List of international cricket centuries at Buffalo Park

Buffalo Park is a sports ground in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, it has a capacity of 20,000. . The ground has been hosted single Test cricket match in 2002 when South Africa played Bangladesh. The ground has been hosted 21 One Day Internationals, where the first ODI staged in 1998 between South Africa and India. The ground hosted first staged to Twenty20 Internationals when South Africa played against New Zealand in 2012.

South African Graeme Smith became the first man to score a Test century at Diamond Oval when he made 200 against Bangladesh in 2002. It still stands as the highest score seen at the ground. Overall, there are only 2 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.

Eight ODI centuries have been scored at Diamond Oval, and the first by Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad who scored 107 from 144 deliveries against South Africa in 1993. The highest score achieved at the ground is 150 made by West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul against South Africa in 1999.

The only Twenty20 International century at the venue achieved by Kiwi opener Martin Guptill against South Africa in 2012, when he made unbeaten 101 in 69 deliveries.

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 Diamond Oval.
  • 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 Diamond Oval.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

200

Graeme Smith

287

1

Won

2

150

Gary Kirsten

223

1

Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Diamond Oval.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

107

Javed Miandad

144

1

Won

2

102*

Ken Rutherford

98

1

Won

3

150

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

129

1

Won

4

108

Carl Hooper

119

1

Won

5

120*

Neil McKenzie

135

1

Won

6

103*

Marvan Atapattu

127

1

Won

7

115*

Graeme Smith

131

1

Won

8

100*

Kevin Pietersen

69

2

Lost

Twenty20 International centuries

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International centuries scored at Diamond Oval.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

101*

Martin Guptill

69

2

Won