# List of international cricket centuries at the Eden Gardens

The Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India. It is one of the main international cricket venues of India and often called the "Mecca of Indian cricket". It is the home of the Bengal cricket team and the Kolkata Knight Riders, as well as being a Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) venue. As of 2020, the Eden Gardens has hosted more than 40 Test matches, the first of which was in January 1934 when India played the touring England team. These include the first ever day/night Test match in India which was hosted between 22 and 24 November 2019, when India played the visiting Bangladesh team. The first ODI played at the ground was between India and Pakistan on 18 February 1987. As of 2020, 30 ODIs have been played at the ground.
The first Test century scored at the ground was in December 1948, by Everton Weekes of the West Indies. He scored 162 runs in the first innings. In the same match Syed Mushtaq Ali of India scored 106 in the fourth innings, thus becoming the first Indian to have scored a century at the Eden Gardens. To date, 77 Test centuries have been scored at the ground. VVS Laxman's 281, scored against Australia in March 2001, during the famous second test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy, is the highest individual Test score achieved at the ground. The highest individual Test score by an overseas player is 256, scored by Rohan Kanhai of the West Indies in December 1958. Mohammad Azharuddin and VVS Laxman have scored five Test centuries each, the highest number of Test centuries scored by an individual player at the ground. During the second Test of the India–South Africa Test series held in February 2010 at the ground, a total of seven centuries were scored between the two teams. This is the highest number of centuries scored in a single Test match at the ground.
The first ODI century scored at the ground was by Kris Srikkanth of India on 18 February 1987. He scored 123 runs in the first innings against Pakistan. The first century scored by an overseas player was on 1 November 1989 by Desmond Haynes of the West Indies. He scored an unbeaten 107 runs against India. To date, 15 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground. Rohit Sharma's 264, scored against Sri Lanka on 13 November 2014, is the highest individual ODI score achieved at the ground as well as the highest individual score of all time in ODIs. The highest individual ODI score by an overseas player is 134 not out, scored by Graeme Smith of South Africa on 25 November 2005. Virat Kohli has scored two ODI centuries at the ground, making him the only player to have scored multiple ODI centuries at the ground. His first century came against Sri Lanka on 24 December 2009. This is one of the three centuries scored between the two teams in the match, the highest number of centuries scored in a single ODI at the ground. Kohli's second century came during the 2023 Cricket World Cup when he scored unbeaten 101 runs against South Africa on 5 November 2023. Two centuries were scored during the ICC World Cup in 2011. Ryan ten Doeschate of the Netherlands scored 106 runs and Paul Stirling of Ireland scored 101 runs in the first and second innings respectively of the same match on 18 March 2011.
The first T20I was played between India and the touring England team on 29 October 2011. As of 2020, seven T20I matches have been played at the ground. To date, no T20I centuries have been scored at the ground.
Karu Jain of India scored the only Women's One Day International (WODI) century achieved at the Eden Gardens. She scored 103 runs against England in the first innings on 9 December 2005. To date, no centuries have been scored in a Women's Test cricket match or a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20) match played in the stadium.

## Keys

| Key | Description |
| Balls | denotes the number of balls faced by the player |
| Inns. | denotes the particular innings in which the century was scored (a Test match has a maximum of four innings and an ODI/T20I match has two innings) |
| Date | refers to the date the match started in case of Test match, and in case of ODI and WODI the date on which it was played |
| Result | refers to whether the player's team won, lost or if the match was drawn |
| — | Not available |
| * | denotes that the batsman was not out |
| ‡ | indicates the highest individual score by an overseas player at the ground |
| # | indicates the highest individual score at the ground |

