The Sardar Patel Stadium

Sardar Patel Stadium

Sardar Patel Stadium is one of the premier Cricket stadiums of India located in the Motera locality of Ahmedabad. Because of its location, the stadium is commonly called Motera Stadium to avoid confusion with another stadium of the same name in Navrangpura locality of Ahmedabad. Sardar Patel...

 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 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...

, 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...

, it was established in 1982 and has a capacity of 54,000. The ground hosted its first international match in 1983 when India played the West Indies in a 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...

, One Day Internationals (ODIs) have been played at the ground since 1984. The ground has been the scene of 28 Test and 13 ODI 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...

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The first Test century scored at the ground was in 1987 by the Pakistani Ijaz Faqih

Ijaz Faqih

Ijaz Faqih is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 27 ODIs from 1980 to 1988....

 who made 105. It was during the same match that Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator. He was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'....

 scored the first Test century by an Indian at the ground. The Sri Lankan 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...

 holds the record for the highest score made at the ground, 275 in 2009. Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid

Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...

 is the highest Indian scorer at the ground. Dravid is also one of two players to have scored three Test centuries at the ground the other is Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

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The New Zealander Nathan Astle

Nathan Astle

Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...

 became the first player to score an ODI century at the ground when he made 101 against England in 1996. Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly is a former Indian cricketer, and captain of the Indian national team. Born into an affluent family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish. He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times. He started his...

, who was the first Indian to score an ODI century at the ground, has made the highest ODI score with 144. Dravid and 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...

 are the only players to have made two ODI centuries at the ground.

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...
  
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• 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 Sardar Patel Stadium.
• 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 Sardar Patel Stadium.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,050 105			272	1			Drawn
2	1,090 109			295	2			Drawn
3	1,520 152			260	2			Won
4	1,100 110			169	1			Drawn
5	2,170 217	(1/3)		344	1			Drawn
6	1,250 125	(1/2)		251	1			Drawn
7	1,210 121			265	1			Drawn
8	1,030 103	(2/3)		197	2			Drawn
9	2,220 222	(1/3)		387	1			Drawn
10	1,001 100*	(2/2)		211	1			Drawn
11	1,030 103			207	2			Drawn
12	1,040 104			237	1			Won
13	1,320 132			275	2			Won
14	2,171 217*			333	2			Won
15	1,770 177	(2/3)		261	1			Drawn
16	1,100 110			159	1			Drawn
17	1,120 112			133	2			Drawn
18	2,750 275			435	2			Drawn
19	1,541 154*			314	2			Drawn
20	1,140 114			230	3			Drawn
21	1,001 100*	(3/3)		211	3			Drawn
22	1,730 173			199	1			Drawn
23	1,040 104	(3/3)		227	1			Drawn
24	1,030 103			205	2			Drawn
25	1,310 131			299	2			Drawn
26	1,150 115			193	3			Drawn

One Day International centuries

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at the Sardar Patel Stadium.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	1,010 101			132	1			Won
2	1,020 102			145	2			Lost
3	1,440 144			152	1			Won
4	1,400 140	(1/2)		127	1			Lost
5	1,091 109*	(1/2)		124	2			Won
6	1,230 123			130	1			Lost
7	1,030 103			97	1			Lost
8	1,031 103*	(2/2)		120	1			Lost
9	1,100 110			130	1			Won
10	1,010 101	(2/2)		128	1			Lost
11	1,121 112*			124	1			Lost
12	1,041 104*			94	1			Won
13	1,021 102*			59	1			Won
14	1,040 104			118	1			Lost