List of international cricket centuries at McLean Park

McLean Park from aerial view

McLean Park is a sports ground in Napier, New Zealand, it has a capacity of 19,700. The ground have been hosted Test cricket since its first match in 1979 when New Zealand played Pakistan. 10 Test matches have been played at the ground along with 42 One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first of which was in 1983 when New Zealand played Sri Lanka.

Pakistani batsman Asif Iqbal became the first man to score a Test century at McLean Park when he made 104 against New Zealand in 1979. Jesse Ryder's score of 201, made against India in 2009, remains the highest score seen at the ground, which is the only double century at the venue. There are 23 test centuries have been scored at the ground.

Twenty one ODI centuries have been scored at McLean Park, the first by Englishman Chris Broad who scored 106 from 140 deliveries against New Zealand in 1988. The highest score achieved at the ground is 141 not out made by Australian maestro Ricky Ponting against England in 2005.

Ross Taylor has scored 2 Test and 3 ODI centuries at McLean Park, which is highest by a player at the venue.

Key

• * 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 McLean 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

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at McLean Park.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	104	Asif Iqbal	Pakistan	NR	1	New Zealand	16 February 1979	Drawn
2	114	Geoff Howarth	New Zealand	NR	2	Pakistan	16 February 1979	Drawn
3	119*	Majid Khan	Pakistan	NR	3	New Zealand	16 February 1979	Drawn
4	113*	John Wright	New Zealand	208	2	India	9 February 1990	Drawn
5	160	Hamish Marshall	New Zealand	250	1	Sri Lanka	4 April 2005	Drawn
6	114	Nathan Astle	New Zealand	203	1	Sri Lanka	4 April 2005	Drawn
7	127	Marvan Atapattu	Sri Lanka	244	2	New Zealand	4 April 2005	Drawn
8	108	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	243	2	New Zealand	4 April 2005	Drawn
9	129	Kevin Pietersen	England	208	1	New Zealand	22 March 2008	Won
10	177	Andrew Strauss	England	343	3	New Zealand	22 March 2008	Won
11	110	Ian Bell	England	167	3	New Zealand	22 March 2008	Won
12	126*	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	282	1	New Zealand	19 December 2008	Drawn
13	136	Tim McIntosh	New Zealand	337	2	West Indies	19 December 2008	Drawn
14	197	Chris Gayle	West Indies	396	3	New Zealand	19 December 2008	Drawn
15	151	Ross Taylor (1/2)	New Zealand	204	1	India	26 March 2009	Drawn
16	201	Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	328	1	India	26 March 2009	Drawn
17	115	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	140	1	India	26 March 2009	Drawn
18	137	Gautam Gambhir	India	436	3	New Zealand	26 March 2009	Drawn
19	124*	VVS Laxman	India	212	3	New Zealand	26 March 2009	Drawn
20	117*	Imran Farhat	Pakistan	169	1	New Zealand	11 December 2009	Drawn
21	134	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	186	2	Pakistan	11 December 2009	Drawn
22	122*	Ross Taylor (2/2)	New Zealand	201	1	Zimbabwe	26 January 2012	Won
23	102*	BJ Watling	New Zealand	149	1	Zimbabwe	26 January 2012	Won

One Day International centuries

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

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	106	Chris Broad	England	140	1	New Zealand	16 March 1988	Lost
2	101	John Wright	New Zealand	120	2	England	16 March 1988	Won
3	111*	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	137	2	Australia	12 February 1998	Won
4	104*	Nathan Astle (1/2)	New Zealand	137	2	Zimbabwe	6 March 1998	Won
5	104	Nathan Astle (2/2)	New Zealand	128	1	Australia	1 March 2000	Lost
6	107	Michael Bevan	Australia	141	2	New Zealand	1 March 2000	Won
7	108	Virender Sehwag	India	119	2	New Zealand	29 December 2002	Lost
8	141*	Ricky Ponting	Australia	127	1	New Zealand	5 March 2005	Won
9	112	Peter Fulton	New Zealand	131	2	Sri Lanka	8 January 2006	Lost
10	102	Lou Vincent	New Zealand	117	1	West Indies	1 March 2006	Won
11	110*	Runako Morton	West Indies	155	2	New Zealand	1 March 2006	Lost
12	128*	Ross Taylor (1/3)	New Zealand	133	1	Sri Lanka	28 December 2006	Lost
13	111	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	82	2	New Zealand	28 December 2006	Won
14	139	Jamie How	New Zealand	116	2	England	20 February 2008	Tied
15	135	Chris Gayle	West Indies	129	1	New Zealand	13 January 2009	Lost
16	119	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	88	1	Zimbabwe	9 February 2012	Won
17	100	Ross Taylor (2/3)	New Zealand	117	1	England	20 February 2013	Lost
18	123	Virat Kohli	India	111	2	New Zealand	19 January 2014	Lost
19	112	Kane Williamson	New Zealand	88	1	Pakistan	3 February 2015	Won
20	102*	Ross Taylor (3/3)	New Zealand	70	1	Pakistan	3 February 2015	Won
21	117*	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	116	2	Bangladesh	13 February 2019	Won

Twenty 20 International centuries

The following table summarises the Twenty 20 International centuries scored at McLean Park.

No.	Score	Player	Team	Balls	Inns.	Opposing team	Date	Result
1	103*	Dawid Malan	England	51	1	New Zealand	8 November 2019	Won

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