List of international cricket centuries at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose sports ground in Chennai, India. It has a capacity of 55,000. The ground hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1956 when India played New Zealand. 9 Test matches have been played at the ground until its closure to international cricket in 1965.
Indian batsman Vinoo Mankad became the first man to score a Test century at Nehru Stadium when he made 231 against New Zealand in 1956. This stands as the highest Test individual score and only double century scored at the ground. Overall, 13 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.
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 Nehru 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 Nehru Stadium.
No. |
Score |
Player |
Team |
Balls |
Inns. |
Opposing team |
Date |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
231 |
Vinoo Mankad |
NA |
1 |
Won |
|||
2 |
173 |
Pankaj Roy |
NA |
1 |
Won |
|||
3 |
142 |
Basil Butcher |
NA |
1 |
Won |
|||
4 |
101 |
Les Favell |
NA |
1 |
Won |
|||
5 |
135 |
Imtiaz Ahmed |
NA |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
6 |
103 |
Saeed Ahmed |
NA |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
7 |
103 |
Polly Umrigar |
NA |
2 |
Drawn |
|||
8 |
177* |
Chandu Borde |
NA |
2 |
Drawn |
|||
9 |
103 |
Nawab of Pataudi (1/2) |
NA |
1 |
Won |
|||
10 |
192 |
Budhi Kunderan |
NA |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
11 |
108 |
Vijay Manjrekar (1/2) |
NA |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
12 |
128* |
Nawab of Pataudi (2/2) |
NA |
1 |
Lost |
|||
13 |
102* |
Vijay Manjrekar (2/2) |
NA |
1 |
Lost |