# List of international cricket centuries by Chris Gayle

Chris Gayle is a West Indian cricketer who captained the West Indies cricket team from 2007 to 2010. A left-handed batsman, he has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on fifteen and twenty-five occasions respectively. He has also scored century in Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket on two occasions. Gayle made his Test debut in March 2000 against Zimbabwe, scoring 33 and 0. He made his first Test century the following year, scoring 175 against the same team during the first match of the 2001 series between the teams. Gayle's first double century came in June 2002 against New Zealand when he scored 204 in a man of the match performance in Queen's Park. He scored his first triple century against South Africa at Antigua Recreation Ground in May 2005. His highest score of 333—fourth highest total for the West Indies—came against Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium in November 2010. Gayle is one of four players to score two triple centuries in Test cricket. He has scored centuries against seven different opponents, and has been most successful against New Zealand and South Africa, making three against each of them. He has scored Test centuries at twelve different cricket grounds, including eight at venues outside the West Indies.
Gayle made his ODI debut in 1999 against India, and his maiden century in the format came three years later against Kenya at the Simba Union Ground. His highest score of 215 came during the 2015 Cricket World Cup against Zimbabwe at the Manuka Oval, Canberra. With five scores over 150 in ODIs, he is joint-third in the list. Gayle has scored ODI centuries at nineteen different cricket grounds. Eighteen of his ODI centuries came at fifteen different venues outside the West Indies. Along with Shikhar Dhawan, Herschelle Gibbs, and Sourav Ganguly, Gayle holds the record for the most centuries in the ICC Champions Trophy, with three.
Having made his first T20I appearance in February 2006, Gayle became the first player to score a century in the format when he made 117 against South Africa in the first match of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. As of July 2018, he is one of nine players to have scored more than one century in the format. As of 2019, he is eleventh overall—tied with Sanath Jayasuriya—among all-time century-makers in international cricket.

## Key

Key for centuries' lists :
| Symbol | Meaning |
| * | Remained not out |
| † | Man of the match |
| ‡ | Captained the West Indies cricket team |
| Balls | Balls faced |
| 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 (West Indies), away or neutral |
| Date | Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches |
| Lost | The match was lost by the West Indies. |
| Won | The match was won by the West Indies. |
| Drawn | The match was drawn. |

## Test centuries

Test cricket centuries scored by Chris Gayle :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | Test | S/R | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 175 † | 255 | Zimbabwe | 2 | 2 | 1/2 | 68.62 | Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo | Away | 19 July 2001 | Won |
| 2 | 204 † | 332 | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 2/2 | 61.44 | Queen's Park, St. George's | Home | 28 June 2002 | Drawn |
| 3 | 116 | 120 | South Africa | 1 | 2 | 3/4 | 96.66 | Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town | Away | 2 January 2004 | Drawn |
| 4 | 107 | 159 | South Africa | 1 | 3 | 4/4 | 67.20 | SuperSport Park, Centurion | Away | 16 January 2004 | Lost |
| 5 | 141† | 293 | Bangladesh | 2 | 2 | 1/2 | 48.12 | Beausejour Cricket Ground, Gros Islet | Home | 28 May 2004 | Drawn |
| 6 | 105 | 87 | England | 1 | 3 | 4/4 | 120.68 | The Oval, London | Away | 19 August 2004 | Lost |
| 7 | 317 † | 483 | South Africa | 1 | 2 | 4/4 | 65.63 | Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's | Home | 29 May 2005 | Drawn |
| 8 | 197 † | 396 | New Zealand | 1 | 3 | 2/2 | 49.74 | McLean Park, Napier | Away | 19 December 2008 | Drawn |
| 9 | 104 ‡ | 193 | England | 1 | 2 | 1/5 | 53.88 | Sabina Park, Kingston | Home | 4 February 2009 | Won |
| 10 | 102‡ | 170 | England | 1 | 2 | 5/5 | 60.00 | Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain | Home | 6 March 2009 | Drawn |
| 11 | 165*†‡ | 285 | Australia | 1 | 3 | 2/3 | 57.89 | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | Away | 4 December 2009 | Drawn |
| 12 | 102‡ | 72 | Australia | 1 | 2 | 3/3 | 141.66 | WACA Ground, Perth | Away | 16 December 2009 | Lost |
| 13 | 333 † | 437 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 1/3 | 76.20 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Away | 15 November 2010 | Drawn |
| 14 | 150 | 206 | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 1/2 | 82.81 | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua | Home | 25 July 2012 | Won |
| 15 | 101 | 145 | Zimbabwe | 1 | 2 | 2/2 | 69.65 | Windsor Park, Roseau | Home | 20 March 2013 | Won |

