The National Stadium

National Stadium, Karachi

The National Stadium is a cricket stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. It is currently used for cricket matches, and is home to Karachi's domestic cricket teams. The stadium is able to hold 34,228 spectators, making it the second largest cricket stadium in Pakistan after Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore...

 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 Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. The first Test match

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...

 played at the National Stadium was in 1955 between Pakistan and India. The most recent Test match hosted by the ground, its 41st, was played in February 2009. The ground has also hosted 46 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of these was in 1980 between Pakistan and the West Indies.

73 Test centuries

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...

 have been scored at the ground. The Pakistani Alimuddin became the first Test centurion at the ground when he scored 103 not out against India in 1955. There has been one instance of a triple century at the National Stadium, it was made by Younis Khan

Younis Khan

Mohammad Younus Khan is a Pakistani cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. Younus' name is often spelled Younis Khan, but he has been quoted as saying, "My name is Younus Khan...

. Khan's innings of 313, from 568 deliveries

Cricket ball

A cricket ball is a hard, solid leather ball used to play cricket. Constructed of cork and leather, a cricket ball is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level...

, was scored against Sri Lanka in 2009. It was during this match that the 2nd and 3rd highest Test centuries at the ground were made, the Sri Lankans Mahela Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene

Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene , known as Mahela Jayawardene, is the former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is a specialist batsman who has a Test average of over 50, and an ODI average in the 30s...

 and Thilan Samaraweera

Thilan Samaraweera

Thilan Thusara Samaraweera is a Sri Lankan cricketer, born September 22, 1976 in Colombo. Samaraweera plays international cricket for Sri Lanka and is in the side primarily for his solid right-handed batting but is also a capable Off spinner.-Personal life:...

 made 240 and 231 respectively. Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik

Saleem Malik is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team. He was a right-handed wristy middle order batsman who was strong square of the wicket. His legbreak bowling was also quite effective...

 holds the record for the most Test centuries scored at the ground, with 4.

Zaheer Abbas

Zaheer Abbas

Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani , popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest batsman produced by that country. He is widely known as the "Asian Bradman", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman...

 scored the first of 29 ODI centuries at the ground. Abbas made 113 from 99 deliveries against India in 1983. The West Indian 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...

 holds the record for the highest ODI innings at the ground. Richards's innings of 181 from 125 deliveries came against Sri Lanka in 1987. The highest ODI innings at the ground by a Pakistani is 136, which was made by Salman Butt

Salman Butt

Salman Butt is a former Pakistani cricketer who was a regular Test and ODI left-handed opening batsman. He made his Test debut on 3 September 2003 in the third Test against Bangladesh, and a year later made his ODI debut against West Indies on 22 September 2004. He was appointed captain of the...

 in 2008.

