List of international cricket centuries at Riverside Ground

Riverside Ground is a sports ground in Chester-le-Street, England, it has a capacity of 17,000. The ground have been hosted six Test cricket since 2003 when England played Zimbabwe for the first time. ^[1] 15 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been hosted, where the first of which was in 1999 when England played Scotland. ^[2]

The first Twenty20 International was held between England and South Africa in 2012. Only two T20Is have been held. ^[3]

England opener Marcus Trescothick became the first man to score a Test century at Riverside Ground when he made 151 against Bangladesh in 2005. The score of unbeaten 162 by Ian Bell against Bangladesh stands as the highest score seen at the ground. Overall, there are 11 Test centuries have been scored at the ground. ^[4]

Eleven ODI centuries have been scored at Riverside Ground, and the first by West Indian batsman Sherwin Campbell who scored 105 from 137 deliveries against Zimbabwe in 2000. The highest score achieved at the ground is unbeaten 126 made by Sri Lanka legend Mahela Jayawardene against England in 2006. ^[5]

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 Riverside Ground.
• 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 Riverside Ground.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	151	Marcus Trescothick	England	148	2	Bangladesh	3 June 2005	Won
2	162*	Ian Bell (1/2)	England	168	2	Bangladesh	3 June 2005	Won
3	136*	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	257	1	England	15 June 2007	Won
4	128	Paul Collingwood	England	188	2	West Indies	15 June 2007	Won
5	160	Alastair Cook	England	339	1	West Indies	14 May 2009	Won
6	108	Ravi Bopara	England	208	1	West Indies	14 May 2009	Won
7	100	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	138	2	England	14 May 2009	Won
8	110	Chris Rogers	Australia	250	2	England	9 August 2013	Lost
9	113	Ian Bell (2/2)	England	210	2	Australia	9 August 2013	Won
10	155*	Moeen Ali	England	207	1	Sri Lanka	27 May 2016	Won
11	126	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	207	3	England	27 May 2016	Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Riverside Ground.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	105	Sherwin Campbell	West Indies	147	1	Zimbabwe	16 July 2000	Lost
2	112*	Murray Goodwin	Zimbabwe	137	2	West Indies	16 July 2000	Won
3	105*	Sachin Tendulkar	India	108	1	England	4 July 2002	No result
4	126*	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	127	2	England	24 June 2006	Won
5	110*	Kevin Pietersen	England	112	1	New Zealand	15 June 2008	Won
6	100	Aaron Finch	Australia	106	1	England	21 June 2018	Lost
7	101	Shaun Marsh	Australia	92	1	England	21 June 2018	Lost
8	101	Jason Roy	England	83	2	Australia	21 June 2018	Won
9	104	Avishka Fernando	Sri Lanka	103	1	West Indies	1 July 2019	Won
10	118	Nicholas Pooran	West Indies	103	2	Sri Lanka	1 July 2019	Lost
11	106	Jonny Bairstow	England	99	1	New Zealand	3 July 2019	Won

References

1. "Records / Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
2. "Records / Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street / One-Day Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
3. "Records / Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street / Twenty20 Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
4. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
5. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.