## One Day International centuries

ODI cricket centuries scored by Chris Gayle :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | S/R | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 152 † | 150 | Kenya | 1 | 1 | 101.33 | Simba Union Ground, Nairobi | Away | 15 August 2001 | Won |
| 2 | 103 † | 116 | India | 1 | 2 | 88.79 | Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur | Away | 9 November 2002 | Won |
| 3 | 140 † | 127 | India | 1 | 1 | 110.23 | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | Away | 15 November 2002 | Lost |
| 4 | 101 | 107 | India | 1 | 2 | 94.39 | IPCL Sports Complex Ground, Vadodara | Away | 18 November 2002 | Won |
| 5 | 119 | 151 | Kenya | 1 | 1 | 78.80 | De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley | Neutral | 4 March 2003 | Won |
| 6 | 153* † | 160 | Zimbabwe | 2 | 1 | 95.62 | Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo | Away | 22 November 2003 | Won |
| 7 | 112* † | 75 | Zimbabwe | 2 | 2 | 149.33 | Harare Sports Club, Harare | Away | 30 November 2003 | Won |
| 8 | 152* † | 153 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 99.34 | The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | Away | 4 February 2004 | Lost |
| 9 | 132* | 165 | England | 1 | 2 | 80.00 | Lord's Cricket Ground, London | Away | 6 July 2004 | Won |
| 10 | 132 | 152 | South Africa | 1 | 2 | 86.84 | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | Home | 11 May 2005 | Lost |
| 11 | 124 | 137 | Pakistan | 1 | 2 | 90.51 | Beausejour Cricket Ground, Gros Islet | Home | 22 May 2005 | Lost |
| 12 | 123 | 130 | India | 1 | 1 | 94.61 | Sabina Park, Kingston | Home | 18 May 2006 | Lost |
| 13 | 104* † | 118 | Bangladesh | 1 | 2 | 88.13 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | Neutral | 11 October 2006 | Won |
| 14 | 101 † | 128 | England | 1 | 1 | 78.90 | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | Neutral | 28 October 2006 | Lost |
| 15 | 133*† | 135 | South Africa | 1 | 2 | 98.51 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | Neutral | 2 November 2006 | Won |
| 16 | 110*†‡ | 77 | Canada | 2 | 1 | 142.85 | Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City | Away | 24 August 2008 | Won |
| 17 | 113 †‡ | 106 | Pakistan | 1 | 1 | 106.60 | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi | Neutral | 12 November 2008 | Lost |
| 18 | 122‡ | 137 | Pakistan | 1 | 2 | 89.05 | Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi | Neutral | 16 November 2008 | Lost |
| 19 | 135†‡ | 129 | New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 104.65 | McLean Park, Napier | Away | 13 January 2009 | Lost |
| 20 | 125 | 107 | New Zealand | 2 | 1 | 116.82 | Sabina Park, Kingston | Home | 7 July 2012 | Won |
| 21 | 109† | 100 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 2 | 109.00 | Sabina Park, Kingston | Home | 28 June 2013 | Won |
| 22 | 215† | 147 | Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 146.25 | Manuka Oval, Canberra | Neutral | 24 February 2015 | Won |
| 23 | 123 | 91 | UAE | 1 | 1 | 135.16 | Old Hararians, Harare | Neutral | 6 March 2018 | Won |
| 24 | 135 | 129 | England | 1 | 1 | 104.65 | Kensington Oval, Bridgetown | Home | 20 February 2019 | Lost |
| 25 | 162 | 97 | England | 1 | 2 | 167.01 | Queen's Park, St. George's | Home | 27 February 2019 | Lost |

## Twenty20 International centuries

T20I cricket century by Chris Gayle :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | S/R | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result | Ref |
| 1 | 117 † | 57 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 205.26 | Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | Away | 11 September 2007 | Lost | |
| 2 | 100* † | 48 | England | 2 | 2 | 208.33 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | Neutral | 16 March 2016 | Won | |