Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai, India. It is the home of the Cricket Club of India and has played host to Ranji Trophy matches (including seventeen finals) [3] and Indian Premier League matches, [4] as well as being a Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International (T20) venue. It has a capacity of 20,000 spectators. The ground has hosted eighteen Test matches, the first in 1948 when India played the West Indies. It has also staged nine One Day International matches, the first of which was in 1989 when Australia lost to Pakistan by 66 runs. One T20 International has been played at the ground when India beat Australia by 7 wickets in 2007 (first T20 International to be played in India). [5] [6] [7] Of the nine One Day Internationals played at the stadium, five matches (including the final) were staged during the ICC Champions Trophy in 2006. [8]
The first Test century (100 or more runs in a single innings) scored at the ground was in 1948 by the West Indian Allan Rae in the first innings of the first Test match played at Brabourne Stadium. The first Indian to score a century at the Brabourne was Rusi Modi in the third innings of the same match. [9] In total, 35 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in 18 Test matches. [1] [2] Virender Sehwag's 293, scored against Sri Lanka in 2009, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground. The highest Test score by an overseas player is 194 by the West Indian Everton Weekes in 1948. [1] Vijay Hazare has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with four. [10]
On 29 October 2018, first century at this ground in the ODIs was scored by Rohit Sharma against West Indies. Sharma also holds the record of highest score at this ground with 162. In total, 2 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground in 9 ODI matches. [11]
No T20 International century have been scored at this ground in one T20I match. [12] Ricky Ponting holds the record for the highest T20 International innings score at the ground, 76 against India in 2007. The highest score by an Indian in a T20 International at the Brabourne is 63 by Gautam Gambhir in the same match. [13]
The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Brabourne Stadium. [1]
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Winning team |
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1 | 104 | Allan Rae | West Indies | NR | 1 | India | 9 December 1948 | Match drawn [14] |
2 | 194 | Everton Weekes | West Indies | NR | 1 | India | 9 December 1948 | Match drawn [14] |
3 | 112 | Rusi Modi | India | NR | 3 | West Indies | 9 December 1948 | Match drawn [14] |
4 | 134* | Vijay Hazare (1/4) | India | NR | 3 | West Indies | 9 December 1948 | Match drawn [14] |
5 | 122 | Vijay Hazare (2/4) | India | NR | 4 | West Indies | 4 February 1949 | Match drawn [15] |
6 | 140 | Pankaj Roy | India | NR | 1 | England | 14 December 1951 | Match drawn [16] |
7 | 155 | Vijay Hazare (3/4) | India | NR | 1 | England | 14 December 1951 | Match drawn [16] |
8 | 175 | Tom Graveney | England | NR | 2 | India | 14 December 1951 | Match drawn [16] |
9 | 146* | Vijay Hazare (4/4) | India | NR | 2 | Pakistan | 13 November 1952 | India [17] |
10 | 102 | Polly Umrigar | India | NR | 2 | Pakistan | 13 November 1952 | India [17] |
11 | 223 | Vinoo Mankad | India | NR | 1 | New Zealand | 2 December 1955 | India [18] |
12 | 109 | Gulabrai Ramchand | India | NR | 1 | Australia | 26 October 1956 | Match drawn [19] |
13 | 161 | Jim Burke | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 26 October 1956 | Match drawn [19] |
14 | 140 | Neil Harvey (1/2) | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 26 October 1956 | Match drawn [19] |
15 | 142* | Gary Sobers | West Indies | NR | 3 | India | 28 November 1958 | Match drawn [20] |
16 | 108 | Nari Contractor | India | NR | 1 | Australia | 1 January 1960 | Match drawn [21] |
17 | 102 | Neil Harvey (2/2) | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 1 January 1960 | Match drawn [21] |
18 | 163 | Norm O'Neill | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 1 January 1960 | Match drawn [21] |
19 | 160 | Hanif Mohammad | Pakistan | NR | 1 | India | 2 December 1960 | Match drawn [22] |
20 | 121 | Saeed Ahmed | Pakistan | NR | 1 | India | 2 December 1960 | Match drawn [22] |
21 | 151 | Ken Barrington | England | NR | 1 | India | 11 November 1961 | Match drawn [23] |
22 | 129 | Graham Dowling | New Zealand | NR | 1 | India | 12 March 1965 | Match drawn [24] |
23 | 200* | Dilip Sardesai | India | NR | 3 | New Zealand | 12 March 1965 | Match drawn [24] |
24 | 109 | Chandu Borde (1/2) | India | NR | 3 | New Zealand | 12 March 1965 | Match drawn [24] |
25 | 121 | Chandu Borde (2/2) | India | NR | 1 | West Indies | 13 December 1966 | West Indies [25] |
26 | 101 | Conrad Hunte | West Indies | NR | 2 | India | 13 December 1966 | West Indies [25] |
27 | 103 | Keith Stackpole | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 4 November 1969 | Australia [26] |
28 | 121 | Farokh Engineer | India | 182 | 1 | England | 6 February 1973 | Match drawn [27] |
29 | 113 | Gundappa Viswanath | India | 267 | 1 | England | 6 February 1973 | Match drawn [27] |
30 | 113 | Keith Fletcher | England | 298 | 2 | India | 6 February 1973 | Match drawn [27] |
31 | 148 | Tony Greig | England | 360 | 2 | India | 6 February 1973 | Match drawn [27] |
32 | 109 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | Sri Lanka | 160 | 1 | India | 2 December 2009 | India [28] |
33 | 293 | Virender Sehwag | India | 254 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 2 December 2009 | India [28] |
34 | 100* | MS Dhoni | India | 154 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 2 December 2009 | India [28] |
35 | 137 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 261 | 3 | India | 2 December 2009 | India [28] |
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Winning team |
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1 | 162 | Rohit Sharma | India | 137 | 1 | West Indies | 29 October 2018 | India [29] |
2 | 100 | Ambati Rayudu | India | 81 |
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Winning team |
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1 | 100 | Thirush Kamini | India | 146 | 1 | West Indies | 31 January 2013 | India Women [30] |
2 | 109 | Charlotte Edwards (1/2) | England | 123 | 1 | India | 3 February 2013 | England Women [31] |
3 | 107* | Harmanpreet Kaur | India | 109 | 2 | England | 3 February 2013 | England Women [31] |
4 | 103 | Amy Satterthwaite | New Zealand | 126 | 2 | England | 13 February 2013 | England Women [32] |
5 | 106* | Charlotte Edwards (2/2) | England | 121 | 2 | New Zealand | 15 February 2013 | England Women [33] |
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Winning team |
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1 | 124 | Danielle Wyatt | England | 64 | 2 | India | 25 March 2018 | England Women [34] |
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