List of international cricket centuries at Sabina Park

Sabina Park

Sabina Park is the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is often referred to as "The Holiday Home of Cricket"....

is a 20,000 capacity cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

ground in Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

, Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, it is one of the home grounds of the West Indies cricket team. The ground hosted its first Test match in 1930 when the West Indies played England in a timeless Test

Timeless Test

A timeless Test is a match of Test cricket played under no limitation of time, which means the match is played until one side wins or the match is tied, with theoretically no possibility of a draw. The format means that it is not possible to play defensively for a draw when the allotted time runs...

, One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been played at the ground since 1984. The ground has been the scene of 87 Test and 17 ODI centuries

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...

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Three centuries were scored in the ground's inaugural Test match, the first was by the Englishman Andy Sandham

Andy Sandham

Andrew Sandham was an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who played 14 Test matches between 1921 and 1930. He scored over 40,000 first-class runs, but bowled only very rarely; he took just 18 wickets in his career.Sandham made his Surrey debut in 1911, and was capped in 1913...

, at the time his innings of 325 was a world record. The first West Indian to score a Test century at the ground was George Headley

George Headley

George Alphonso Headley was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches, mostly before the Second World War. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Headley also represented Jamaica and played professional club cricket in...

, who made 223 in the same match. He followed this with a score of 270 not out in 1935 and remains the only batsman to have scored two double centuries at the ground. In 1958 the ground saw another world record Test score when Garfield Sobers

Garfield Sobers

Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers AO, OCC is a former cricketer who captained West Indies. His first name of Garfield is variously abbreviated as Gary or Garry. He is widely regarded as one of cricket's greatest ever all-rounders, having excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and...

made 365 not out against Pakistan, a record that stood until 1994. Sobers is one of two players to have scored five Test centuries at the ground, the other is Clyde Walcott

Clyde Walcott

Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18...

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Desmond Haynes

Desmond Haynes

Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. Haynes formed a formidable partnership with Gordon Greenidge for the West Indies cricket team in Test cricket during 1980s. Between them they managed 16 century stands, four in excess of...

became the first ODI centurion at the ground when he made 104 not out against Australia in 1984. Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith is a South African cricketer and captain of the South African cricket team Test Match side, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

scored the first ODI century at the ground by an overseas player in 2005. Four centuries were scored at the ground during the 2007 Cricket World Cup

2007 Cricket World Cup

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format...

, it was during this tournament that the highest ODI score at the ground, 160, was made by the Pakistani Imran Nazir

Imran Nazir

Imran Nazir is a Pakistani right handed batsman in cricket who represented the Pakistan national cricket team in Test cricket, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches.-Career:...

. The highest score by a West Indian at the ground is Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer who currently plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained the West Indies' side from 2007 to 2010. He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors and the Kolkata Knight...

's 123 which was made in 2006. Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarine "Shiv" Chanderpaul is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean in the West Indies team to play 100 Tests for the West Indies and has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals...

is the only player to have scored 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...

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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 Sabina 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 tied.

