List of international cricket centuries at Lancaster Park

An aerial view of Lancaster Park.

Lancaster Park was a sports stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. ^[1] Lancaster Park was used as an international cricket ground from 1930, when New Zealand played England in a Test match, ^[2] until its destruction in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The ground also hosted One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of these was in 1973 when New Zealand played Pakistan. ^[3]

61 Test centuries were scored at Lancaster Park. The South African Jim Christy scored the first century at the ground when he made 103 against New Zealand in 1932. The first Test century by a New Zealander at Lancaster Park came in 1947, scored by Walter Hadlee against England. Walter Hadlee's son, Richard Hadlee, also scored a Test century at the ground when he made 103 against the West Indies in 1980. The West Indian Seymour Nurse holds the record for the highest Test innings at the ground, Nurse made 258 against New Zealand in 1969. Graham Dowling's 239, made against India in 1968, is the highest score at Lancaster Park by a New Zealander. Nathan Astle, also from New Zealand, holds the world record for fastest Test double century, which was made at Lancaster Park in 2002. Glenn Turner was the only player to have hit 3 Test centuries at the ground. ^{[4] [5]}

The first ODI century made at the ground was in 1974 by the New Zealander Ken Wadsworth. Wadsworth made 104 from 98 deliveries against Australia. The Indian Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the highest ODI innings at the ground. Tendulkar scored 163 not out from 133 deliveries against New Zealand in 2009. Three players have scored two ODI centuries at Lancaster Park: West Indian Gordon Greenidge, Australian Adam Gilchrist and New Zealander Stephen Fleming. ^[6]

Brendon McCullum was the only player to have scored a Twenty20 International century at Lancaster Park. McCullum's innings of 116 not out from 56 deliveries was made against Australia in 2010. ^[7]

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 Lancaster Park.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won, ^{[8] [9] [10]} lost ^{[11] [12]} or if the match was drawn, ^{[13] [14]} tied, ^[15] or a no result. ^[16]

List of centuries

• 
  Brendon McCullum (NZ):
  McCullum has scored the only Twenty20 International century at the ground, 116* in 2010.
• 
  Sachin Tendulkar (Ind):
  Tendulkar holds the record for the highest ODI score at the ground with 163*.