## Test centuries

    As of 2020, seventy seven Test centuries have been scored at the ground.
List of Test centuries scored at the Eden Gardens :
| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result |
| 1 | 162 | Everton Weekes (1/2) | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1948 | Drawn |
| 2 | 101 | Everton Weekes (2/2) | West Indies | — | 3 | India | 31 December 1948 | Drawn |
| 3 | 108 | Clyde Walcott | West Indies | — | 3 | India | 31 December 1948 | Drawn |
| 4 | 106 | Mushtaq Ali | India | — | 4 | West Indies | 31 December 1948 | Drawn |
| 5 | 115 | Dattu Phadkar | India | — | 2 | England | 30 December 1951 | Drawn |
| 6 | 110 | Deepak Shodhan | India | — | 2 | Pakistan | 12 December 1952 | Drawn |
| 7 | 120 | John Reid | New Zealand | — | 2 | India | 28 December 1955 | Drawn |
| 8 | 100 | Pankaj Roy | India | — | 3 | New Zealand | 28 December 1955 | Drawn |
| 9 | 106* | Gulabrai Ramchand | India | — | 3 | New Zealand | 28 December 1955 | Drawn |
| 10 | 256 ‡ | Rohan Kanhai | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1958 | Won |
| 11 | 103 | Basil Butcher | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1958 | Won |
| 12 | 106* | Garry Sobers | West Indies | — | 1 | India | 31 December 1958 | Won |
| 13 | 113 | Norm O'Neill | Australia | — | 2 | India | 23 January 1960 | Drawn |
| 14 | 107 | Colin Cowdrey | England | — | 2 | India | 29 January 1964 | Drawn |
| 15 | 129 | Motganhalli Jaisimha | India | — | 3 | England | 29 January 1964 | Drawn |
| 16 | 151* | Bert Sutcliffe | New Zealand | — | 1 | India | 5 March 1965 | Drawn |
| 17 | 105 | Bruce Taylor | New Zealand | — | 1 | India | 5 March 1965 | Drawn |
| 18 | 153 | Nawab of Pataudi | India | — | 2 | New Zealand | 5 March 1965 | Drawn |
| 19 | 100 | Roy Fredericks | West Indies | — | 2 | India | 27 December 1974 | Lost |
| 20 | 139 | Gundappa Viswanath | India | 263 | 3 | West Indies | 27 December 1974 | Won |
| 21 | 103 | Tony Greig | England | 347 | 2 | India | 1 January 1977 | Won |
| 22 | 107 | Sunil Gavaskar (1/2) | India | — | 1 | West Indies | 29 December 1978 | Drawn |
| 23 | 111 | Basil Williams | West Indies | — | 2 | India | 29 December 1978 | Drawn |
| 24 | 182* | Sunil Gavaskar (2/2) | India | — | 3 | West Indies | 29 December 1978 | Drawn |
| 25 | 157* | Dilip Vengsarkar (1/2) | India | — | 3 | West Indies | 29 December 1978 | Drawn |
| 26 | 167 | Graham Yallop | Australia | 392 | 1 | India | 26 October 1979 | Drawn |
| 27 | 161* | Clive Lloyd | West Indies | 290 | 2 | India | 10 December 1983 | Won |
| 28 | 110 | Mohammad Azharuddin (1/5) | India | 322 | 1 | England | 31 December 1984 | Drawn |
| 29 | 111 | Ravi Shastri | India | 357 | 1 | England | 31 December 1984 | Drawn |
| 30 | 141 | Mohammad Azharuddin (2/5) | India | — | 1 | Pakistan | 11 February 1987 | Drawn |
| 31 | 141 | Gordon Greenidge | West Indies | 265 | 1 | India | 26 December 1987 | Drawn |
| 32 | 101 | Gus Logie | West Indies | 136 | 1 | India | 26 December 1987 | Drawn |
| 33 | 100* | Carl Hooper | West Indies | 171 | 1 | India | 26 December 1987 | Drawn |
| 34 | 102* | Dilip Vengsarkar (2/2) | India | 266 | 2 | West Indies | 26 December 1987 | Drawn |
| 35 | 182 | Mohammad Azharuddin (3/5) | India | 197 | 1 | England | 29 January 1993 | Won |
| 36 | 146 | Andrew Hudson | South Africa | 244 | 1 | India | 27 November 1996 | Won |
| 37 | 102 | Gary Kirsten (1/2) | South Africa | 170 | 1 | India | 27 November 1996 | Won |
| 38 | 109 | Mohammad Azharuddin (4/5) | India | 77 | 2 | South Africa | 27 November 1996 | Lost |
| 39 | 133 | Gary Kirsten (2/2) | South Africa | 196 | 3 | India | 27 November 1996 | Won |
| 40 | 153* | Daryll Cullinan | South Africa | 261 | 3 | India | 27 November 1996 | Won |
| 41 | 163* | Mohammad Azharuddin (5/5) | India | 246 | 2 | Australia | 18 March 1998 | Won |
| 42 | 188* | Saeed Anwar | Pakistan | 259 | 3 | India | 16 February 1999 | Won |
| 43 | 110 | Steve Waugh | Australia | 203 | 1 | India | 11 March 2001 | Lost |
| 44 | 281 # | VVS Laxman (1/5) | India | 452 | 3 | Australia | 11 March 2001 | Won |
| 45 | 180 | Rahul Dravid (1/4) | India | 353 | 3 | Australia | 11 March 2001 | Won |
| 46 | 100 | Wavell Hinds | West Indies | 200 | 2 | India | 30 October 2002 | Drawn |
| 47 | 140 | Shivnarine Chanderpaul | West Indies | 258 | 2 | India | 30 October 2002 | Drawn |
| 48 | 104 | Marlon Samuels | West Indies | 182 | 2 | India | 30 October 2002 | Drawn |
| 49 | 176 | Sachin Tendulkar (1/2) | India | 298 | 3 | West Indies | 30 October 2002 | Drawn |
| 50 | 154* | VVS Laxman (2/5) | India | 396 | 3 | West Indies | 30 October 2002 | Drawn |
| 51 | 121 | Jacques Kallis | South Africa | 259 | 1 | India | 28 November 2004 | Lost |
| 52 | 110 | Rahul Dravid (2/4) | India | 222 | 1 | Pakistan | 16 March 2005 | Won |
| 53 | 147 | Younis Khan (1/2) | Pakistan | 258 | 2 | India | 16 March 2005 | Lost |
| 54 | 104 | Mohammad Yousuf | Pakistan | 179 | 2 | India | 16 March 2005 | Lost |
| 55 | 135 | Rahul Dravid (3/4) | India | 283 | 3 | Pakistan | 16 March 2005 | Won |
| 56 | 202 | Wasim Jaffer | India | 274 | 1 | Pakistan | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 57 | 102 | Sourav Ganguly | India | 156 | 1 | Pakistan | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 58 | 112* | VVS Laxman (3/5) | India | 178 | 1 | Pakistan | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 59 | 161* | Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 351 | 2 | India | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 60 | 119 | Kamran Akmal | Pakistan | 210 | 2 | India | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 61 | 107* | Younis Khan (2/2) | Pakistan | 182 | 4 | India | 30 November 2007 | Drawn |
| 62 | 100 | Alviro Petersen | South Africa | 164 | 1 | India | 14 February 2010 | Lost |
| 63 | 114 | Hashim Amla (1/2) | South Africa | 166 | 1 | India | 14 February 2010 | Lost |
| 64 | 165 | Virender Sehwag | India | 174 | 2 | South Africa | 14 February 2010 | Won |
| 65 | 106 | Sachin Tendulkar (2/2) | India | 206 | 2 | South Africa | 14 February 2010 | Won |
| 66 | 143* | VVS Laxman (4/5) | India | 260 | 2 | South Africa | 14 February 2010 | Won |
| 67 | 132* | MS Dhoni (1/2) | India | 187 | 2 | South Africa | 14 February 2010 | Won |
| 68 | 123* | Hashim Amla (2/2) | South Africa | 394 | 3 | India | 14 February 2010 | Lost |
| 69 | 119 | Rahul Dravid (4/4) | India | 207 | 1 | West Indies | 14 November 2011 | Won |
| 70 | 176* | VVS Laxman (5/5) | India | 280 | 1 | West Indies | 14 November 2011 | Won |
| 71 | 144 | MS Dhoni (2/2) | India | 175 | 1 | West Indies | 14 November 2011 | Won |
| 72 | 136 | Darren Bravo | West Indies | 230 | 3 | India | 14 November 2011 | Lost |
| 73 | 190 | Alastair Cook | England | 377 | 2 | India | 5 December 2012 | Won |
| 74 | 177 | Rohit Sharma | India | 301 | 2 | West Indies | 6 November 2013 | Won |
| 75 | 124 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 210 | 2 | West Indies | 6 November 2013 | Won |
| 76 | 104* | Virat Kohli (1/2) | India | 119 | 3 | Sri Lanka | 16 November 2017 | Drawn |
| 77 | 136 | Virat Kohli (2/2) | India | 194 | 2 | Bangladesh | 22 November 2019 | Won |

