List of international cricket centuries at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

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The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.

The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, also known as Chepauk is a cricket ground in Chennai, India. Formerly known as the Madras Cricket Club Ground it now has a capacity of 50,000.[1] The ground has hosted 34 Test matches, the first of these was played in 1934 between India and England.[2] The ground has also staged 22 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was played between India and Australia in 1987.[3]

The first Test century scored at the ground was by the Englishman Cyril Walters. Walters's innings of 102 was scored against India in 1934. The Indian Virender Sehwag holds the record for the highest score at the ground, 319 from 304 balls, which was made in 2008 against South Africa. This was Sehwag's second triple century, the only other Test players that have scored 2 triple centuries are Donald Bradman and Brian Lara. The record for the highest score by an overseas player belongs to England's Joe Root who made 218 in 2021. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to have scored 5 Test centuries at the ground. A century in each innings of a match has been achieved twice at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The Sri Lankan Duleep Mendis made 2 innings of 105 against India in 1982 and the Englishman Andrew Strauss scored 123 and 108 in 2008, also against India. Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 224 in the 1st test against Australia in the home series on 24 February 2013. He is the first Indian Wicket-Keeper Batsman to score a Double Century in Test Cricket and 7th Wicket-Keeper in Test Cricket to do so.[4]

14 ODI centuries have been made at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The first of these was scored by the Australian Geoff Marsh who made 110 in 1987. The Pakistani Saeed Anwar holds the record for the highest ODI scored at the ground with 194, from 146 deliveries against India in 1997. Anwars innings was, at the time, a world record having beating the previous best of 189 not out by Viv Richards. Anwar's record stood until August 2009 when it was equalled by the Zimbabwean Charles Coventry. The highest score by an Indian batsman at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium is 139 not out which was made by MS Dhoni in 2007. At the time Dhoni was playing for an Asian XI against an African XI. [5][6] The highest score by an Indian batsman representing India at this stadium is 138 which was made by Virat Kohli against South Africa on 22 October 2015.

Key[edit]

  • * 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 M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[7][8] lost[9][10] or if the match was drawn[11] or tied.[12]

Test centuries[edit]

