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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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List Of International Cricket Centuries At Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval, also known by its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is a cricket ground in Hobart, Australia. It is the home of the Tasmania cricket team and the Hobart Hurricanes (a Twenty20 team in the Big Bash League), as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue. It has a capacity of 16,000 spectators. As of December 2015, the ground has hosted 12 Test matches, the first in 1989 when Australia hosted Sri Lanka. It has also staged 34 ODI matches, the first of which was in 1988 when New Zealand lost to Sri Lanka by four wickets. As of October 2014, two T20Is have been played at the ground. The first was in 2010 when Australia beat the West Indies by 38 runs; the second was in 2014, when Australia defeated England by 13 runs.

The first Test century (100 or more runs in a single innings) scored at the ground was by Australian Mark Taylor in the third innings of the first Test match against Sri Lanka in 1989. In the same innings Dean Jones and Steve Waugh also scored centuries. As of December 2015, 31 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in 12 Test matches. As of December 2015, Adam Voges 269*, scored against West Indies in 2015, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground and only the second double century (200 or more runs in a single innings) in this ground, after Ricky Ponting's 209, against Pakistan in 2010. The highest Test score by an overseas player is 192 by the Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara in 2007. Michael Hussey has scored three Test centuries at the ground, the most by any batsman.

In the second ODI ever at Bellerive Oval, West Indian Desmond Haynes scored the first century at the venue with a score of 101 runs from 112 balls against Pakistan in 1988. In 35 ODIs, a total of 25 centuries have been scored. As of October 2014, the highest ODI score at the ground is 172, scored by Adam Gilchrist, an Australian wicket-keeper. The top scoring non-Australian is Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan, who scored 160 runs. Dilshan and fellow Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara are the only players to have scored two ODI centuries at Bellerive Oval. The top T20I score at the ground is 103* by Australian Glenn Maxwell in 2018.

Key

  • An asterisk (*) denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in which the century was scored.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • Parentheses i.e. (1/3) next to the player's name denotes his century number at Bellerive Oval.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.

