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List of international cricket centuries at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, also known as Chepauk is a cricket ground in Chennai, India. Formerly known as the Madras Cricket Club Ground it now has a capacity of 50,000.[1] The ground has hosted 34 Test matches, the first of these was played in 1934 between India and England.[2] The ground has also staged 22 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was played between India and Australia in 1987.[3]

The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.

The first Test century scored at the ground was by the Englishman Cyril Walters. Walters's innings of 102 was scored against India in 1934. The Indian Virender Sehwag holds the record for the highest score at the ground, 319 from 304 balls, which was made in 2008 against South Africa. This was Sehwag's second triple century, the only other Test players that have scored 2 triple centuries are Donald Bradman and Brian Lara. The record for the highest score by an overseas player belongs to England's Joe Root who made 218 in 2021. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to have scored 5 Test centuries at the ground. A century in each innings of a match has been achieved twice at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The Sri Lankan Duleep Mendis made 2 innings of 105 against India in 1982 and the Englishman Andrew Strauss scored 123 and 108 in 2008, also against India. Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 224 in the 1st test against Australia in the home series on 24 February 2013. He is the first Indian Wicket-Keeper Batsman to score a Double Century in Test Cricket and 7th Wicket-Keeper in Test Cricket to do so.[4]

14 ODI centuries have been made at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The first of these was scored by the Australian Geoff Marsh who made 110 in 1987. The Pakistani Saeed Anwar holds the record for the highest ODI scored at the ground with 194, from 146 deliveries against India in 1997. Anwars innings was, at the time, a world record having beating the previous best of 189 not out by Viv Richards. Anwar's record stood until August 2009 when it was equalled by the Zimbabwean Charles Coventry. The highest score by an Indian batsman at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium is 139 not out which was made by MS Dhoni in 2007. At the time Dhoni was playing for an Asian XI against an African XI. [5][6] The highest score by an Indian batsman representing India at this stadium is 138 which was made by Virat Kohli against South Africa on 22 October 2015.

Key

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  • * 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 the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[7][8] lost[9][10] or if the match was drawn[11] or tied.[12]

Test centuries

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The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[4]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 102 Cyril Walters   England NR 3   Indien 10 February 1934 Won
2 109 Allan Rae   West Indies NR 1   Indien 27 January 1949 Won
3 160 Jeffrey Stollmeyer   West Indies NR 1   Indien 27 January 1949 Won
4 111 Pankaj Roy   Indien NR 2   England 6 February 1952 Won
5 130* Polly Umrigar   Indien NR 2   England 6 February 1952 Won
6 109 Farokh Engineer   Indien NR 1   West Indies 13 January 1967 Drawn
7 125 Chandu Borde   Indien NR 1   West Indies 13 January 1967 Drawn
8 102 Doug Walters   Australien NR 1   Indien 24 December 1969 Won
9 124 Gundappa Viswanath (1/2)   Indien NR 2   West Indies 12 January 1979 Won
10 162 Allan Border (1/2)   Australien 360 1   Indien 11 September 1979 Drawn
11 100 Kim Hughes   Australien 204 1   Indien 11 September 1979 Drawn
12 166 Sunil Gavaskar (1/3)   Indien 373 2   Pakistan 15 January 1980 Won
13 222 Gundappa Viswanath (2/2)   Indien 374 1   England 13 January 1982 Drawn
14 140 Yashpal Sharma   Indien 298 1   England 13 January 1982 Drawn
15 127 Graham Gooch   England 181 2   Indien 13 January 1982 Drawn
16 105 Duleep Mendis (1/2)   Sri Lanka 123 1   Indien 17 September 1982 Drawn
17 155 Sunil Gavaskar (2/3)   Indien 293 2   Sri Lanka 17 September 1982 Drawn
18 114* Sandeep Patil   Indien NR 2   Sri Lanka 17 September 1982 Drawn
19 105 Duleep Mendis (2/2)   Sri Lanka NR 3   Indien 17 September 1982 Drawn
20 236* Sunil Gavaskar (3/3)   Indien 425 2   West Indies 24 December 1983 Drawn
21 201 Graeme Fowler   England 409 2   Indien 13 January 1985 Won
22 207 Mike Gatting   England 309 2   Indien 13 January 1985 Won
23 105 Mohammad Azharuddin   Indien 218 3   England 13 January 1985 Lost
24 122 David Boon   Australien 258 1   Indien 18 September 1986 Tied
25 210 Dean Jones   Australien 330 1   Indien 18 September 1986 Tied
26 106 Allan Border (2/2)   Australien 172 1   Indien 18 September 1986 Tied
27 119 Kapil Dev (1/2)   Indien 138 2   Australien 18 September 1986 Tied
28 101 Shoaib Mohammad   Pakistan NR 1   Indien 3 February 1987 Drawn
29 135* Imran Khan   Pakistan 230 1   Indien 3 February 1987 Drawn
30 123 Kris Srikkanth   Indien 149 2   Pakistan 3 February 1987 Drawn
31 109 Kapil Dev (2/2)   Indien 124 1   West Indies 11 January 1988 Won
32 106 Navjot Sidhu   Indien 273 1   England 11 February 1993 Won
33 165 Sachin Tendulkar (1/5)   Indien 296 1   England 11 February 1993 Won
34 117 Chris Lewis   England 140 3   Indien 11 February 1993 Lost
35 155* Sachin Tendulkar (2/5)   Indien 191 3   Australien 6 March 1998 Won
36 141 Shahid Afridi   Pakistan 191 3   Indien 28 January 1999 Won
37 136 Sachin Tendulkar (3/5)   Indien 273 4   Pakistan 28 January 1999 Lost
38 203 Matthew Hayden   Australien 320 1   Indien 18 May 2001 Lost
39 126 Sachin Tendulkar (4/5)   Indien 230 2   Australien 18 May 2001 Won
40 155 Virender Sehwag (1/2)   Indien 221 2   Australien 14 October 2004 Drawn
41 104 Damien Martyn   Australien 210 3   Indien 14 October 2004 Drawn
42 159 Hashim Amla   Südafrika 262 1   Indien 26 March 2008 Drawn
43 319 Virender Sehwag (2/2)   Indien 304 2   Südafrika 26 March 2008 Drawn
44 111 Rahul Dravid   Indien 291 2   Südafrika 26 March 2008 Drawn
45 155* Neil McKenzie   Südafrika 339 3   Indien 26 March 2008 Drawn
46 123 Andrew Strauss (1/2)   England 233 1   Indien 11 December 2008 Lost
47 108 Andrew Strauss (2/2)   England 244 3   Indien 11 December 2008 Lost
48 108 Paul Collingwood   England 250 3   Indien 11 December 2008 Lost
49 103* Sachin Tendulkar (5/5)   Indien 196 4   England 11 December 2008 Won
50 130 Michael Clarke   Australien 246 1   Indien 22 February 2013 Lost
51 107 Virat Kohli   Indien 206 2   Australien 22 February 2013 Won
52 224 MS Dhoni   Indien 265 2   Australien 22 February 2013 Won
53 146 Moeen Ali   England 262 1   Indien 16 December 2016 Lost
54 199 KL Rahul   Indien 311 2   England 16 December 2016 Won
55 303* Karun Nair   Indien 381 2   England 16 December 2016 Won
56 218 Joe Root   England 377 1   Indien 5 February 2021 Won
57 161 Rohit Sharma   Indien 231 1   England 13 February 2021 Won
58 106 Ravichandran Ashwin   Indien 148 3   England 13 February 2021 Won

