List of international cricket centuries at Eden Park

Eden Park is the biggest stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. It is used primarily for rugby union in winter and cricket in summer . The ground also occasionally hostts rugby league matches. To accommodate all three sports, the cricket pitch is removable...

is a sports stadium in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, it has a capacity of 50,000. The ground has hosted Test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

since its first match in 1930 when New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

played England. 47 Test matches have been played at the ground, the most recent in March 2006. 62 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been played at the ground, the first was in 1976 when New Zealand played India.

Englishman Ted Bowley

Ted Bowley

Edward Henry "Ted" Bowley, born at Leatherhead, Surrey on 6 June 1890 and died at Winchester on 9 July 1974, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....

became the first man to score a Test century

Century (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...

at Eden Park when he made 109 against New Zealand in 1930. Barry Sinclair

Barry Sinclair

Barry Whitley Sinclair is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a specialist batsman. Sinclair scored three of his six first-class centuries in Tests, yet failed to win a single match with New Zealand...

's innings of 138 against South Africa in 1964 was the first time a New Zealand player made a century at the ground. Wally Hammond

Wally Hammond

Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond was an English Test cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning his career as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England...

's score of 336 not out, made against New Zealand in 1933, remains the highest score seen at the ground. At the time Hammond's score was also a world record, surpassing Donald Bradman

Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC , often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time...

's record of 334. 4 players have made a double century at the ground, however, the highest score by a New Zealander, 173 from 136 deliveries

Cricket ball

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, was made by Ian Smith against India in 1990. John Wright

John Wright (cricketer)

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is the only man to have scored 3 Test centuries at the ground.

Twenty one ODI centuries have been scored at Eden Park, the first by Australian Greg Chappell

Greg Chappell

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who scored 108 from 92 deliveries against New Zealand in 1982. The highest score achieved at the ground is 140 made by Glenn Turner

Glenn Turner

Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....

against Sri Lanka in 1983. Martin Crowe

Martin Crowe

Martin David Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985, and was credited as one of the "best young batsmen in the world". Crowe represented New Zealand from the early 1980s until his retirement in 1996 as a right-handed batsman...

and Nathan Astle

Nathan Astle

Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...

are the only players to record two ODI centuries at the ground.

Key

* denotes that the batsman was not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

.
Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
Balls denotes the number of balls
Delivery (cricket)
A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball towards the batsman.During play of the game, a member of the fielding team is designated as the bowler, and bowls deliveries towards the batsman...

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 Eden Park.
The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won, lost or if the match was drawn or a no result.

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Eden Park.

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	1,090 109		0 NR	1	Drawn
2	1,170 117		0 NR	1	Drawn
3	1,960 196		0 NR	1	Drawn
4	3,361 336*		0 NR	2	Drawn
5	1,520 152		0 NR	1	Drawn
6	1,000 100		0 NR	1	Drawn
7	1,150 115		0 NR	1	Drawn
8	1,160 116		0 NR	1	Drawn
9	1,241 124*		0 NR	2	Drawn
10	1,260 126		0 NR	1	Won
11	1,311 131*		0 NR	1	Won
12	1,250 125		0 NR	1	Won
13	1,380 138	(1/2)	0 NR	2	Drawn
14	1,140 114	(2/2)	213 213	1	Drawn
15	1,240 124		0 NR	1	Lost
16	1,090 109		0 NR	2	Won
17	1,680 168		0 NR	4	Won
18	1,010 101		149 149	1	Drawn
19	1,040 104		176 176	2	Drawn
20	1,100 110		0 NR	1	Drawn
21	1,070 107		0 NR	2	Drawn
22	1,100 110		0 NR	2	Drawn
23	1,041 104*		138 138	1	Won
24	1,591 159*		310 310	3	Won
25	1,810 181		392 392	1	Won
26	2,160 216		413 413	1	Won
27	1,210 121		297 297	2	Lost
28	1,160 116		0 NR	2	Won
29	1,240 124		0 NR	2	Won
30	1,220 122	(1/2)	356 356	1	Drawn
31	1,580 158		524 524	2	Drawn
32	1,020 102	(2/2)	301 301	3	Drawn
33	1,350 135		0 NR	2	Drawn
34	1,270 127	(1/2)	317 317	2	Drawn
35	1,100 110	(1/3)	434 434	2	Drawn
36	1,610 161	(2/2)	418 418	2	Won
37	1,000 100		249 249	3	Lost
38	1,300 130	(2/3)	297 297	1	Drawn
39	1,280 128		285 285	1	Drawn
40	1,131 113*	(1/2)	182 182	1	Drawn
41	1,040 104		338 338	2	Drawn
42	1,581 158*		318 318	2	Won
43	1,180 118		287 287	1	Lost
44	2,130 213		384 384	1	Won
45	1,040 104	(1/2)	264 264	3	Lost
46	1,030 103	(3/3)	276 276	1	Drawn
47	1,071 107*		325 325	3	Drawn
48	1,120 112		254 254	1	Drawn
49	2,710 271		465 465	1	Drawn
50	1,730 173	(2/2)	136 136	1	Drawn
51	1,920 192		259 259	2	Drawn
52	1,701 170*		446 446	3	Drawn
53	1,130 113	(2/2)	174 174	3	Drawn
54	1,230 123		193 193	3	Drawn
55	1,140 114		220 220	3	Won
56	1,010 101		155 155	3	Won
57	1,041 104*		204 204	2	Drawn
58	1,120 112		219 219	3	Drawn
59	1,200 120	(1/2)	96 96	3	Drawn
60	1,290 129		254 254	1	Drawn
61	1,730 173		277 277	2	Drawn
62	1,190 119		245 245	2	Drawn
63	1,021 102*	(1/2)	214 214	3	Drawn
64	1,570 157		260 260	2	Won
65	1,140 114	(2/2)	192 192	2	Won
66	1,280 128		282 282	1	Drawn
67	2,751 275*		490 490	1	Drawn
68	1,491 149*		182 182	3	Won
69	1,700 170	(1/2)	220 220	2	Won
70	1,580 158	(2/2)	171 171	2	Won
71	1,541 154*		312 312	3	Lost
72	1,050 105		110 110	2	Won
73	1,031 103*	(2/2)	122 122	1	Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Eden Park.

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	108		92	2	Lost
2	140		130	1	Won
3	105*	(1/2)	105	2	Won
4	104		100	2	Won
5	101		114	2	Won
6	102*		91	2	Won
7	100*	(2/2)	134	1	Won
8	100		133	2	Lost
9	108		149	1	Won
10	120	(1/2)	137	1	Won
11	103*		132	1	Lost
12	100*	(2/2)	126	2	Won
13	100		125	1	Won
14	116*		135	1	Lost
15	103		83	2	Won
16	112		139	2	Won
17	101*		108	2	Won
18	105		84	1	Lost
19	117		127	2	Won
20	122*		135	1	No Result
21	107		93	1	Won

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