Hundreds at a venue’s maiden Test - Home

Cheteshwar Pujara scored his third hundred in his last three Test matches – all in the inaugural Test match of respective venues. His 119 against England on Day One of the Vizag Test was the 200^th instances of a player scoring a hundred in the maiden Test at a venue. Virat Kohli soon joined Pujara and is batting on 151 at the close of play.

Listed below are the instances of players scoring hundreds at a home venue’s maiden Test match. 

For similar table in away venues click here: http://deepunarayanan.blogspot.in/2016/11/hundreds-at-venues-maiden-test-away.html

Hundreds at a venue’s maiden Test - Home

Player	Score	Team	Against	Venue	Year	Result
C Bannerman	165*	Aus	Eng	MCG	1877	Won
WG Brace	152	Eng	Aus	The Oval	1880	Won
Allan Steel	148	Eng	Aus	Lord's	1884	Won
P McDonnell	124	Aus	Eng	Adelaide	1884	Lost
J Tydlessley	138	Eng	Aus	Birmingham	1902	Draw
Gordon White	118	SA	Eng	Lord's (Durban)	1910	Won
Clifford Roach	122	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1930	Draw
G Headley	176	WI	Eng	Bridgetown	1930	Draw
S Dempster	136	NZ	Eng	Wellington	1930	Draw
Jackie Mills	117	NZ	Eng	Wellington	1930	Draw
Clifford Roach	209	WI	Eng	Georgetown	1930	Won
G Headley	114	WI	Eng	Georgetown	1930	Won
G Headley	112	WI	Eng	Georgetown	1930	Won
G Headley	223	WI	Eng	Kingston	1930	Draw
D Bradman	226	Aus	Eng	Brisbane (Gabba)	1931	Won
Lala Amarnath	118	Ind	Eng	Mumbai (Gym)	1934	Lost
H Adhikari	114*	Ind	WI	Delhi	1948	Draw
Rusi Modi	112	Ind	WI	Mumbai (BS)	1948	Draw
Vijay Hazare	134*	Ind	WI	Mumbai (BS)	1948	Draw
Eric Rowan	156*	SA	Eng	Johannesburg (EP)	1948	Draw
Hanif Mohammad	142	Pak	Ind	Bahawalpur	1955	Draw
Alimudin	103*	Pak	Ind	Karachi	1955	Draw
Polly Umrigar	223	Ind	NZ	Hyderabad (LBS)	1955	Draw
V Manjrekar	118	Ind	NZ	Hyderabad (LBS)	1955	Draw
AG Kripal Singh	100*	Ind	NZ	Hyderabad (LBS)	1955	Draw
Vinoo Mankad	231	Ind	NZ	Chennai (NS)	1956	Won
Pankaj Roy	173	Ind	NZ	Chennai (NS)	1956	Won
Saeed Ahmed	166	Pak	Aus	Lahore	1959	Lost
I Redpath	171	Aus	Eng	Perth	1970	Draw
G Chappell	108	Aus	Eng	Perth	1970	Draw
Mushtaq Mohammad	157	Pak	Eng	Hyderabad (Sind)	1973	Draw
Intikhab Alam	138	Pak	Eng	Hyderabad (Sind)	1973	Draw
E Solkar	102	Ind	WI	Mumbai (WS)	1975	Lost
Zaheer Abbas	176	Pak	Ind	Faisalabad	1978	Draw
J Miandad	154*	Pak	Ind	Faisalabad	1978	Draw
Asif Iqbal	104	Pak	Ind	Faisalabad	1978	Draw
G Howarth	114	NZ	Pak	Napier	1979	Draw
Viv Richards	114	WI	Eng	St John's	1981	Draw
Roy Dias	108	SL	NZ	Colombo (SSC)	1984	Draw