One Day International centuries

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The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[5]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 110 Geoff Marsh   Australien 141 1   Indien 9 October 1987 Won
2 130 Chris Harris   Neuseeland 124 1   Australien 11 March 1996 Lost
3 110 Mark Waugh   Australien 112 2   Neuseeland 11 March 1996 Won
4 194 Saeed Anwar   Pakistan 146 1   Indien 21 May 1997 Won
5 107 Rahul Dravid   Indien 116 2   Pakistan 21 May 1997 Lost
6 107 Mahela Jayawardene  Asia XI 106 1  Africa XI 10 June 2007 Won
7 139* MS Dhoni (1/2)  Asia XI 97 1  Africa XI 10 June 2007 Won
8 113 Yuvraj Singh   Indien 123 1   West Indies 20 March 2011 Won
9 104* Manoj Tiwari   Indien 126 1   West Indies 11 December 2011 Won
10 119 Kieron Pollard   West Indies 110 2   Indien 11 December 2011 Lost
11 113* MS Dhoni (2/2)   Indien 125 1   Pakistan 30 December 2012 Lost
12 101* Nasir Jamshed   Pakistan 132 2   Indien 30 December 2012 Won
13 138 Virat Kohli   Indien 140 1   Südafrika 22 October 2015 Won
14 112 AB de Villiers   Südafrika 107 2   Indien 22 October 2015 Lost
15 139 Shimron Hetmyer   West Indies 106 2   Indien 15 December 2019 Won
16 102* Shai Hope   West Indies 151 2   Indien 15 December 2019 Won

Women's ODI

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No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 104* Jaya Sharma   Indien 140 2   Australien 23 February 2007 Won
2 122 Suzie Bates   Neuseeland 134 1   Indien 1 March 2007 Won

References

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  1. ^ "MA Chidambaram Stadium — ESPNcricinfo profile". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Statsguru: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai / Test matches / Match result list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  3. ^ "Statsguru: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai / One-Day Internationals matches / Match result list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Statsguru: One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Innings by innings list". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  6. ^ "Records / One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Most runs in an innings". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Won". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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  9. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Lost". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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  11. ^ "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Drawn". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
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