List of international cricket centuries at the Asgiriya Stadium

Asgiriya Stadium is a sports ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It has a capacity of 10,300. The ground hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1983 when Sri Lanka played Australia. 21 Test matches have been played at the ground along with 6 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1986 when Sri Lanka played Pakistan.

Australia batsman Kepler Wessels became the first man to score a Test century at Asgiriya Stadium when he made 141 against Sri Lanka in 1983. The highest Test individual score at the ground was scored by Sri Lanka batsman Marvan Atapattu, who scored 223 runs against Zimbabwe in 1998. Three double centuries have been scored at the venue. Overall, there are 24 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.

Only 2 ODI centuries have been scored at Asgiriya Stadium, and the first by Sri Lanka maestro Aravinda de Silva who scored 145 from 115 deliveries against Kenya in 1996, to achieve the highest ODI team total of 398, ever recorded before passing 400 in 2006 by Australia.

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 Asgiriya 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 Asgiriya Stadium.

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

141

Kepler Wessels

188

1

Won

2

143

David Hookes

152

1

Won

3

116*

Mohinder Amarnath

NA

3

Drawn

4

106

Roy Dias

216

4

Drawn

5

124

Duleep Mendis

228

4

Drawn

6

100*

Inzamam-ul-Haq

125

2

Won

7

223

Marvan Atapattu (1/3)

448

1

Won

8

207*

Marvan Atapattu (2/3)

457

1

Drawn

9

188

Sanath Jayasuriya (1/3)

358

1

Drawn

10

118*

Lance Klusener

219

1

Won

11

120

Marvan Atapattu (3/3)

219

2

Won

12

101

Mahela Jayawardene (1/3)

165

1

Lost

13

109

Nasser Hussain

255

2

Won

14

104

Mahela Jayawardene (2/3)

149

1

Lost

15

139

Sanath Jayasuriya (2/3)

212

2

Won

16

100

Tillakaratne Dilshan

129

3

Drawn

17

105

Michael Vaughan

333

4

Drawn

18

144

Adam Gilchrist

185

3

Won

19

161

Damien Martyn

349

3

Won

20

144

Sanath Jayasuriya (3/3)

145

4

Lost

21

157*

Kumar Sangakkara (1/3)

284

3

Won

22

222*

Kumar Sangakkara (2/3)

277

2

Won

23

165

Mahela Jayawardene (3/3)

210

2

Won

24

152

Kumar Sangakkara (3/3)

269

3

Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.

Score

Player

Team

Balls

Inns.

Opposing team

Date

Result

1

145

Aravinda de Silva

115

1

Won

2

106*

Mahela Jayawardene

94

2

Won

See also

  • List of international cricket grounds in Sri Lanka