List of international cricket centuries at Rose Bowl

The Rose Bowl is a sports ground in West End, Hampshire, England, with a capacity of 20,000. The ground has hosted four Test matches since 2003 when England played Sri Lanka for the first time. ^[1] 31 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been hosted, where the first of which was in 2003 when South Africa played Zimbabwe. ^[2]

The first Twenty20 International was held between England and Australia in 2005. Only five T20Is have been held. ^[3]

England opener Ian Bell became the first man to score a Test century at Rose Bowl when he made 119* against Sri Lanka in 2011. As of August 2020, he is the only batsman to have scored two centuries at the ground when he scored 167 against India in 2014, which remained as the highest score at the ground until it was broken by Zak Crawley's 267 against Pakistan in 2020. Overall, 8 Test centuries have been scored at the ground. ^[4]

Twenty-three ODI centuries have been scored at Rose Bowl, and the first was by English batsman Andrew Flintoff who scored 104 from 91 deliveries against Sri Lanka in 2004. Kiwi opener Martin Guptill scored unbeaten 189 against England in 2013, which stands as the highest score achieved at the ground. ^[5]

The venue hosted what was then the highest individual T20I score of all time, when Aussie opener Aaron Finch scored brutal 156 off 63 deliveries against hosts England in 2013. ^[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 Rose Bowl.
• 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 Rose Bowl.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	119*	Ian Bell (1/2)	England	169	2	Sri Lanka	16 June 2011	Drawn
2	119	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	249	3	England	16 June 2011	Drawn
3	156	Gary Ballance	England	288	1	India	27 July 2014	Won
4	167	Ian Bell (2/2)	England	256	1	India	27 July 2014	Won
5	132*	Cheteshwar Pujara	India	214	2	England	30 August 2018	Lost
6	267	Zak Crawley	England	393	1	Pakistan	21 August 2020	Drawn
7	152	Jos Buttler	England	311	1	Pakistan	21 August 2020	Drawn
8	141*	Azhar Ali	Pakistan	272	2	England	21 August 2020	Drawn

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Rose Bowl.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	105*	Andrew Flintoff	England	91	1	Sri Lanka	4 July 2002	Won
2	101	Younis Khan	Pakistan	109	1	England	5 September 2006	Won
3	102	Alastair Cook	England	126	1	India	21 August 2007	Won
4	126*	Ian Bell (1/2)	England	118	1	India	21 August 2007	Won
5	105	Cameron White	Australia	124	2	England	9 September 2009	Won
6	103*	Eoin Morgan (1/3)	England	85	2	Australia	22 June 2010	Won
7	107*	Eoin Morgan (2/3)	England	101	1	Pakistan	22 September 2010	Won
8	126	Ian Bell (2/2)	England	117	1	West Indies	16 June 2012	Won
9	150	Hashim Amla	South Africa	124	1	England	28 August 2012	Won
10	189*	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	155	1	England	2 June 2013	Won
11	109*	Jonathan Trott	England	104	2	New Zealand	2 June 2013	Lost
12	143	Shane Watson	Australia	107	1	England	16 September 2013	Won
13	118	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	113	2	England	14 June 2015	Won
14	110	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	123	2	England	14 June 2015	Won
15	101	Ben Stokes	England	79	1	South Africa	27 May 2017	Won
16	141	Jonny Bairstow	England	114	2	West Indies	29 September 2017	Won
17	110*	Jos Buttler	England	55	1	Pakistan	11 May 2019	Won
18	138	Fakhar Zaman	Pakistan	106	2	England	11 May 2019	Lost
19	122*	Rohit Sharma	India	144	2	South Africa	5 June 2019	Won
20	100*	Joe Root	England	94	2	West Indies	14 June 2019	Won
21	106	Eoin Morgan (3/3)	England	84	1	Ireland	4 August 2020	Lost
22	142	Paul Stirling	Ireland	128	2	England	4 August 2020	Won
23	113	Andrew Balbirnie	Ireland	112	2	England	4 August 2020	Won

Twenty20 International centuries

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International centuries scored at Rose Bowl.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	156	Aaron Finch	Australia	63	1	England	29 August 2013	Won

References

1. "Records / The Rose Bowl, Southampton / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
2. "Records / The Rose Bowl, Southampton / One-Day Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
3. "Records / The Rose Bowl, Southampton / 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.
6. "Statistics / Statsguru / Twenty20 Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 1 January 2017.