List of international cricket centuries at Iqbal Stadium

Iqbal Stadium has hosted 24 Tests since 1978 when Pakistan played India. ^[1] 16 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been hosted, where the first of which was in 1984 when Pakistan played New Zealand. ^[2]

Zaheer Abbas became the first man to score a Test century at the ground, 176 against India in 1978. The score of 253 by Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya against Pakistan in 2004 stands as the highest score at the ground. Overall, 53 Test centuries have been scored at the ground, including 6 double centuries. ^[3]

Four ODI centuries have been scored at the ground, and the first by Saleem Malik who scored 100 against Sri Lanka in 1987. The highest score at the ground is 108 not out made by Mohammad Yousuf against Zimbabwe in 2008. ^[4]

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 Iqbal Stadium.
• 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 Iqbal Stadium.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	176	Zaheer Abbas (1/3)	Pakistan	NA	1	India	16 October 1978	Drawn
2	154*	Javed Miandad (1/5)	Pakistan	NA	1	India	16 October 1978	Drawn
3	145	Gundappa Viswanath	India	NA	2	Pakistan	16 October 1978	Drawn
4	104	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan	NA	3	India	16 October 1978	Drawn
5	235	Greg Chappell	Australia	263	1	Pakistan	6 March 1980	Drawn
6	172	Graham Yallop	Australia	447	1	Pakistan	6 March 1980	Drawn
7	210*	Taslim Arif	Pakistan	379	2	Australia	6 March 1980	Drawn
8	106*	Javed Miandad (2/5)	Pakistan	379	2	Australia	6 March 1980	Drawn
9	157	Sidath Wettimuny	Sri Lanka	330	1	Pakistan	14 March 1982	Drawn
10	111	Mansoor Akhtar	Pakistan	191	1	Australia	30 September 1982	Won
11	126	Zaheer Abbas (2/3)	Pakistan	205	1	Australia	30 September 1982	Won
12	106*	Greg Ritchie	Australia	205	3	Pakistan	30 September 1982	Won
13	126	Javed Miandad (3/5)	Pakistan	200	2	India	3 January 1983	Won
14	168	Zaheer Abbas (3/3)	Pakistan	176	2	India	3 January 1983	Won
15	107	Saleem Malik (1/3)	Pakistan	168	2	India	3 January 1983	Won
16	117	Imran Khan	Pakistan	121	2	India	3 January 1983	Won
17	127*	Sunil Gavaskar	India	262	3	Pakistan	3 January 1983	Lost
18	116	Saleem Malik (2/3)	Pakistan	270	1	England	12 March 1984	Drawn
19	112	Wasim Raja	Pakistan	210	1	England	12 March 1984	Drawn
20	152	Wasim Raja	England	318	2	Pakistan	12 March 1984	Drawn
21	152	Sandeep Patil	India	231	1	Pakistan	24 October 1984	Drawn
22	139	Ravi Shastri	India	270	1	Pakistan	24 October 1984	Drawn
23	199	Mudassar Nazar	Pakistan	408	2	India	24 October 1984	Drawn
24	210	Qasim Umar (1/2)	Pakistan	442	2	India	24 October 1984	Drawn
25	102*	Saleem Malik (3/3)	Pakistan	NA	2	India	24 October 1984	Drawn
26	122	Aravinda de Silva (1/2)	Sri Lanka	NA	1	Pakistan	16 October 1985	Drawn
27	210	Qasim Umar (2/2)	Pakistan	NZ	2	Sri Lanka	16 October 1985	Drawn
28	203*	Javed Miandad (4/5)	Pakistan	NZ	2	Sri Lanka	16 October 1985	Drawn
29	116	Chris Broad	England	339	1	Sri Lanka	7 December 1987	Drawn
30	122	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan	221	1	Australia	23 September 1988	Drawn
31	113*	Allan Border	Australia	237	2	Pakistan	23 September 1988	Drawn
32	107	Javed Miandad (5/5)	Pakistan	186	3	Australia	23 September 1988	Drawn
33	117	Aamer Malik	Pakistan	305	2	India	23 November 1989	Drawn
34	109	Mohammad Azharuddin	India	174	3	Pakistan	23 November 1989	Drawn
35	142	Shoaib Mohammad	Pakistan	368	3	New Zealand	26 October 1990	Won
36	115	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka	176	1	Pakistan	15 September 1995	Won
37	105	Aravinda de Silva (2/2)	Sri Lanka	316	3	Pakistan	15 September 1995	Won
38	100*	Gary Kirsten (1/2)	South Africa	208	1	Pakistan	24 October 1997	Won
39	100*	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	225	3	England	29 November 2000	Drawn
40	128	Imran Farhat	Pakistan	226	2	South Africa	24 October 2003	Drawn
41	118	Gary Kirsten (2/2)	South Africa	232	3	Pakistan	24 October 2003	Drawn
42	100	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	232	1	Pakistan	20 October 2004	Won
43	253	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	348	3	Pakistan	20 October 2004	Won
44	109	Inzamam-ul-Haq (1/3)	Pakistan	200	1	England	20 November 2005	Drawn
45	115	Ian Bell	England	272	2	Pakistan	20 November 2005	Drawn
46	100	Kevin Pietersen	England	137	2	Pakistan	20 November 2005	Drawn
47	100*	Inzamam-ul-Haq (2/3)	Pakistan	134	3	England	20 November 2005	Drawn
48	119	Inzamam-ul-Haq (3/3)	Pakistan	193	1	India	21 January 2006	Drawn
49	156	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	128	1	India	21 January 2006	Drawn
50	103	Rahul Dravid	India	128	2	Pakistan	21 January 2006	Drawn
51	148	MS Dhoni	India	153	2	Pakistan	21 January 2006	Drawn
52	194	Younis Khan	Pakistan	299	3	India	21 January 2006	Drawn
53	126	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	179	3	India	21 January 2006	Drawn

One Day International centuries

• The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Iqbal Stadium.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	100	Saleem Malik	Pakistan	95	1	Sri Lanka	25 October 1987	Won
2	106	Mohammad Yousuf (1/2)	Pakistan	127	1	Bangladesh	12 September 2003	Won
3	117	Hamish Marshall	New Zealand	109	2	Pakistan	3 December 2003	Lost
4	108*	Mohammad Yousuf (2/2)	Pakistan	111	2	Zimbabwe	30 January 2008	Won

References

1. "Records / Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
2. "Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad / Records / One-Day Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
3. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
4. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 29 December 2016.