List of international cricket centuries at Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval, also known by its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is a cricket ground in Hobart, Australia.[2] It is the home of the Tasmania cricket team[3] and the Hobart Hurricanes (a Twenty20 team in the Big Bash League),[4] as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue.[5] It has a capacity of 16,000 spectators.[2] As of December 2015, the ground has hosted 12 Test matches, the first in 1989 when Australia hosted Sri Lanka.[6] It has also staged 34 ODI matches, the first of which was in 1988 when New Zealand lost to Sri Lanka by four wickets.[7] As of October 2014, two T20Is have been played at the ground.[8] The first was in 2010 when Australia beat the West Indies by 38 runs;[8] the second was in 2014, when Australia defeated England by 13 runs.[8]

A view of Bellerive Oval from inside the ground.
Since Bellerive Oval hosted its first Test match in 1989, 33 Test centuries have been made at the ground.[1]

The first Test century (100 or more runs in a single innings) scored at the ground was by Australian Mark Taylor in the third innings of the first Test match against Sri Lanka in 1989.[9] In the same innings Dean Jones and Steve Waugh also scored centuries.[10] As of December 2015, 31 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in 12 Test matches.[1] As of December 2015, Adam Voges 269*, scored against West Indies in 2015, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground and only the second double century (200 or more runs in a single innings) in this ground, after Ricky Ponting's 209, against Pakistan in 2010.[1] The highest Test score by an overseas player is 192 by the Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara in 2007.[1] Michael Hussey has scored three Test centuries at the ground, the most by any batsman.[11]

In the second ODI ever at Bellerive Oval,[7] West Indian Desmond Haynes scored the first century at the venue with a score of 101 runs from 112 balls against Pakistan in 1988.[12] In 35 ODIs, a total of 25 centuries have been scored.[12] As of October 2014, the highest ODI score at the ground is 172, scored by Adam Gilchrist, an Australian wicket-keeper.[12] The top scoring non-Australian is Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan, who scored 160 runs.[12] Dilshan and fellow Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara are the only players to have scored two ODI centuries at Bellerive Oval.[13] The top T20I score at the ground is 103* by Australian Glenn Maxwell in 2018.[14]

Key

  • An asterisk (*) denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in which the century was scored.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • Parentheses i.e. (1/3) next to the player's name denotes his century number at Bellerive Oval.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.

List of centuries

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.[15]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1108Mark Taylor (1/2)  Australia2123  Sri Lanka16 December 1989Australia won[10]
2118*Dean Jones  Australia1783  Sri Lanka16 December 1989Australia won[10]
3134*Steve Waugh  Australia1773  Sri Lanka16 December 1989Australia won[10]
4168Michael Slater  Australia2351  New Zealand26 November 1993Australia won[16]
5106David Boon  Australia2421  New Zealand26 November 1993Australia won[16]
6111Mark Waugh  Australia1391  New Zealand26 November 1993Australia won[16]
7123Mark Taylor (2/2)  Australia2443  Pakistan17 November 1995Australia won[17]
8114Matthew Elliott  Australia2651  New Zealand27 November 1997Drawn[18]
9133Matt Horne  New Zealand2592  Australia27 November 1997Drawn[18]
10118 Inzamam-ul-Haq  Pakistan1913  Australia18 November 1999Australia won[19]
11127Justin Langer (1/2)  Australia2954  Pakistan18 November 1999Australia won[19]
12149*Adam Gilchrist  Australia1634  Pakistan18 November 1999Australia won[19]
13123Justin Langer (2/2)  Australia1541  New Zealand22 November 2001Drawn[20]
14157*Ricky Ponting (1/2)  Australia2181  New Zealand22 November 2001Drawn[20]
15110Matthew Hayden  Australia1692  West Indies17 November 2005Australia won[21]
16137Michael Hussey (1/3)  Australia2342  West Indies17 November 2005Australia won[21]
17113Dwayne Bravo  West Indies2023  Australia17 November 2005Australia won[21]
18150Phil Jaques  Australia2371  Sri Lanka16 November 2007Australia won[22]
19132Michael Hussey (2/3)  Australia2201  Sri Lanka16 November 2007Australia won[22]
20104Mahela Jayawardene  Sri Lanka1942  Australia16 November 2007Australia won[22]
21192Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka2824  Australia16 November 2007Australia won[22]
22209Ricky Ponting (2/2)  Australia3541  Pakistan14 January 2010Australia won[23]
23166Michael Clarke  Australia3281  Pakistan14 January 2010Australia won[23]
24102Salman Butt  Pakistan2342  Australia14 January 2010Australia won[23]
25100Simon Katich  Australia1383  Pakistan14 January 2010Australia won[23]
26123*David Warner  Australia1704  New Zealand9 December 2011New Zealand won[24]
27115*Michael Hussey (3/3)  Australia1841  Sri Lanka14 December 2012Australia won[25]
28147Tillakaratne Dilshan  Sri Lanka2732  Australia14 December 2012Australia won[25]
29269*Adam Voges  Australia2851  West Indies10 December 2015Australia won[26]
30182Shaun Marsh  Australia2661  West Indies10 December 2015Australia won[26]
31108Darren Bravo  West Indies1772  Australia10 December 2015Australia won[26]
32104Quinton de Kock  South Africa1432  Australia12 November 2016South Africa won[27]
33101Travis Head  Australia1131  England14 January 2022Australia won[28]

