List of international cricket centuries at the Queen's Park Oval

The Queen's Park Oval is a cricket ground in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. With a capacity of 25,000 it is the largest ground in the West Indies.[1] 59 Test matches have been played at the ground, the first of these was in 1930 when the West Indies played the touring England team.[2] 65 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have also been played at the Queen's Park Oval. The first ODI at the ground was played between the West Indies and India.[3] Additionally, the ground hosted three World Series Cricket one-day games and a Supertest between the WSC West Indies and WSC Australian teams.

The Queen's Park Oval in 2004

The Englishman Patsy Hendren was the first player to score a Test century at the ground. Hendren's innings of 205 not out was made in 1930 against the West Indies, it is one of only 6 double centuries scored at the ground. The Indian Sunil Gavaskar's innings of 220, made against the West Indies in 1971, remains the highest individual score at the Queen's Park Oval. Sunil Gavaskar is also the only overseas player to have scored four Test centuries at the ground, the others are Everton Weekes, Rohan Kanhai and Alvin Kallicharran. Everton Weekes's 207, made against India in 1953, is the highest individual innings by a West Indian at the ground.[4]

The first of sixteen ODI centuries made at the Queen's Park Oval was scored by the Englishman Graham Gooch in 1986, his innings of 129 came from 118 deliveries. Brian Lara holds the record for highest individual ODI score at the ground, his innings of 146 not out from 132 deliveries was made against New Zealand in 1996. India's Virat Kohli is the only player to have scored three 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 the Queen's Park Oval.
• 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] lost[8][9] or if the match was drawn[10] or a no result.[11]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Queen's Park Oval.[4]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	205*	Patsy Hendren	England	NR	3	West Indies	1 February 1930	Won
2	105	Les Ames	England	NR	3	West Indies	1 February 1930	Won
3	140	Billy Griffith	England	NR	1	West Indies	11 February 1948	Drawn
4	107	George Carew	West Indies	NR	2	England	11 February 1948	Drawn
5	112	Andy Ganteaume	West Indies	NR	2	England	11 February 1948	Drawn
6	133	Jack Robertson	England	NR	3	West Indies	11 February 1948	Drawn
7	130	Polly Umrigar (1/2)	India	NR	1	West Indies	21 January 1953	Drawn
8	207	Everton Weekes (1/4)	West Indies	NR	2	India	21 January 1953	Drawn
9	115	Bruce Pairaudeau	West Indies	NR	2	India	21 January 1953	Drawn
10	161	Everton Weekes (2/4)	West Indies	NR	2	India	19 February 1953	Drawn
11	163*	Madhav Apte	India	NR	3	West Indies	19 February 1953	Drawn
12	104*	Jeffrey Stollmeyer	West Indies	NR	4	India	19 February 1953	Drawn
13	206	Everton Weekes (3/4)	West Indies	NR	1	England	17 March 1954	Drawn
14	167	Frank Worrell	West Indies	NR	1	England	17 March 1954	Drawn
15	124	Clyde Walcott (1/3)	West Indies	NR	1	England	17 March 1954	Drawn
16	135	Peter May	England	NR	2	West Indies	17 March 1954	Drawn
17	133	Denis Compton	England	NR	2	West Indies	17 March 1954	Drawn
18	126	Clyde Walcott (2/3)	West Indies	NR	1	Australia	11 April 1955	Drawn
19	139	Everton Weekes (4/4)	West Indies	NR	1	Australia	11 April 1955	Drawn
20	110	Colin McDonald	Australia	NR	2	West Indies	11 April 1955	Drawn
21	111	Arthur Morris	Australia	NR	2	West Indies	11 April 1955	Drawn
22	133	Neil Harvey	Australia	NR	2	West Indies	11 April 1955	Drawn
23	110	Clyde Walcott (3/3)	West Indies	NR	3	Australia	11 April 1955	Drawn
24	189	Wazir Mohammad	Pakistan	NR	2	West Indies	26 March 1958	Won
25	121	Ken Barrington (1/2)	England	NR	1	West Indies	28 January 1960	Won
26	108	Mike Smith	England	NR	1	West Indies	28 January 1960	Won
27	110	Rohan Kanhai (1/4)	West Indies	NR	4	England	28 January 1960	Lost
28	119	Colin Cowdrey (2/2)	England	NR	1	West Indies	25 March 1960	Drawn
29	101*	Jim Parks	England	NR	3	West Indies	25 March 1960	Drawn
30	139	Rohan Kanhai (2/4)	West Indies	NR	1	India	4 April 1962	Won
31	104	Salim Durani	India	NR	3	West Indies	4 April 1962	Lost
