List of international cricket centuries at the Eden Gardens
The Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It is one of the main international cricket venues of India and often called the "Mecca of Indian cricket". It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue. As of 2020, the Eden Gardens has hosted more than 40 Test matches, the first of which was in January 1934 when India played the touring England team. These include the first ever day/night Test match in India which was hosted between 22 and 24 November 2019, when India played the visiting Bangladesh team. The first ODI played at the ground was between India and Pakistan on 18 February 1987. As of 2020, 30 ODIs have been played at the ground.
The first Test century scored at the ground was in December 1948, by Everton Weekes of the West Indies. He scored 162 runs in the first innings. In the same match Syed Mushtaq Ali of India scored 106 in the fourth innings, thus becoming the first Indian to have scored a century at the Eden Gardens. To date, 77 Test centuries have been scored at the ground. VVS Laxman's 281, scored against Australia in March 2001, during the famous second test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy, is the highest individual Test score achieved at the ground. The highest individual Test score by an overseas player is 256, scored by Rohan Kanhai of the West Indies in December 1958. Mohammad Azharuddin and VVS Laxman have scored five Test centuries each, the highest number of Test centuries scored by an individual player at the ground. During the second Test of the India–South Africa Test series held in February 2010 at the ground, a total of seven centuries were scored between the two teams. This is the highest number of centuries scored in a single Test match at the ground.
The first ODI century scored at the ground was by Kris Srikkanth of India on 18 February 1987. He scored 123 runs in the first innings against Pakistan. The first century scored by an overseas player was on 1 November 1989 by Desmond Haynes of the West Indies. He scored an unbeaten 107 runs against India. To date, 13 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground. Rohit Sharma's 264, scored against Sri Lanka on 13 November 2014, is the highest individual ODI score achieved at the ground as well as the highest individual score of all time in ODIs. The highest individual ODI score by an overseas player is 134 not out, scored by Graeme Smith of South Africa on 25 November 2005. No player has scored more than one ODI century at the ground. Two centuries were scored during the ICC World Cup in 2011. Ryan ten Doeschate of the Netherlands scored 106 runs and Paul Stirling of Ireland scored 101 runs in the first and second innings respectively of the same match on 18 March 2011.
The first T20I was played between India and the touring England team on 29 October 2011. As of 2020, seven T20I matches have been played at the ground. To date, no T20I centuries have been scored at the ground.
Karu Jain of India scored the only Women's One Day International (WODI) century achieved at the Eden Gardens. She scored 103 runs against England in the first innings on 9 December 2005. To date, no centuries have been scored in a Women's Test cricket match or a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20) match played in the stadium.
Keys
Key | Description |
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Balls | denotes the number of balls faced by the player |
Inns. | denotes the particular innings in which the century was scored (a Test match has a maximum of four innings and an ODI/T20I match has two innings) |
Date | refers to the date the match started in case of Test match, and in case of ODI and WODI the date on which it was played |
Result | refers to whether the player's team won, lost or if the match was drawn |
— | Not available |
* | denotes that the batsman was not out |
‡ | indicates the highest individual score by an overseas player at the ground |
# | indicates the highest individual score at the ground |
Test centuries
- As of 2020, seventy seven Test centuries have been scored at the ground.
