ground. As of February 2016, 32 Test centuries have been scored at the stadium.

India's Chetan Sharma was the first player to score an ODI century at the ground. He made 101 not out against England during the Nehru Cup (1989).[7] Shahid Afridi's 45-ball century against India in April 2005 at the venue is the fastest century scored in India.[8] As of March 2016, Rohit Sharma's 150 against South Africa is the highest ODI score by a batsman at the ground. The record for the highest score in the format by an overseas player belongs to the Pakistani Salman Butt, who made 129 against India in November 2007. As of February 2016, nine ODI centuries have been scored by as many players at the Green Park Stadium.

Key
  • Score denotes the number of runs scored by the batsman in an innings.
  • * denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced by the batsman in an innings.
  • NR denotes that the statistic was not recorded.
  • Date denotes the date in which the match started.
  • Result denotes the result of the player's team.
  • Drawn denotes that the match was drawn.
Shahid Afridi's 45-ball century against India in 2005 is the fastest by a batsman in India.

Test cricket
Mohammad Azharuddin scored three Test centuries at the ground.
List of Test centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium[1]
No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 198 Garfield Sobers West Indies NR3 India12 December 1958Won[9]
2 115 Polly Umrigar (1/2) India NR2 Pakistan16 December 1960Drawn[10]
3 147* Polly Umrigar (2/2) India NR1 England1 December 19611Drawn[11]
4 119 Geoff Pullar England NR3 India1 December 19612Drawn[11]
5 172 Ken Barrington England NR3 India1 December 19613Drawn[11]
6 126* Ted Dexter England NR3 India1 December 19614Drawn[11]
7 127 Barry Knight England NR1 India15 February 19641Drawn[12]
8 121 Peter Parfitt England NR1 India15 February 19642Drawn[12]
9 122* Bapu Nadkarni India NR3 England15 February 19643Drawn[12]
10 114 Paul Sheahan Australia NR2 India15 November 19691Drawn[13]
11 137 Gundappa Viswanath (1/3) India NR3 Australia15 November 19692Drawn[13]
12 125 Tony Lewis England 2282 India25 January 1973Drawn[14]
13 113 Glenn Turner New Zealand NR2 India18 November 19761Drawn[15]
14 103* Gundappa Viswanath (2/3) India NR3 New Zealand18 November 19762Drawn[15]
15 179 Gundappa Viswanath (3/3) India NR1 West Indies2 February 19791Drawn[16]
16 102 Anshuman Gaekwad India NR1 West Indies2 February 19792Drawn[16]
17 101* Mohinder Amarnath India NR1 West Indies2 February 19793Drawn[16]
18 250 Faoud Bacchus West Indies NR2 India2 February 19794Drawn[16]
19 142 Ian Botham England 2141 India30 January 19821Drawn[17]
20 116 Kapil Dev India 982 England30 January 19822Drawn[17]
21 194 Gordon Greenidge West Indies 3681 India21 October 1983Won[18]
22 122 Mohammad Azharuddin (1/3) India 2701 England31 January 19851Drawn[19]
23 137 Dilip Vengsarkar India 2551 England31 January 19852Drawn[19]
24 176 Sunil Gavaskar India 3022 Sri Lanka17 December 19861Drawn[20]
25 199 Mohammad Azharuddin (2/3) India NR2 Sri Lanka17 December 19862Drawn[20]
26 163 Kapil Dev India 1652 Sri Lanka17 December 19863Drawn[20]
27 163* Mohammad Azharuddin (3/3) India 2293 South Africa8 December 1996Won[21]
28 163 Andrew Hall South Africa 4541 India20 November 20041Drawn[22]
29 164 Virender Sehwag (1/2) India 2282 South Africa20 November 20042Drawn[22]
30 131 Virender Sehwag (2/2) India 1221 Sri Lanka24 November 20091Won[23]
31 167 Gautam Gambhir India 2151 Sri Lanka24 November 20092Won[23]
32 144 Rahul Dravid India 2261 Sri Lanka24 November 20093Won[23]

One Day Internationals
List of ODI centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium[24]
No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 101* Chetan Sharma India962 England25 October 1989Won[25]
2 102* Manoj Prabhakar India1542 West Indies30 October 1993Lost[26]
3 106 Vinod Kambli India1101 Zimbabwe6 March 1996Won[27]
4 100 Sachin Tendulkar India892 Australia7 April 1998Won[28]
5 102 Shahid Afridi Pakistan462 India15 April 2005Won[29]
6 129 Salman Butt Pakistan1422 India11 November 2007Lost[30]
7 119 Shikhar Dhawan India952 West Indies27 November 2013Won[31]
8 104* AB de Villiers South Africa731 India11 October 20151Won[32]
9 150 Rohit Sharma (1/2) India1332 South Africa11 October 20152Lost[32]
10 147 Rohit Sharma (2/2) India1381 New Zealand29 October 20172Won
11 113 Virat Kohli India1061 New Zealand29 October 20172Won

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