32	172*	Polly Umrigar (2/2)	India	NR	3	West Indies	4 April 1962	Lost
33	117	Basil Butcher	West Indies	NR	1	Australia	26 March 1965	Drawn
34	143	Bob Cowper	Australia	NR	2	West Indies	26 March 1965	Drawn
35	117	Brian Booth	Australia	NR	2	West Indies	26 March 1965	Drawn
36	121	Rohan Kanhai (3/4)	West Indies	NR	1	Australia	14 May 1965	Lost
37	143	Ken Barrington (2/2)	England	NR	1	West Indies	19 January 1968	Drawn
38	118	Tom Graveney	England	NR	1	West Indies	19 January 1968	Drawn
39	118	Clive Lloyd (1/2)	West Indies	NR	2	England	19 January 1968	Drawn
40	136	Seymour Nurse	West Indies	NR	1	England	14 March 1968	Lost
41	153	Rohan Kanhai (4/4)	West Indies	NR	1	England	14 March 1968	Lost
42	148	Colin Cowdrey (1/2)	England	NR	2	West Indies	14 March 1968	Won
43	112	Dilip Sardesai	India	NR	2	West Indies	6 March 1971	Won
44	124	Sunil Gavaskar (1/4)	India	NR	1	West Indies	13 April 1971	Drawn
45	105	Charlie Davis	West Indies	NR	2	India	13 April 1971	Drawn
46	132	Garry Sobers	West Indies	NR	2	India	13 April 1971	Drawn
47	220	Sunil Gavaskar (2/4)	India	NR	3	West Indies	13 April 1971	Drawn
48	166*	Bev Congdon	New Zealand	NR	1	West Indies	9 March 1972	Drawn
49	101	Alvin Kallicharran (1/4)	West Indies	NR	1	New Zealand	20 April 1972	Drawn
50	112	Doug Walters	Australia	NR	1	West Indies	23 March 1973	Won
51	158	Alvin Kallicharran (2/4)	West Indies	334	2	England	2 February 1974	Won
52	174	Dennis Amiss	England	429	3	West Indies	2 February 1974	Lost
53	123	Lawrence Rowe	West Indies	340	2	England	30 March 1974	Lost
54	112	Geoff Boycott	England	385	3	West Indies	30 March 1974	Won
55	130	Viv Richards (1/3)	West Indies	203	1	India	24 March 1976	Drawn
56	156	Sunil Gavaskar (3/4)	India	352	2	West Indies	24 March 1976	Drawn
57	115*	Brijesh Patel	India	NR	2	West Indies	24 March 1976	Drawn
58	177	Viv Richards (2/3)	West Indies	NR	1	India	7 April 1976	Lost
59	103*	Alvin Kallicharran (3/4)	West Indies	NR	3	India	7 April 1976	Lost
60	102	Sunil Gavaskar (4/4)	India	NR	4	West Indies	7 April 1976	Won
61	112	Gundappa Viswanath	India	NR	4	West Indies	7 April 1976	Won
62	120	Roy Fredericks	West Indies	NR	2	Pakistan	4 March 1977	Won
63	121	Mushtaq Mohammad	Pakistan	NR	1	West Indies	1 April 1977	Won
64	127	Alvin Kallicharran (4/4)	West Indies	NR	2	Australia	3 March 1978	Won
65	123	Larry Gomes	West Indies	333	2	India	11 March 1983	Drawn
66	143	Clive Lloyd (2/2)	West Indies	NR	2	India	11 March 1983	Drawn
67	117	Mohinder Amarnath	India	NR	3	West Indies	11 March 1983	Drawn
68	100*	Kapil Dev	India	95	3	West Indies	11 March 1983	Drawn
69	130	Jeff Dujon (1/2)	West Indies	187	2	Australia	16 March 1984	Drawn
70	100*	Allan Border	Australia	269	3	West Indies	16 March 1984	Drawn
71	100	Gordon Greenidge	West Indies	235	1	New Zealand	29 March 1985	Drawn
72	102	Richie Richardson	West Indies	140	2	England	7 March 1986	Won
73	123	Viv Richards (3/3)	West Indies	169	3	Pakistan	14 April 1988	Drawn
74	106*	Jeff Dujon (2/2)	West Indies	175	3	Pakistan	14 April 1988	Drawn
75	102	Javed Miandad	Pakistan	265	4	West Indies	14 April 1988	Drawn
76	143*	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	288	3	Pakistan	16 April 1993	Won
77	201	Navjot Sidhu	India	491	2	West Indies	14 March 1997	Drawn
78	128	Stuart Williams	West Indies	299	3	India	14 March 1997	Drawn
79	106	Michael Slater	Australia	205	3	West Indies	5 March 1999	Won
80	113*	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe	290	2	West Indies	16 March 2000	Lost
81	103	Daryll Cullinan	South Africa	155	1	West Indies	17 March 2001	Won
82	117	Sachin Tendulkar	India	260	1	West Indies	19 April 2002	Won
83	206	Ricky Ponting	Australia	362	1	West Indies	19 April 2003	Won
84	160	Darren Lehmann	Australia	228	1	West Indies	19 April 2003	Won
85	101*	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	104	1	West Indies	19 April 2003	Won
86	117	Daren Ganga	West Indies	238	2	Australia	19 April 2003	Lost
87	100*	Matthew Hayden	Australia	180	3	West Indies	19 April 2003	Won
88	122	Brian Lara (1/2)	West Indies	208	4	Australia	19 April 2003	Lost
89	196	Brian Lara (2/2)	West Indies	286	1	South Africa	8 April 2005	Lost
90	148	Graeme Smith	South Africa	313	2	West Indies	8 April 2005	Won