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Lancaster Park. ^[4]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	103	Jim Christy	South Africa	NR	2	New Zealand	27 February 1932	Won
2	113	Bruce Mitchell	South Africa	NR	2	New Zealand	27 February 1932	Won
3	227	Wally Hammond	England	NR	1	New Zealand	24 March 1933	Drawn
4	103	Les Ames	England	NR	1	New Zealand	24 March 1933	Drawn
5	116	Walter Hadlee	New Zealand	NR	1	England	21 March 1947	Drawn
6	116	Bert Sutcliffe	New Zealand	NR	1	England	17 March 1951	Drawn
7	134*	Trevor Bailey	England	NR	2	New Zealand	17 March 1951	Drawn
8	103	Everton Weekes	West Indies	NR	1	New Zealand	18 February 1956	Won
9	141	Ted Dexter	England	292	1	New Zealand	27 February 1959	Won
10	100	John Reid	New Zealand	NR	3	England	15 March 1963	Lost
11	100*	Hanif Mohammad	Pakistan	NR	3	New Zealand	12 February 1965	Drawn
12	104	Bev Congdon (1/2)	New Zealand	NR	2	England	25 February 1966	Drawn
13	239	Graham Dowling	New Zealand	519	1	India	22 February 1968	Won
14	258	Seymour Nurse	West Indies	NR	1	New Zealand	13 March 1969	Drawn
15	117*	Brian Hastings	New Zealand	NR	3	West Indies	13 March 1969	Drawn
16	100	Basil D'Oliveira	England	216	2	New Zealand	25 February 1971	Won
17	101	Glenn Turner (1/3)	New Zealand	260	2	Australia	8 March 1974	Won
18	110*	Glenn Turner (2/3)	New Zealand	355	4	Australia	8 March 1974	Won
19	164*	Dennis Amiss	England	351	2	New Zealand	28 February 1975	Drawn
20	117	Glenn Turner (3/3)	New Zealand	NR	2	India	5 February 1976	Drawn
21	250	Doug Walters	Australia	342	1	New Zealand	18 February 1977	Drawn
22	101	Gary Gilmour	Australia	146	1	New Zealand	18 February 1977	Drawn
23	107*	Bev Congdon (2/2)	New Zealand	251	4	Australia	18 February 1977	Drawn
24	103	Ian Botham	England	288	1	New Zealand	24 February 1978	Won
25	129	Bruce Edgar	New Zealand	NR	2	Pakistan	2 February 1979	Lost
26	160*	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	NR	3	New Zealand	2 February 1979	Won
27	147	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand	261	2	West Indies	22 February 1980	Drawn
28	103	Richard Hadlee	New Zealand	92	2	West Indies	22 February 1980	Drawn
29	122	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	199	3	New Zealand	22 February 1980	Drawn
30	100	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies	165	3	New Zealand	22 February 1980	Drawn
31	100*	Collis King	West Indies	109	3	New Zealand	22 February 1980	Drawn
32	123*	John Reid	New Zealand	429	2	India	6 March 1981	Drawn
33	176	Greg Chappell	Australia	218	1	New Zealand	19 March 1982	Won
34	141	John Wright (1/2)	New Zealand	262	3	Australia	19 March 1982	Lost
35	140	Allan Border (1/2)	Australia	338	1	New Zealand	28 February 1986	Drawn
36	137	Martin Crowe	New Zealand	226	2	Australia	28 February 1986	Drawn
37	114*	Allan Border (2/2)	Australia	201	3	New Zealand	28 February 1986	Drawn
38	114	Chris Broad	England	244	1	New Zealand	12 February 1988	Drawn
39	185	John Wright (2/2)	New Zealand	443	1	India	2 February 1990	Won
40	148	Alec Stewart	England	265	1	New Zealand	18 January 1992	Won
41	102	Ken Rutherford	New Zealand	215	3	Australia	25 February 1993	Lost
42	103	Basit Ali	Pakistan	139	1	New Zealand	24 February 1994	Lost
43	120	Bryan Young	New Zealand	314	4	Pakistan	24 February 1994	Won
44	120*	Shane Thomson	New Zealand	167	4	Pakistan	24 February 1994	Won
45	100*	Adam Parore	New Zealand	249	1	West Indies	3 February 1995	Drawn
46	103	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan	213	3	New Zealand	8 December 1995	Won
47	118	Mike Atherton	England	311	4	New Zealand	14 February 1997	Won
48	211*	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	468	2	New Zealand	11 March 1999	Drawn
49	148*	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	340	2	New Zealand	11 March 1999	Drawn
50	204*	Mathew Sinclair	New Zealand	348	1	Pakistan	15 March 2001	Drawn
51	130	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	241	2	New Zealand	15 March 2001	Drawn
52	203	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	429	2	New Zealand	15 March 2001	Drawn
53	101*	Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan	291	2	New Zealand	15 March 2001	Drawn
54	106	Nasser Hussain	England	244	1	New Zealand	13 March 2002	Won
55	200*	Graham Thorpe	England	231	3	New Zealand	13 March 2002	Won
56	137	Andrew Flintoff	England	163	3	New Zealand	13 March 2002	Won
57	222	Nathan Astle	New Zealand	168	4	England	13 March 2002	Lost
58	146	Hamish Marshall	New Zealand	256	1	Australia	10 March 2005	Lost
59	118	Simon Katich	Australia	229	2	New Zealand	10 March 2005	Won
60	121	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	126	2	New Zealand	10 March 2005	Won
61	100*	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	154	3	New Zealand	7 December 2006	Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Lancaster Park. ^[6]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	104	Ken Wadsworth	New Zealand	98	2	Australia	31 March 1974	Lost
2	103	Gordon Greenidge (1/2)	West Indies	137	1	New Zealand	6 February 1980	Lost
3	133*	Gordon Greenidge (2/2)	West Indies	140	2	New Zealand	28 March 1987	Won
4	107	Dean Jones	Australia	143	1	New Zealand	4 March 1990	Won
5	119*	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan	155	2	New Zealand	18 March 1992	Won
6	118	Adam Gilchrist (1/2)	Australia	117	2	New Zealand	8 February 1998	Won
7	115	Chris Cairns	New Zealand	80	1	India	19 January 1999	Won
8	128	Adam Gilchrist (2/2)	Australia	98	1	New Zealand	26 February 2000	Won
9	104*	Craig McMillan	New Zealand	75	1	Pakistan	25 February 2001	Won
10	115*	Stephen Fleming (1/2)	New Zealand	135	2	Pakistan	10 January 2004	Won
11	108	Stephen Fleming (2/2)	New Zealand	115	2	South Africa	17 February 2004	Won
12	114	Matthew Hayden	Australia	124	1	New Zealand	22 February 2005	Won
13	101	Scott Styris	New Zealand	96	2	Australia	10 December 2005	Won
14	103	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	125	1	New Zealand	3 January 2006	Lost
15	118*	Nathan Astle	New Zealand	126	1	West Indies	25 February 2006	Won
16	163*	Sachin Tendulkar	India	133	1	New Zealand	8 March 2009	Won
17	105	Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	80	2	India	8 March 2009	Lost
18	101	Imrul Kayes	Bangladesh	138	1	New Zealand	11 February 2010	Lost
19	115	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	144	1	New Zealand	29 January 2011	Won

Twenty20 International centuries

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International centuries scored at Lancaster Park. ^[7]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	116*	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	56	1	Australia	28 February 2010	Tied (NZ won by super over)

Women's Test centuries

The following table summarises the women's Test centuries scored at the Lancaster Park. ^[17]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	189	Betty Snowball	England	NR	2	New Zealand	16 February 1935	Won
2	110	Molly Hide	England	NR	2	New Zealand	16 February 1935	Won
3	108	Mary Duggan	England	NR	2	New Zealand	29 November 1957	Drawn

Women's One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the women's One Day International centuries scored at Lancaster Park. ^[18]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	100*	Denise Annetts	Australia	104	1	England	25 January 1992	No result

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