List of international cricket centuries at the Sardar Patel Stadium

The Sardar Patel Stadium is a cricket ground on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, it was established in 1982 and has a capacity of 54,000. The ground hosted its first international match in 1983 when India played the West Indies in a Test match, One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been played at the ground since 1984.[1] The ground has been the scene of 29 Test and 13 ODI centuries.[2][3]

The Sardar Patel Stadium.

The first Test century scored at the ground was in 1987 by the Pakistani Ijaz Faqih who made 105. It was during the same match that Dilip Vengsarkar scored the first Test century by an Indian at the ground. The Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene holds the record for the highest score made at the ground, 275 in 2009. Rahul Dravid is the highest Indian scorer at the ground. Dravid is also one of two players to have scored three Test centuries at the ground the other is Sachin Tendulkar.[2]

The New Zealander Nathan Astle became the first player to score an ODI century at the ground when he made 101 against England in 1996. Sourav Ganguly, who was the first Indian to score an ODI century at the ground, has made the highest ODI score with 144. Dravid and Chris Gayle are the only players to have made two ODI centuries at the ground.[3]

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 the Sardar Patel Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[4][5] lost[6][7] or if the match was drawn.[8]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Sardar Patel Stadium.[2]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 105Ijaz Faqih Pakistan2721 India4 March 1987Drawn
2 109Dilip Vengsarkar India2952 Pakistan4 March 1987Drawn
3 152Mohammad Azharuddin India2602 Sri Lanka8 February 1994Won
4 110Sadagoppan Ramesh India1691 New Zealand29 October 1999Drawn
5 217Sachin Tendulkar (1/3) India3441 New Zealand29 October 1999Drawn
6 125Sourav Ganguly (1/2) India2511 New Zealand29 October 1999Drawn
7 121Craig White England2651 India11 December 2001Drawn
8 103Sachin Tendulkar (2/3) India1972 England11 December 2001Drawn
9 222Rahul Dravid (1/3) India3871 New Zealand8 October 2003Drawn
10 100*Sourav Ganguly (2/2) India2111 New Zealand8 October 2003Drawn
11 103Nathan Astle New Zealand2072 India8 October 2003Drawn
12 104VVS Laxman India2371 Sri Lanka18 December 2005Won
13 132Jacques Kallis South Africa2752 India3 April 2008Won
14 217*AB de Villiers South Africa3332 India3 April 2008Won
15 177Rahul Dravid (2/3) India2611 Sri Lanka16 November 2009Drawn
16 110Mahendra Singh Dhoni India1591 Sri Lanka16 November 2009Drawn
17 112Tillakaratne Dilshan Sri Lanka1332 India16 November 2009Drawn
18 275Mahela Jayawardene Sri Lanka4352 India16 November 2009Drawn
19 154*Prasanna Jayawardene Sri Lanka3142 India16 November 2009Drawn
20 114Gautam Gambhir India2303 Sri Lanka16 November 2009Drawn
21 100*Sachin Tendulkar (3/3) India2113 Sri Lanka16 November 2009Drawn
22 173Virender Sehwag (1/2) India1991 New Zealand4 November 2010Drawn
23 104Rahul Dravid (3/3) India2271 New Zealand4 November 2010Drawn
24 103Jesse Ryder New Zealand2052 India4 November 2010Drawn
25 131Kane Williamson New Zealand2992 India4 November 2010Drawn
26 115Harbhajan Singh India1933 New Zealand4 November 2010Drawn
27 117Virender Sehwag (2/2) India1171 England15 November 2012Won
28 206*Cheteshwar Pujara India3891 England15 November 2012Won
29 176Alastair Cook England3743 India15 November 2012Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Sardar Patel Stadium.[3]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 101Nathan Astle New Zealand1321 England14 February 1996Won
2 102Alistair Campbell Zimbabwe1452 Australia3 April 1998Lost
3 144Sourav Ganguly India1521 Zimbabwe5 December 2000Won
4 140Chris Gayle (1/2) West Indies1271 India15 November 2002Lost
5 109*Rahul Dravid (1/2) India1242 West Indies15 November 2002Won
6 123Sachin Tendulkar India1301 Pakistan12 April 2005Lost
7 103Gautam Gambhir India971 Sri Lanka6 November 2005Lost
8 103*Rahul Dravid (2/2) India1201 Sri Lanka6 November 2005Lost
9 110Upul Tharanga Sri Lanka1301 Zimbabwe10 October 2006Won
10 101Chris Gayle (2/2) West Indies1281 England28 October 2006Lost
11 112*Dwayne Bravo West Indies1241 England28 October 2006Lost
12 104*Jacques Kallis South Africa941 India27 February 2010Won
13 102*AB de Villiers South Africa591 India27 February 2010Won
14 104Ricky Ponting Australia1181 India24 March 2011Lost
15 121*Ambati Rayudu India1182 Sri Lanka6 November 2014Won

References

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