List of international cricket centuries at the Asgiriya Stadium

Asgiriya Stadium is a sports ground in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It has a capacity of 10,300. The ground hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1983 when Sri Lanka played Australia. ^[1] 21 Test matches have been played at the ground ^[2] along with 6 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1986 when Sri Lanka played Pakistan. ^[3]

Australia batsman Kepler Wessels became the first man to score a Test century at Asgiriya Stadium when he made 141 against Sri Lanka in 1983. The highest Test individual score at the ground was scored by Sri Lanka batsman Marvan Atapattu, who scored 223 runs against Zimbabwe in 1998. Three double centuries have been scored at the venue. Overall, there are 24 Test centuries have been scored at the ground. ^[4]

Only 2 ODI centuries have been scored at Asgiriya Stadium, and the first by Sri Lanka maestro Aravinda de Silva who scored 145 from 115 deliveries against Kenya in 1996, to achieve the highest ODI team total of 398, ever recorded before passing 400 in 2006 by Australia. ^[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 Asgiriya 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 Asgiriya Stadium.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	141	Kepler Wessels	Australia	188	1	Sri Lanka	22 April 1983	Won
2	143	David Hookes	Australia	152	1	Sri Lanka	22 April 1983	Won
3	116*	Mohinder Amarnath	India	NA	3	Sri Lanka	14 September 1985	Drawn
4	106	Roy Dias	Sri Lanka	216	4	India	14 September 1985	Drawn
5	124	Duleep Mendis	Sri Lanka	228	4	India	14 September 1985	Drawn
6	100*	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	125	2	Sri Lanka	26 August 1994	Won
7	223	Marvan Atapattu (1/3)	Sri Lanka	448	1	Zimbabwe	7 January 1998	Won
8	207*	Marvan Atapattu (2/3)	Sri Lanka	457	1	Pakistan	28 June 2000	Drawn
9	188	Sanath Jayasuriya (1/3)	Sri Lanka	358	1	Pakistan	28 June 2000	Drawn
10	118*	Lance Klusener	South Africa	219	1	Sri Lanka	30 July 2000	Won
11	120	Marvan Atapattu (3/3)	Sri Lanka	219	2	Sri Lanka	30 July 2000	Won
12	101	Mahela Jayawardene (1/3)	Sri Lanka	165	1	England	7 March 2001	Lost
13	109	Nasser Hussain	England	255	2	Sri Lanka	7 March 2001	Won
14	104	Mahela Jayawardene (2/3)	Sri Lanka	149	1	India	22 August 2001	Lost
15	139	Sanath Jayasuriya (2/3)	Sri Lanka	212	2	Zimbabwe	4 January 2002	Won
16	100	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	129	3	England	10 December 2003	Drawn
17	105	Michael Vaughan	England	333	4	Sri Lanka	10 December 2003	Drawn
18	144	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	185	3	Sri Lanka	16 March 2004	Won
19	161	Damien Martyn	Australia	349	3	Sri Lanka	16 March 2004	Won
20	144	Sanath Jayasuriya (3/3)	Sri Lanka	145	4	Sri Lanka	16 March 2004	Lost
21	157*	Kumar Sangakkara (1/3)	Sri Lanka	284	3	West Indies	22 July 2005	Won
22	222*	Kumar Sangakkara (2/3)	Sri Lanka	277	2	Bangladesh	11 July 2007	Won
23	165	Mahela Jayawardene (3/3)	Sri Lanka	210	2	Bangladesh	11 July 2007	Won
24	152	Kumar Sangakkara (3/3)	Sri Lanka	269	3	England	1 December 2007	Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	145	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka	115	1	Kenya	6 March 1996	Won
2	106*	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	94	2	West Indies	15 December 2001	Won

See also

• Cricket portal

• List of international cricket grounds in Sri Lanka

References

1. "Asgiriya Stadium — Cricinfo profile". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
2. "Records / Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
3. "Records / Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
4. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
5. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 9 February 2017.