List of international cricket centuries at Buffalo Park

Buffalo Park is a sports ground in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, it has a capacity of 20,000. . The ground has been host to a single Test cricket match in 2002 when South Africa played Bangladesh. ^[1] The ground has been hosted 21 One Day Internationals, where the first ODI staged in 1998 between South Africa and India. ^[2] The ground hosted first staged to Twenty20 Internationals when South Africa played against New Zealand in 2012. ^[3]

South African Graeme Smith became the first man to score a Test century at Diamond Oval when he made 200 against Bangladesh in 2002. It still stands as the highest score seen at the ground. Overall, only two Test centuries have been scored at the ground. ^[4]

Eight ODI centuries have been scored at Diamond Oval, the first by Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad who scored 107 from 144 deliveries, against South Africa in 1993. The highest score achieved at the ground is 150 made by West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul against South Africa in 1999. ^[5]

The only Twenty20 International century at the venue was achieved by New Zealand opener Martin Guptill against South Africa in 2012, when he made an unbeaten 101 in 69 deliveries. ^[6]

Key

• * 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 Diamond Oval.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won

Test centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	200	Graeme Smith	South Africa	287	1	Bangladesh	18 October 2002	Won
2	150	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	223	1	Bangladesh	18 October 2002	Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	107	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	144	1	South Africa	15 February 1993	Won
2	102*	Ken Rutherford	New Zealand	98	1	Sri Lanka	18 December 1994	Won
3	150	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	129	1	South Africa	24 January 1999	Won
4	108	Carl Hooper	West Indies	119	1	South Africa	24 January 1999	Won
5	120*	Neil McKenzie	South Africa	135	1	Sri Lanka	17 December 2000	Won
6	103*	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	127	1	Zimbabwe	15 March 2003	Won
7	115*	Graeme Smith	South Africa	131	1	England	9 February 2009	Won
8	100*	Kevin Pietersen	England	69	2	South Africa	9 February 2009	Lost

Twenty20 International centuries

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International centuries scored at Diamond Oval.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	101*	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	69	2	South Africa	23 December 2012	Won

References

1. "Buffalo Park — Cricinfo profile". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
2. "Records / Buffalo Park, East London / One-Day Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
3. "Records / Buffalo Park, East London / Twenty20 Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
4. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
5. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
6. "Statistics / Statsguru / Twenty20 Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.