World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition established by Kerry Packer which ran from 1977 and 1979. Packer set the competition up after failing to gain the rights to show Test cricket on his Channel Nine television channel. It was opposed by the International Cricket Conference (ICC), who ruled that such matches would not be first-class, and any players taking part would be banned from playing in officially sanctioned cricket, although the latter was ruled to be a "restraint of trade" and was not enforceable. They also barred the WSC from using the term "Test matches", or naming a team "Australia". As a result, the matches were dubbed "Supertests", while the teams were WSC Australia XI, WSC West Indies XI and WSC World XI. In all, 16 Supertests and 58 international one-day matches were played, before Packer and the Australian Cricket Board came to an agreement in May 1979, and World Series Cricket came to an end.

The first Supertest began on 2 December 1977, although the first century (100 or more runs in a single innings) was not scored until the third match, in which Ian Chappell accumulated 141 runs in the first innings. Bruce Laird and Viv Richards went on to score centuries in the same match. A month later, Barry Richards achieved the competition's first double century, scoring 207 runs for the WSC World XI. In the same innings, Gordon Greenidge and Richards also passed a hundred, while Greg Chappell did so in the second innings for WSC Australia XI. In the next match, Greg Chappell surpassed Richards' total, remaining 246 not out, one of his record five WSC centuries.

Only two centuries were made in the international one-day matches. Kepler Wessels scored the first, accruing 136 runs; his score is the highest in WSC one-day international matches, and makes him the only player to have scored a century in both a Supertest and an international one-day match in the WSC. The other century was scored by Martin Kent, who scored 109 runs. In all, 25 centuries were scored in Supertests, and 2 in international one-day matches. Seven of the centuries were scored at VFL Park in Melbourne, the most of any venue.

Symbol	Meaning
*	The century scorer remained not out.
Inn.	The innings of the match in which the player scored his century.
Date	The date on which the match began.
Lost	The match was lost by the century scorer's team.
Won	The match was won by the century scorer's team.
Drawn	The match was drawn.

Centuries in Supertests

No.	Player	Score	For	Against	Inn.	Venue	Date	Result	Ref(s)
1	Ian Chappell	141	Australia	West Indies	1	Football Park, Adelaide	31 December 1977	Won
2	Bruce Laird	106 2	Australia	West Indies	3	Football Park, Adelaide	31 December 1977	Won
3	Viv Richards	123	West Indies	Australia	4	Football Park, Adelaide	31 December 1977	Lost
4	Bruce Laird	106 1	Australia	World XI	1	RAS Showground, Sydney	14 January 1978	Lost
5	Viv Richards	119	World XI	Australia	2	RAS Showground, Sydney	14 January 1978	Won
6	Barry Richards	207	World XI	Australia	1	Gloucester Park, Perth	27 January 1978	Won
7	Gordon Greenidge	140	World XI	Australia	1	Gloucester Park, Perth	27 January 1978	Won
8	Viv Richards	177	World XI	Australia	1	Gloucester Park, Perth	27 January 1978	Won
9	Greg Chappell	174	Australia	World XI	2	Gloucester Park, Perth	27 January 1978	Lost
10	Rick McCosker	129	Australia	World XI	1	VFL Park, Melbourne	9 February 1978	Won
11	Greg Chappell	246*	Australia	World XI	1	VFL Park, Melbourne	9 February 1978	Won
12	Viv Richards	170	World XI	Australia	2	VFL Park, Melbourne	9 February 1978	Lost
13	Asif Iqbal	107	World XI	West Indies	1	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	21 December 1978	Won
14	Kepler Wessels	126	Australia	West Indies	1	VFL Park, Melbourne	12 January 1979	Drawn
15	David Hookes	116	Australia	West Indies	1	VFL Park, Melbourne	12 January 1979	Drawn
16	Lawrence Rowe	175	West Indies	Australia	2	VFL Park, Melbourne	12 January 1979	Drawn
17	Barry Richards	101*	World XI	Australia	4	Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney	2 February 1979	Won
18	Clive Lloyd	197	West Indies	Australia	3	Sabina Park, Kingston	23 February 1979	Won
19	Bruce Laird	122	Australia	West Indies	1	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain	16 March 1979	Won
20	Greg Chappell	150	Australia	West Indies	3	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain	16 March 1979	Won
21	Greg Chappell	113	Australia	West Indies	1	Bourda, Georgetown	25 March 1979	Drawn
22	Collis King	110	West Indies	Australia	2	Bourda, Georgetown	25 March 1979	Drawn
23	Greg Chappell	104	Australia	West Indies	1	Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's	6 April 1979	Drawn
24	Lawrence Rowe	135	West Indies	Australia	2	Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's	6 April 1979	Drawn
25	Rod Marsh	102*	Australia	West Indies	3	Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's	6 April 1979	Drawn

Centuries in international one-day matches

No.	Player	Score	For	Against	Inn.	Venue	Date	Result	Ref(s)
1	Kepler Wessels	136	Australia	West Indies	1	VFL Park, Melbourne	27 January 1979	Won
2	Martin Kent	109	Australia	West Indies	2	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	7 March 1979	Lost

• List of World Series Cricket international five-wicket hauls

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