The Feroz Shah Kotla

Feroz Shah Kotla

The Feroz Shah Kotla or Kotla was originally a fortress built by Sultan Ferozshah Tughlaq to house his version of Delhi city called Ferozabad. A pristine polished sandstone pillar from the 3rd century B.C...

 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 Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

, 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...

. 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 in 1948 between India and the West Indies. 16 One Day Internationals (ODIs) have also been played at the ground, the first in 1982 between India and Sri Lanka.

The West Indian Clyde Walcott

Clyde Walcott

Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18...

 became the first Test centurion

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 Feroz Shah Kotla when he made 152 against India in 1948. The record for the highest Test century at the ground belongs to the New Zealander

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

 Bert Sutcliffe

Bert Sutcliffe

Bert Sutcliffe MBE was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year...

, Sutcliffe scored 230 not out against India in 1955. The highest score by an Indian at the ground is 227 which was made by Vinod Kambli

Vinod Kambli

Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa.He is childhood friend of ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...

 against Zimbabwe in 1993. Sunil Gavaskar has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with 4.

Six ODI centuries have been scored at the Feroz Shah Kotla, the Sri Lankan Roy Dias

Roy Dias

Roy Luke Dias is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played 20 Test matches as a specialist batsman, and became the first Sri Lankan to hit 1,000 Test runs...

 scored the first in 1982 with 102 against India. The Australian Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

 holds the record for the highest ODI score at the ground with 145 from 158 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...

 which was made against Zimbabwe in 1998.

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 Feroz Shah Kotla.
• 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 Feroz Shah Kotla.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,520 152			0 NR	1			Drawn
2	1,010 101			0 NR	1			Drawn
3	1,280 128			0 NR	1			Drawn
4	1,070 107			0 NR	1			Drawn
5	1,141 114*			0 NR	2			Drawn
6	1,540 154			0 NR	2			Drawn
7	1,641 164*			0 NR	2			Drawn
8	1,371 137*			0 NR	3			Drawn
9	2,301 230*			0 NR	1			Drawn
10	1,191 119*			0 NR	1			Drawn
11	1,770 177	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Drawn
12	1,090 109			0 NR	1			Drawn
13	1,230 123			0 NR	2			Drawn
14	1,000 100			0 NR	2			Drawn
15	1,001 100*			0 NR	2			Drawn
16	1,140 114			0 NR	2			Won
17	1,120 112			0 NR	1			Drawn
18	1,010 101			0 NR	2			Drawn
19	1,270 127			0 NR	1			Drawn
20	1,891 189*	(2/2)		0 NR	1			Drawn
21	1,131 113*			0 NR	2			Drawn
22	1,050 105			0 NR	1			Drawn
23	1,510 151			0 NR	2			Drawn
24	1,000 100			0 NR	3			Drawn
25	2,031 203*	(1/2)		0 NR	3			Drawn
26	1,060 106			0 NR	2			Won
27	1,130 113	(2/2)		0 NR	2			Won
28	1,380 138			0 NR	1			Lost
29	1,921 192*	(1/2)		0 NR	2			Won
30	1,790 179			397 397	1			Won
31	1,200 120	(1/3)		0 NR	1			Drawn
32	1,090 109	(1/4)		0 NR	1			Drawn
33	1,261 126*			124 124	1			Drawn
34	1,150 115	(2/3)		238 238	1			Drawn
35	1,310 131	(1/2)		207 207	1			Drawn
36	1,001 100*			239 239	1			Drawn
37	1,461 146*	(2/4)		370 370	4			Drawn
38	1,050 105			285 285	1			Drawn
39	1,490 149			303 303	1			Drawn
40	1,070 107	(2/2)		200 200	2			Drawn
41	1,210 121	(3/3)		128 128	1			Drawn
42	1,590 159	(3/4)		238 238	1			Drawn
43	1,030 103			202 202	2			Drawn
44	1,600 160			390 390	2			Won
45	1,020 102	(4/4)		257 257	3			Lost
46	1,091 109*	(2/2)		111 111	4			Won
47	2,270 227			301 301	1			Won
48	1,150 115	(1/2)		236 236	2			Lost
49	1,520 152			366 366	2			Won
50	1,831 183*	(2/2)		351 351	1			Lost
51	2,001 200*			350 350	2			Won
52	1,220 122	(1/2)		233 233	2			Won
53	1,360 136			284 284	2			Won
54	1,090 109	(2/2)		196 196	1			Won
55	2,060 206			380 380	1			Drawn
56	2,001 200*			301 301	1			Drawn
57	1,120 112			253 253	2			Drawn
58	1,180 118			196 196	1			Lost

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Feroz Shah Kotla.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	102			114	1			Lost
2	137			137	1			Lost
3	145			158	1			Won
4	105			131	1			Won
5	107*			105	2			Won
6	112*			98	2			Won