List of international cricket centuries at Bellerive Oval

Bellerive Oval, also known by its sponsored name Blundstone Arena, is a cricket ground in Hobart, Australia.[2] It is the home of the Tasmania cricket team[3] and the Hobart Hurricanes (a Twenty20 team in the Big Bash League),[4] as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue.[5] It has a capacity of 16,000 spectators.[2] As of December 2015, the ground has hosted 12 Test matches, the first in 1989 when Australia hosted Sri Lanka.[6] It has also staged 34 ODI matches, the first of which was in 1988 when New Zealand lost to Sri Lanka by four wickets.[7] As of October 2014, two T20Is have been played at the ground.[8] The first was in 2010 when Australia beat the West Indies by 38 runs;[8] the second was in 2014, when Australia defeated England by 13 runs.[8]

Since Bellerive Oval hosted its first Test match in 1989, 31 Test centuries have been made at the ground.[1]

The first Test century (100 or more runs in a single innings) scored at the ground was by Australian Mark Taylor in the third innings of the first Test match against Sri Lanka in 1989.[9] In the same innings Dean Jones and Steve Waugh also scored centuries.[10] As of December 2015, 31 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in 12 Test matches.[1] As of December 2015, Adam Voges 269*, scored against West Indies in 2015, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground and only the second double century (200 or more runs in a single innings) in this ground, after Ricky Ponting's 209, against Pakistan in 2010.[1] The highest Test score by an overseas player is 192 by the Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara in 2007.[1] Michael Hussey has scored three Test centuries at the ground, the most by any batsman.[11]

In the second ODI ever at Bellerive Oval,[7] West Indian Desmond Haynes scored the first century at the venue with a score of 101 runs from 112 balls against Pakistan in 1988.[12] In 35 ODIs, a total of 25 centuries have been scored.[12] As of October 2014, the highest ODI score at the ground is 172, scored by Adam Gilchrist, an Australian wicket-keeper.[12] The top scoring non-Australian is Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan, who scored 160 runs.[12] Dilshan and fellow Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara are the only players to have scored two ODI centuries at Bellerive Oval.[13] In the two T20I games at Bellerive Oval, as of October 2014, no centuries have been scored.[14] The top T20I score at the ground is 75 by Australian Cameron White in 2014.[14]

Key

• An asterisk (*) denotes that the batsman was not out.
• Inns. denotes the number of the innings in which the century was scored.
• Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
• Parentheses i.e. (1/3) next to the player's name denotes his century number at Bellerive Oval.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.

Test centuries

Adam Voges has the highest individual Test score by any batsman at Bellerive Oval, with a score of 269*.[1]

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara is the highest scoring opposition batsman at Bellerive Oval in Test matches with a score of 192.[1]

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.[15]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Winning team
1	108	Mark Taylor (1/2)	Australia	212	3	Sri Lanka	16 December 1989	Australia[10]
2	118*	Dean Jones	Australia	178	3	Sri Lanka	16 December 1989	Australia[10]
3	134*	Steve Waugh	Australia	177	3	Sri Lanka	16 December 1989	Australia[10]
4	168	Michael Slater	Australia	235	1	New Zealand	26 November 1993	Australia[16]
5	106	David Boon	Australia	242	1	New Zealand	26 November 1993	Australia[16]
6	111	Mark Waugh	Australia	139	1	New Zealand	26 November 1993	Australia[16]
7	123	Mark Taylor (2/2)	Australia	244	3	Pakistan	17 November 1995	Australia[17]
8	114	Matthew Elliott	Australia	265	1	New Zealand	27 November 1997	Match drawn[18]
9	133	Matt Horne	New Zealand	259	2	Australia	27 November 1997	Match drawn[18]
10	118	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	191	3	Australia	18 November 1999	Australia[19]
11	127	Justin Langer (1/2)	Australia	295	4	Pakistan	18 November 1999	Australia[19]
12	149*	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	163	4	Pakistan	18 November 1999	Australia[19]
13	123	Justin Langer (2/2)	Australia	154	1	New Zealand	22 November 2001	Match drawn[20]
14	157*	Ricky Ponting (1/2)	Australia	218	1	New Zealand	22 November 2001	Match drawn[20]
15	110	Matthew Hayden	Australia	169	2	West Indies	17 November 2005	Australia[21]
16	137	Michael Hussey (1/3)	Australia	234	2	West Indies	17 November 2005	Australia[21]
17	113	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	202	3	Australia	17 November 2005	Australia[21]
18	150	Phil Jaques	Australia	237	1	Sri Lanka	16 November 2007	Australia[22]
19	132	Michael Hussey (2/3)	Australia	220	1	Sri Lanka	16 November 2007	Australia[22]
20	104	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	194	2	Australia	16 November 2007	Australia[22]
21	192	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	282	4	Australia	16 November 2007	Australia[22]
22	209	Ricky Ponting (2/2)	Australia	354	1	Pakistan	14 January 2010	Australia[23]
23	166	Michael Clarke	Australia	328	1	Pakistan	14 January 2010	Australia[23]
24	102	Salman Butt	Pakistan	234	2	Australia	14 January 2010	Australia[23]
25	100	Simon Katich	Australia	138	3	Pakistan	14 January 2010	Australia[23]
26	123*	David Warner	Australia	170	4	New Zealand	9 December 2011	New Zealand[24]
27	115*	Michael Hussey (3/3)	Australia	184	1	Sri Lanka	14 December 2012	Australia[25]
28	147	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	273	2	Australia	14 December 2012	Australia[25]
29	269*	Adam Voges	Australia	285	1	West Indies	10 December 2015	Australia[26]
30	182	Shaun Marsh	Australia	266	1	West Indies	10 December 2015	Australia[26]
31	108	Darren Bravo	West Indies	177	2	Australia	10 December 2015	Australia[26]
32	104	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	143	2	Australia	12 November 2016	South Africa[27]

