List of international cricket centuries at Newlands Cricket Ground

Newlands Cricket Ground is a South African cricket ground located in Cape Town, it has a capacity of 25,000. The ground hosted its first Test match in 1889 and its first One Day International (ODI) in 1992.[1] 52 Test matches have been played at the ground as well as 36 ODIs.[2][3]

Newlands during a Test match

The first Test match century scored at the ground was in 1889 by the Englishman Bobby Abel who made 120 against South Africa. 99 Test centuries have occurred at the ground, the highest of these was scored in 2006 by the New Zealander Stephen Fleming. Fleming's score of 262 from 423 deliveries is one of six double centuries the ground has seen, the others being 228, 209, 224, 258 and 201 scored by Herschelle Gibbs, Graeme Pollock, Jacques Kallis, Ben Stokes and Hashim Amla respectively. Jacques Kallis has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with nine.[4]

The New Zealand batsman Roger Twose was the first player to score an ODI century at the ground, making 103 against South Africa. Brian Lara and Sourav Ganguly are the only other non-South African batsman to have scored an ODI century at Newlands.Faf du Plessis holds the record for the highest score with 185*. Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers are the only batsmen to have scored two ODI centuries at the ground.[5]

Key

• * denotes that the batsman was not out.
• Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
• Balls denotes the number of balls 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 Newlands Cricket Ground.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[6][7] lost[8][9] or if the match was drawn.[10][11]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Newlands.[4]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	120	Bobby Abel	England	NR	1	South Africa	25 March 1889	Won
2	134*	Henry Wood	England	NR	2	South Africa	19 March 1892	Won
3	124	Arthur Hill	England	NR	2	South Africa	21 March 1896	Won
4	106	Jimmy Sinclair (1/2)	South Africa	NR	2	England	1 April 1899	Lost
5	112	Johnny Tyldesley	England	NR	3	South Africa	1 April 1899	Won
6	104	Jimmy Sinclair (2/2)	South Africa	NR	3	Australia	8 November 1902	Lost
7	187	Jack Hobbs	England	NR	1	South Africa	11 March 1910	Won
8	142	Jack Ryder	Australia	NR	2	South Africa	26 November 1921	Won
9	123	Bruce Mitchell (1/2)	South Africa	NR	1	England	1 January 1931	Drawn
10	141	Jack Siedle	South Africa	NR	1	England	1 January 1931	Drawn
11	117	Herbie Taylor	South Africa	NR	1	England	1 January 1931	Drawn
12	121	Bill Brown	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	1 January 1936	Won
13	112	Jack Fingleton	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	1 January 1936	Won
14	181	Wally Hammond	England	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1938	Drawn
15	115	Les Ames	England	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1938	Drawn
16	112	Bryan Valentine	England	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1938	Drawn
17	120	Dudley Nourse (1/3)	South Africa	NR	2	England	31 December 1938	Drawn
18	120	Bruce Mitchell (2/2)	South Africa	NR	2	England	1 January 1949	Drawn
19	112	Dudley Nourse (2/3)	South Africa	NR	2	England	1 January 1949	Drawn
20	178	Neil Harvey	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1949	Won
21	114	Dudley Nourse (3/3)	South Africa	NR	3	Australia	31 December 1949	Lost
22	135	John Reid	New Zealand	NR	1	South Africa	1 January 1954	Drawn
23	101	Colin Cowdrey	England	NR	1	South Africa	1 January 1957	Won
24	189	Jim Burke	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1957	Won
25	101	Zin Harris	New Zealand	NR	1	South Africa	1 January 1962	Won
26	113	Roy McLean	South Africa	NR	4	New Zealand	1 January 1962	Lost
