List of international cricket centuries by Aravinda de Silva

Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former cricketer and captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He scored centuries (scores of 100 runs or more in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket matches organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1996.[3] Identified as "one of the game's best entertainers" by ESPNcricinfo's Simon Wilde, De Silva scored 20 centuries in Tests and 11 in ODIs.[3]

Aravinda de Silva scored seven of his thirty-one international cricket centuries at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.[1][2]

De Silva debuted in 1984 and scored his first Test century in October 1985 against Pakistan.[1] In a man-of-the-match performance, he scored 122 in an eight-and-a-half-hours innings.[4] He made centuries in both innings of a match when he scored 138 and 103 – not out in both innings – in the second Test of the 1997 series against Pakistan,[5] and as of January 2013, he is the only player to score not out centuries in both innings of a Test.[6] He repeated the feat of scoring centuries in both innings in the same year, when he scored 146 and 120 against India in another man-of-the-match performance.[7] De Silva's highest Test score of 267, achieved in January 1991 in Wellington, was reached in 380 balls against New Zealand.[8] The performance is the sixth-highest score by a Sri Lankan batsman in Test cricket.[9] De Silva scored his twenty Test centuries against seven different opponents, and was most successful against Pakistan, making eight.[1] As of April 2013, he is thirty-fourth in the international Test century-makers list,[lower-greek 1] and third in the Sri Lankan list.[11]

De Silva's maiden ODI century was against India in 1990; he scored 104 runs off 124 balls.[2][12] His highest score in ODIs is 145, against Kenya in the 1996 Cricket World Cup.[13] His score led Sri Lanka to 398, the highest ODI total by any team at that time;[14][lower-greek 2] it was also the first century made by a Sri Lankan in a World Cup.[15] He also scored a century in the second innings of the final, making 107 runs not out.[16] As of April 2013, he is twenty-sixth in the list of all-time ODI century-makers and sixth in the equivalent list for Sri Lanka.[lower-greek 3][18] He was most successful against Pakistan, scoring 11 centuries in both Tests and ODIs put together.[1][2] De Silva also holds the record for the tenth-fastest Test double century, which he attained while playing against Bangladesh in 2002.[19]

Key
An innings-by-innings breakdown of De Silva's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars, green for not out) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line)
Key for the tables
Symbol Meaning
* Remained not out
Man of the Match
Pos. Position in the batting order
Inn. The innings of the match
Test The number of the Test match played in that series
H/A/N Venue was at home (Sri Lanka), away or neutral
Date Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches
Lost The match was lost by Sri Lanka.
Won The match was won by Sri Lanka.
Drawn The match was drawn.

Test centuries
List of Test centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva
No. Score Balls[lower-greek 4] Against Pos. Inn. Test Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 122 — Pakistan7 11/3Iqbal Stadium, FaisalabadAway16 October 1985Drawn[20]
2 105 — Pakistan3 33/3National Stadium, KarachiAway7 November 1985Lost[21]
3 167 361 Australia5 21/2Brisbane Cricket Ground, BrisbaneAway8 December 1989Drawn[22]
4 267 380 New Zealand4 21/3Basin Reserve, WellingtonAway31 January 1991Drawn[23]
5 123 193 New Zealand4 33/3Eden Park, AucklandAway1 March 1991Drawn[24]
6 148 297 India4 13/3Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, ColomboHome4 August 1993Drawn[25]
7 127 156 Pakistan4 21/3Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, ColomboHome9 August 1994Drawn[26]
8 105 316 Pakistan4 32/3Iqbal Stadium, FaisalabadAway15 September 1995Won[27]
9 168 383 Pakistan3 31/2R. Premadasa Stadium, ColomboHome19 April 1997Drawn[28]
10 138* 208 Pakistan4 12/2Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome26 April 1997Drawn[29]
11 103* 99 Pakistan4 32/2Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome26 April 1997Drawn[29]
12 126 211 India4 21/2R. Premadasa Stadium, ColomboHome2 August 1997Drawn[30]
13 146 226 India4 12/2Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome9 August 1997Drawn[31]
14 120 198 India4 32/2Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome9 August 1997Drawn[31]
15 110* 263 India4 31/3Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, MohaliAway19 November 1997Drawn[32]
16 143* 310 Zimbabwe4 42/2Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome14 January 1998Won[33]
17 152 292 England4 21/1Kennington Oval, LondonAway27 August 1998Won[34]
18 112 276 Pakistan4 21/3Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, RawalpindiAway26 February 2000Won[35]
19 106 243 England4 11/3Galle International Stadium, GalleHome22 February 2001Won[36]
20 206 234 Bangladesh5 21/2Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, ColomboHome21 July 2002Won[37]

One Day International centuries
List of ODI centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva
No. Score Balls Against Pos. Inn. S/R Venue H/A/N Date Result Ref
1 104 124 India4 283.87Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, NagpurAway1 December 1990Lost[12]
2 105 105 Australia4 2100.00Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, ColomboHome15 August 1992Won[38]
3 107* 100 Zimbabwe4 1107.00Harare Sports Club, HarareAway6 November 1994Won[39]
4 145 115 Kenya4 1126.08Asgiriya Stadium, KandyHome6 March 1996Won[40]
5 107* 124 Australia4 286.29Gaddafi Stadium, LahoreNeutral17 March 1996Won[16]
6 127* 123 Zimbabwe4 2103.25Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome3 September 1996Won[41]
7 122 116 Pakistan4 2105.17Gymkhana Club Ground, NairobiNeutral4 October 1996Lost[42]
8 134 131 Pakistan4 1102.29Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, SharjahNeutral7 April 1997Won[43]
9 104 117 India4 188.88Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, ColomboHome24 August 1997Won[44]
10 102* 90 Pakistan4 2113.33Gaddafi Stadium, LahoreAway5 November 1997Won[45]
11 105 94 India3 2111.70R. Premadasa Stadium, ColomboHome7 July 1998Lost[46]

Notes
  1. De Silva shares the position with Ken Barrington, Mark Waugh and Graham Gooch.[10]
  2. The record was surpassed by Australia, which made 434 runs in March 2006.[14] However it was outstripped in the same match when South Africa made 438 runs.[14] As of January 2013, the record lies with Sri Lanka which made 443 runs against the Netherlands in July 2006.[14]
  3. De Silva shares the position with Gordon Greenidge, Marvan Atapattu, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Viv Richards and Gautam Gambhir.[17]
  4. The number of balls played for the first two centuries were not recorded.

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