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

2

114

Geoff Howarth

NR

2

Drawn

3

119*

Majid Khan

NR

3

Drawn

4

113*

John Wright

208

2

Drawn

5

160

Hamish Marshall

250

1

Drawn

6

114

Nathan Astle

203

1

Drawn

7

127

Marvan Atapattu

244

2

Drawn

8

108

Mahela Jayawardene

243

2

Drawn

9

129

Kevin Pietersen

208

1

Won

10

177

Andrew Strauss

343

3

Won

11

110

Ian Bell

167

3

Won

12

126*

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

282

1

Drawn

13

136

Tim McIntosh

337

2

Drawn

14

197

Chris Gayle

396

3

Drawn

15

151

Ross Taylor (1/2)

204

1

Drawn

16

201

Jesse Ryder

328

1

Drawn

17

115

Brendon McCullum

140

1

Drawn

18

137

Gautam Gambhir

436

3

Drawn

19

124*

VVS Laxman

212

3

Drawn

20

117*

Imran Farhat

169

1

Drawn

21

134

Daniel Vettori

186

2

Drawn

22

122*

Ross Taylor (2/2)

201

1

Won

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

2

101

John Wright

120

2

Won

3

111*

Stephen Fleming

137

2

Won

4

104*

Nathan Astle (1/2)

137

2

Won

5

104

Nathan Astle (2/2)

128

1

Lost

6

107

Michael Bevan

141

2

Won

7

108

Virender Sehwag

119

2

Lost

8

141*

Ricky Ponting

127

1

Won

9

112

Peter Fulton

131

2

Lost

10

102

Lou Vincent

117

1

Won

11

110*

Runako Morton

155

2

Lost

12

128*

Ross Taylor (1/3)

133

1

Lost

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

15

100

Ross Taylor (2/3)

117

1

Lost

16

123

Virat Kohli

111

2

Lost

17

112

Kane Williamson

88

1

Won

18

102*

Ross Taylor (3/3)

70

1

Won