Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...

 (also known as Edgbaston Stadium) 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...

 venue in the Edgbaston

Edgbaston

Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Edgbaston ward and the wards of Bartley Green, Harborne and Quinton....

 area of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England

England

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. It is home to Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

, and is also used for 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...

 and One Day Internationals.

Edgbaston hosted its first Test match in 1902. It was during this match that Johnny Tyldesley

Johnny Tyldesley

Johnny Tyldesley was a Lancashire and England cricketer and for many years the finest professional batsman in county cricket.-Life and career:...

 became the first player to score a Test century at the ground. Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

's score of 294, which was achieved in 2011 against India, is the highest Test score seen at the ground. The South African Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith is a South African cricketer and captain of the South African cricket team Test Match side, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

 holds the record for highest score by an overseas player with 277, he is also the only player to have scored a century in the 4th innings of a match at the ground.

11 One Day International centuries have been scored at the ground. The highest of these was 171 not out, which was made in 1975 by the New Zealand player Glenn Turner

Glenn Turner

Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....

.

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 Edgbaston.
• 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 Edgbaston.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,380 138			0 NR	1			Draw
2	1,200 120			0 NR	3			Lost
3	1,140 114			0 NR	3			Draw
4	1,381 138*			0 NR	3			Draw
5	1,610 161			0 NR	2			Draw
6	2,851 285*			0 NR	3			Draw
7	1,540 154	(1/3)		0 NR	3			Draw
8	1,000 100			0 NR	3			Won
9	1,140 114			0 NR	2			Draw
10	1,120 112			0 NR	3			Draw
11	1,800 180			0 NR	3			Draw
12	1,590 159	(2/3)		0 NR	1			Won
13	1,011 101*			0 NR	1			Won
14	1,370 137			0 NR	1			Won
15	1,040 104	(3/3)		247 247	1			Draw
16	2,740 274			467 467	1			Draw
17	1,000 100			283 283	1			Draw
18	1,041 104*			169 169	1			Draw
19	1,160 116			175 175	2			Draw
20	1,081 108*			279 279	3			Draw
21	1,500 150			443 443	1			Draw
22	2,141 214*			396 396	2			Won
23	1,000 100			189 189	2			Won
24	1,060 106			234 234	2			Won
25	1,000 100			140 140	2			Won
26	1,550 155			341 341	1			Won
27	2,001 200*	(1/2)		279 279	1			Won
28	1,050 105			156 156	3			Won
29	1,430 143			279 279	2			Won
30	1,170 117			154 154	2			Won
31	1,480 148			294 294	2			Won
32	2,150 215	(2/2)		314 314	2			Won
33	1,001 100*	(1/3)		127 127	2			Won
34	1,831 183*	(2/3)		294 294	1			Draw
35	1,240 124			362 362	1			Draw
36	1,240 124	(3/3)		280 280	2			Draw
37	1,570 157			294 294	1			Draw
38	1,540 154			281 281	1			Won
39	1,040 104			229 229	2			Won
40	1,531 153*			337 337	1			Draw
41	1,650 165			297 297	1			Draw
42	1,900 190			261 261	2			Draw
43	1,270 127			231 231	2			Draw
44	1,370 137			219 219	2			Won
45	1,280 128	(1/2)		227 227	2			Won
46	1,220 122			177 177	3			Lost
47	2,070 207	(2/2)		337 337	2			Won
48	1,380 138	(1/2)		245 245	2			Won
49	1,290 129			296 296	3			Lost
50	1,250 125			228 228	3			Lost
51	1,030 103			279 279	1			Draw
52	1,050 105			181 181	2			Won
53	1,050 105			165 165	2			Won
54	1,520 152			143 143	2			Won
55	1,610 161	(1/3)		232 232	2			Won
56	1,230 123	(2/2)		229 229	2			Won
57	2,770 277	(1/2)		373 373	1			Draw
58	1,790 179			236 236	1			Draw
59	1,560 156			286 286	2			Draw
60	1,050 105	(2/3)		182 182	1			Won
61	1,670 167			191 191	1			Won
62	1,390 139			226 226	2			Lost
63	1,070 107	(3/3)		158 158	3			Won
64	1,420 142			157 157	2			Won
65	1,050 105			303 303	3			Lost
66	1,350 135			195 195	3			Lost
67	1,541 154*	(2/2)		246 246	4			Won
68	1,031 103*			192 192	3			Draw
69	2,940 294			545 545	2			Won
70	1,040 104			199 199	2			Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	171*			201	1			Won
2	106*			173	2			Won
3	108	(1/2)		113	1			Won
4	115	(2/2)		159	1			Lost
5	167*			163	1			Lost
6	113			122	2			Won
7	113			132	1			Won
8	101			144	1			Won
9	116*			122	1			Won
10	154			140	1			Won
11	110			121	1			Won

Women's Test centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,040 104			NR	2			Drawn
2	1,121 112*			NR	3			Won

External links

• Official web page