Test centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	3,250 325		640 640	1	Drawn
2	1,490 149	(1/2)	174 174	1	Drawn
3	2,230 223	(1/2)	385 385	4	Drawn
4	2,701 270*	(2/2)	0 NR	1	Won
5	1,260 126	(2/2)	0 NR	2	Lost
6	1,410 141	(1/2)	0 NR	2	Won
7	1,070 107		0 NR	3	Lost
8	1,170 117		0 NR	1	Drawn
9	2,370 237		0 NR	2	Drawn
10	1,090 109	(2/2)	0 NR	2	Drawn
11	1,180 118	(1/5)	0 NR	2	Drawn
12	1,500 150		0 NR	3	Drawn
13	1,180 118		0 NR	3	Drawn
14	1,160 116		0 NR	4	Lost
15	2,050 205		0 NR	2	Won
16	1,160 116	(2/5)	0 NR	3	Lost
17	1,330 133	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Won
18	1,470 147	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Won
19	1,080 108	(3/5)	0 NR	2	Lost
20	1,040 104		0 NR	3	Lost
21	1,550 155	(4/5)	0 NR	1	Lost
22	1,270 127		0 NR	2	Won
23	2,040 204	(2/2)	0 NR	2	Won
24	1,090 109	(2/2)	0 NR	2	Won
25	1,280 128		0 NR	2	Won
26	1,210 121		0 NR	2	Won
27	1,100 110	(5/5)	0 NR	3	Lost
28	1,220 122		0 NR	1	Lost
29	2,600 260		0 NR	2	Won
30	3,651 365*	(1/5)	0 NR	2	Won
31	1,060 106		0 NR	3	Lost
32	1,140 114	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Drawn
33	1,470 147	(2/5)	0 NR	2	Drawn
34	1,250 125		0 NR	2	Won
35	1,380 138	(1/2)	0 NR	2	Won
36	1,530 153	(3/5)	0 NR	2	Won
37	1,040 104	(4/5)	0 NR	1	Won
38	1,010 101	(2/2)	0 NR	1	Drawn
39	1,131 113*	(5/5)	0 NR	3	Drawn
40	2,120 212		0 NR	1	Drawn
41	1,581 158*	(2/2)	0 NR	3	Drawn
42	1,630 163		0 NR	1	Drawn
43	2,140 214	(1/3)	0 NR	1	Drawn
44	2,231 223*		0 NR	2	Drawn
45	1,001 100*	(2/3)	0 NR	3	Drawn
46	1,010 101		0 NR	4	Drawn
47	1,250 125		0 NR	2	Drawn
48	1,420 142		0 NR	3	Drawn
49	1,200 120	(3/3)	258 258	2	Drawn
50	2,621 262*		563 563	3	Drawn
51	1,000 100	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Won
52	1,350 135		0 NR	4	Lost
53	1,220 122		0 NR	1	Drawn
54	1,150 115		0 NR	2	Drawn
55	1,260 126		0 NR	4	Drawn
56	1,530 153		213 213	1	Drawn
57	1,541 154*		403 403	3	Drawn
58	1,270 127	(2/2)	193 193	2	Won
59	1,120 112		206 206	3	Lost
60	1,160 116		237 237	1	Lost
61	1,560 156	(1/3)	314 314	2	Won
62	1,100 110		178 178	2	Won
63	1,320 132		205 205	2	Won
64	1,091 109*		243 243	2	Drawn
65	1,041 104*	(2/3)	233 233	3	Drawn
66	1,260 126		232 232	2	Won
67	1,000 100	(3/3)	222 222	1	Lost
68	1,260 126		192 192	2	Won
69	2,000 200	(1/2)	425 425	2	Won
70	1,290 129		212 212	1	Drawn
71	1,000 100	(2/2)	165 165	1	Lost
72	2,130 213	(1/3)	344 344	2	Won
73	1,130 113		239 239	1	Lost
74	1,011 101*		372 372	2	Won
75	1,130 113		200 200	1	Won
76	1,080 108		188 188	1	Lost
77	2,611 261*	(1/2)	402 402	2	Won
78	1,200 120	(2/3)	147 147	2	Won
79	1,011 101*	(1/2)	190 190	2	Won
80	1,060 106		190 190	1	Won
81	1,530 153	(3/3)	233 233	2	Lost
82	1,171 117*		194 194	3	Won
83	1,580 158		224 224	1	Won
84	1,180 118	(2/2)	276 276	2	Lost
85	1,040 104		193 193	2	Won
86	1,070 107	(2/2)	290 290	2	Won
87	1,120 112		274 274	3	Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	1,041 104*		102	2	Won
2	1,091 109*		119	1	Won
3	1,081 108*		132	2	Won
4	1,220 122		113	1	Won
5	1,140 114		116	2	Won
6	1,030 103		130	1	Won
7	1,161 116*		125	1	Won
8	1,030 103		102	2	Won
9	1,230 123		130	1	Lost
10	1,050 105		102	2	Won
11	1,151 115*		137	1	Tied
12	1,600 160		121	1	Won
13	1,021 102*	(1/2)	113	2	Won
14	1,151 115*		109	1	Won
15	1,310 131		102	1	Won
16	1,010 101	(2/2)	120	1	Won
17	1,001 100*		119	2	Won

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