List of international cricket centuries at Carisbrook

Carisbrook is a sports stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, it has a capacity of 29,000. Unitl its closure in 2004 for cricket, the ground have been hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1955 when New Zealand played England. 10 Test matches have been played at the ground along with 21 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1974 when New Zealand played Australia.

West Indian Everton Weekes became the first man to score a Test century at Carisbrook when he made 123 against New Zealand in 1956. Bryan Young's score of 267 not out, made against Sri Lanka in 1997, remains the highest score seen at the ground. Only 2 players have made a double century at the ground. Overall, 10 test centuries have been recorded from Carisbrook.

Five ODI centuries have been scored at Carisbrook, the first by West Indian Vivian Richards who scored 119 from 113 deliveries against New Zealand in 1987. The highest score achieved at the ground is 122 not out made by Nathan Astle against England in 2002.

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 Carisbrook.
  • 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 Carisbrook.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

123

Everton Weekes

NR

2

Won

2

143

Graham Dowling

NR

1

Lost

3

201

Mushtaq Mohammad

NR

1

Won

4

175

Asif Iqbal

NR

2

Won

5

105

Desmond Haynes

323

3

Lost

6

111*

Jeremy Coney

243

4

Drawn

7

127

Asanka Gurusinha

429

3

Drawn

8

108

Hashan Tillakaratne

258

3

Drawn

9

267*

Bryan Young

522

1

Won

10

103

Romesh Kaluwitharana

103

3

Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

119

Vivian Richards

113

1

Won

2

104

Martin Crowe

135

1

Won

3

100

Jacques Kallis

117

1

Lost

4

119

Nathan Astle (1/2)

116

2

Won

5

122*

Nathan Astle (2/2)

150

2

Won