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result | Ref. |
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1 | 162 | Everton Weekes (1/2) | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1948 | Drawn | |
2 | 101 | Everton Weekes (2/2) | West Indies | — | 3 | India | Drawn | ||
3 | 108 | Clyde Walcott | West Indies | — | 3 | India | Drawn | ||
4 | 106 | Mushtaq Ali | India | — | 4 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
5 | 115 | Dattu Phadkar | India | — | 2 | England | 30 December 1951 | Drawn | |
6 | 110 | Deepak Shodhan | India | — | 2 | Pakistan | 12 December 1952 | Drawn | |
7 | 120 | John Reid | New Zealand | — | 2 | India | 28 December 1955 | Drawn | |
8 | 100 | Pankaj Roy | India | — | 3 | New Zealand | Drawn | ||
9 | 106* | Gulabrai Ramchand | India | — | 3 | New Zealand | Drawn | ||
10 | 256 ‡ | Rohan Kanhai | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1958 | Won | |
11 | 103 | Basil Butcher | West Indies | — | 1 | India | Won | ||
12 | 106* | Garry Sobers | West Indies | — | 1 | India | Won | ||
13 | 113 | Norm O'Neill | Australia | — | 2 | India | 23 January 1960 | Drawn | |
14 | 107 | Colin Cowdrey | England | — | 2 | India | 29 January 1964 | Drawn | |
15 | 129 | Motganhalli Jaisimha | India | — | 3 | England | Drawn | ||
16 | 151* | Bert Sutcliffe | New Zealand | — | 1 | India | 5 March 1965 | Drawn | |
17 | 105 | Bruce Taylor | New Zealand | — | 1 | India | Drawn | ||
18 | 153 | Nawab of Pataudi | India | — | 2 | New Zealand | Drawn | ||
19 | 100 | Roy Fredericks | West Indies | — | 2 | India | 27 December 1974 | Lost | |
20 | 139 | Gundappa Viswanath | India | 263 | 3 | West Indies | Won | ||
21 | 103 | Tony Greig | England | 347 | 2 | India | 1 January 1977 | Won | |
22 | 107 | Sunil Gavaskar (1/2) | India | — | 1 | West Indies | 29 December 1978 | Drawn | |
23 | 111 | Basil Williams | West Indies | — | 2 | India | Drawn | ||
24 | 182* | Sunil Gavaskar (2/2) | India | — | 3 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
25 | 157* | Dilip Vengsarkar (1/2) | India | — | 3 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
26 | 167 | Graham Yallop | Australia | 392 | 1 | India | 26 October 1979 | Drawn | |
27 | 161* | Clive Lloyd | West Indies | 290 | 2 | India | 10 December 1983 | Won | |
28 | 110 | Mohammad Azharuddin (1/5) | India | 322 | 1 | England | 31 December 1984 | Drawn | |
29 | 111 | Ravi Shastri | India | 357 | 1 | England | Drawn | ||
30 | 141 | Mohammad Azharuddin (2/5) | India | — | 1 | Pakistan | 11 February 1987 | Drawn | |
31 | 141 | Gordon Greenidge | West Indies | 265 | 1 | India | 26 December 1987 | Drawn | |
32 | 101 | Gus Logie | West Indies | 136 | 1 | India | Drawn | ||
33 | 100* | Carl Hooper | West Indies | 171 | 1 | India | Drawn | ||
34 | 102* | Dilip Vengsarkar (2/2) | India | 266 | 2 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
35 | 182 | Mohammad Azharuddin (3/5) | India | 197 | 1 | England | 29 January 1993 | Won | |
36 | 146 | Andrew Hudson | South Africa | 244 | 1 | India | 27 November 1996 | Won | |
37 | 102 | Gary Kirsten (1/2) | South Africa | 170 | 1 | India | Won | ||
38 | 109 | Mohammad Azharuddin (4/5) | India | 77 | 2 | South Africa | Lost | ||
39 | 133 | Gary Kirsten (2/2) | South Africa | 196 | 3 | India | Won | ||
40 | 153* | Daryll Cullinan | South Africa | 261 | 3 | India | Won | ||
41 | 163* | Mohammad Azharuddin (5/5) | India | 246 | 2 | Australia | 18 March 1998 | Won | |
42 | 188* | Saeed Anwar | Pakistan | 259 | 3 | India | 16 February 1999 | Won | |
43 | 110 | Steve Waugh | Australia | 203 | 1 | India | 11 March 2001 | Lost | |
44 | 281 # | VVS Laxman (1/5) | India | 452 | 3 | Australia | Won | ||
45 | 180 | Rahul Dravid (1/4) | India | 353 | 3 | Australia | Won | ||
46 | 100 | Wavell Hinds | West Indies | 200 | 2 | India | 30 October 2002 | Drawn | |
47 | 140 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | West Indies | 258 | 2 | India | Drawn | ||
48 | 104 | Marlon Samuels | West Indies | 182 | 2 | India | Drawn | ||
49 | 176 | Sachin Tendulkar (1/2) | India | 298 | 3 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
50 | 154* | VVS Laxman (2/5) | India | 396 | 3 | West Indies | Drawn | ||
