# List of international cricket centuries by Ian Bell

Ian Bell is a cricketer who represents the England cricket team. He has scored centuries (100 or more runs in a single innings) in Test and One Day International (ODI) matches on 22 and 4 occasions respectively. As of November 2015, he has played 118 Tests and 161 ODIs for England, scoring 7,727 and 5,416 runs respectively.
Bell made his Test debut in 2004 in the fourth Test against the West Indies at The Oval, scoring 70 in a ten-wicket England victory. His first century came a year later against Bangladesh at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street. His highest Test score is 235 against India at The Oval. Bell has scored Test centuries at fifteen cricket grounds, including seven at venues outside England. He has scored his twenty-two Test centuries against eight different opponents; he is most successful against Australia, Pakistan and India, with four against each. England have never lost a test match in which Bell has scored a century. His dismissal for 199 against South Africa in July 2008 made him just the seventh batsman to lose his wicket on that score in Test cricket. As of November 2015, Bell is joint twenty-eighth among all-time Test century makers, and joint third in the equivalent list for England.
Bell's ODI debut came in 2004 against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club, a match England won by five wickets. He scored 75 runs in the match, and received the man of the match award. His first century came three years later at the Rose Bowl, Southampton, scoring an unbeaten 126 in a 104-run victory over India. His highest ODI score is 141 against Australia at the Bellerive Oval, Hobart in 2015. Following the conclusion of the 2015 Ashes series, Bell announced his retirement from ODI cricket.
Bell has played eight Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, without scoring a century, his highest score being 60 not out. As of 2015, Bell is joint forty-sixth—with Garfield Sobers, Marcus Trescothick and David Boon—in the list of century-makers in international cricket, all formats of the game combined.

## Key

Key :
| Symbol | Meaning |
| * | Remained not out |
| † | Man of the match |
| 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 | Venue was at home (England) or away |
| Date | Date the match was held, or the starting date of match for Test matches |
| Lost | The match was lost by England |
| Won | The match was won by England |
| Drawn | The match was drawn |
| D/L | The match was decided using the Duckworth–Lewis method |

## Test cricket centuries

List of Test centuries scored by Ian Bell :
| No. | Score | Against | Pos. | Inn. | Test | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 162* | Bangladesh | 4 | 2 | 2/2 | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street | Home | 3 June 2005 | Won |
| 2 | 115 | Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 2/3 | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad | Away | 20 November 2005 | Drawn |
| 3 | 100* | Pakistan | 6 | 1 | 1/4 | Lord's, London | Home | 13 July 2006 | Drawn |
| 4 | 106* | Pakistan | 6 | 2 | 2/4 | Old Trafford, Manchester | Home | 27 July 2006 | Won |
| 5 | 119 | Pakistan | 6 | 1 | 3/4 | Headingley, Leeds | Home | 4 August 2006 | Won |
| 6 | 109* | West Indies | 6 | 1 | 1/4 | Lord's, London | Home | 17 May 2007 | Drawn |
| 7 | 110 | New Zealand | 5 | 3 | 3/3 | McLean Park, Napier | Away | 22 March 2008 | Won |
| 8 | 199† | South Africa | 5 | 1 | 1/4 | Lord's, London | Home | 10 July 2008 | Drawn |
| 9 | 140 | South Africa | 6 | 2 | 2/4 | Kingsmead, Durban | Away | 26 December 2009 | Won |
| 10 | 138 | Bangladesh | 5 | 2 | 2/2 | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka | Away | 20 March 2010 | Won |
| 11 | 128† | Bangladesh | 5 | 1 | 2/2 | Old Trafford, Manchester | Home | 4 June 2010 | Won |
| 12 | 115 | Australia | 7 | 2 | 5/5 | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney | Away | 3 January 2011 | Won |
| 13 | 103* | Sri Lanka | 6 | 2 | 1/3 | SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff | Home | 26 May 2011 | Won |
| 14 | 119* | Sri Lanka | 5 | 2 | 3/3 | Rose Bowl, Southampton | Home | 16 June 2011 | Drawn |
| 15 | 159 | India | 3 | 3 | 2/4 | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Home | 29 July 2011 | Won |
| 16 | 235† | India | 3 | 1 | 4/4 | The Oval, London | Home | 18 August 2011 | Won |
| 17 | 116* | India | 5 | 3 | 4/4 | Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur | Away | 13 December 2012 | Drawn |
| 18 | 109 | Australia | 5 | 3 | 1/5 | Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Home | 10 July 2013 | Won |
| 19 | 109 | Australia | 5 | 1 | 2/5 | Lord's, London | Home | 18 July 2013 | Won |
| 20 | 113 | Australia | 5 | 3 | 4/5 | Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street | Home | 9 August 2013 | Won |
| 21 | 167 | India | 4 | 1 | 3/5 | Rose Bowl, Southampton | Home | 27 July 2014 | Won |
| 22 | 143 | West Indies | 4 | 1 | 1/3 | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua | Away | 13 April 2015 | Drawn |

## One Day International centuries

List of ODI centuries scored by Ian Bell :
| No. | Score | Balls | Against | Pos. | Inn. | S/R | Venue | H/A/N | Date | Result |
| 1 | 126*† | 118 | India | 3 | 1 | 106.77 | Rose Bowl, Southampton | Home | 21 August 2007 | Won |
| 2 | 126† | 117 | West Indies | 2 | 1 | 107.69 | Rose Bowl, Southampton | Home | 16 June 2012 | Won (D/L) |
| 3 | 113*† | 143 | India | 2 | 2 | 79.02 | HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala | Away | 27 January 2013 | Won |
| 4 | 141 | 125 | Australia | 2 | 1 | 112.80 | Bellerive Oval, Hobart | Away | 23 January 2015 | Lost |