List of international cricket centuries at Brabourne Stadium

Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai, India. It is the home of the Cricket Club of India and has played host to Ranji Trophy matches (including seventeen finals)[3] and Indian Premier League matches,[4] as well as being a Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International (T20) venue. It has a capacity of 20,000 spectators. The ground has hosted eighteen Test matches, the first in 1948 when India played the West Indies. It has also staged nine One Day International matches, the first of which was in 1989 when Australia lost to Pakistan by 66 runs. One T20 International has been played at the ground when India beat Australia by 7 wickets in 2007 (first T20 International to be played in India).[5][6][7] Of the nine One Day Internationals played at the stadium, five matches (including the final) were staged during the ICC Champions Trophy in 2006.[8]

Since Brabourne hosted its first international match in 1948, 35 Test centuries and 2 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground.[1][2]

The first Test century (100 or more runs in a single innings) scored at the ground was in 1948 by the West Indian Allan Rae in the first innings of the first Test match played at Brabourne Stadium. The first Indian to score a century at the Brabourne was Rusi Modi in the third innings of the same match.[9] In total, 35 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in 18 Test matches.[1][2] Virender Sehwag's 293, scored against Sri Lanka in 2009, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground. The highest Test score by an overseas player is 194 by the West Indian Everton Weekes in 1948.[1] Vijay Hazare has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with four.[10]

On 29 October 2018, first century at this ground in the ODIs was scored by Rohit Sharma against West Indies. Sharma also holds the record of highest score at this ground with 162. In total, 2 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground in 9 ODI matches.[11]

No T20 International century have been scored at this ground in one T20I match.[12] Ricky Ponting holds the record for the highest T20 International innings score at the ground, 76 against India in 2007. The highest score by an Indian in a T20 International at the Brabourne is 63 by Gautam Gambhir in the same match.[13]

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

The highest score in a Test match played at Brabourne is by Virender Sehwag (293)

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Brabourne Stadium.[1]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateWinning team
1 104Allan Rae  West Indies NR1  India9 December 1948Match drawn[14]
2 194Everton Weekes  West Indies NR1  India9 December 1948Match drawn[14]
3 112Rusi Modi  India NR3  West Indies9 December 1948Match drawn[14]
4 134*Vijay Hazare (1/4)  India NR3  West Indies9 December 1948Match drawn[14]
5 122Vijay Hazare (2/4)  India NR4  West Indies4 February 1949Match drawn[15]
6 140Pankaj Roy  India NR1  England14 December 1951Match drawn[16]
7 155Vijay Hazare (3/4)  India NR1  England14 December 1951Match drawn[16]
8 175Tom Graveney  England NR2  India14 December 1951Match drawn[16]
9 146*Vijay Hazare (4/4)  India NR2  Pakistan13 November 1952India[17]
10 102Polly Umrigar  India NR2  Pakistan13 November 1952India[17]
11 223Vinoo Mankad  India NR1  New Zealand2 December 1955India[18]
12 109Gulabrai Ramchand  India NR1  Australia26 October 1956Match drawn[19]
13 161Jim Burke  Australia NR2  India26 October 1956Match drawn[19]
14 140Neil Harvey (1/2)  Australia NR2  India26 October 1956Match drawn[19]
15 142*Gary Sobers  West Indies NR3  India28 November 1958Match drawn[20]
16 108Nari Contractor  India NR1  Australia1 January 1960Match drawn[21]
17 102Neil Harvey (2/2)  Australia NR2  India1 January 1960Match drawn[21]
18 163Norm O'Neill  Australia NR2  India1 January 1960Match drawn[21]
19 160Hanif Mohammad  Pakistan NR1  India2 December 1960Match drawn[22]
20 121Saeed Ahmed  Pakistan NR1  India2 December 1960Match drawn[22]
21 151Ken Barrington  England NR1  India11 November 1961Match drawn[23]
22 129Graham Dowling  New Zealand NR1  India12 March 1965Match drawn[24]
23 200*Dilip Sardesai  India NR3  New Zealand12 March 1965Match drawn[24]
24 109Chandu Borde (1/2)  India NR3  New Zealand12 March 1965Match drawn[24]
25 121Chandu Borde (2/2)  India NR1  West Indies13 December 1966West Indies[25]
26 101Conrad Hunte  West Indies NR2  India13 December 1966West Indies[25]
27 103Keith Stackpole  Australia NR2  India4 November 1969Australia[26]
28 121Farokh Engineer  India 1821  England6 February 1973Match drawn[27]
29 113Gundappa Viswanath  India 2671  England6 February 1973Match drawn[27]
30 113Keith Fletcher  England 2982  India6 February 1973Match drawn[27]
31 148Tony Greig  England 3602  India6 February 1973Match drawn[27]
32 109Tillakaratne Dilshan  Sri Lanka 1601  India2 December 2009India[28]
33 293Virender Sehwag  India 2542  Sri Lanka2 December 2009India[28]
34 100*MS Dhoni  India 1542  Sri Lanka2 December 2009India[28]
35 137Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka 2613  India2 December 2009India[28]

One Day International centuries

Rohit Sharma has the highest score of 162 runs in ODIs at this ground.
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateWinning team
1162Rohit Sharma  India1371  West Indies29 October 2018India[29]
2100Ambati Rayudu  India81

Women's One Day International centuries

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateWinning team
1 100Thirush Kamini  India 1461  West Indies31 January 2013India Women[30]
2 109Charlotte Edwards (1/2)  England 1231  India3 February 2013England Women[31]
3 107*Harmanpreet Kaur  India 1092  England3 February 2013England Women[31]
4 103Amy Satterthwaite  New Zealand 1262  England13 February 2013England Women[32]
5 106*Charlotte Edwards (2/2)  England 1212  New Zealand15 February 2013England Women[33]

Women's Twenty20 International centuries

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateWinning team
1 124Danielle Wyatt  England 642  India25 March 2018England Women[34]

References

External links