51 | 121 | Jacques Kallis | South Africa | 259 | 1 | India | 28 November 2004 | Lost | |
52 | 110 | Rahul Dravid (2/4) | India | 222 | 1 | Pakistan | 16 March 2005 | Won | |
53 | 147 | Younis Khan (1/2) | Pakistan | 258 | 2 | India | Lost | ||
54 | 104 | Mohammad Yousuf | Pakistan | 179 | 2 | India | Lost | ||
55 | 135 | Rahul Dravid (3/4) | India | 283 | 3 | Pakistan | Won | ||
56 | 202 | Wasim Jaffer | India | 274 | 1 | Pakistan | 30 November 2007 | Drawn | |
57 | 102 | Sourav Ganguly | India | 156 | 1 | Pakistan | Drawn | ||
58 | 112* | VVS Laxman (3/5) | India | 178 | 1 | Pakistan | Drawn | ||
59 | 161* | Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 351 | 2 | India | Drawn | ||
60 | 119 | Kamran Akmal | Pakistan | 210 | 2 | India | Drawn | ||
61 | 107* | Younis Khan (2/2) | Pakistan | 182 | 4 | India | Drawn | ||
62 | 100 | Alviro Petersen | South Africa | 164 | 1 | India | 14 February 2010 | Lost | |
63 | 114 | Hashim Amla (1/2) | South Africa | 166 | 1 | India | Lost | ||
64 | 165 | Virender Sehwag | India | 174 | 2 | South Africa | Won | ||
65 | 106 | Sachin Tendulkar (2/2) | India | 206 | 2 | South Africa | Won | ||
66 | 143* | VVS Laxman (4/5) | India | 260 | 2 | South Africa | Won | ||
67 | 132* | MS Dhoni (1/2) | India | 187 | 2 | South Africa | Won | ||
68 | 123* | Hashim Amla (2/2) | South Africa | 394 | 3 | India | Lost | ||
69 | 119 | Rahul Dravid (4/4) | India | 207 | 1 | West Indies | 14 November 2011 | Won | |
70 | 176* | VVS Laxman (5/5) | India | 280 | 1 | West Indies | Won | ||
71 | 144 | MS Dhoni (2/2) | India | 175 | 1 | West Indies | Won | ||
72 | 136 | Darren Bravo | West Indies | 230 | 3 | India | Lost | ||
73 | 190 | Alastair Cook | England | 377 | 2 | India | 5 December 2012 | Won | |
74 | 177 | Rohit Sharma | India | 301 | 2 | West Indies | 6 November 2013 | Won | |
75 | 124 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 210 | 2 | West Indies | Won | ||
76 | 104* | Virat Kohli (1/2) | India | 119 | 3 | Sri Lanka | 16 November 2017 | Drawn | |
77 | 136 | Virat Kohli (2/2) | India | 194 | 2 | Bangladesh | 22 November 2019 | Won |
One Day International centuries
- As of 2023, 15 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground.
Keys | Description |
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† | denotes the century was scored in an ICC Cricket World Cup match |
↑ | denotes the score is the highest individual score in the ODIs |
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result | Ref. |
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1 | 123 | Kris Srikkanth | India | 103 | 1 | Pakistan | 18 February 1987 | Lost | |
2 | 107* | Desmond Haynes | West Indies | 137 | 1 | Pakistan | 1 November 1989 | Lost | |
3 | 100* | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 103 | 2 | Kenya | 31 May 1998 | Won | |
4 | 121 | Marcus Trescothick | England | 109 | 2 | India | 19 January 2002 | Lost | |
5 | 108* | Salman Butt | Pakistan | 130 | 2 | India | 13 November 2004 | Won | |
6 | 134* ‡ | Graeme Smith | South Africa | 124 | 2 | India | 25 November 2005 | Won | |
7 | 118 | Upul Tharanga | Sri Lanka | 128 | 1 | India | 24 December 2009 | Lost | |
8 | 150* | Gautam Gambhir | India | 137 | 2 | Sri Lanka | Won | ||
9 | 107 | Virat Kohli | India | 114 | 2 | Sri Lanka | Won | ||
10 | 106 † | Ryan ten Doeschate | Netherlands | 108 | 1 | Ireland | 18 March 2011 | Lost | |
11 | 101 † | Paul Stirling | Ireland | 72 | 2 | Netherlands | Won | ||
12 | 106 | Nasir Jamshed | Pakistan | 124 | 1 | India | 3 January 2013 | Won | |
13 | 264 # ↑ | Rohit Sharma | India | 173 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 13 November 2014 | Won | |
14 | 101* | Virat Kohli | India | 121 | 1 | South Africa | 5 November 2023 | Won | |
15 | 101 | David Miller | South Africa | 116 | 1 | Australia | 16 November 2023 | Lost |
Women international centuries
- As of 2020, one Women's One Day International (WODI) century has been scored at the ground.
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result | Ref. |
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1 | 103 # | Karu Jain | India | 147 | 1 | England | 9 December 2005 | Won |