List of international cricket centuries at the Wanderers Stadium

The Bidvest Wanderers Stadium is a cricket stadium, situated just south of Sandton in Illovo, Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa.^[1] Test, One Day and First class cricket matches are played here. The stadium has a seating capacity of 34,000. The ground is among the most historically significant cricket grounds of the twenty-first century. It has staged some of the most important matches in ODI and T20I history, and has witnessed a number of outstanding world records.

The 2003 Cricket World Cup final was held at the Wanderers Stadium. This stadium also hosted one of the greatest One-Day International matches. The match was played between South Africa and Australia in which a world record score of 434 was chased down by South Africa. It hosted matches of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 including the first match and the final which was won by India, who defeated Pakistan.

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 Wanderers.
• 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 ended in a draw, a tie or a no result.^[2][3][4]

Test centuries[]

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at the Wanderers.^[5]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	117	Peter Richardson	England	NR	1	South Africa	24 December 1956	Won
2	108	Jackie McGlew (1/2)	South Africa	NR	1	Australia	23 December 1957	Drawn
3	115	John Waite (1/2)	South Africa	NR	1	Australia	23 December 1957	Drawn
4	122	Richie Benaud (1/2)	Australia	NR	2	South Africa	23 December 1957	Drawn
5	100	Richie Benaud (2/2)	Australia	NR	1	South Africa	7 February 1958	Won
6	101	John Waite (2/2)	South Africa	NR	1	New Zealand	26 December 1961	Drawn
7	120	Jackie McGlew (2/2)	South Africa	NR	2	New Zealand	2 February 1962	Won
8	142	John Reid	New Zealand	NR	3	South Africa	2 February 1962	Lost
9	172	Ted Dexter	England	NR	1	South Africa	23 December 1964	Drawn
10	121	Ken Barrington	England	NR	1	South Africa	23 December 1964	Drawn
11	144*	Colin Bland	South Africa	NR	3	England	23 December 1964	Drawn
12	122*	Peter Parfitt	England	289	2	South Africa	22 January 1965	Drawn
13	112	Trevor Goddard	South Africa	NR	3	England	22 January 1965	Drawn
14	182	Denis Lindsay (1/2)	South Africa	227	3	Australia	23 December 1966	Won
15	131	Denis Lindsay (2/2)	South Africa	NR	2	Australia	3 February 1967	Drawn
16	131	Eddie Barlow	South Africa	252	3	Australia	19 February 1970	Won
17	111	Sachin Tendulkar	India	270	2	South Africa	26 November 1992	Drawn
18	122	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	192	3	Australia	4 March 1994	Won
19	113	Brian McMillan (1/2)	South Africa	180	1	Pakistan	19 January 1995	Won
20	110	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	241	1	England	30 November 1995	Drawn
21	100*	Brian McMillan (2/2)	South Africa	168	3	England	30 November 1995	Drawn
22	185*	Michael Atherton	England	492	4	South Africa	30 November 1995	Drawn
23	148	Rahul Dravid	India	362	1	South Africa	16 January 1997	Drawn
24	122*	Daryll Cullinan (1/2)	South Africa	200	4	India	16 January 1997	Drawn
25	160	Steve Waugh	Australia	366	2	South Africa	28 February 1997	Won
26	214	Greg Blewett	Australia	421	2	South Africa	28 February 1997	Won
27	108	Pat Symcox	South Africa	157	1	Pakistan	14 February 1998	Drawn
28	136	Azhar Mahmood	Pakistan	215	2	South Africa	14 February 1998	Drawn
29	108	Daryll Cullinan (2/2)	South Africa	170	2	England	25 November 1999	Won
30	100	Boeta Dippenaar	South Africa	192	2	New Zealand	8 December 2000	Drawn
31	122	Matthew Hayden	Australia	189	1	South Africa	22 February 2002	Won
32	204*	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	213	1	South Africa	22 February 2002	Won
33	133	Damien Martyn (1/2)	Australia	207	1	South Africa	22 February 2002	Won
34	132	Graeme Smith (1/2)	South Africa	184	1	West Indies	12 December 2003	Won
35	158	Jacques Kallis (1/2)	South Africa	297	1	West Indies	12 December 2003	Won
36	202	Brian Lara	West Indies	274	2	South Africa	12 December 2003	Lost
37	147	Andrew Strauss	England	250	1	South Africa	13 January 2005	Won
38	161	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	307	2	England	13 January 2005	Lost
39	180	Marcus Trescothick	England	248	3	South Africa	13 January 2005	Won
40	101	Damien Martyn (2/2)	Australia	208	4	South Africa	31 March 2006	Won
41	176*	Hashim Amla (1/3)	South Africa	378	3	New Zealand	8 November 2007	Won
42	186	Jacques Kallis (2/2)	South Africa	262	3	New Zealand	8 November 2007	Won
43	117	Marcus North	Australia	233	1	South Africa	26 February 2009	Won
44	104*	AB de Villiers (1/3)	South Africa	185	2	Australia	26 February 2009	Lost
45	105	Graeme Smith (2/2)	South Africa	187	2	England	14 January 2010	Won
46	105	Hashim Amla (2/3)	South Africa	243	3	Australia	17 November 2011	Lost
47	103*	AB de Villiers (2/3)	South Africa	117	3	Pakistan	1 February 2013	Won
48	119	Virat Kohli	India	181	1	South Africa	18 December 2013	Drawn
49	153	Cheteshwar Pujara	India	270	3	South Africa	18 December 2013	Drawn
50	134	Faf du Plessis(1/2)	South Africa	309	4	India	18 December 2013	Drawn
51	103	AB de Villiers (3/3)	South Africa	168	4	India	18 December 2013	Drawn
52	110	Joe Root	England	139	2	South Africa	14 January 2016	Won
53	155	JP Duminy	South Africa	221	1	Sri Lanka	12 January 2017	Won
54	134	Hashim Amla (3/3)	South Africa	265	1	Sri Lanka	12 January 2017	Won
55	152	Aiden Markram	South Africa	216	1	Australia	30 March 2018	Won
56	120	Faf du Plessis(2/2)	South Africa	178	3	Australia	30 March 2018	Won
57	129	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	138	3	Pakistan	11 January 2019	Won
58	127	Dean Elgar	South Africa	163	2	Sri Lanka	4 January 2021	Won
59	103	Dimuth Karunaratne	Sri Lanka	128	3	South Africa	4 January 2021	Lost

