List of international cricket centuries at Kingsmead Cricket Ground

Kingsmead is a cricket ground in Durban, South Africa. It has a capacity of 25,000 and at present operates under the sponsor name of "Sahara Stadium Kingsmead".[1] Kingsmead has hosted 44 Test matches, the first was in 1923 when South Africa played the touring England team.[2] The ground has also hosted 46 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was in 1992 when South Africa played India.[3]

South Africa vs Australia at Kingsmead, 2009

The Englishman Phil Mead became the first Test century scorer at the ground when he made 181 against South Africa in 1923. Of the 72 Test centuries made at the ground the highest is Gary Kirsten's innings of 275 made against England in 1999. The highest score by an overseas player is 243 which was achieved by the Englishman Eddie Paynter. The only other players to have scored a double century at Kingsmead are Graeme Pollock and Bill Edrich. Three players have scored a century in both innings of a match at the ground. The Englishman Jack Russell became the first player to do it in 1912 followed by the Australian's Ricky Ponting and Phillip Hughes in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Jacques Kallis holds the record for the most Test centuries at the ground with five.[4]

In 1993, against Pakistan, the West Indian Brian Lara scored the first of twenty-three ODI centuries at the ground. Lara's innings of 128 from 125 deliveries remains the highest ODI score seen at Kingsmead. Four players – Jacques Kallis, David Miller, Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock (all of South Africa) – have scored two ODI centuries at the ground.[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 Kingsmead.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[6][7][8] lost[9][10] or if the match was drawn,[11] tied,[12] or a no result.[13]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Kingsmead.[4]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	181	Phil Mead	England	NR	1	South Africa	18 January 1923	Drawn
2	140	Jack Russell (1/2)	England	NR	1	South Africa	16 February 1923	Won
3	111	Jack Russell (2/2)	England	NR	3	South Africa	16 February 1923	Won
4	102	Herbie Taylor	South Africa	NR	4	England	16 February 1923	Lost
5	100	Ernest Tyldesley	England	NR	1	South Africa	4 February 1928	Lost
6	119	Bob Catterall	South Africa	NR	2	England	4 February 1928	Won
7	136*	Wally Hammond (1/3)	England	NR	2	South Africa	16 January 1931	Drawn
8	149	Stan McCabe	Australia	NR	2	South Africa	14 December 1935	Won
9	109	Arthur Chipperfield	Australia	NR	2	South Africa	14 December 1935	Won
10	118	Jack Fingleton	Australia	NR	2	South Africa	28 February 1936	Won
11	243	Eddie Paynter	England	NR	1	South Africa	20 January 1939	Won
12	120	Wally Hammond (2/3)	England	NR	1	South Africa	20 January 1939	Won
13	109	Bruce Mitchell	South Africa	NR	3	England	20 January 1939	Lost
14	125	Pieter van der Bijl	South Africa	NR	1	England	3 March 1939	Drawn
15	103	Dudley Nourse	South Africa	NR	1	England	3 March 1939	Drawn
16	103	Alan Melville	South Africa	NR	3	England	3 March 1939	Drawn
17	120	Paul Gibb	England	NR	4	South Africa	3 March 1939	Drawn
18	219	Bill Edrich	England	NR	4	South Africa	3 March 1939	Drawn
19	140	Wally Hammond (3/3)	England	NR	4	South Africa	3 March 1939	Drawn
20	143	Eric Rowan	South Africa	NR	1	Australia	20 January 1950	Lost
21	151*	Neil Harvey	Australia	NR	4	South Africa	20 January 1950	Won
22	101	Roy McLean (1/2)	South Africa	NR	1	New Zealand	11 December 1953	Won
23	107	Geoff Rabone	New Zealand	NR	2	South Africa	11 December 1953	Lost
24	100	Roy McLean (2/2)	South Africa	NR	2	England	25 January 1957	Drawn
25	110*	Doug Insole	England	NR	3	South Africa	25 January 1957	Drawn
26	105	Jackie McGlew (1/2)	South Africa	NR	2	Australia	24 January 1958	Drawn
27	134	John Waite	South Africa	NR	2	Australia	24 January 1958	Drawn
28	127*	Jackie McGlew (2/2)	South Africa	NR	1	New Zealand	8 December 1961	Won
29	148*	Ken Barrington	England	NR	1	South Africa	4 December 1964	Won
30	108*	Jim Parks	England	NR	1	South Africa	4 December 1964	Won
31	137	Denis Lindsay	South Africa	NR	1	Australia	20 January 1967	Won
32	140	Barry Richards	South Africa	164	1	Australia	5 February 1970	Won
33	274	Graeme Pollock	South Africa	401	1	Australia	5 February 1970	Won
34	118	Kepler Wessels	South Africa	266	1	India	13 November 1992	Drawn
35	103	Pravin Amre	India	299	2	South Africa	13 November 1992	Drawn
36	113*	Mark Waugh	Australia	222	3	South Africa	25 March 1994	Drawn
37	132	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan	163	1	South Africa	26 February 1998	Won
38	118	Saeed Anwar	Pakistan	209	3	South Africa	26 February 1998	Won
39	146*	Nasser Hussain	England	463	1	South Africa	26 December 1999	Drawn
40	275	Gary Kirsten (1/3)	South Africa	642	3	England	26 December 1999	Drawn
41	108	Mark Boucher	South Africa	220	3	England	26 December 1999	Drawn
