List of international cricket centuries at the Gabba

The Gabba, officially called the Brisbane Cricket Ground, is an Australian sports stadium in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba.^[1] The ground has hosted international cricket since 1931 when the first Test match was played there between Australia and South Africa. A total of 53 Test matches have been played at the Gabba.^[2] The ground has also staged 66 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was played in 1979 between England and the West Indies.^[3]

Donald Bradman became the first player to score a Test century at the ground when he made 226 against South Africa in 1931. Bradman's innings of 226 is one of only 4 double centuries seen at the ground. The other double centuries were scored by fellow Australians Keith Stackpole and Greg Chappell with scores of 207 and 201 respectively, and the Englishman Alastair Cook with the record for the highest score, 235 in 2010. Greg Chappell holds the record for most centuries at the ground with 5. The only two players to have scored 4 centuries at the Gabba are Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden.^[4]

23 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground. The first of these was made by the Englishman David Gower in 1983 against New Zealand. Gower's innings, 158 from 118 deliveries, remains the highest ODI score at the ground. Th highest score by an Australian is 145, scored by Dean Jones in 1990 against England. Jones is one of only 2 players that have scored 2 ODI centuries at the Gabba, the other is Mark Waugh.^[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 Brisbane 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] tied,^[11] or a no result.^[12]

List of centuries

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Brisbane Cricket Ground.^[4]

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Brisbane Cricket Ground.^[5]

References