List of international cricket centuries by Sunil Gavaskar

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Gavaskar has scored the third-highest number of centuries in Tests for India.[1]

Sunil Gavaskar is a former international cricketer who represented and captained the Indian cricket team. In a career spanning over 16 years he made 35 centuries (100 or more runs) at the international level.[2] Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history,[3][4] Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs.[3] He was the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs and held the record for most runs until Allan Border surpassed it.[5] Gavaskar's record of 34 Test centuries stood for almost two decades before Tendulkar surpassed it in December 2005.[6] He was named the Indian Cricket Cricketer of the Year in 1971 and as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1980.[3][7] In February 2012, the International Cricket Council (ICC) inducted him into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.[2][8][9] As of 2012, he is the third-highest run scorer for India in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.[1]

Making his Test debut against the West Indies in March 1971,[10] Gavaskar scored his first century in the third Test of the same series.[11] In the final Test at Port of Spain he scored centuries in both innings of the match with scores of 124 and 220, becoming the second Indian player to perform the feat.[12] He became the first player to score two centuries in a Test match for the third time, when he made 107 and 182 not out in a match against the West Indies in December 1978.[12][13] Gavaskar's highest Test score of 236 not out came against the West Indies at Chennai in 1983,[5][N 1] an Indian record at that time.[5] He has scored 150 or more runs in a Test match innings on twelve occasions. Gavaskar was most successful against the West Indies and Australia scoring 13 and 8 centuries respectively.

Gavaskar made his One Day International (ODI) debut against England at Headingley in 1974.[13] Unlike his Test career, his ODI career was less illustrious scoring 3,092 runs at an average of 35.13.[13] Gavaskar's solitary century in ODIs came in the penultimate innings of his career—against New Zealand—during the 1987 Cricket World Cup where he scored 103 runs in 88 balls; the performance ensured India's victory, which earned him a man of the match award.[14]

Key[edit]

View from the top of a cricket ground during a cricket match; players are visible in the field.
Gavaskar scored five of his Test centuries at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
Key
Symbol Meaning
* Remained not out.
‡ Gavaskar was named "Man of the match".
† Captained the Indian cricket team.
Pos. Position in the batting order
Inn. The innings of the match.
Test The number of the Test match played in that series.
S/R. Strike rate during the innings
H/A/N Venue was at home (India), away or neutral.
Date Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches.
Lost The match was lost by India.
Won The match was won by India.
Drawn The match was drawn.

Test cricket centuries[edit]

List of Test centuries scored by Sunil Gavaskar[15]
No. Score Against Pos. Inn. Test Venue H/A/N Date Result
1 116  West Indies 2 2 3/5 Bourda, Georgetown Away 19 March 1971 Draw[16]
2 117*  West Indies 2 4 4/5 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown Away 1 April 1971 Draw[17]
3 124[N 2]  West Indies 2 1 5/5 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Away 13 April 19711 Draw[18]
4 220[N 3]  West Indies 2 3 5/5 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Away 13 April 19712 Draw[18]
5 101  England 1 2 1/3 Old Trafford, Manchester Away 6 June 1974 Lost[19]
6 116 †  New Zealand 1 2 1/3 Eden Park, Auckland Away 24 January 1976 Won[20]
7 156  West Indies 1 2 2/4 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Away 24 March 1976 Draw[21]
8 102  West Indies 1 4 3/4 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain Away 7 April 1976 Won[22]
9 119  New Zealand 1 1 1/3 Wankhede Stadium, Bombay[N 4] Home 10 November 1976 Won[23]
10 108  England 1 1 5/5 Wankhede Stadium, Bombay[N 4] Home 11 February 1977 Draw[24]
11 113  Australia 1 4 1/5 Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Away 2 December 1977 Lost[25]
12 127  Australia 1 3 2/5 Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth Away 16 December 1977 Lost[26]
13 118  Australia 1 3 3/5 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Away 30 December 1977 Won[27]
14 111[N 2]  Pakistan 1 1 3/3 National Stadium, Karachi Away 14 November 19781 Lost[28]
15 137[N 3]  Pakistan 1 3 3/3 National Stadium, Karachi Away 14 November 19782 Lost[28]
16 205 †  West Indies 1 1 1/6 Wankhede Stadium, Bombay[N 4] Home 1 December 1978 Draw[29]
17 107 †[N 2]  West Indies 1 1 3/6 Eden Gardens, Calcutta[N 5] Home 29 December 19781 Draw[30]
18 182* †[N 3]  West Indies 1 3 3/6 Eden Gardens, Calcutta[N 5] Home 29 December 19782 Draw[30]
19 120 †  West Indies 1 1 5/6 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Home 24 January 1979 Draw[31]
20 221 ‡  England 1 4 4/4 Kennington Oval, London Away 30 August 1979 Draw[32]
21 115 †  Australia 1 1 4/6 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Home 13 October 1979 Draw[33]
22 123 †  Australia 1 1 6/6 Wankhede Stadium, Bombay[N 4] Home 3 November 1979 Won[34]
23 166 †  Pakistan 1 2 5/6 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras[N 1] Home 15 January 1980 Won[35]
24 172 † ‡  England 1 2 2/6 Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, Bangalore Home 9 December 1981 Draw[36]
25 155 †  Sri Lanka 1 2 1/1 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras[N 1] Home 17 September 1982 Draw[37]
26 127* †  Pakistan 1 3 3/6 Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Away 3 January 1983 Lost[38]
27 147*  West Indies 1 2 3/5 Bourda, Georgetown Away 31 March 1983 Draw[39]
28 103*  Pakistan 1 3 1/3 Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, Bangalore Home 14 September 1983 Draw[40]
29 121  West Indies 1 1 2/6 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Home 29 October 1983 Draw[41]
30 236* ‡  West Indies 4 2 6/6 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras[N 1] Home 28 December 1983 Draw[42]
31 166*  Australia 1 2 1/3 Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Away 15 December 1985 Draw[43]
32 172  Australia 1 1 3/3 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Away 2 January 1986 Draw[44]
33 103  Australia 1 2 3/3 Wankhede Stadium, Bombay[N 4] Home 15 October 1986 Draw[45]
34 176 ‡  Sri Lanka 1 2 1/3 Green Park Stadium, Kanpur Home 17 December 1986 Draw[46]

ODI centuries[edit]

List of ODI centuries scored by Sunil Gavaskar[47]
No. Score Against Pos. Inn. S/R Venue H/A/N Date Result
1 103 ‡ [N 6]  New Zealand 2 2 117.04 Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Home 31 October 1987 Won[48]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Madras was renamed as Chennai in 1996.
  2. ^ a b c Gavaskar made centuries in both innings of the match.
  3. ^ a b c Gavaskar's second century in the match.
  4. ^ a b c d e Bombay was renamed as Mumbai in 1995.
  5. ^ a b Calcutta was renamed as Kolkata in 2001.
  6. ^ The man of the match award was shared between Gavaskar and Chetan Sharma.

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