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 |