One Day International centuries[]

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Wanderers.^[6]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	112	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	120	1	Australia	19 February 1994	Won
2	106	Mike Rindel	South Africa	139	1	Pakistan	12 January 1995	Won
3	127	Sourav Ganguly	India	126	1	South Africa	5 October 2001	Lost
4	101	Sachin Tendulkar	India	129	1	South Africa	5 October 2001	Lost
5	133	Gary Kirsten	South Africa	155	2	India	5 October 2001	Won
6	143*	Andrew Symonds	Australia	125	1	Pakistan	11 February 2003	Won
7	143	Herschelle Gibbs (1/3)	South Africa	141	1	New Zealand	16 February 2003	Lost
8	134	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	132	2	South Africa	16 February 2003	Won
9	140*	Ricky Ponting (1/2)	Australia	121	1	India	23 March 2003	Won
10	152*	Chris Gayle	West Indies	153	1	South Africa	4 February 2004	Lost
11	139	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	142	2	West Indies	4 February 2004	Won
12	164	Ricky Ponting (2/2)	Australia	105	1	South Africa	12 March 2006	Lost
13	175	Herschelle Gibbs (2/3)	South Africa	111	2	Australia	12 March 2006	Won
14	102	Herschelle Gibbs (3/3)	South Africa	82	2	West Indies	3 February 2008	Won
15	125	Graeme Smith	South Africa	143	1	Sri Lanka	22 January 2012	Won
16	125*	AB de Villiers (1/3)	South Africa	98	1	Sri Lanka	22 January 2012	Won
17	102	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	97	2	South Africa	22 January 2012	Lost
18	122	Hashim Amla (1/2)	South Africa	113	1	Pakistan	17 March 2013	Won
19	128	AB de Villiers (2/3)	South Africa	108	1	Pakistan	17 March 2013	Won
20	135	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	121	1	India	5 December 2013	Won
21	128	Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	115	1	West Indies	18 January 2015	Won
22	153*	Hashim Amla (2/2)	South Africa	142	1	West Indies	18 January 2015	Won
23	149	AB de Villiers (3/3)	South Africa	44	1	West Indies	18 January 2015	Won
24	109	Joe Root	England	124	1	South Africa	12 February 2016	Lost
25	111	Faf du Plessis (1/2)	South Africa	93	1	Australia	2 October 2016	Won
26	109	Shikhar Dhawan	India	105	1	South Africa	10 February 2018	Lost
27	112*	Faf du Plessis (2/2)	South Africa	114	2	Sri Lanka	3 March 2019	Won
28	193	Fakhar Zaman	Pakistan	155	2	South Africa	4 April 2021	Lost

Twenty20 International centuries[]

The following table summarises the Twenty20 International century scored at the Wanderers.^[7]

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	117	Chris Gayle	West Indies	57	1	South Africa	11 September 2007	Lost
2	119	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	56	1	West Indies	11 January 2015	Lost

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