The Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval, also known as its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is primarily a cricket and Australian Rules Football ground located in Bellerive, City of Clarence, on the eastern shore of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia...

 is a 16,000-capacity sports stadium located in Hobart

Hobart

Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...

 on the Australian island state of Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

. Used predominately for cricket and Australian rules, the Bellerive Oval hosted its first Test

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...

 in 1989 (when Australia played Sri Lanka) and its first One Day International (ODI) in 1988 (when Sri Lanka played 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...

). The ground has seen nine Tests—all including Australia—along with 27 ODIs, and has been the scene of 25 Test and 11 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...

.

The Australian Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor (cricketer)

Mark Anthony Taylor, AO is a former Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988–1999, as well as captain from 1994–1999, succeeding Allan Border...

 became the first Test centurion at the ground when he made 108 against Sri Lanka in 1989. It took until 1997 for the first Test century by an overseas player at the ground, the New Zealander Matt Horne scored the first with 133. Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

, a Tasmanian, is the only player to have scored a double century at the ground, Ponting's innings of 209 was made against Pakistan in 2010. The Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan, Sinhalese cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is a left-handed top-order batsman...

 holds the record for the highest Test innings by an overseas player at the ground, managing 192 in 2007.

The first ODI century made at the Bellerive Oval was in 1988 by the West Indian 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...

, scoring 101 against Pakistan. The Australian Adam Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist

Adam Craig Gilchrist AM , nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy", is an Australian international cricketer who currently captains Kings XI Punjab and recently captained Middlesex. He is an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who redefined the role for the Australian national...

 holds the record for the highest ODI innings at the ground, Gilchrist scored 172 against Zimbabwe in 2004.

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 the Bellerive Oval.
• 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.

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Bellerive Oval.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,080 108	(1/2)		212	3			Won
2	1,181 118*			178	3			Won
3	1,341 134*			177	3			Won
4	1,680 168			235	1			Won
5	1,060 106			242	1			Won
6	1,110 111			139	1			Won
7	1,230 123	(2/2)		244	3			Won
8	1,140 114			265	1			Drawn
9	1,330 133			259	2			Drawn
10	1,180 118			191	3			Lost
11	1,270 127	(1/2)		295	4			Won
12	1,491 149*			163	4			Won
13	1,230 123	(2/2)		154	1			Drawn
14	1,571 157*	(1/2)		218	1			Drawn
15	1,100 110			169	2			Won
16	1,370 137	(1/2)		234	2			Won
17	1,130 113			202	3			Lost
18	1,500 150			237	1			Won
19	1,320 132	(2/2)		220	1			Won
20	1,040 104			194	2			Lost
21	1,920 192			282	4			Lost
22	2,090 209	(2/2)		354	1			Won
23	1,660 166			328	1			Won
24	1,020 102			234	2			Lost
25	1,000 100			138	3			Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Bellerive Oval.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,010 101			112	1			Won
2	1,161 116*			148	2			Won
3	1,021 102*			168	2			Won
4	1,140 114			136	1			Won
5	1,100 110			135	1			Won
6	1,240 124			142	1			Lost
7	1,021 102*			113	2			Won
8	1,011 101*			114	1			Won
9	1,720 172			126	1			Won
10	1,341 134*			133	1			Won
11	1,100 110			114	1			Won