List of international cricket centuries at the Galle International Stadium

Galle International Stadium, view from Galle Fort.

The Galle International Stadium ^[1] is a cricket stadium in Galle, Sri Lanka. The ground staged its first Test in 1998 Sri Lanka against New Zealand. The first One Day International was played in 1998 Sri Lanka against India.

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 name denotes his century number at the Galle International Stadium.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won ^[2] lost ^[3] or if the match was drawn ^[4] or a no result.

List of centuries

• 
  Mahela Jayawardene (Sri):
  Has scored a joint record 7 Test centuries at the Galle, including 2 double-centuries, with a best of 237
• 
  Kumar Sangakkara (Sri):
  Has scored a joint record 7 Test centuries at the Galle, including a double-centuries, with a best of 221
• 
  Chris Gayle (Win):
  His innings of 333, made against Sri Lanka in 2010, is the highest Test innings seen at the ground.

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Galle International Cricket Stadium. ^[5]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	167	Mahela Jayawardene (1/7)	Sri Lanka	278	2	New Zealand	3 June 1998	Won
2	132	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan	237	2	Sri Lanka	21 June 2000	Won
3	112	Inzamam ul-Haq	Pakistan	163	2	Sri Lanka	21 June 2000	Won
4	116	Younis Khan (1/2)	Pakistan	281	2	Sri Lanka	21 June 2000	Won
5	100	Wasim Akram	Pakistan	89	2	Sri Lanka	21 June 2000	Won
6	148	Sanath Jayasuriya (1/2)	Sri Lanka	156	1	South Africa	20 July 2000	Won
7	167	Mahela Jayawardene (2/7)	Sri Lanka	288	1	South Africa	20 July 2000	Won
8	114*	Daryll Cullinan	South Africa	231	2	Sri Lanka	20 July 2000	Lost
9	201*	Marvan Atapattu (1/2)	Sri Lanka	536	1	England	21 February 2001	Won
10	106	Aravinda de Silva	Sri Lanka	243	1	England	21 February 2001	Won
11	122	Marcus Trescothick	England	348	2	Sri Lanka	21 February 2001	Lost
12	111	Sanath Jayasuriya (2/2)	Sri Lanka	138	2	India	14 August 2001	Won
13	105*	Kumar Sangakkara (1/7)	Sri Lanka	226	2	India	14 August 2001	Won
14	178	Brian Lara	West Indies	294	1	Sri Lanka	13 November 2001	Lost
15	140	Kumar Sangakkara (2/7)	Sri Lanka	373	2	West Indies	13 November 2001	Won
16	105*	Hashan Tillakaratne	Sri Lanka	247	2	West Indies	13 November 2001	Won
17	100*	Marvan Atapattu (2/2)	Sri Lanka	126	3	Zimbabwe	12 January 2002	Won
18	104	Tillakaratne Dilshan (1/4)	Sri Lanka	188	2	Australia	8 March 2004	Lost
19	130	Matthew Hayden	Australia	211	3	Sri Lanka	8 March 2004	Won
20	110	Damien Martyn	Australia	250	3	Sri Lanka	8 March 2004	Won
21	129	Darren Lehmann	Australia	214	3	Sri Lanka	8 March 2004	Won
22	237	Mahela Jayawardene (3/7)	Sri Lanka	415	1	South Africa	4 August 2004	Drawn
23	102	Jacques Rudolph	South Africa	297	2	South Africa	4 August 2004	Drawn
24	213*	Mahela Jayawardene (4/7)	Sri Lanka	411	1	England	18 December 2007	Drawn
25	118	Alastair Cook	England	285	3	Sri Lanka	18 December 2007	Drawn
26	201*	Virender Sehwag (1/2)	India	231	1	Sri Lanka	31 July 2008	Won
27	112	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	186	2	Sri Lanka	4 July 2009	Lost
28	114	Mahela Jayawardene (5/7)	Sri Lanka	227	1	New Zealand	18 August 2009	Won
29	159	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	277	1	New Zealand	18 August 2009	Won
30	123*	Tillakaratne Dilshan (2/4)	Sri Lanka	131	3	New Zealand	18 August 2009	Won
31	111	Tharanga Paranavitana	Sri Lanka	233	1	India	18 July 2010	Won
32	103	Kumar Sangakkara (3/7)	Sri Lanka	145	1	India	18 July 2010	Won
33	109	Virender Sehwag (2/2)	India	118	2	Sri Lanka	18 July 2010	Lost
34	333	Chris Gayle	West Indies	437	1	Sri Lanka	15 November 2010	Drawn