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 National Stadium, Karachi.
• 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 the National Stadium, Karachi.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,031 103*	(1/2)		0 NR	3			Drawn
2	1,030 103	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Won
3	1,011 101*	(2/2)		0 NR	3			Drawn
4	1,090 109	(2/2)		0 NR	1			Drawn
5	2,050 205			0 NR	2			Drawn
6	1,110 111			0 NR	2			Drawn
7	1,660 166			0 NR	1			Drawn
8	1,530 153	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Drawn
9	1,150 115	(2/2)		0 NR	4			Drawn
10	1,280 128			0 NR	1			Lost
11	1,720 172			0 NR	2			Won
12	1,260 126			0 NR	4			Won
13	1,390 139			0 NR	1			Drawn
14	1,050 105			0 NR	1			Drawn
15	1,000 100	(1/2)		0 NR	1			Drawn
16	1,071 107*			0 NR	1			Drawn
17	1,150 115			0 NR	2			Drawn
18	1,010 101			0 NR	2			Drawn
19	1,120 112	(2/2)		0 NR	1			Drawn
20	2,060 206	(1/3)		0 NR	1			Drawn
21	1,070 107			0 NR	1			Drawn
22	1,520 152			0 NR	2			Drawn
23	1,110 111	(1/2)		0 NR	1			Lost
24	1,000 100	(2/3)		0 NR	2			Won
25	1,370 137	(2/2)		240 240	3			Lost
26	1,530 153			242 242	1			Won
27	1,001 100*	(1/4)		191 191	3			Won
28	1,860 186			246 246	2			Won
29	1,190 119	(1/2)		199 199	2			Won
30	1,280 128			327 327	1			Drawn
31	1,520 152	(2/2)		308 308	2			Drawn
32	1,031 103*			188 188	3			Drawn
33	1,070 107			200 200	2			Drawn
34	1,191 119*	(2/4)		169 169	3			Drawn
35	1,050 105			0 NR	3			Lost
36	2,110 211	(3/3)		441 441	1			Won
37	1,091 109*			146 146	1			Drawn
38	1,021 102*	(3/4)		145 145	3			Drawn
39	1,131 113*			243 243	4			Drawn
40	2,031 203*			411 411	2			Won
41	1,170 117			241 241	1			Lost
42	1,020 102	(4/4)		208 208	2			Won
43	1,141 114*			220 220	3			Lost
44	1,600 160	(1/2)		255 255	2			Won
45	1,510 151	(1/2)		337 337	2			Won
46	1,060 106			90 90	3			Lost
47	1,330 133	(2/2)		272 272	2			Drawn
48	1,170 117			229 229	3			Drawn
49	1,201 120*	(2/2)		247 247	4			Drawn
50	1,380 138	(1/3)		243 243	3			Won
51	1,420 142	(2/3)		257 257	1			Lost
52	1,170 117	(1/3)		242 242	1			Lost
53	1,250 125			430 430	2			Won
54	1,700 170	(1/2)		253 253	2			Won
55	1,080 108			218 218	3			Lost
56	1,050 105	(2/2)		161 161	4			Won
57	1,240 124	(1/3)		215 215	2			Won
58	1,170 117	(3/3)		244 244	2			Won
59	1,070 107			129 129	3			Lost
60	1,380 138			251 251	3			Lost
61	1,130 113	(1/2)		148 148	1			Won
62	1,390 139			220 220	3			Won
63	1,220 122			144 144	4			Lost
64	1,020 102	(2/3)		158 158	1			Won
65	1,040 104			266 266	3			Won
66	1,240 124	(3/3)		195 195	3			Won
67	1,550 155	(1/2)		249 249	1			Won
68	1,001 100*	(2/2)		201 201	3			Won
69	1,260 126	(2/3)		160 160	4			Lost
70	2,400 240			424 424	1			Drawn
71	2,310 231			318 318	1			Drawn
72	3,130 313	(3/3)		568 568	2			Drawn
73	1,581 158*	(2/2)		184 184	2			Drawn

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the National Stadium, Karachi.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	113			99	2			Won
2	105			124	1			Won
3	181			125	1			Won
4	113			148	2			Won
5	110			135	1			Won
6	142			134	1			Won
7	111			139	1			Lost
8	111			94	1			Won
9	103			101	1			Won
10	119*			135	1			Won
11	125	(1/2)		155	1			Won
12	122			102	2			Lost
13	107*	(2/2)		121	2			Won
14	109			111	1			Won
15	107*			93	2			Won
16	101			142	1			Lost
17	136	(1/2)		124	1			Won
18	109*			96	1			Won
19	101	(1/2)		68	1			Won
20	125*			119	1			Lost
21	119			95	2			Won
22	115			96	1			Lost
23	116*	(2/2)		107	2			Won
24	112	(1/2)		110	1			Won
25	130	(1/2)		88	1			Won
26	121	(2/2)		128	1			Won
27	123*			117	2			Won
28	125	(2/2)		114	1			Won
29	100*	(2/2)		117	2			Won