List of international cricket centuries at the Bangabandhu National Stadium

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Bangabandhu National Stadium, (Bengali: বঙ্গবন্ধু জাতীয় স্টেডিয়াম) also known as Dhaka Stadium, and formerly known as Dacca Stadium, is the national stadium and a multipurpose sports arena in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[1] It became a Test cricket venue on 1 January 1955 when it hosted a Test match between Pakistan and India. It staged the opening ceremony of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. It has seating capacity of over 55,000 & is the largest stadium of the country. Since 1 March 2005, the stadium has not hosted any cricket match, and is now used exclusively for football. There have been 18 Test centuries scored at the ground,[2] and 20 in One Day Internationals.[3]

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 Bangabandhu National Stadium.
  • 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 the match was drawn

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.[2]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 103 Hanif Mohammad (1/3)  Pakistan NR 2  New Zealand 7 November 1955 Drawn
2 111 Hanif Mohammad (2/3)  Pakistan NR 1  England 19 January 1962 Drawn
3 140 Javed Burki  Pakistan NR 1  England 19 January 1962 Drawn
4 165 Geoff Pullar  England NR 2  Pakistan 19 January 1962 Drawn
5 104 Hanif Mohammad (3/3)  Pakistan NR 3  England 19 January 1962 Drawn
6 114* Basil D'Oliveira  England NR 2  Pakistan 28 February 1969 Drawn
7 110 Glenn Turner  New Zealand NR 1  Pakistan 8 November 1969 Drawn
8 119* Mark Burgess  New Zealand NR 3  Pakistan 8 November 1969 Drawn
9 211 Ijaz Ahmed  Pakistan 372 2  Sri Lanka 12 March 1999 Won
10 200* Inzamam-ul-Haq  Pakistan 397 2  Sri Lanka 12 March 1999 Won
11 145 Aminul Islam  Bangladesh 380 1  India 10 November 2000 Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the ODI centuries scored at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.[3]

No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result
1 100 Mohammad Azharuddin  India 111 1  Pakistan 11 January 1998 Won
2 140 Saeed Anwar  Pakistan 132 1  India 18 January 1998 Lost
3 117 Ijaz Ahmed  Pakistan 112 1  India 18 January 1998 Lost
4 124 Sourav Ganguly  India 138 2  Pakistan 18 January 1998 Won
5 100 Alistair Campbell  Zimbabwe 143 1  New Zealand 24 October 1998 Lost

References

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  1. Bangabandhu National Stadium - Cricinfo Ground Profile
  2. 2.0 2.1 Test hundreds
  3. 3.0 3.1 ODI hundreds