91	107*	Ramnaresh Sarwan (1/2)	West Indies	221	3	South Africa	8 April 2005	Lost
92	125	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	199	3	West Indies	3 April 2008	Lost
93	102	Ramnaresh Sarwan (2/2)	West Indies	172	4	Sri Lanka	3 April 2008	Won
94	142	Andrew Strauss	England	271	1	West Indies	6 March 2009	Drawn
95	161	Paul Collingwood	England	288	1	West Indies	6 March 2009	Drawn
96	131*	Matt Prior	England	198	1	West Indies	6 March 2009	Drawn
97	102	Chris Gayle	West Indies	170	2	England	6 March 2009	Drawn
98	147*	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	361	2	England	6 March 2009	Drawn
99	109	Brendan Nash	West Indies	257	2	England	6 March 2009	Drawn
100	102	Kevin Pietersen	England	92	3	West Indies	6 March 2009	Drawn
101	129	Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies	258	2	New Zealand	16 June 2014	Won
102	109	Darren Bravo	West Indies	155	2	New Zealand	16 June 2014	Won
103	125*	Shane Dowrich	West Indies	325	1	Sri Lanka	6 June 2018	Won
104	102	Kusal Mendis	Sri Lanka	210	4	West Indies	6 June 2018	Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Queen's Park Oval.[5]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	129*	Graham Gooch	England	118	2	West Indies	4 March 1986	Won
2	142*	Desmond Haynes (1/2)	West Indies	132	1	Pakistan	18 March 1988	Won
3	104	Phil Simmons	West Indies	139	2	South Africa	12 April 1992	Won
4	115	Desmond Haynes (2/2)	West Indies	112	1	England	5 March 1994	Won
5	139	Brian Lara (1/2)	West Indies	123	1	Australia	12 March 1995	Won
6	106*	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	108	2	West Indies	29 March 1996	Won
7	146*	Brian Lara (2/2)	West Indies	134	2	New Zealand	30 March 1996	Won
8	119	Clayton Lambert	West Indies	124	1	England	8 April 1998	Won
9	109	Runako Morton	West Indies	150	1	Zimbabwe	13 May 2006	No result
10	116	Vusi Sibanda	Zimbabwe	137	1	Bermuda	20 May 2006	Won
11	114	Virender Sehwag	India	87	1	Bermuda	19 March 2007	Won
12	109	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	87	1	Bangladesh	21 March 2007	Won
13	102	Virat Kohli (1/3)	India	83	1	West Indies	5 July 2013	Won
14	103	Ajinkya Rahane	India	104	1	West Indies	25 June 2017	Won
15	120	Virat Kohli (2/3)	India	125	1	West Indies	11 August 2019	Won
16	114*	Virat Kohli (3/3)	India	99	2	West Indies	12 August 2019	Won

World Series Cricket centuries

The following table summarises the WSC centuries scored at the Queen's Park Oval.[12]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	122	Bruce Laird	WSC Australians	NR	1	WSC West Indies	17 March 1979	Won
2	150	Greg Chappell	WSC Australians	NR	2	WSC West Indies	19 March 1979	Won

References

1. "Queen's Park Oval — Cricinfo profile". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
2. "Statsguru: Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad / Test matches / Match result list". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
3. "Statsguru: Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad / One-Day Internationals matches / Match result list". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
4. "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
5. "Statsguru: One-Day Internationals / Batting records / Innings by innings list". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
6. "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Won". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
7. "Statsguru: One Day International matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Won". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
8. "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Lost". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
9. "Statsguru: One Day International matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Lost". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
10. "Statsguru: Test matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : Drawn". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
11. "Statsguru: One Day International matches / Batting records / Innings by innings list / Match result : No result". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
12. "3rd Supertest: WSC West Indies v WSC Australians". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 August 2013.