# List of international cricket centuries at the Green Park Stadium

The Green Park Stadium—formerly known as Modi Stadium—is a cricket ground in Kanpur, India. It is the home ground of the Uttar Pradesh cricket team and has played host to Ranji Trophy matches, as well as being a Test and One Day International (ODI) venue. The ground has hosted 23 Test matches, since the first one in 1952 when India played England. It has also staged 15 ODIs, the first of which was in 1986 when India lost to Sri Lanka by a margin of 17 runs. It has staged 1 T20 International in 2017.
The first century at the ground was scored by the West Indian Garfield Sobers. He made 198 during the second Test of the 1958–59 West Indies tour of India. The first Indian to score a century at the ground was Polly Umrigar, who made 147 not out against England in December 1961. West Indian Faoud Bacchus' 250, against India in February 1979, is the highest individual score by a batsman at the ground. India's Gundappa Viswanath and Mohammed Azharuddin have scored the most centuries at the venue with three each. The latter also holds the record for the highest score by an Indian at the ground. As of February 2016, 32 Test centuries have been scored at the stadium.
India's Chetan Sharma was the first player to score an ODI century at the ground. He made 101 not out against England during the Nehru Cup (1989). Shahid Afridi's 45-ball century against India in April 2005 at the venue is the fastest century scored in India. As of March 2016, Rohit Sharma's 150 against South Africa is the highest ODI score by a batsman at the ground. The record for the highest score in the format by an overseas player belongs to the Pakistani Salman Butt, who made 129 against India in November 2007. As of February 2016, nine ODI centuries have been scored by as many players at the Green Park Stadium.

## Key

* Score denotes the number of runs scored by the batsman in an innings.
* * denotes that the batsman was not out.
* Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
* Balls denotes the number of balls faced by the batsman in an innings.
* NR denotes that the statistic was not recorded.
* Date denotes the date in which the match started.
* Result denotes the result of the player's team.
* Drawn denotes that the match was drawn.

## Test cricket

List of Test centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium :
| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Result |
| 1 | 198 | Garfield Sobers | West Indies | NR | 3 | India | 12 December 1958 | Won |
| 2 | 115 | Polly Umrigar (1/2) | India | NR | 2 | Pakistan | 16 December 1960 | Drawn |
| 3 | 147* | Polly Umrigar (2/2) | India | NR | 1 | England | 1 December 19611 | Drawn |
| 4 | 119 | Geoff Pullar | England | NR | 3 | India | 1 December 19612 | Drawn |
| 5 | 172 | Ken Barrington | England | NR | 3 | India | 1 December 19613 | Drawn |
| 6 | 126* | Ted Dexter | England | NR | 3 | India | 1 December 19614 | Drawn |
| 7 | 127 | Barry Knight | England | NR | 1 | India | 15 February 19641 | Drawn |
| 8 | 121 | Peter Parfitt | England | NR | 1 | India | 15 February 19642 | Drawn |
| 9 | 122* | Bapu Nadkarni | India | NR | 3 | England | 15 February 19643 | Drawn |
| 10 | 114 | Paul Sheahan | Australia | NR | 2 | India | 15 November 19691 | Drawn |
| 11 | 137 | Gundappa Viswanath (1/3) | India | NR | 3 | Australia | 15 November 19692 | Drawn |
| 12 | 125 | Tony Lewis | England | 228 | 2 | India | 25 January 1973 | Drawn |
| 13 | 113 | Glenn Turner | New Zealand | NR | 2 | India | 18 November 19761 | Drawn |
| 14 | 103* | Gundappa Viswanath (2/3) | India | NR | 3 | New Zealand | 18 November 19762 | Drawn |
| 15 | 179 | Gundappa Viswanath (3/3) | India | NR | 1 | West Indies | 2 February 19791 | Drawn |
| 16 | 102 | Anshuman Gaekwad | India | NR | 1 | West Indies | 2 February 19792 | Drawn |
| 17 | 101* | Mohinder Amarnath | India | NR | 1 | West Indies | 2 February 19793 | Drawn |
| 18 | 250 | Faoud Bacchus | West Indies | NR | 2 | India | 2 February 19794 | Drawn |
| 19 | 142 | Ian Botham | England | 214 | 1 | India | 30 January 19821 | Drawn |
| 20 | 116 | Kapil Dev | India | 98 | 2 | England | 30 January 19822 | Drawn |
| 21 | 194 | Gordon Greenidge | West Indies | 368 | 1 | India | 21 October 1983 | Won |
| 22 | 122 | Mohammad Azharuddin (1/3) | India | 270 | 1 | England | 31 January 19851 | Drawn |
| 23 | 137 | Dilip Vengsarkar | India | 255 | 1 | England | 31 January 19852 | Drawn |
| 24 | 176 | Sunil Gavaskar | India | 302 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 17 December 19861 | Drawn |
| 25 | 199 | Mohammad Azharuddin (2/3) | India | NR | 2 | Sri Lanka | 17 December 19862 | Drawn |
| 26 | 163 | Kapil Dev | India | 165 | 2 | Sri Lanka | 17 December 19863 | Drawn |
| 27 | 163* | Mohammad Azharuddin (3/3) | India | 229 | 3 | South Africa | 8 December 1996 | Won |
| 28 | 163 | Andrew Hall | South Africa | 454 | 1 | India | 20 November 20041 | Drawn |
| 29 | 164 | Virender Sehwag (1/2) | India | 228 | 2 | South Africa | 20 November 20042 | Drawn |
| 30 | 131 | Virender Sehwag (2/2) | India | 122 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 24 November 20091 | Won |
| 31 | 167 | Gautam Gambhir | India | 215 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 24 November 20092 | Won |
| 32 | 144 | Rahul Dravid | India | 226 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 24 November 20093 | Won |
| 33 | 105 | Shreyas Iyer | India | 122 | 1 | New Zealand | 25 November 20211 | Drawn |

## One Day Internationals

List of ODI centuries scored at the Green Park Stadium :
| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Result |
| 1 | 101* | Chetan Sharma | India | 96 | 2 | England | 25 October 1989 | Won |
| 2 | 102* | Manoj Prabhakar | India | 154 | 2 | West Indies | 30 October 1993 | Lost |
| 3 | 106 | Vinod Kambli | India | 110 | 1 | Zimbabwe | 6 March 1996 | Won |
| 4 | 100 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 89 | 2 | Australia | 7 April 1998 | Won |
| 5 | 102 | Shahid Afridi | Pakistan | 46 | 2 | India | 15 April 2005 | Won |
| 6 | 129 | Salman Butt | Pakistan | 142 | 2 | India | 11 November 2007 | Lost |
| 7 | 119 | Shikhar Dhawan | India | 95 | 2 | West Indies | 27 November 2013 | Won |
| 8 | 104* | AB de Villiers | South Africa | 73 | 1 | India | 11 October 20151 | Won |
| 9 | 150 | Rohit Sharma (1/2) | India | 133 | 2 | South Africa | 11 October 20152 | Lost |
| 10 | 147 | Rohit Sharma (2/2) | India | 138 | 1 | New Zealand | 29 October 20172 | Won |
| 11 | 113 | Virat Kohli | India | 106 | 1 | New Zealand | 29 October 20172 | Won |