List of World Series Cricket international centuries

World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition established by Kerry Packer which ran from 1977 and 1979. Packer set the competition up after failing to gain the rights to show Test cricket on his Channel Nine television channel.[1] It was opposed by the International Cricket Conference (ICC),[lower-alpha 1] who ruled that such matches would not be first-class,[3] and any players taking part would be banned from playing in officially sanctioned cricket, although the latter was ruled to be a "restraint of trade" and was not enforceable.[4] They also barred the WSC from using the term "Test matches", or naming a team "Australia". As a result, the matches were dubbed "Supertests", while the teams were WSC Australia XI, WSC West Indies XI and WSC World XI. In all, 16 Supertests and 58 international one-day matches were played, before Packer and the Australian Cricket Board came to an agreement in May 1979, and World Series Cricket came to an end.[3]

Viv Richards scored 4 centuries in World Series Cricket, second only to Greg Chappell.

The first Supertest began on 2 December 1977,[3] although the first century (100 or more runs in a single innings) was not scored until the third match, in which Ian Chappell accumulated 141 runs in the first innings.[5][6] Bruce Laird and Viv Richards went on to score centuries in the same match.[6] A month later, Barry Richards achieved the competition's first double century, scoring 207 runs for the WSC World XI.[7] In the same innings, Gordon Greenidge and Richards also passed a hundred, while Greg Chappell did so in the second innings for WSC Australia XI.[8] In the next match, Greg Chappell surpassed Richards' total, remaining 246 not out, one of his record five WSC centuries.[9]

Only two centuries were made in the international one-day matches. Kepler Wessels scored the first, accruing 136 runs; his score is the highest in WSC one-day international matches, and makes him the only player to have scored a century in both a Supertest and an international one-day match in the WSC.[10][11] The other century was scored by Martin Kent, who scored 109 runs.[12] In all, 25 centuries were scored in Supertests, and 2 in international one-day matches. Seven of the centuries were scored at VFL Park in Melbourne, the most of any venue.

Key
Symbol Meaning
* The century scorer remained not out.
Inn. The innings of the match in which the player scored his century.
Date The date on which the match began.
Lost The match was lost by the century scorer's team.
Won The match was won by the century scorer's team.
Drawn The match was drawn.

Century scores
Centuries in Supertests[7]
No. Player Score For Against Inn. Venue Date Result Ref(s)
1 Ian Chappell 141 Australia West Indies1Football Park, Adelaide31 December 1977Won[6][13]
2 Bruce Laird 106 2 Australia West Indies3Football Park, Adelaide31 December 1977Won[6][13]
3 Viv Richards 123 West Indies Australia4Football Park, Adelaide31 December 1977Lost[6][13]
4 Bruce Laird 106 1 Australia World XI1RAS Showground, Sydney14 January 1978Lost[14][15]
5 Viv Richards 119 World XI Australia2RAS Showground, Sydney14 January 1978Won[14][15]
6 Barry Richards 207 World XI Australia1Gloucester Park, Perth27 January 1978Won[8][14]
7 Gordon Greenidge 140 World XI Australia1Gloucester Park, Perth27 January 1978Won[8][14]
8 Viv Richards 177 World XI Australia1Gloucester Park, Perth27 January 1978Won[8][14]
9 Greg Chappell 174 Australia World XI2Gloucester Park, Perth27 January 1978Lost[8][14]
10 Rick McCosker 129 Australia World XI1VFL Park, Melbourne9 February 1978Won[14][16]
11 Greg Chappell 246* Australia World XI1VFL Park, Melbourne9 February 1978Won[14][16]
12 Viv Richards 170 World XI Australia2VFL Park, Melbourne9 February 1978Lost[14][16]
13 Asif Iqbal 107 World XI West Indies1Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney21 December 1978Won[17][18]
14 Kepler Wessels 126 Australia West Indies1VFL Park, Melbourne12 January 1979Drawn[17][11]
15 David Hookes 116 Australia West Indies1VFL Park, Melbourne12 January 1979Drawn[17][11]
16 Lawrence Rowe 175 West Indies Australia2VFL Park, Melbourne12 January 1979Drawn[17][11]
17 Barry Richards 101* World XI Australia4Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney2 February 1979Won[17][19]
18 Clive Lloyd 197 West Indies Australia3Sabina Park, Kingston23 February 1979Won[20][21]
19 Bruce Laird 122 Australia West Indies1Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain16 March 1979Won[20][22]
20 Greg Chappell 150 Australia West Indies3Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain16 March 1979Won[20][22]
21 Greg Chappell 113 Australia West Indies1Bourda, Georgetown25 March 1979Drawn[20][23]
22 Collis King 110 West Indies Australia2Bourda, Georgetown25 March 1979Drawn[20][23]
23 Greg Chappell 104 Australia West Indies1Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's6 April 1979Drawn[20][24]
24 Lawrence Rowe 135 West Indies Australia2Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's6 April 1979Drawn[20][24]
25 Rod Marsh 102* Australia West Indies3Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's6 April 1979Drawn[20][24]
Centuries in international one-day matches
No. Player Score For Against Inn. Venue Date Result Ref(s)
1 Kepler Wessels 136 Australia West Indies1VFL Park, Melbourne27 January 1979Won[10][25]
2 Martin Kent 109 Australia West Indies2Kensington Oval, Bridgetown7 March 1979Lost[12][26]

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. The International Cricket Conference was renamed the International Cricket Council in 1989.[2]

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