List of international cricket centuries at Newlands Cricket Ground

Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town is a South African cricket ground. It's the home of the Cape Cobras, who play in the SuperSport Series, MTN Domestic Championship and Standard Bank Pro20 competitions. It is also a venue for Test matches. Newlands is regarded as one of the most beautiful cricket...

is a South African cricket

Cricket

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ground located in Cape Town

Cape Town

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, it has a capacity of 25,000. The ground hosted its first Test match

Test cricket

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in 1889 and its first One Day International (ODI) in 1992. 45 Test matches have been played at the ground as well as 34 ODIs.

The first Test match century

Century (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...

scored at the ground was in 1889 by the Englishman Bobby Abel

Bobby Abel

Robert Abel , nicknamed "The Guv'nor", was a Surrey and England opening batsman who was one of the most prolific run-getters in the early years of the County Championship...

who made 120 against South Africa. 72 Test centuries have occurred at the ground, the highest of these was scored in 2006 by the New Zealander

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Stephen Fleming

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. Fleming's score of 262 from 423 deliveries

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is one of 3 double centuries the ground has seen, the others being 228 and 209 scored by Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Herman Gibbs is a South African cricketer, more specifically a batsman.Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch...

and Graeme Pollock

Graeme Pollock

Robert Graeme Pollock, known as Graeme, is a former cricketer. He played in 23 Test matches for South Africa and represented Transvaal and Eastern Province at domestic level....

respectively. Jacques Kallis

Jacques Kallis

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has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with eight.

The New Zealand batsman Roger Twose

Roger Twose

Roger Graham Twose played 16 Tests and 87 One Day Internationals for New Zealand in the mid-1990s.Born in England, Twose moved to play in New Zealand in 1991-92, as it became clear he would struggle to ever force his way into the England side...

was the first player to score an ODI century at the ground, making 103 against South Africa. Brian Lara

Brian Lara

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and Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly

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are the only other non-South African batsman to have scored an ODI century at Newlands. Neil McKenzie

Neil McKenzie

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holds the record for highest ODI score at the ground, 131* from 121 deliveries, which was made against Kenya in 2001. Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Herman Gibbs is a South African cricketer, more specifically a batsman.Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch...

is the only player to have scored 2 ODI centuries at the ground.

Key

* denotes that the batsman was not out
Not out
In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

.
Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
Balls denotes the number of balls
Delivery (cricket)
A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball towards the batsman.During play of the game, a member of the fielding team is designated as the bowler, and bowls deliveries towards the batsman...

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, lost or if the match was drawn.

Test centuries

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Newlands.

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	120		0 NR	1	Won
2	134*		0 NR	2	Won
3	124		0 NR	2	Won
4	106	(1/2)	0 NR	2	Lost
5	112		0 NR	3	Won
6	104	(2/2)	0 NR	3	Lost
7	187		0 NR	1	Won
8	142		0 NR	2	Won
9	123	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Drawn
10	141		0 NR	1	Drawn
11	117		0 NR	1	Drawn
12	121		0 NR	1	Won
13	112		0 NR	1	Won
14	181		0 NR	1	Drawn
15	115		0 NR	1	Drawn
16	112		0 NR	1	Drawn
17	120	(1/3)	0 NR	2	Drawn
18	120	(2/2)	0 NR	2	Drawn
19	112	(2/3)	0 NR	2	Drawn
20	178		0 NR	1	Won
21	114	(3/3)	0 NR	3	Lost
22	135		0 NR	1	Drawn
23	101		0 NR	1	Won
24	189		0 NR	1	Won
25	101		0 NR	1	Won
26	113		0 NR	4	Lost
27	138	(1/2)	0 NR	1	Drawn
28	154		0 NR	1	Drawn
29	121		0 NR	2	Drawn
30	153		0 NR	1	Won
31	134		0 NR	1	Won
32	209		0 NR	2	Lost
33	127	(2/2)	322 322	1	Won
34	102		174 174	1	Lost
35	112		235 235	2	Won
36	109		206 206	2	Won
37	103		204 204	1	Won
38	103*		233 233	1	Won
39	102*		100 100	1	Won
40	169	(1/2)	254 254	2	Lost
41	115		110 110	2	Lost
42	113	(1/4)	159 159	1	Won
43	110	(1/8)	328 328	1	Won
44	168	(2/4)	306 306	1	Won
45	105	(2/8)	229 229	2	Won
46	120	(3/4)	255 255	2	Won
47	112	(4/4)	232 232	2	Won
48	138*		108 108	2	Won
49	100*		160 160	4	Won
50	151	(1/4)	216 216	1	Won
51	228	(1/2)	240 240	1	Won
52	135		254 254	2	Lost
53	101		215 215	1	Drawn
54	122*		173 173	1	Drawn
55	116		120 120	2	Drawn
56	115		238 238	2	Drawn
57	142	(2/2)	223 223	3	Drawn
58	130*	(3/8)	191 191	3	Drawn
59	105*		105 105	4	Drawn
60	149	(4/8)	334 334	1	Won
61	121	(2/4)	107 107	2	Won
62	262		423 423	1	Drawn
63	122*		268 268	1	Drawn
64	149	(1/2)	317 317	2	Drawn
65	108*	(1/2)	286 286	2	Drawn
66	116		244 244	1	Lost
67	150	(2/2)	249 249	2	Won
68	102	(5/8)	163 163	2	Won
69	163		196 196	2	Won
70	123*		103 103	3	Lost
71	108	(6/8)	189 189	1	Drawn
72	183	(3/4)	273 273	3	Drawn
73	161	(7/8)	291 291	1	Drawn
74	146	(2/2)	314 314	2	Drawn
75	109*	(8/8)	240 240	3	Drawn
76	151		176 176	1	Lost
77	101*	(4/4)	140 140	4	Won
78	112	(2/2)	134 134	4	Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Balls	Inns.	Result
1	1,030 103		115	1	Lost
2	1,240 124		130	1	Won
3	1,311 131*		121	1	Won
4	1,160 116		134	1	Won
5	1,071 107*		120	2	Won
6	1,091 109*		94	1	Won
7	1,000 100	(1/2)	115	1	Won
8	1,001 100*		89	1	Won
9	1,190 119	(2/2)	101	2	Won
10	1,210 121		85	1	Won

Women's Test centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,051 105*			NR	2			Drawn
2	1,171 117*			NR	3			Drawn

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