List of international cricket centuries at the Feroz Shah Kotla

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The Feroz Shah Kotla.

The Feroz Shah Kotla is a cricket ground in Delhi, India.[1] The ground has hosted 30 Test matches, the first of these was in 1948 between India and the West Indies.[2] 16 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have also been played at the ground, the first in 1982 between India and Sri Lanka.[3]

The West Indian Clyde Walcott became the first Test centurion at the Feroz Shah Kotla when he made 152 against India in 1948. The record for the highest Test century at the ground belongs to the New Zealander Bert Sutcliffe, Sutcliffe scored 230 not out against India in 1955. The highest score by an Indian at the ground is 227 which was made by Vinod Kambli against Zimbabwe in 1993. Sunil Gavaskar has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with 4.[4]

Six ODI centuries have been scored at the Feroz Shah Kotla, the Sri Lankan Roy Dias scored the first in 1982 with 102 against India. The Australian Ricky Ponting holds the record for the highest ODI score at the ground with 145 from 158 balls which was made against Zimbabwe in 1998.[5]

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 Feroz Shah Kotla.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[6][7] lost[8][9] or if the match was drawn.[10]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Feroz Shah Kotla.[4]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 152 Clyde Walcott  West Indies NR 1  India 10 November 1948 Drawn
2 101 Gerry Gomez  West Indies NR 1  India 10 November 1948 Drawn
3 128 Everton Weekes  West Indies NR 1  India 10 November 1948 Drawn
4 107 Robert Christiani  West Indies NR 1  India 10 November 1948 Drawn
5 114* Hemu Adhikari  India NR 2  West Indies 10 November 1948 Drawn
6 154 Vijay Merchant  India NR 2  England 2 November 1951 Drawn
7 164* Vijay Hazare  India NR 2  England 2 November 1951 Drawn
8 137* Allan Watkins  England NR 3  India 2 November 1951 Drawn
9 230* Bert Sutcliffe  New Zealand NR 1  India 16 December 1955 Drawn
10 119* John Reid  New Zealand NR 1  India 16 December 1955 Drawn
11 177 Vijay Manjrekar (1/2)  India NR 2  New Zealand 16 December 1955 Drawn
12 109 Chandu Borde  India NR 1  West Indies 6 February 1959 Drawn
13 123 John Holt  West Indies NR 2  India 6 February 1959 Drawn
14 100 Collie Smith  West Indies NR 2  India 6 February 1959 Drawn
15 100* Joe Solomon  West Indies NR 2  India 6 February 1959 Drawn
16 114 Neil Harvey  Australia NR 2  India 12 December 1959 Won
17 112 Polly Umrigar  India NR 1  Pakistan 8 February 1961 Drawn
18 101 Mushtaq Mohammad  Pakistan NR 2  India 8 February 1961 Drawn
19 127 Motganhalli Jaisimha  India NR 1  England 13 December 1961 Drawn
20 189* Vijay Manjrekar (2/2)  India NR 1  England 13 December 1961 Drawn
21 113* Ken Barrington  England NR 2  India 13 December 1961 Drawn
22 105 Hanumant Singh  India NR 1  England 8 February 1964 Drawn
23 151 Colin Cowdrey  England NR 2  India 8 February 1964 Drawn
24 100 Budhi Kunderan  India NR 3  England 8 February 1964 Drawn
25 203* Nawab of Pataudi (1/2)  India NR 3  England 8 February 1964 Drawn
26 106 Dilip Sardesai  India NR 2  New Zealand 19 March 1965 Won
27 113 Nawab of Pataudi (2/2)  India NR 2  New Zealand 19 March 1965 Won
28 138 Ian Chappell  Australia NR 1  India 28 November 1969 Lost
29 192* Viv Richards (1/2)  West Indies NR 2  India 11 December 1974 Won
30 179 Dennis Amiss  England 397 1  India 17 December 1976 Won
31 120 Sunil Gavaskar (1/3)  India NR 1  West Indies 24 January 1979 Drawn
32 109 Dilip Vengsarkar (1/4)  India NR 1  West Indies 24 January 1979 Drawn
33 126* Kapil Dev  India 124 1  West Indies 24 January 1979 Drawn
34 115 Sunil Gavaskar (2/3)  India 238 1  Australia 13 October 1979 Drawn
35 131 Gundappa Viswanath (1/2)  India 207 1  Australia 13 October 1979 Drawn
36 100* Yashpal Sharma  India 239 1  Australia 13 October 1979 Drawn
37 146* Dilip Vengsarkar (2/4)  India 370 4  Pakistan 4 December 1979 Drawn
38 105 Geoff Boycott  England 285 1  India 23 December 1981 Drawn
39 149 Chris Tavaré  England 303 1  India 23 December 1981 Drawn
40 107 Gundappa Viswanath (2/2)  India 200 2  England 23 December 1981 Drawn
41 121 Sunil Gavaskar (3/3)  India 128 1  West Indies 29 October 1983 Drawn
42 159 Dilip Vengsarkar (3/4)  India 238 1  West Indies 29 October 1983 Drawn
43 103 Clive Lloyd  West Indies 202 2  India 29 October 1983 Drawn
44 160 Tim Robinson  England 390 2  India 12 December 1984 Won
45 102 Dilip Vengsarkar (4/4)  India 257 3  West Indies 25 November 1987 Lost
46 109* Viv Richards (2/2)  West Indies 111 4  India 25 November 1987 Won
47 227 Vinod Kambli  India 301 1  Zimbabwe 13 March 1993 Won
48 115 Andy Flower (1/2)  Zimbabwe 236 2  India 13 March 1993 Lost
49 152 Nayan Mongia  India 366 2  Australia 10 October 1996 Won
50 183* Andy Flower (2/2)  Zimbabwe 351 1  India 18 November 2000 Lost
51 200* Rahul Dravid  India 350 2  Zimbabwe 18 November 2000 Won
52 122 Sachin Tendulkar (1/2)  India 233 2  Zimbabwe 18 November 2000 Won
53 136 Sourav Ganguly  India 284 2  Zimbabwe 28 February 2002 Won
54 109 Sachin Tendulkar (2/2)  India 196 1  Sri Lanka 10 December 2005 Won
55 206 Gautam Gambhir  India 380 1  Australia 29 October 2008 Drawn
56 200* VVS Laxman  India 301 1  Australia 29 October 2008 Drawn
57 112 Michael Clarke  Australia 253 2  India 29 October 2008 Drawn
58 118 Shivnarine Chanderpaul  West Indies 196 1  India 6 November 2011 Lost
59 127 Ajinkya Rahane (1/2)  India 215 1  South Africa 3 December 2015 Won
60 100* Ajinkya Rahane (2/2)  India 206 3  South Africa 3 December 2015 Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Feroz Shah Kotla.[5]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 102 Roy Dias  Sri Lanka 114 1  India 15 September 1982 Lost
2 137 Sachin Tendulkar  India 137 1  Sri Lanka 2 March 1996 Lost
3 145 Ricky Ponting  Australia 158 1  Zimbabwe 11 April 1998 Won
4 105 Nick Knight  England 131 1  India 31 January 2002 Won
5 107* AB de Villiers  South Africa 105 2  West Indies 24 February 2011 Won
6 112* Virat Kohli  India 98 2  England 17 October 2011 Won

References

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