List of international cricket centuries at Arbab Niaz Stadium

Arbab Niaz Stadium is a sports ground in Peshawar, Pakistan, it has a capacity of 20,000. The ground have been hosted six Test cricket since 1995 when Pakistan played Sri Lanka for the first time. 15 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been hosted, where the first of which was in 1984 when Pakistan played India.

Australian batsman Mark Taylor became the first man to score a Test century at Arbab Niaz Stadium when he made mammoth unbeaten 334 against Pakistan in 1998. The score still stands as the highest score seen at the ground. Overall, there are 7 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.

Five ODI centuries have been scored at Arbab Niaz Stadium, and the first by South African batsman Hansie Cronje who scored unbeaten 100 from 124 deliveries against Australia in 1994. The highest score achieved at the ground is 117 made by Pakistani Ijaz Ahmed against Australia in 1994.

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 Arbab Niaz Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Arbab Niaz Stadium.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

334*

Mark Taylor

564

1

Drawn

2

116

Justin Langer

212

1

Drawn

3

126

Saeed Anwar

564

2

Drawn

4

155

Ijaz Ahmed

282

2

Drawn

5

107

Neil Johnson

117

2

Won

6

119

Javed Omar

357

1

Lost

7

102*

Mohammad Hafeez

144

4

Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Arbab Niaz Stadium.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

100*

Hansie Cronje

124

1

Lost

2

104*

Graham Hick

133

1

Won

3

117

Ijaz Ahmed

105

1

Won

4

112

Sachin Tendulkar

113

1

Lost

5

101

Salman Butt

111

2

Won