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St George's Park grand stand

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

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  • * 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

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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

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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

References

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  1. ^ "St George's Park — Cricinfo profile". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  2. ^ "St George's Park, Port Elizabeth / Records / Test matches / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  3. ^ "St George's Park, Port Elizabeth / Records / One-Day Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  4. ^ "St George's Park, Port Elizabeth / Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Match results". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / Test matches / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Statistics / Statsguru / One-Day Internationals / Batting records". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
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