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.[12]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1101Desmond Haynes  West Indies1121  Pakistan17 December 1988West Indies won[29]
2116*Ramiz Raja  Pakistan1482  Sri Lanka15 February 1990Pakistan won[30]
3102*David Boon  Australia1682  India10 December 1991Australia won[31]
4114Aamer Sohail  Pakistan1361  Zimbabwe27 February 1992Pakistan won[32]
5110Stuart Law  Australia1351  Zimbabwe8 December 1994Australia won[33]
6124Alistair Campbell  Zimbabwe1421  Australia30 January 2001Australia won[34]
7102*Mark Waugh  Australia1132  Zimbabwe30 January 2001Australia won[34]
8101*Damien Martyn  Australia1141  England11 January 2003Australia won[35]
9172Adam Gilchrist  Australia1261  Zimbabwe16 January 2004Australia won[36]
10134*Ricky Ponting  Australia1331  New Zealand20 December 2007Australia won[37]
11110Shaun Marsh  Australia1141  England21 January 2011Australia won[38]
12104Peter Forrest  Australia1381  Sri Lanka24 February 2012Sri Lanka won[39]
13160*Tillakaratne Dilshan (1/2)  Sri Lanka1651  India28 February 2012India won[40]
14105Kumar Sangakkara (1/2)  Sri Lanka871  India28 February 2012India won[40]
15133*Virat Kohli  India862  Sri Lanka28 February 2012India won[40]
16138*Phillip Hughes  Australia1541  Sri Lanka23 January 2013Australia won[41]
17141Ian Bell  England1251  Australia23 January 2015Australia won[42]
18102*Steve Smith  Australia952  England23 January 2015Australia won[42]
19112Ed Joyce  Ireland1031  Zimbabwe7 March 2015Ireland won[43]
20121Brendan Taylor  Zimbabwe912  Ireland7 March 2015Ireland won[43]
21104Tillakaratne Dilshan (2/2)  Sri Lanka991  Scotland11 March 2015Sri Lanka won[44]
22124Kumar Sangakkara (2/2)  Sri Lanka951  Scotland11 March 2015Sri Lanka won[44]
23125 Faf du Plessis  South Africa1141  Australia11 November 2018South Africa won[45]
24139David Miller  South Africa1081  Australia11 November 2018South Africa won[45]
25106Shaun Marsh  Australia1022  South Africa11 November 2018South Africa won[45]

Twenty20 International centuries

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1103*Glenn Maxwell  Australia582  England7 February 2018Australia won[46]

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