List of centuries

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 108 Mark Taylor (1/2)  Australia 212 3  Sri Lanka 16 December 1989 Australia won
2 118* Dean Jones  Australia 178 3  Sri Lanka 16 December 1989 Australia won
3 134* Steve Waugh  Australia 177 3  Sri Lanka 16 December 1989 Australia won
4 168 Michael Slater  Australia 235 1  New Zealand 26 November 1993 Australia won
5 106 David Boon  Australia 242 1  New Zealand 26 November 1993 Australia won
6 111 Mark Waugh  Australia 139 1  New Zealand 26 November 1993 Australia won
7 123 Mark Taylor (2/2)  Australia 244 3  Pakistan 17 November 1995 Australia won
8 114 Matthew Elliott  Australia 265 1  New Zealand 27 November 1997 Drawn
9 133 Matt Horne  New Zealand 259 2  Australia 27 November 1997 Drawn
10 118 Inzamam-ul-Haq  Pakistan 191 3  Australia 18 November 1999 Australia won
11 127 Justin Langer (1/2)  Australia 295 4  Pakistan 18 November 1999 Australia won
12 149* Adam Gilchrist  Australia 163 4  Pakistan 18 November 1999 Australia won
13 123 Justin Langer (2/2)  Australia 154 1  New Zealand 22 November 2001 Drawn
14 157* Ricky Ponting (1/2)  Australia 218 1  New Zealand 22 November 2001 Drawn
15 110 Matthew Hayden  Australia 169 2  West Indies 17 November 2005 Australia won
16 137 Michael Hussey (1/3)  Australia 234 2  West Indies 17 November 2005 Australia won
17 113 Dwayne Bravo  West Indies 202 3  Australia 17 November 2005 Australia won
18 150 Phil Jaques  Australia 237 1  Sri Lanka 16 November 2007 Australia won
19 132 Michael Hussey (2/3)  Australia 220 1  Sri Lanka 16 November 2007 Australia won
20 104 Mahela Jayawardene  Sri Lanka 194 2  Australia 16 November 2007 Australia won
21 192 Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka 282 4  Australia 16 November 2007 Australia won
22 209 Ricky Ponting (2/2)  Australia 354 1  Pakistan 14 January 2010 Australia won
23 166 Michael Clarke  Australia 328 1  Pakistan 14 January 2010 Australia won
24 102 Salman Butt  Pakistan 234 2  Australia 14 January 2010 Australia won
25 100 Simon Katich  Australia 138 3  Pakistan 14 January 2010 Australia won
26 123* David Warner  Australia 170 4  New Zealand 9 December 2011 New Zealand won
27 115* Michael Hussey (3/3)  Australia 184 1  Sri Lanka 14 December 2012 Australia won
28 147 Tillakaratne Dilshan  Sri Lanka 273 2  Australia 14 December 2012 Australia won
29 269* Adam Voges  Australia 285 1  West Indies 10 December 2015 Australia won
30 182 Shaun Marsh  Australia 266 1  West Indies 10 December 2015 Australia won
31 108 Darren Bravo  West Indies 177 2  Australia 10 December 2015 Australia won
32 104 Quinton de Kock  South Africa 143 2  Australia 12 November 2016 South Africa won
33 101 Travis Head  Australia 113 1  England 14 January 2022 Australia won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 101 Desmond Haynes  West Indies 112 1  Pakistan 17 December 1988 West Indies won
2 116* Ramiz Raja  Pakistan 148 2  Sri Lanka 15 February 1990 Pakistan won
3 102* David Boon  Australia 168 2  India 10 December 1991 Australia won
4 114 Aamer Sohail  Pakistan 136 1  Zimbabwe 27 February 1992 Pakistan won
5 110 Stuart Law  Australia 135 1  Zimbabwe 8 December 1994 Australia won
6 124 Alistair Campbell  Zimbabwe 142 1  Australia 30 January 2001 Australia won
7 102* Mark Waugh  Australia 113 2  Zimbabwe 30 January 2001 Australia won
8 101* Damien Martyn  Australia 114 1  England 11 January 2003 Australia won
9 172 Adam Gilchrist  Australia 126 1  Zimbabwe 16 January 2004 Australia won
10 134* Ricky Ponting  Australia 133 1  New Zealand 20 December 2007 Australia won
11 110 Shaun Marsh  Australia 114 1  England 21 January 2011 Australia won
12 104 Peter Forrest  Australia 138 1  Sri Lanka 24 February 2012 Sri Lanka won
13 160* Tillakaratne Dilshan (1/2)  Sri Lanka 165 1  India 28 February 2012 India won
14 105 Kumar Sangakkara (1/2)  Sri Lanka 87 1  India 28 February 2012 India won
15 133* Virat Kohli  India 86 2  Sri Lanka 28 February 2012 India won
16 138* Phillip Hughes  Australia 154 1  Sri Lanka 23 January 2013 Australia won
17 141 Ian Bell  England 125 1  Australia 23 January 2015 Australia won
18 102* Steve Smith  Australia 95 2  England 23 January 2015 Australia won
19 112 Ed Joyce  Ireland 103 1  Zimbabwe 7 March 2015 Ireland won
20 121 Brendan Taylor  Zimbabwe 91 2  Ireland 7 March 2015 Ireland won
21 104 Tillakaratne Dilshan (2/2)  Sri Lanka 99 1  Scotland 11 March 2015 Sri Lanka won
22 124 Kumar Sangakkara (2/2)  Sri Lanka 95 1  Scotland 11 March 2015 Sri Lanka won
23 125 Faf du Plessis  South Africa 114 1  Australia 11 November 2018 South Africa won
24 139 David Miller  South Africa 108 1  Australia 11 November 2018 South Africa won
25 106 Shaun Marsh  Australia 102 2  South Africa 11 November 2018 South Africa won

Twenty20 International centuries

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 103* Glenn Maxwell  Australia 58 2  England 7 February 2018 Australia won