List of international cricket centuries at Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Indian Premier League's Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test and One Day International ground. It has a capacity of 90,000. The ground has held Test matches since 1934 and hosted its first One Day International in 1987.^[1]

The first Test century scored at the ground was in 1948 by the West Indian Everton Weekes. 68 Test centuries have been scored at the ground in total. VVS Laxman's 281, scored against Australia in 2001, is the highest Test innings achieved at the ground. The record highest Test score by an overseas player is 256 which was made in 1958 by the West Indian Rohan Kanhai. Mohammad Azharuddin has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with five.^[2]

Gautam Gambhir holds the record for highest One Day International innings at the ground, 150* against Sri Lanka in 2009.^[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 Eden Gardens.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won^[4][5], lost^[6][7] or if the match was drawn.^[8]

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Eden Gardens.^[2]

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Eden Gardens.^[3]

External links

• Cricinfo Eden Gardens profile

References