# List of international cricket centuries by Aravinda de Silva

Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former cricketer and captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He scored centuries (scores of 100 runs or more in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket matches organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1996. Identified as "one of the game's best entertainers" by ESPNcricinfo's Simon Wilde, De Silva scored 20 centuries in Tests and 11 in ODIs.
De Silva debuted in 1984 and scored his first Test century in October 1985 against Pakistan. In a man-of-the-match performance, he scored 122 in an eight-and-a-half-hours innings. He made centuries in both innings of a match when he scored 138 and 103 – not out in both innings – in the second Test of the 1997 series against Pakistan, and as of March 2022, he is the only player to score unbeaten centuries in both innings of a Test. He repeated the feat of scoring centuries in both innings in the same year, when he scored 146 and 120 against India in another man-of-the-match performance. De Silva's highest Test score of 267, achieved in January 1991 in Wellington, was reached in 380 balls against New Zealand. The performance is the sixth-highest score by a Sri Lankan batsman in Test cricket. De Silva scored his twenty Test centuries against seven different opponents, and was most successful against Pakistan, making eight. As of April 2013, he is thirty-fourth in the international Test century-makers list, and third in the Sri Lankan list.
De Silva's maiden ODI century was against India in 1990; he scored 104 runs off 124 balls. His highest score in ODIs is 145, against Kenya in the 1996 Cricket World Cup. His score led Sri Lanka to 398, the highest ODI total by any team at that time; it was also the first century made by a Sri Lankan in a World Cup. He also scored a century in the second innings of the final, making 107 runs not out. As of April 2013, he is twenty-sixth in the list of all-time ODI century-makers and sixth in the equivalent list for Sri Lanka. He was most successful against Pakistan, scoring 11 centuries in both Tests and ODIs put together. De Silva also holds the record for the tenth-fastest Test double century, which he attained while playing against Bangladesh in 2002.

## Key

Key for the tables :
| Symbol | Meaning |
| * | Remained not out |
| † | Man of the Match |
| Pos. | Position in the batting order |
| Inn. | The innings of the match |
| Test | The number of the Test match played in that series |
| H/A/N | Venue was at home (Sri Lanka), away or neutral |
| Date | Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches |
| Lost | The match was lost by Sri Lanka. |
| Won | The match was won by Sri Lanka. |
| Drawn | The match was drawn. |

## Test centuries

List of Test centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | Test | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 122 † | — | Pakistan | 7 | 1 | 1/3 | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | Away | 16 October 1985 | Drawn |
| 2 | 105 † | — | Pakistan | 3 | 3 | 3/3 | National Stadium, Karachi | Away | 7 November 1985 | Lost |
| 3 | 167 † | 361 | Australia | 5 | 2 | 1/2 | Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane | Away | 8 December 1989 | Drawn |
| 4 | 267 | 380 | New Zealand | 4 | 2 | 1/3 | Basin Reserve, Wellington | Away | 31 January 1991 | Drawn |
| 5 | 123 † | 193 | New Zealand | 4 | 3 | 3/3 | Eden Park, Auckland | Away | 1 March 1991 | Drawn |
| 6 | 148 | 297 | India | 4 | 1 | 3/3 | Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo | Home | 4 August 1993 | Drawn |
| 7 | 127 | 156 | Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 1/3 | Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo | Home | 9 August 1994 | Drawn |
| 8 | 105 | 316 | Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 2/3 | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | Away | 15 September 1995 | Won |
| 9 | 168 | 383 | Pakistan | 3 | 3 | 1/2 | R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo | Home | 19 April 1997 | Drawn |
| 10 | 138* † | 208 | Pakistan | 4 | 1 | 2/2 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 26 April 1997 | Drawn |
| 11 | 103* † | 99 | Pakistan | 4 | 3 | 2/2 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 26 April 1997 | Drawn |
| 12 | 126 | 211 | India | 4 | 2 | 1/2 | R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo | Home | 2 August 1997 | Drawn |
| 13 | 146 † | 226 | India | 4 | 1 | 2/2 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 9 August 1997 | Drawn |
| 14 | 120 † | 198 | India | 4 | 3 | 2/2 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 9 August 1997 | Drawn |
| 15 | 110* † | 263 | India | 4 | 3 | 1/3 | Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali | Away | 19 November 1997 | Drawn |
| 16 | 143* † | 310 | Zimbabwe | 4 | 4 | 2/2 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 14 January 1998 | Won |
| 17 | 152 | 292 | England | 4 | 2 | 1/1 | Kennington Oval, London | Away | 27 August 1998 | Won |
| 18 | 112 † | 276 | Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 1/3 | Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi | Away | 26 February 2000 | Won |
| 19 | 106 | 243 | England | 4 | 1 | 1/3 | Galle International Stadium, Galle | Home | 22 February 2001 | Won |
| 20 | 206 | 234 | Bangladesh | 5 | 2 | 1/2 | Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo | Home | 21 July 2002 | Won |

## One Day International centuries

List of ODI centuries scored by Aravinda de Silva :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | S/R | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 104 | 124 | India | 4 | 2 | 83.87 | Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur | Away | 1 December 1990 | Lost |
| 2 | 105 † | 105 | Australia | 4 | 2 | 100.00 | Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo | Home | 15 August 1992 | Won |
| 3 | 107* † | 100 | Zimbabwe | 4 | 1 | 107.00 | Harare Sports Club, Harare | Away | 6 November 1994 | Won |
| 4 | 145 † | 115 | Kenya | 4 | 1 | 126.08 | Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy | Home | 6 March 1996 | Won |
| 5 | 107* † | 124 | Australia | 4 | 2 | 86.29 | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | Neutral | 17 March 1996 | Won |
| 6 | 127* † | 123 | Zimbabwe | 4 | 2 | 103.25 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 3 September 1996 | Won |
| 7 | 122 | 116 | Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 105.17 | Gymkhana Club Ground, Nairobi | Neutral | 4 October 1996 | Lost |
| 8 | 134 † | 131 | Pakistan | 4 | 1 | 102.29 | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah | Neutral | 7 April 1997 | Won |
| 9 | 104 † | 117 | India | 4 | 1 | 88.88 | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo | Home | 24 August 1997 | Won |
| 10 | 102* | 90 | Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 113.33 | Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore | Away | 5 November 1997 | Won |
| 11 | 105 | 94 | India | 3 | 2 | 111.70 | R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo | Home | 7 July 1998 | Lost |