## One Day International centuries

    As of 2023, 15 ODI centuries have been scored at the ground.
| Keys | Description |
| † | denotes the century was scored in an ICC Cricket World Cup match |
| ↑ | denotes the score is the highest individual score in the ODIs |
List of ODI centuries scored at the Eden Gardens :
| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result |
| 1 | 123 | Kris Srikkanth | India | 103 | 1 | Pakistan | 18 February 1987 | Lost |
| 2 | 107* | Desmond Haynes | West Indies | 137 | 1 | Pakistan | 1 November 1989 | Lost |
| 3 | 100* | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 103 | 2 | Kenya | 31 May 1998 | Won |
| 4 | 121 | Marcus Trescothick | England | 109 | 2 | India | 19 January 2002 | Lost |
| 5 | 108* | Salman Butt | Pakistan | 130 | 2 | India | 13 November 2004 | Won |
| 6 | 134* ‡ | Graeme Smith | South Africa | 124 | 2 | India | 25 November 2005 | Won |
| 7 | 118 | Upul Tharanga | Sri Lanka | 128 | 1 | India | 24 December 2009 | Lost |
| 8 | 150* | Gautam Gambhir | India | 137 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 24 December 2009 | Won |
| 9 | 107 (1/2) | Virat Kohli | India | 114 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 24 December 2009 | Won |
| 10 | 106 † | Ryan ten Doeschate | Netherlands | 108 | 1 | Ireland | 18 March 2011 | Lost |
| 11 | 101 † | Paul Stirling | Ireland | 72 | 2 | Netherlands | 18 March 2011 | Won |
| 12 | 106 | Nasir Jamshed | Pakistan | 124 | 1 | India | 3 January 2013 | Won |
| 13 | 264 # ↑ | Rohit Sharma | India | 173 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 13 November 2014 | Won |
| 14 | 101* † (2/2) | Virat Kohli | India | 121 | 1 | South Africa | 5 November 2023 | Won |
| 15 | 101 † | David Miller | South Africa | 116 | 1 | Australia | 16 November 2023 | Lost |

## Women international centuries

    As of 2020, one Women's One Day International (WODI) century has been scored at the ground.
List of WODI centuries scored at the Eden Gardens :
| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opponents | Date | Result | Ref. |
| 1 | 103 # | Karu Jain | India | 147 | 1 | England | 9 December 2005 | Won | |