List of international cricket centuries at St George's Park

St George's Park is a sports ground in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, it has a capacity of 19,000. The ground have been hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1889 when South Africa played England.^[1] 27 Test matches have been played at the ground^[2] along with 38 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1992 when South Africa played India.^[3] The ground was first staged to Twenty20 Internationals when South Africa played against West Indies in 2007. The venue has hosted 2 T20I matches so far.^[4]

English batsman Phil Mead became the first man to score a Test century at St George's Park when he made 117 against South Africa way back in 1914. 196 runs scored by South African Herschelle Gibbs against India in 2001 stands as the highest score seen at the ground, and a double century is yet to score. Overall, 36 Test centuries have been scored at the ground.^[5]

Ten ODI centuries have been scored at St George's Park, and the first by Australian batsman Mark Waugh who scored unbeaten 115 from 125 deliveries against South Africa in 1997. The highest score achieved at the ground is 135 made by Pakistani Saleem Elahi against South Africa in 2002.^[6]

Key[edit]

• * 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 St George's Park.
• The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
• The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won

Test centuries[edit]

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at St George's Park.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	117	Phil Mead	England	NA	2	South Africa	27 February 1914	Won
2	125	Billy Wade	South Africa	NA	1	England	5 March 1949	Lost
3	136*	George Mann	England	NA	2	South Africa	5 March 1949	Won
4	157	Arthur Morris	Australia	NA	1	South Africa	3 March 1950	Won
5	116	Neil Harvey	Australia	NA	1	South Africa	3 March 1950	Won
6	167	Lindsay Hassett	Australia	NA	1	South Africa	3 March 1950	Won
7	109	Paul Barton	New Zealand	NA	1	South Africa	16 February 1962	Won
8	137	Graeme Pollock (1/2)	South Africa	236	1	England	12 February 1965	Drawn
9	117	Geoff Boycott	England	396	2	South Africa	12 February 1965	Drawn
10	105	Graeme Pollock (2/2)	South Africa	NA	2	Australia	24 February 1967	Won
11	126	Barry Richards	South Africa	212	3	Australia	5 March 1970	Won
12	102	Lee Irvine	South Africa	146	3	Australia	5 March 1970	Won
13	135	Hansie Cronje	South Africa	310	2	India	26 December 1992	Won
14	129	Kapil Dev	India	180	3	South Africa	26 December 1992	Lost
15	116	Mark Waugh	Australia	228	4	South Africa	14 March 1997	Won
16	174	Lance Klusener	South Africa	221	1	England	9 December 1999	Drawn
17	108	Michael Atherton	England	274	2	South Africa	9 December 1999	Drawn
18	150	Mathew Sinclair	New Zealand	321	1	South Africa	30 November 2000	Lost
19	120	Neil McKenzie	South Africa	207	2	New Zealand	30 November 2000	Won
20	196	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	354	1	India	16 November 2001	Drawn
21	110	Boeta Dippenaar	South Africa	245	1	England	17 December 2004	Lost
22	126	Andrew Strauss	England	228	2	South Africa	17 December 2004	Won
23	104	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	253	1	South Africa	26 December 2007	Won
24	110	Hashim Amla (1/2)	South Africa	235	1	New Zealand	11 January 2013	Won
25	137	Faf du Plessis (1/2)	South Africa	252	1	New Zealand	11 January 2013	Won
26	103*	Dean Elgar (1/2)	South Africa	170	1	New Zealand	11 January 2013	Won
27	116	AB de Villiers (1/2)	South Africa	232	1	Australia	20 February 2014	Won
28	123	JP Duminy	South Africa	231	1	Australia	20 February 2014	Won
29	127*	Hashim Amla (2/2)	South Africa	176	3	Australia	20 February 2014	Won
30	107	Chris Rogers	Australia	237	4	South Africa	20 February 2014	Lost
31	121	Dean Elgar (2/2)	South Africa	239	1	West Indies	26 December 2014	Drawn
32	103	Faf du Plessis (2/2)	South Africa	230	1	West Indies	26 December 2014	Drawn
33	106	Kraigg Brathwaite	West Indies	186	2	South Africa	26 December 2014	Drawn
34	101	Marlon Samuels	West Indies	160	2	South Africa	26 December 2014	Drawn
35	117	Stephen Cook	South Africa	154	3	Sri Lanka	26 December 2016	Won
36	125	Aiden Markram	South Africa	204	1	Zimbabwe	26 December 2017	Won
37	126*	AB de Villiers (2/2)	South Africa	146	2	Australia	9 March 2018	Won
38	120	Ben Stokes	England	214	1	South Africa	16 January 2020	Won
39	135*	Ollie Pope	England	226	1	South Africa	16 January 2020	Won

One Day International centuries[edit]

The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at St George's Park.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	115*	Mark Waugh	Australia	125	2	South Africa	31 March 1997	Won
2	125	Herschelle Gibbs (1/2)	South Africa	146	1	West Indies	20 January 1999	Won
3	135	Saleem Elahi	Pakistan	129	1	South Africa	11 December 2002	Won
4	112	Abdul Razzaq	Pakistan	120	1	South Africa	11 December 2002	Won
5	105	Graeme Smith	South Africa	131	2	England	4 February 2005	Won
6	121*	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	133	2	West Indies	27 January 2008	Won
7	125	Herschelle Gibbs (2/2)	South Africa	110	1	Australia	13 April 2009	Won
8	102	Ahmed Shehzad	Pakistan	112	1	South Africa	27 November 2013	Won
9	130*	David Miller	South Africa	133	1	West Indies	25 January 2015	Lost
10	115	Rohit Sharma	India	126	1	South Africa	13 February 2018	Won
11	108*	Hashim Amla	South Africa	120	1	Pakistan	19 January 2019	Lost

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