27	138	Eddie Barlow (1/2)	South Africa	NR	1	England	1 January 1965	Drawn
28	154	Tony Pithey	South Africa	NR	1	England	1 January 1965	Drawn
29	121	Mike Smith	England	NR	2	South Africa	1 January 1965	Drawn
30	153	Bob Simpson	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1966	Won
31	134	Keith Stackpole	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	31 December 1966	Won
32	209	Graeme Pollock	South Africa	NR	2	Australia	31 December 1966	Lost
33	127	Eddie Barlow (2/2)	South Africa	322	1	Australia	22 January 1970	Won
34	102	Andrew Hudson	South Africa	174	1	Australia	17 March 1994	Lost
35	112	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	235	2	New Zealand	2 January 1995	Won
36	109	Dave Richardson	South Africa	206	2	New Zealand	2 January 1995	Won
37	103	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	204	1	India	2 January 1997	Won
38	103*	Brian McMillan	South Africa	233	1	India	2 January 1997	Won
39	102*	Lance Klusener	South Africa	100	1	India	2 January 1997	Won
40	169	Sachin Tendulkar (1/2)	India	254	2	South Africa	2 January 1997	Lost
41	115	Mohammad Azharuddin	India	110	2	South Africa	2 January 1997	Lost
42	113	Daryll Cullinan (1/4)	South Africa	159	1	Sri Lanka	19 March 1998	Won
43	110	Jacques Kallis (1/9)	South Africa	328	1	West Indies	2 January 1999	Won
44	168	Daryll Cullinan (2/4)	South Africa	306	1	West Indies	2 January 1999	Won
45	105	Jacques Kallis (2/9)	South Africa	229	2	England	2 January 2000	Won
46	120	Daryll Cullinan (3/4)	South Africa	255	2	England	2 January 2000	Won
47	112	Daryll Cullinan (4/4)	South Africa	232	2	Sri Lanka	2 January 2001	Won
48	138*	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	108	2	South Africa	8 March 2002	Won
49	100*	Ricky Ponting	Australia	160	4	South Africa	8 March 2002	Won
50	151	Graeme Smith (1/4)	South Africa	216	1	Pakistan	2 January 2003	Won
51	228	Herschelle Gibbs (1/2)	South Africa	240	1	Pakistan	2 January 2003	Won
52	135	Taufeeq Umar	Pakistan	254	2	South Africa	2 January 2003	Lost
53	101	Jacques Rudolph	South Africa	215	1	West Indies	2 January 2004	Drawn
54	122*	Mark Boucher	South Africa	173	1	West Indies	2 January 2004	Drawn
55	116	Chris Gayle	West Indies	120	2	South Africa	2 January 2004	Drawn
56	115	Brian Lara	West Indies	238	2	South Africa	2 January 2004	Drawn
57	142	Herschelle Gibbs (2/2)	South Africa	223	3	West Indies	2 January 2004	Drawn
58	130*	Jacques Kallis (3/9)	South Africa	191	3	West Indies	2 January 2004	Drawn
59	105*	Dwayne Smith	West Indies	105	4	South Africa	2 January 2004	Drawn
60	149	Jacques Kallis (4/9)	South Africa	334	1	England	2 January 2005	Won
61	121	Graeme Smith (2/4)	South Africa	107	2	Zimbabwe	4 March 2005	Won
62	262	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	423	1	South Africa	27 April 2006	Drawn
63	122*	James Franklin	New Zealand	268	1	South Africa	27 April 2006	Drawn
64	149	Hashim Amla (1/3)	South Africa	317	2	New Zealand	27 April 2006	Drawn
65	108*	Ashwell Prince (1/2)	South Africa	286	2	New Zealand	27 April 2006	Drawn
66	116	Wasim Jaffer	India	244	1	South Africa	2 January 2007	Lost
67	150	Ashwell Prince (2/2)	South Africa	249	2	Australia	19 March 2009	Won
68	102	Jacques Kallis (5/9)	South Africa	163	2	Australia	19 March 2009	Won
69	163	AB de Villiers (1/3)	South Africa	196	2	Australia	19 March 2009	Won
70	123*	Mitchell Johnson	Australia	103	3	South Africa	19 March 2009	Lost
71	108	Jacques Kallis (6/9)	South Africa	189	1	England	3 January 2010	Drawn
72	183	Graeme Smith (3/4)	South Africa	273	3	England	3 January 2010	Drawn
73	161	Jacques Kallis (7/9)	South Africa	291	1	India	2 January 2011	Drawn
74	146	Sachin Tendulkar (2/2)	India	314	2	South Africa	2 January 2011	Drawn
75	109*	Jacques Kallis (8/9)	South Africa	240	3	India	2 January 2011	Drawn
