The Antigua Recreation Ground

Antigua Recreation Ground

Antigua Recreation Ground is the national stadium of Antigua and Barbuda. It is located in St. John's, on the island of Antigua. The ground has been used by the West Indies cricket team and Antigua and Barbuda national football team...

 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 St John's

St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda

St John's is the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda, a country located in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. St John's is located at...

, Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...

. International cricket has been played at the ground since 1978 when a One Day International (ODI) was played between the West Indies and Australia. The ground has also hosted 22 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 was played in 1981 between the West Indies and England.

The Englishman Peter Willey

Peter Willey

Peter Willey is a former English cricketer, who played as a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. In and out of the England team, he interrupted his international career for three years by taking part in the first of the England players' South African rebel tours in 1982...

 scored the first of 57 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...

 at the ground when he made 102 not out against the West Indies in 1981. The Antigua Recreation Ground has been the scene of 2 world record individual scores, both by 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...

 and both against England. In 1994 Lara, with an innings of 375 from 538 balls

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...

, surpassed fellow West Indian Garry Sobers's record of 365 not out, which had stood since 1958. Lara's record stood until 2003, when it was broken by the Australian Matthew Hayden

Matthew Hayden

Matthew Lawrence Hayden AM is a former Australian cricketer, and was signed to the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL until the 2010 season. Hayden is a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and one day levels.Hayden holds the record...

. It was less than a year later that Lara again broke the record with 400 not out from 582 balls, this remains the highest individual Test innings. The only other player to have scored a triple century at the ground is Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry "Chris" Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer who currently plays international cricket for the West Indies. He captained the West Indies' side from 2007 to 2010. He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica, and has also represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors and the Kolkata Knight...

 who made 317 against South Africa in 2005.

Just 5 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground, the first of these, and highest, was scored by Desmond Haynes

Desmond Haynes

Desmond Leo Haynes is a West Indian cricketer and cricket coach. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1991. Haynes formed a formidable partnership with Gordon Greenidge for the West Indies cricket team in Test cricket during 1980s. Between them they managed 16 century stands, four in excess of...

 in 1978. Haynes's innings of 148, from 136 balls, was scored against Australia in 1978.

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 Antigua Recreation 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 the Antigua Recreation Ground.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,021 102*			158 158	1			Drawn
2	1,140 114	(1/3)		226 226	2			Drawn
3	1,041 104*			257 257	3			Drawn
4	1,020 102			0 NR	1			Drawn
5	1,541 154*	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Drawn
6	1,360 136	(1/3)		0 NR	2			Drawn
7	1,100 110			0 NR	2			Drawn
8	1,060 106			0 NR	2			Drawn
9	1,160 116			0 NR	3			Drawn
10	1,540 154			326 326	2			Won
11	1,780 178	(2/3)		229 229	2			Won
12	1,310 131	(2/3)		283 283	1			Won
13	1,101 110*	(3/3)		58 58	3			Won
14	1,490 149	(2/2)		207 207	2			Won
15	1,670 167	(3/3)		317 317	2			Won
16	1,391 139*			188 188	1			Won
17	1,440 144			281 281	3			Won
18	1,781 178*	(1/3)		247 247	1			Drawn
19	1,230 123			225 225	2			Drawn
20	3,750 375	(1/4)		538 538	1			Drawn
21	1,350 135			383 383	2			Drawn
22	1,750 175			315 315	2			Drawn
23	1,250 125			219 219	1			Drawn
24	2,081 208*			333 333	1			Drawn
25	1,030 103			165 165	2			Drawn
26	1,030 103	(2/4)		178 178	1			Drawn
27	1,040 104			232 232	2			Won
28	1,081 108*	(2/3)		150 150	2			Won
29	1,060 106			318 318	3			Lost
30	1,000 100	(3/4)		84 84	2			Lost
31	1,270 127	(1/2)		308 308	3			Won
32	1,031 103*			231 231	1			Lost
33	1,300 130			244 244	1			Drawn
34	1,151 115*			284 284	1			Drawn
35	1,360 136	(3/3)		278 278	2			Drawn
36	1,361 136*	(1/3)		510 510	2			Drawn
37	1,180 118	(1/2)		206 206	2			Drawn
38	1,110 111	(2/2)		161 161	3			Lost
39	1,770 177			260 260	3			Lost
40	1,050 105	(1/3)		139 139	4			Won
41	1,040 104	(2/3)		154 154	4			Won
42	4,001 400*	(4/4)		582 582	1			Drawn
43	1,071 107*	(2/2)		207 207	1			Drawn
44	1,021 102*			224 224	2			Drawn
45	1,400 140			267 267	3			Drawn
46	1,140 114			173 173	1			Drawn
47	1,260 126			173 173	1			Drawn
48	1,470 147			287 287	1			Drawn
49	1,310 131			254 254	1			Drawn
50	3,170 317			483 483	2			Drawn
51	1,270 127	(2/3)		279 279	2			Drawn
52	1,270 127	(3/3)		287 287	2			Drawn
53	1,070 107			235 235	2			Drawn
54	2,120 212			399 399	3			Drawn
55	1,690 169			278 278	1			Drawn
56	1,130 113			202 202	1			Drawn
57	1,060 106	(3/3)		196 196	4			Drawn

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Antigua Recreation Ground.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,480 148			136	1			Won
2	1,170 117			123	2			Won
3	1,040 104			141	2			Won
4	1,041 104*			112	2			Won
5	1,341 134*			152	1			Won