35	105	Mahela Jayawardene (6/7)	Sri Lanka	231	4	Australia	31 August 2011	Lost
36	180	Mahela Jayawardene (7/7)	Sri Lanka	315	1	England	26 March 2012	Won
37	112	Jonathan Trott	England	266	4	Sri Lanka	26 March 2012	Lost
38	101	Tillakaratne Dilshan (3/4)	Sri Lanka	180	1	Pakistan	22 June 2012	Won
39	199*	Kumar Sangakkara (4/7)	Sri Lanka	387	1	Pakistan	22 June 2012	Won
40	142	Kumar Sangakkara (5/7)	Sri Lanka	226	1	Bangladesh	8 March 2013	Drawn
41	155*	Lahiru Thirimanne (1/2)	Sri Lanka	256	1	Bangladesh	8 March 2013	Drawn
42	116*	Dinesh Chandimal (1/3)	Sri Lanka	151	1	Bangladesh	8 March 2013	Drawn
43	190	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	417	2	Sri Lanka	8 March 2013	Drawn
44	200	Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	321	2	Sri Lanka	8 March 2013	Drawn
45	100	Nasir Hossain	Bangladesh	321	2	Sri Lanka	8 March 2013	Drawn
46	126	Tillakaratne Dilshan (4/4)	Sri Lanka	190	3	Bangladesh	8 March 2013	Drawn
47	105	Kumar Sangakkara (6/7)	Sri Lanka	172	3	Bangladesh	8 March 2013	Drawn
48	103	Dean Elgar	South Africa	187	3	Sri Lanka	16 July 2014	Won
49	100*	JP Duminy	South Africa	206	3	Sri Lanka	16 July 2014	Won
50	177	Younis Khan (2/2)	Pakistan	331	1	Sri Lanka	6 August 2014	Lost
51	221	Kumar Sangakkara (7/7)	Sri Lanka	425	2	Pakistan	6 August 2014	Won
52	125	Kaushal Silva	Sri Lanka	300	1	Pakistan	17 June 2015	Lost
53	131	Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	253	2	Sri Lanka	17 June 2015	Won
54	134	Shikhar Dhawan (1/2)	India	271	2	Sri Lanka	12 August 2015	Lost
55	103	Virat Kohli (1/2)	India	191	2	Sri Lanka	12 August 2015	Lost
56	162*	Dinesh Chandimal (2/3)	Sri Lanka	191	3	India	12 August 2015	Won
57	186	Dimuth Karunaratne (1/3)	Sri Lanka	354	1	West Indies	14 October 2015	Won
58	151	Dinesh Chandimal (3/3)	Sri Lanka	298	1	West Indies	14 October 2015	Won
59	194	Kusal Mendis	Sri Lanka	242	1	Bangladesh	7 March 2017	Won
60	115	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	171	3	Bangladesh	7 March 2017	Won
61	190	Shikhar Dhawan (2/2)	India	168	1	Sri Lanka	26 July 2017	Won
62	153	Cheteshwar Pujara	India	265	1	Sri Lanka	26 July 2017	Won
63	103*	Virat Kohli (2/2)	India	136	3	Sri Lanka	26 July 2017	Won
64	158*	Dimuth Karunaratne (2/3)	Sri Lanka	222	1	South Africa	12 July 2018	Won
65	107	Ben Foakes	England	201	1	Sri Lanka	6 November 2018	Won
66	146*	Keaton Jennings	England	280	3	Sri Lanka	6 November 2018	Won
67	122	Dimuth Karunaratne (3/3)	Sri Lanka	243	4	New Zealand	14 August 2019	Won
68	228	Joe Root (1/2)	England	321	2	Sri Lanka	14 January 2021	Won
69	111	Lahiru Thirimanne (2/2)	Sri Lanka	251	3	England	14 January 2021	Lost
70	110	Angelo Mathews	Sri Lanka	238	1	England	22 January 2021	Lost
71	186	Joe Root (2/2)	England	309	2	Sri Lanka	22 January 2021	Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the ODI centuries scored at the Galle International Cricket Stadium. ^[6]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	112	Solomon Mire	Zimbabwe	96	2	Sri Lanka	30 June 2017	Won

See also

• Cricket portal

• List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at the Galle International Stadium

References

1. "Galle International Stadium". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 8 January 2016.
2. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records / Won". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
3. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records / Lost". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
4. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records / Drawn". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
5. "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 8 January 2016.
6. "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 30 June 2017.