List of international cricket centuries at Iqbal Stadium

Iqbal Stadium is a sports ground in Faisalabad, Pakistan, it has a capacity of 18,000. The ground have been hosted 24 Test cricket since 1978 when Pakistan played India for the first time. 16 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been hosted, where the first of which was in 1984 when Pakistan played New Zealand.

Pakistani batsman Zaheer Abbas became the first man to score a Test century at Iqbal Stadium when he made 176 against India in 1978. The score of 253 by Sri Lankan maestro Sanath Jayasuriya against Pakistan in 2004 stands as the highest score seen at the ground. Overall, there are 53 Test centuries have been scored at the ground, including 6 double centuries.

Four ODI centuries have been scored at Iqbal Stadium, and the first by Pakistani batsman Saleem Malik who scored 100 from 95 deliveries against Sri Lanka in 1987. The highest score achieved at the ground is 108 not out made by Pakistani Mohammad Yousuf against Zimbabwe in 2008.

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 Iqbal 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 Iqbal Stadium.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

176

Zaheer Abbas (1/3)

NA

1

Drawn

2

154*

Javed Miandad (1/5)

NA

1

Drawn

3

145

Gundappa Viswanath

NA

2

Drawn

4

104

Asif Iqbal

NA

3

Drawn

5

235

Greg Chappell

263

1

Drawn

6

172

Graham Yallop

447

1

Drawn

7

210*

Taslim Arif

379

2

Drawn

8

106*

Javed Miandad (2/5)

379

2

Drawn

9

157

Sidath Wettimuny

330

1

Drawn

10

111

Mansoor Akhtar

191

1

Won

11

126

Zaheer Abbas (2/3)

205

1

Won

12

106*

Greg Ritchie

205

3

Won

13

126

Javed Miandad (3/5)

200

2

Won

14

168

Zaheer Abbas (3/3)

176

2

Won

15

107

Saleem Malik (1/3)

168

2

Won

16

117

Imran Khan

121

2

Won

17

127*

Sunil Gavaskar

262

3

Lost

18

116

Saleem Malik (2/3)

270

1

Drawn

19

112

Wasim Raja

210

1

Drawn

20

152

Wasim Raja

318

2

Drawn

21

152

Sandeep Patil

231

1

Drawn

22

139

Ravi Shastri

270

1

Drawn

23

199

Mudassar Nazar

408

2

Drawn

24

210

Qasim Umar (1/2)

442

2

Drawn

25

102*

Saleem Malik (3/3)

NA

2

Drawn

26

122

Aravinda de Silva (1/2)

NA

1

Drawn

27

210

Qasim Umar (2/2)

NZ

2

Drawn

28

203*

Javed Miandad (4/5)

NZ

2

Drawn

29

116

Chris Broad

339

1

Drawn

30

122

Ijaz Ahmed

221

1

Drawn

31

113*

Allan Border

237

2

Drawn

32

107

Javed Miandad (5/5)

186

3

Drawn

33

117

Aamer Malik

305

2

Drawn

34

109

Mohammad Azharuddin

174

3

Drawn

35

142

Shoaib Mohammad

368

3

Won

36

115

Hashan Tillakaratne

176

1

Won

37

105

Aravinda de Silva (2/2)

316

3

Won

38

100*

Gary Kirsten (1/2)

208

1

Won

39

100*

Abdul Razzaq

225

3

Drawn

40

128

Imran Farhat

226

2

Drawn

41

118

Gary Kirsten (2/2)

232

3

Drawn

42

100

Thilan Samaraweera

232

1

Won

43

253

Sanath Jayasuriya

348

3

Won

44

109

Inzamam-ul-Haq (1/3)

200

1

Drawn

45

115

Ian Bell

272

2

Drawn

46

100

Kevin Pietersen

137

2

Drawn

47

100*

Inzamam-ul-Haq (2/3)

134

3

Drawn

48

119

Inzamam-ul-Haq (3/3)

193

1

Drawn

49

156

Shahid Afridi

128

1

Drawn

50

103

Rahul Dravid

128

2

Drawn

51

148

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

153

2

Drawn

52

194

Younis Khan

299

3

Drawn

53

126

Mohammad Yousuf

179

3

Drawn

One Day International centuries

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

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

100

Saleem Malik

95

1

Won

2

106

Mohammad Yousuf (1/2)

127

1

Won

3

117

Hamish Marshall

109

2

Lost

4

108*

Mohammad Yousuf (2/2)

111

2

Won