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]

Aerial view of the Green Park Stadium, Kanpur
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

List of Test centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium[9]
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 198Garfield Sobers  West Indies NR3  India12 December 1958Won[10]
2 115Polly Umrigar (1/2)  India NR2  Pakistan16 December 1960Drawn[11]
3 147*Polly Umrigar (2/2)  India NR1  England1 December 19611Drawn[12]
4 119Geoff Pullar  England NR3  India1 December 19612Drawn[12]
5 172Ken Barrington  England NR3  India1 December 19613Drawn[12]
6 126*Ted Dexter  England NR3  India1 December 19614Drawn[12]
7 127Barry Knight  England NR1  India15 February 19641Drawn[13]
8 121Peter Parfitt  England NR1  India15 February 19642Drawn[13]
9 122*Bapu Nadkarni  India NR3  England15 February 19643Drawn[13]
10 114Paul Sheahan  Australia NR2  India15 November 19691Drawn[14]
11 137Gundappa Viswanath (1/3)  India NR3  Australia15 November 19692Drawn[14]
12 125Tony Lewis  England 2282  India25 January 1973Drawn[15]
13 113Glenn Turner  New Zealand NR2  India18 November 19761Drawn[16]
14 103*Gundappa Viswanath (2/3)  India NR3  New Zealand18 November 19762Drawn[16]
15 179Gundappa Viswanath (3/3)  India NR1  West Indies2 February 19791Drawn[17]
16 102Anshuman Gaekwad  India NR1  West Indies2 February 19792Drawn[17]
17 101*Mohinder Amarnath  India NR1  West Indies2 February 19793Drawn[17]
18 250Faoud Bacchus  West Indies NR2  India2 February 19794Drawn[17]
19 142Ian Botham  England 2141  India30 January 19821Drawn[18]
20 116Kapil Dev  India 982  England30 January 19822Drawn[18]
21 194Gordon Greenidge  West Indies 3681  India21 October 1983Won[19]
22 122Mohammad Azharuddin (1/3)  India 2701  England31 January 19851Drawn[20]
23 137Dilip Vengsarkar  India 2551  England31 January 19852Drawn[20]
24 176Sunil Gavaskar  India 3022  Sri Lanka17 December 19861Drawn[21]
25 199Mohammad Azharuddin (2/3)  India NR2  Sri Lanka17 December 19862Drawn[21]
26 163Kapil Dev  India 1652  Sri Lanka17 December 19863Drawn[21]
27 163*Mohammad Azharuddin (3/3)  India 2293  South Africa8 December 1996Won[22]
28 163Andrew Hall  South Africa 4541  India20 November 20041Drawn[23]
29 164Virender Sehwag (1/2)  India 2282  South Africa20 November 20042Drawn[23]
30 131Virender Sehwag (2/2)  India 1221  Sri Lanka24 November 20091Won[24]
31 167Gautam Gambhir  India 2151  Sri Lanka24 November 20092Won[24]
32 144Rahul Dravid  India 2261  Sri Lanka24 November 20093Won[24]
33 105Shreyas Iyer  India 1221  New Zealand25 November 20211Drawn[25]

One Day Internationals

List of ODI centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium[26]
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 101*Chetan Sharma  India962  England25 October 1989Won[27]
2 102*Manoj Prabhakar  India1542  West Indies30 October 1993Lost[28]
3 106Vinod Kambli  India1101  Zimbabwe6 March 1996Won[29]
4 100Sachin Tendulkar  India892  Australia7 April 1998Won[30]
5 102Shahid Afridi  Pakistan462  India15 April 2005Won[31]
6 129Salman Butt  Pakistan1422  India11 November 2007Lost[32]
7 119Shikhar Dhawan  India952  West Indies27 November 2013Won[33]
8 104*AB de Villiers  South Africa731  India11 October 20151Won[34]
9 150Rohit Sharma (1/2)  India1332  South Africa11 October 20152Lost[34]
10 147Rohit Sharma (2/2)  India1381  New Zealand29 October 20172Won
11 113Virat Kohli  India1061  New Zealand29 October 20172Won

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