42	180	Gary Kirsten (2/3)	South Africa	461	1	Sri Lanka	26 December 2000	Drawn
43	104	Herschelle Gibbs (1/2)	South Africa	198	4	Australia	15 March 2002	Won
44	105	Jacques Kallis (1/5)	South Africa	236	1	Pakistan	26 December 2002	Won
45	142	Herschelle Gibbs (2/2)	South Africa	175	2	West Indies	26 December 2003	Won
46	177	Jacques Kallis (2/5)	South Africa	344	2	West Indies	26 December 2003	Won
47	137	Gary Kirsten (3/3)	South Africa	218	2	West Indies	26 December 2003	Won
48	114	Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	225	3	South Africa	26 December 2003	Lost
49	109	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	171	3	South Africa	26 December 2003	Lost
50	162	Jacques Kallis (3/5)	South Africa	264	2	England	26 December 2004	Drawn
51	132	Marcus Trescothick	England	261	3	South Africa	26 December 2004	Drawn
52	136	Andrew Strauss	England	285	3	South Africa	26 December 2004	Drawn
53	118*	Graham Thorpe	England	209	3	South Africa	26 December 2004	Drawn
54	103	Ricky Ponting (1/2)	Australia	225	1	South Africa	24 March 2006	Won
55	114	Jacques Kallis (4/5)	South Africa	223	2	Australia	24 March 2006	Lost
56	102	Matthew Hayden	Australia	217	3	South Africa	24 March 2006	Won
57	116	Ricky Ponting (2/2)	Australia	187	3	South Africa	24 March 2006	Won
58	121	Ashwell Prince (1/2)	South Africa	212	1	India	26 December 2006	Won
59	147	Graeme Smith	South Africa	165	2	West Indies	10 January 2008	Won
60	123*	Ashwell Prince (2/2)	South Africa	196	2	West Indies	10 January 2008	Won
61	103*	AB de Villiers	South Africa	109	2	West Indies	10 January 2008	Won
62	105	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	190	3	South Africa	10 January 2008	Lost
63	115	Phillip Hughes (1/2)	Australia	151	1	South Africa	6 March 2009	Won
64	108	Simon Katich	Australia	190	1	South Africa	6 March 2009	Won
65	160	Phillip Hughes (2/2)	Australia	323	3	South Africa	6 March 2009	Won
66	118	Alastair Cook	England	263	2	South Africa	26 December 2009	Won
67	140	Ian Bell	England	227	2	South Africa	26 December 2009	Won
68	102	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	269	1	South Africa	26 December 2011	Won
69	108	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	190	3	South Africa	26 December 2011	Won
70	115	Jacques Kallis (5/5)	South Africa	316	2	India	26 December 2013	Won
71	118*	Dean Elgar	South Africa	246	2	England	28 December 2015	Lost
72	143	Aiden Markram	South Africa	218	4	Australia	1 March 2018	Lost
73	153*	Kusal Perera	Sri Lanka	200	4	South Africa	13 February 2019	Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Kingsmead.[5]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	128	Brian Lara	West Indies	125	1	Pakistan	19 February 1993	Won
2	101*	Arjuna Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	108	1	Pakistan	2 December 1994	Lost
3	100	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan	119	2	Sri Lanka	2 December 1994	Won
4	114*	Ijaz Ahmed	Pakistan	90	2	South Africa	17 December 1994	Won
5	109*	Jacques Kallis (1/2)	South Africa	114	1	Pakistan	3 April 1998	Won
6	105	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	104	2	South Africa	3 April 2002	Won
7	124	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	129	1	South Africa	3 March 2003	Tied
8	111*	Sourav Ganguly	India	114	1	Kenya	20 March 2003	Won
9	118	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	133	1	England	11 February 2005	No result
10	117	Graeme Smith	South Africa	129	1	Zimbabwe	27 February 2005	Won
11	101	Boeta Dippenaar	South Africa	145	1	Australia	10 March 2006	Lost
12	119*	Jacques Kallis (2/2)	South Africa	160	1	India	22 November 2006	Won
13	101*	Mohammad Yousuf	Pakistan	111	1	South Africa	7 February 2007	Won
14	106	Quinton de Kock (1/2)	South Africa	118	1	India	8 December 2013	Won
15	100	Hashim Amla	South Africa	117	1	India	8 December 2013	Won
16	117	David Warner	Australia	107	1	South Africa	5 October 2016	Lost
17	108	Steve Smith	Australia	107	1	South Africa	5 October 2016	Lost
18	118*	David Miller (1/2)	South Africa	79	2	Australia	5 October 2016	Won
19	105	Faf du Plessis (1/2)	South Africa	120	1	Sri Lanka	1 February 2017	Won
20	117*	David Miller (2/2)	South Africa	98	1	Sri Lanka	1 February 2017	Won
21	120	Faf du Plessis (2/2)	South Africa	112	1	India	1 February 2018	Lost
22	112	Virat Kohli	India	119	2	South Africa	1 February 2018	Won
23	121	Quinton de Kock (2/2)	South Africa	108	1	Sri Lanka	10 March 2019	Won

Twenty20 International century

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International century scored at Kingsmead.[14]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	114*	Morne van Wyk	South Africa	70	1	West Indies	14 January 2015	Won

Women's Test centuries

The following table summarises the women's Test centuries scored at Kingsmead.[15]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	126	Helen Sharpe	England	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1960	Won

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