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[4]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 102 Cyril Walters  England NR 3  India 10 February 1934 Won
2 109 Allan Rae  West Indies NR 1  India 27 January 1949 Won
3 160 Jeffrey Stollmeyer  West Indies NR 1  India 27 January 1949 Won
4 111 Pankaj Roy  India NR 2  England 6 February 1952 Won
5 130* Polly Umrigar  India NR 2  England 6 February 1952 Won
6 109 Farokh Engineer  India NR 1  West Indies 13 January 1967 Drawn
7 125 Chandu Borde  India NR 1  West Indies 13 January 1967 Drawn
8 102 Doug Walters  Australia NR 1  India 24 December 1969 Won
9 124 Gundappa Viswanath (1/2)  India NR 2  West Indies 12 January 1979 Won
10 162 Allan Border (1/2)  Australia 360 1  India 11 September 1979 Drawn
11 100 Kim Hughes  Australia 204 1  India 11 September 1979 Drawn
12 166 Sunil Gavaskar (1/3)  India 373 2  Pakistan 15 January 1980 Won
13 222 Gundappa Viswanath (2/2)  India 374 1  England 13 January 1982 Drawn
14 140 Yashpal Sharma  India 298 1  England 13 January 1982 Drawn
15 127 Graham Gooch  England 181 2  India 13 January 1982 Drawn
16 105 Duleep Mendis (1/2)  Sri Lanka 123 1  India 17 September 1982 Drawn
17 155 Sunil Gavaskar (2/3)  India 293 2  Sri Lanka 17 September 1982 Drawn
18 114* Sandeep Patil  India NR 2  Sri Lanka 17 September 1982 Drawn
19 105 Duleep Mendis (2/2)  Sri Lanka NR 3  India 17 September 1982 Drawn
20 236* Sunil Gavaskar (3/3)  India 425 2  West Indies 24 December 1983 Drawn
21 201 Graeme Fowler  England 409 2  India 13 January 1985 Won
22 207 Mike Gatting  England 309 2  India 13 January 1985 Won
23 105 Mohammad Azharuddin  India 218 3  England 13 January 1985 Lost
24 122 David Boon  Australia 258 1  India 18 September 1986 Tied
25 210 Dean Jones  Australia 330 1  India 18 September 1986 Tied
26 106 Allan Border (2/2)  Australia 172 1  India 18 September 1986 Tied
27 119 Kapil Dev (1/2)  India 138 2  Australia 18 September 1986 Tied
28 101 Shoaib Mohammad  Pakistan NR 1  India 3 February 1987 Drawn
29 135* Imran Khan  Pakistan 230 1  India 3 February 1987 Drawn
30 123 Kris Srikkanth  India 149 2  Pakistan 3 February 1987 Drawn
31 109 Kapil Dev (2/2)  India 124 1  West Indies 11 January 1988 Won
32 106 Navjot Sidhu  India 273 1  England 11 February 1993 Won
33 165 Sachin Tendulkar (1/5)  India 296 1  England 11 February 1993 Won
34 117 Chris Lewis  England 140 3  India 11 February 1993 Lost
35 155* Sachin Tendulkar (2/5)  India 191 3  Australia 6 March 1998 Won
36 141 Shahid Afridi  Pakistan 191 3  India 28 January 1999 Won
37 136 Sachin Tendulkar (3/5)  India 273 4  Pakistan 28 January 1999 Lost
38 203 Matthew Hayden  Australia 320 1  India 18 May 2001 Lost
39 126 Sachin Tendulkar (4/5)  India 230 2  Australia 18 May 2001 Won
40 155 Virender Sehwag (1/2)  India 221 2  Australia 14 October 2004 Drawn
41 104 Damien Martyn  Australia 210 3  India 14 October 2004 Drawn
42 159 Hashim Amla  South Africa 262 1  India 26 March 2008 Drawn
43 319 Virender Sehwag (2/2)  India 304 2  South Africa 26 March 2008 Drawn
44 111 Rahul Dravid  India 291 2  South Africa 26 March 2008 Drawn
45 155* Neil McKenzie  South Africa 339 3  India 26 March 2008 Drawn
46 123 Andrew Strauss (1/2)  England 233 1  India 11 December 2008 Lost
47 108 Andrew Strauss (2/2)  England 244 3  India 11 December 2008 Lost
48 108 Paul Collingwood  England 250 3  India 11 December 2008 Lost
49 103* Sachin Tendulkar (5/5)  India 196 4  England 11 December 2008 Won
50 130 Michael Clarke  Australia 246 1  India 22 February 2013 Lost
51 107 Virat Kohli  India 206 2  Australia 22 February 2013 Won
52 224 MS Dhoni  India 265 2  Australia 22 February 2013 Won
53 146 Moeen Ali  England 262 1  India 16 December 2016 Lost
54 199 KL Rahul  India 311 2  England 16 December 2016 Won
55 303* Karun Nair  India 381 2  England 16 December 2016 Won
56 218 Joe Root  England 377 1  India 5 February 2021 Won
57 161 Rohit Sharma  India 231 1  England 13 February 2021 Won
58 106 Ravichandran Ashwin  India 148 3  England 13 February 2021 Won

One Day International centuries[edit]

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[5]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 110 Geoff Marsh  Australia 141 1  India 9 October 1987 Won
2 130 Chris Harris  New Zealand 124 1  Australia 11 March 1996 Lost
3 110 Mark Waugh  Australia 112 2  New Zealand 11 March 1996 Won
4 194 Saeed Anwar  Pakistan 146 1  India 21 May 1997 Won
5 107 Rahul Dravid  India 116 2  Pakistan 21 May 1997 Lost
6 107 Mahela Jayawardene  Asia XI 106 1  Africa XI 10 June 2007 Won
7 139* MS Dhoni (1/2)  Asia XI 97 1  Africa XI 10 June 2007 Won
8 113 Yuvraj Singh  India 123 1  West Indies 20 March 2011 Won
9 104* Manoj Tiwari  India 126 1  West Indies 11 December 2011 Won
10 119 Kieron Pollard  West Indies 110 2  India 11 December 2011 Lost
11 113* MS Dhoni (2/2)  India 125 1  Pakistan 30 December 2012 Lost
12 101* Nasir Jamshed  Pakistan 132 2  India 30 December 2012 Won
13 138 Virat Kohli  India 140 1  South Africa 22 October 2015 Won
14 112 AB de Villiers  South Africa 107 2  India 22 October 2015 Lost
15 139 Shimron Hetmyer  West Indies 106 2  India 15 December 2019 Won
16 102* Shai Hope  West Indies 151 2  India 15 December 2019 Won

Women's ODI[edit]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 104* Jaya Sharma  India 140 2  Australia 23 February 2007 Won
2 122 Suzie Bates  New Zealand 134 1  India 1 March 2007 Won

References[edit]

  1. ^ "MA Chidambaram Stadium — ESPNcricinfo profile". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Statsguru: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai / Test matches / Match result list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Statsguru: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai / One-Day Internationals matches / Match result list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Statsguru: One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Innings by innings list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Records / One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Most runs in an innings". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Won". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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  9. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Lost". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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  11. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Drawn". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  12. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Tied". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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