List of international cricket centuries at McLean Park
McLean Park is a sports ground in Napier, New Zealand, it has a capacity of 19,700. The ground have been hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1979 when New Zealand played Pakistan. 10 Test matches have been played at the ground along with 42 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1983 when New Zealand played Sri Lanka.
Pakistani batsman Asif Iqbal became the first man to score a Test century at McLean Park when he made 104 against New Zealand in 1979. Jesse Ryder's score of 201, made against India in 2009, remains the highest score seen at the ground, which is the only double century at the venue. There are 23 test centuries have been scored at the ground.
Twenty ODI centuries have been scored at McLean Park, the first by Englishman Chris Broad who scored 106 from 140 deliveries against New Zealand in 1988. The highest score achieved at the ground is 141 not out made by Australian maestro Ricky Ponting against England in 2005.
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 McLean Park.
- 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 McLean Park.
No. |
Score |
Player |
Team |
Balls |
Inns. |
Opposing team |
Date |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
104 |
Asif Iqbal |
NR |
1 |
Drawn |
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2 |
114 |
Geoff Howarth |
NR |
2 |
Drawn |
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3 |
119* |
Majid Khan |
NR |
3 |
Drawn |
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4 |
113* |
John Wright |
208 |
2 |
Drawn |
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5 |
160 |
Hamish Marshall |
250 |
1 |
Drawn |
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6 |
114 |
Nathan Astle |
203 |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
7 |
127 |
Marvan Atapattu |
244 |
2 |
Drawn |
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8 |
108 |
Mahela Jayawardene |
243 |
2 |
Drawn |
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9 |
129 |
Kevin Pietersen |
208 |
1 |
Won |
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10 |
177 |
Andrew Strauss |
343 |
3 |
Won |
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11 |
110 |
Ian Bell |
167 |
3 |
Won |
|||
12 |
126* |
Shivnarine Chanderpaul |
282 |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
13 |
136 |
Tim McIntosh |
337 |
2 |
Drawn |
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14 |
197 |
Chris Gayle |
396 |
3 |
Drawn |
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15 |
151 |
Ross Taylor (1/2) |
204 |
1 |
Drawn |
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16 |
201 |
Jesse Ryder |
328 |
1 |
Drawn |
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17 |
115 |
Brendon McCullum |
140 |
1 |
Drawn |
|||
18 |
137 |
Gautam Gambhir |
436 |
3 |
Drawn |
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19 |
124* |
VVS Laxman |
212 |
3 |
Drawn |
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20 |
117* |
Imran Farhat |
169 |
1 |
Drawn |
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21 |
134 |
Daniel Vettori |
186 |
2 |
Drawn |
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22 |
122* |
Ross Taylor (2/2) |
201 |
1 |
Won |
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23 |
102* |
BJ Watling |
149 |
1 |
Won |
One Day International centuries
The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at McLean Park.
No. |
Score |
Player |
Team |
Balls |
Inns. |
Opposing team |
Date |
Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
106 |
Chris Broad |
140 |
1 |
Lost |
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2 |
101 |
John Wright |
120 |
2 |
Won |
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3 |
111* |
Stephen Fleming |
137 |
2 |
Won |
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4 |
104* |
Nathan Astle (1/2) |
137 |
2 |
Won |
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5 |
104 |
Nathan Astle (2/2) |
128 |
1 |
Lost |
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6 |
107 |
Michael Bevan |
141 |
2 |
Won |
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7 |
108 |
Virender Sehwag |
119 |
2 |
Lost |
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8 |
141* |
Ricky Ponting |
127 |
1 |
Won |
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9 |
112 |
Peter Fulton |
131 |
2 |
Lost |
|||
10 |
102 |
Lou Vincent |
117 |
1 |
Won |
|||
11 |
110* |
Runako Morton |
155 |
2 |
Lost |
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12 |
128* |
Ross Taylor (1/3) |
133 |
1 |
Lost |
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13 |
111 |
Sanath Jayasuriya |
82 |
2 |
Won |
|||
14 |
139 |
Jamie How |
116 |
2 |
Tied |
|||
13 |
135 |
Chris Gayle |
129 |
1 |
Lost |
|||
14 |
119 |
Brendon McCullum |
88 |
1 |
Won |
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15 |
100 |
Ross Taylor (2/3) |
117 |
1 |
Lost |
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16 |
123 |
Virat Kohli |
111 |
2 |
Lost |
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17 |
112 |
Kane Williamson |
88 |
1 |
Won |
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18 |
102* |
Ross Taylor (3/3) |
70 |
1 |
Won |