List of international cricket centuries at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, also known as Chepauk is a cricket ground in Chennai, India. Formerly known as the Madras Cricket Club Ground it now has a capacity of 50,000.[1] The ground has hosted 33 Test matches, the first of these was played in 1934 between India and England.[2] The ground has also staged 22 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was played between India and Australia in 1987.[3]

The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.

The first Test century scored at the ground was by the Englishman Cyril Walters. Walters's innings of 102 was scored against India in 1934. The Indian Virender Sehwag holds the record for the highest score at the ground, 319 from 304 balls, which was made in 2008 against South Africa. This was Sehwag's second triple century, the only other Test players that have scored 2 triple centuries are Donald Bradman and Brian Lara. The record for the highest score by an overseas player belongs to England's Joe Root who made 218 in 2021. Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to have scored 5 Test centuries at the ground. A century in each innings of a match has been achieved twice at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The Sri Lankan Duleep Mendis made 2 innings of 105 against India in 1982 and the Englishman Andrew Strauss scored 123 and 108 in 2008, also against India. Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 224 in the 1st test against Australia in the home series on 24 February 2013. He is the first Indian Wicket-Keeper Batsman to score a Double Century in Test Cricket and 7th Wicket-Keeper in Test Cricket to do so.[4]

14 ODI centuries have been made at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The first of these was scored by the Australian Geoff Marsh who made 110 in 1987. The Pakistani Saeed Anwar holds the record for the highest ODI scored at the ground with 194, from 146 deliveries against India in 1997. Anwars innings was, at the time, a world record having beating the previous best of 189 not out by Viv Richards. Anwar's record stood until August 2009 when it was equalled by the Zimbabwean Charles Coventry. The highest score by an Indian batsman at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium is 139 not out which was made by MS Dhoni in 2007. At the time Dhoni was playing for an Asian XI against an African XI. [5][6] The highest score by an Indian batsman representing India at this stadium is 138 which was made by Virat Kohli against South Africa on 22 October 2015.

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 M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,[7][8] lost[9][10] or if the match was drawn[11] or tied.[12]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[4]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1 102Cyril Walters England NR3 India10 February 1934Won
2 109Allan Rae West Indies NR1 India27 January 1949Won
3 160Jeffrey Stollmeyer West Indies NR1 India27 January 1949Won
4 111Pankaj Roy India NR2 England6 February 1952Won
5 130*Polly Umrigar India NR2 England6 February 1952Won
6 109Farokh Engineer India NR1 West Indies13 January 1967Drawn
7 125Chandu Borde India NR1 West Indies13 January 1967Drawn
8 102Doug Walters Australia NR1 India24 December 1969Won
9 124Gundappa Viswanath India NR2 West Indies12 January 1979Won
10 162Allan Border Australia 3601 India11 September 1979Drawn
11 100Kim Hughes Australia 2041 India11 September 1979Drawn
12 166Sunil Gavaskar India 3732 Pakistan15 January 1980Won
13 222Gundappa Viswanath India 3741 England13 January 1982Drawn
14 140Yashpal Sharma India 2981 England13 January 1982Drawn
15 127Graham Gooch England 1812 India13 January 1982Drawn
16 105Duleep Mendis Sri Lanka 1231 India17 September 1982Drawn
17 155Sunil Gavaskar India 2932 Sri Lanka17 September 1982Drawn
18 114*Sandeep Patil India NR2 Sri Lanka17 September 1982Drawn
19 105Duleep Mendis Sri Lanka NR3 India17 September 1982Drawn
20 236*Sunil Gavaskar India 4252 West Indies24 December 1983Drawn
21 201Graeme Fowler England 4092 India13 January 1985Won
22 207Mike Gatting England 3092 India13 January 1985Won
23 105Mohammad Azharuddin India 2183 England13 January 1985Lost
24 122David Boon Australia 2581 India18 September 1986Tied
25 210Dean Jones Australia 3301 India18 September 1986Tied
26 106Allan Border Australia 1721 India18 September 1986Tied
27 119Kapil Dev India 1382 Australia18 September 1986Tied
28 101Shoaib Mohammad Pakistan NR1 India3 February 1987Drawn
29 135*Imran Khan Pakistan 2301 India3 February 1987Drawn
30 123Kris Srikkanth India 1492 Pakistan3 February 1987Drawn
31 109Kapil Dev India 1241 West Indies11 January 1988Won
32 106Navjot Sidhu India 2731 England11 February 1993Won
33 165Sachin Tendulkar India 2961 England11 February 1993Won
34 117Chris Lewis England 1403 India11 February 1993Lost
35 155*Sachin Tendulkar India 1913 Australia6 March 1998Won
36 141Shahid Afridi Pakistan 1913 India28 January 1999Won
37 136Sachin Tendulkar India 2734 Pakistan28 January 1999Lost
38 203Matthew Hayden Australia 3201 India18 May 2001Lost
39 126Sachin Tendulkar India 2302 Australia18 May 2001Won
40 155Virender Sehwag India 2212 Australia14 October 2004Drawn
41 104Damien Martyn Australia 2103 India14 October 2004Drawn
42 159Hashim Amla South Africa 2621 India26 March 2008Drawn
43 319Virender Sehwag India 3042 South Africa26 March 2008Drawn
44 111Rahul Dravid India 2912 South Africa26 March 2008Drawn
45 155*Neil McKenzie South Africa 3393 India26 March 2008Drawn
46 123Andrew Strauss England 2331 India11 December 2008Lost
47 108Andrew Strauss England 2443 India11 December 2008Lost
48 108Paul Collingwood England 2503 India11 December 2008Lost
49 103*Sachin Tendulkar India 1964 England11 December 2008Won
50 130Michael Clarke Australia 2461 India22 February 2013Lost
51 107Virat Kohli India 2062 Australia22 February 2013Won
52 224Mahendra Singh Dhoni India 2652 Australia22 February 2013Won
53 146Moeen Ali England 2621 India16 December 2016Lost
54 199Lokesh Rahul India 3112 England16 December 2016Won
55 303*Karun Nair India 3812 England16 December 2016Won
56 218Joe Root England 3771 India5 February 2021Won

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium.[5]

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1110Geoff Marsh Australia1411 India9 October 1987Won
2130Chris Harris New Zealand1241 Australia11 March 1996Lost
3110Mark Waugh Australia1122 New Zealand11 March 1996Won
4194Saeed Anwar Pakistan1461 India21 May 1997Won
5107Rahul Dravid India1162 Pakistan21 May 1997Lost
6107Mahela Jayawardene Asia XI1061 Africa XI10 June 2007Won
7139*Mahendra Singh Dhoni Asia XI971 Africa XI10 June 2007Won
8113Yuvraj Singh India1231 West Indies20 March 2011Won
9104*Manoj Tiwary India1261 West Indies11 December 2011Won
10119Kieron Pollard West Indies1102 India11 December 2011Lost
11113*Mahendra Singh Dhoni India1251 Pakistan30 December 2012Lost
12101*Nasir Jamshed Pakistan1322 India30 December 2012Won
13138Virat Kohli India1401 South Africa22 October 2015Won
14112AB de Villiers South Africa1072 India22 October 2015Lost
15139Shimron Hetmyer West Indies1062 India15 December 2019Won
16102*Shai Hope West Indies1512 India15 December 2019Won

Women's ODI
No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 104* Jaya Sharma  India 140 2  Australia 23 February 2007 Won
2 122 Suzie Bates  New Zealand 134 1  India 1 March 2007 Won

References
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