One Day International centuries

The highest score in an ODI played at Bellerive Oval is by Adam Gilchrist who scored 172.[12]

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Bellerive Oval.[12]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Winning team
1	101	Desmond Haynes	West Indies	112	1	Pakistan	17 December 1988	West Indies[28]
2	116*	Ramiz Raja	Pakistan	148	2	Sri Lanka	15 February 1990	Pakistan[29]
3	102*	David Boon	Australia	168	2	India	10 December 1991	Australia[30]
4	114	Aamer Sohail	Pakistan	136	1	Zimbabwe	27 February 1992	Pakistan[31]
5	110	Stuart Law	Australia	135	1	Zimbabwe	8 December 1994	Australia[32]
6	124	Alistair Campbell	Zimbabwe	142	1	Australia	30 January 2001	Australia[33]
7	102*	Mark Waugh	Australia	113	2	Zimbabwe	30 January 2001	Australia[33]
8	101*	Damien Martyn	Australia	114	1	England	11 January 2003	Australia[34]
9	172	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	126	1	Zimbabwe	16 January 2004	Australia[35]
10	134*	Ricky Ponting	Australia	133	1	New Zealand	20 December 2007	Australia[36]
11	110	Shaun Marsh	Australia	114	1	England	21 January 2011	Australia[37]
12	104	Peter Forrest	Australia	138	1	Sri Lanka	24 February 2012	Sri Lanka[38]
13	160*	Tillakaratne Dilshan (1/2)	Sri Lanka	165	1	India	28 February 2012	India[39]
14	105	Kumar Sangakkara (1/2)	Sri Lanka	87	1	India	28 February 2012	India[39]
15	133*	Virat Kohli	India	86	2	Sri Lanka	28 February 2012	India[39]
16	138*	Phillip Hughes	Australia	154	1	Sri Lanka	23 January 2013	Australia[40]
17	141	Ian Bell	England	125	1	Australia	23 January 2015	Australia[41]
18	102*	Steve Smith	Australia	95	2	England	23 January 2015	Australia[41]
19	112	Ed Joyce	Ireland	103	1	Zimbabwe	7 March 2015	Ireland[42]
20	121	Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe	91	2	Ireland	7 March 2015	Ireland[42]
21	104	Tillakaratne Dilshan (2/2)	Sri Lanka	99	1	Scotland	11 March 2015	Sri Lanka[43]
22	124	Kumar Sangakkara (2/2)	Sri Lanka	95	1	Scotland	11 March 2015	Sri Lanka[43]
23	125	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	114	1	Australia	11 November 2018	South Africa[44]
24	139	David Miller	South Africa	108	1	Australia	11 November 2018	South Africa[44]
25	106	Shaun Marsh	Australia	102	2	South Africa	11 November 2018	South Africa[44]

Twenty20 International centuries

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Winning team
1	103*	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	58	2	England	7 February 2018	Australia[45]

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