The M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, also known as Chepauk is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 ground in Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Formerly known as the Madras Cricket Club Ground it now has a capacity of 50,000. The ground has hosted 30 Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

, the first of these was played in 1934 between India and England. The ground has also staged 12 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was played between India and Australia in 1987.

The first Test 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 by the Englishman Cyril Walters

Cyril Walters

Cyril Frederick Walters was a Welsh cricketer who had most of his success after leaving Glamorgan to do duty as captain-secretary of Worcestershire. In this role he developed his batting to such an extent that for a brief period he became an England regular and even captained them in one match as...

. Walters's innings of 102 was scored against India in 1934. The Indian Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag , affectionately known as Viru, the Nawab of Najafgarh, or the Zen master of modern cricket, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler...

 holds the record for the highest score at the ground, 319 from 304 balls

Cricket ball

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, 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

Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC , often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time...

 and Brian Lara

Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...

. The record for the highest score by an overseas player belongs to the Australian Dean Jones

Dean Jones (cricketer)

Dean Mervyn Jones AM is a retired Australian cricketer, and is presently a coach. He also worked as a media commentator.-Career:...

 who made 210 in 1986. Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

 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

Duleep Mendis

Louis Rohan Duleep Mendis is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who captained Sri Lanka to their first Test series victory in 1985. He was primarily a specialist batsman, whose best period as a player came from 1982 to 1985. His first years of school were spent at St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa...

 made 2 innings of 105 against India in 1982 and the Englishman Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss

Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...

 scored 123 and 108 in 2008, also against India.

7 ODI centuries have been made at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. The first of these was scored by the Australian Geoff Marsh

Geoff Marsh

Geoffrey Robert Marsh is a former Australian cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman...

 who made 110 in 1987. The Pakistani Saeed Anwar

Saeed Anwar

Saeed Anwar is a former Pakistani opening batsman. A left-hander, Anwar is most notable for scoring 194 runs against India in Chennai in 1997, then the highest, and now the joint second highest individual score in a One Day International.-Personal life:...

 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

Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE is a former West Indian cricketer. Better known by his second name, Vivian or, more popularly, simply as Viv or King Viv Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald...

. Anwar's record stood until August 2009 when it was equalled by the Zimbabwean Charles Coventry

Charles Coventry (Zimbabwean cricketer)

Charles Kevin Coventry is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. Within Zimbabwe he is known as "Chappie" Coventry. He previously held the record of the highest individual score in a One Day International, 194 runs not out. This was surpassed by Sachin...

 and then, in 2010, beaten by Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

. 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.

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 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, lost or if the match was drawn or tied.

Test centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,020 102			0 NR	3			Won
2	1,090 109			0 NR	1			Won
3	1,600 160			0 NR	1			Won
4	1,110 111			0 NR	2			Won
5	1,301 130*			0 NR	2			Won
6	1,090 109			0 NR	1			Drawn
7	1,250 125			0 NR	1			Drawn
8	1,020 102			0 NR	1			Won
9	1,240 124	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Won
10	1,620 162	(1/2)		360 360	1			Drawn
11	1,000 100			204 204	1			Drawn
12	1,660 166	(1/3)		373 373	2			Won
13	2,220 222	(2/2)		374 374	1			Drawn
14	1,400 140			298 298	1			Drawn
15	1,270 127			181 181	2			Drawn
16	1,050 105	(1/2)		123 123	1			Drawn
17	1,550 155	(2/3)		293 293	2			Drawn
18	1,141 114*			0 NR	2			Drawn
19	1,050 105	(2/2)		0 NR	3			Drawn
20	2,361 236*	(3/3)		425 425	2			Drawn
21	2,010 201			409 409	2			Won
22	2,070 207			309 309	2			Won
23	1,050 105			218 218	3			Lost
24	1,220 122			258 258	1			Tied
25	2,100 210			330 330	1			Tied
26	1,060 106	(2/2)		172 172	1			Tied
27	1,190 119	(1/2)		138 138	2			Tied
28	1,010 101			0 NR	1			Drawn
29	1,351 135*			230 230	1			Drawn
30	1,230 123			149 149	2			Drawn
31	1,090 109	(2/2)		124 124	1			Won
32	1,060 106			273 273	1			Won
33	1,650 165	(1/5)		296 296	1			Won
34	1,170 117			140 140	3			Lost
35	1,551 155*	(2/5)		191 191	3			Won
36	1,410 141			191 191	3			Won
37	1,360 136	(3/5)		273 273	4			Lost
38	2,030 203			320 320	1			Lost
39	1,260 126	(4/5)		230 230	2			Won
40	1,550 155	(1/2)		221 221	2			Drawn
41	1,040 104			210 210	3			Drawn
42	1,590 159			262 262	1			Drawn
43	3,190 319	(2/2)		304 304	2			Drawn
44	1,110 111			291 291	2			Drawn
45	1,551 155*			339 339	3			Drawn
46	1,230 123	(1/2)		233 233	1			Lost
47	1,080 108	(2/2)		244 244	3			Lost
48	1,080 108			250 250	3			Lost
49	1,031 103*	(5/5)		196 196	4			Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	110			141	1			Won
2	130			124	1			Lost
3	110			112	2			Won
4	194			146	1			Won
5	107			116	2			Lost
6	107			106	1			Won
7	139*			97	1			Won
8	113			123	1			Won