76	151	Michael Clarke (1/2)	Australia	176	1	South Africa	9 November 2011	Lost
77	101*	Graeme Smith (4/4)	South Africa	140	4	Australia	9 November 2011	Won
78	112	Hashim Amla (2/3)	South Africa	134	4	Australia	9 November 2011	Won
79	109	Alviro Petersen (1/2)	South Africa	188	1	Sri Lanka	3 January 2012	Won
80	224	Jacques Kallis (9/9)	South Africa	325	1	Sri Lanka	3 January 2012	Won
81	160*	AB de Villiers (2/3)	South Africa	205	1	Sri Lanka	3 January 2012	Won
82	115*	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	215	3	South Africa	3 January 2012	Lost
83	106	Alviro Petersen (2/2)	South Africa	176	2	New Zealand	2 January 2013	Won
84	109	Dean Brownlie	New Zealand	186	3	South Africa	2 January 2013	Lost
85	111	Younis Khan	Pakistan	226	1	South Africa	14 February 2013	Lost
86	111	Asad Shafiq	Pakistan	230	1	South Africa	14 February 2013	Lost
87	135	David Warner (1/2)	Australia	152	1	South Africa	1 March 2014	Won
88	161*	Michael Clarke (2/2)	Australia	301	1	South Africa	1 March 2014	Won
89	145	David Warner (2/2)	Australia	156	3	South Africa	1 March 2014	Won
90	148	AB de Villiers (3/3)	South Africa	194	2	West Indies	2 January 2015	Won
91	258	Ben Stokes	England	198	1	South Africa	2 January 2016	Drawn
92	150*	Jonny Bairstow	England	191	1	South Africa	2 January 2016	Drawn
93	201	Hashim Amla (3/3)	South Africa	477	2	England	2 January 2016	Drawn
94	102*	Temba Bavuma	South Africa	148	2	England	2 January 2016	Drawn
95	129	Dean Elgar(1/2)	South Africa	230	1	Sri Lanka	2 January 2017	Won
96	101	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	124	1	Sri Lanka	2 January 2017	Won
97	141*	Dean Elgar(2/2)	South Africa	284	1	Australia	22 March 2018	Won
98	103	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	226	2	Pakistan	3 January 2019	Won
99	133*	Dom Sibley	England	311	3	South Africa	3 January 2020	Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Newlands.[5]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	103	Roger Twose	New Zealand	115	1	South Africa	4 November 2000	Lost
2	124	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	130	1	Kenya	22 October 2001	Won
3	131*	Neil McKenzie	South Africa	121	1	Kenya	22 October 2001	Won
4	116	Brian Lara	West Indies	134	1	South Africa	9 February 2003	Won
5	107*	Sourav Ganguly	India	120	2	Kenya	7 March 2003	Won
6	109*	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	94	1	West Indies	25 January 2004	Won
7	100	Herschelle Gibbs (1/2)	South Africa	115	1	England	6 February 2005	Won
8	100*	Justin Kemp	South Africa	89	1	India	26 November 2006	Won
9	119	Herschelle Gibbs (2/2)	South Africa	101	2	New Zealand	2 December 2007	Won
10	121	AB de Villiers (1/2)	South Africa	85	1	England	27 November 2009	Won
11	112	Alex Hales	England	128	1	South Africa	14 February 2016	Lost
12	101*	AB de Villiers (2/2)	South Africa	97	2	England	14 February 2016	Won
13	122	Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	118	1	Australia	12 October 2016	Won
14	173	David Warner	Australia	136	2	South Africa	12 October 2016	Lost
15	185	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	141	1	Sri Lanka	7 February 2017	Won
16	119	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	90	2	South Africa	7 February 2017	Lost
17	160*	Virat Kohli	India	159	1	South Africa	7 February 2018	Won
18	107	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	113	2	England	4 February 2020	Won

Women's Test centuries

The following table summarises the women's Test centuries scored at Newlands.[12]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	105*	Yvonne van Mentz	South Africa	NR	2	England	13 January 1961	Drawn
2	117*	Trish McKelvey	New Zealand	NR	3	South Africa	25 February 1972	Drawn

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