D Vengsarkar	166	Ind	SL	Cuttack	1987	Won
M Azharuddin	110	Ind	Pak	Jaipur	1987	Draw
Ravi Shastri	125	Ind	Pak	Jaipur	1987	Draw
Mark Taylor	108	Aus	SL	Hobart	1989	Won
Dean Jones	118*	Aus	SL	Hobart	1989	Won
Steve Waugh	134*	Aus	SL	Hobart	1989	Won
A Jones	122	NZ	SL	Hamilton	1991	Draw
J Wright	101	NZ	SL	Hamilton	1991	Draw
A Jones	100*	NZ	SL	Hamilton	1991	Draw
D Houghton	121	Zim	Ind	Harare	1992	Draw
K Arnott	101*	Zim	NZ	Bulawayo (AC)	1992	Draw
NS Sidhu	124	Ind	SL	Lucknow (KDB)	1994	Won
S Tendulkar	142	Ind	SL	Lucknow (KDB)	1994	Won
D Houghton	266	Zim	SL	Bulawayo (QSC)	1994	Draw
M Prabhakar	120	Ind	WI	Mohali	1994	Lost
Wasim Akram	257*	Pak	Zim	Shekhupura	1996	Draw
Brian Lara	115	WI	SL	Kingstown	1997	Draw
M Jayawardene	167	SL	NZ	Galle	1998	Won
Saeed Anwar	101	Pak	Ban	Multan (MCS)	2001	Won
Taufeeq Umar	104	Pak	Ban	Multan (MCS)	2001	Won
Inzamam ul Haq	105*	Pak	Ban	Multan (MCS)	2001	Won
Mohd Yousuf	102*	Pak	Ban	Multan (MCS)	2001	Won
Abdul Razzaq	110*	Pak	Ban	Multan (MCS)	2001	Won
Habibul Bashar	108	Ban	Zim	Chittagong (MAA)	2001	Lost
C Gayle	201	WI	NZ	St George's	2002	Draw
Graeme Smith	200	SA	Ban	East London	2002	Won
G Kirsten	150	SA	Ban	East London	2002	Won
H Gibbs	114	SA	Ban	Potchefstroom	2002	Won
G Kirsten	160	SA	Ban	Potchefstroom	2002	Won
J Kallis	139*	SA	Ban	Potchefstroom	2002	Won
Wavell Hinds	113	WI	SL	Gros Islet	2003	Draw
Brian Lara	209	WI	SL	Gros Islet	2003	Draw
D Lehmann	110	Aus	Ban	Darwin	2003	Won
Steve Waugh	100*	Aus	Ban	Darwin	2003	Won
D Lehmann	177	Aus	Ban	Cairns	2003	Won
Steve Waugh	156*	Aus	Ban	Cairns	2003	Won
Martin Love	100*	Aus	Ban	Cairns	2003	Won
Mohd Ashraful	136	Ban	SL	Chittagong (ZAC)	2006	Lost
Shahriar Nafees	138	Ban	Aus	Fatullah	2006	Lost
D Ganga	135	WI	Ind	Basseterre	2006	Draw
R Sarwan	116	WI	Ind	Basseterre	2006	Draw
Matthew Bell	107	NZ	Ban	Dunedin	2008	Won
Jacob Oram	117	NZ	Ban	Dunedin	2008	Won
S Chanderpaul	107*	WI	Aus	North Sound	2008	Draw
R Sarwan	128	WI	Aus	North Sound	2008	Draw
S Tendulkar	109	Ind	Aus	Nagpur (VCA)	2008	Won
Harbhajan Singh	111*	Ind	NZ	Hyderabad (RGS)	2010	Draw
Ian Bell	119*	Eng	SL	Southampton	2011	Draw
K Edwards	110	WI	Ind	Roseau	2011	Draw
S Chanderpaul	116*	WI	Ind	Roseau	2011	Draw
Abul Hasan	113	Ban	WI	Khulna	2012	Lost
B McCuluum	195	NZ	SL	Christchurch (HO)	2014	Won
Virat Kohli	211	Ind	NZ	Rajkot (SCA)	2016	Won
A Rahane	188	Ind	NZ	Indore	2016	Won
C Pujara	101*	Ind	NZ	Indore	2016	Won
C Pujara	126	Ind	Eng	Rajkot (SCA)	2016	Draw
M Vijay	124	Ind	Eng	Rajkot (SCA)	2016	Draw
C Pujara	119	Ind	Eng	Vizag	2016
Virat Kohli	151*	Ind	Eng	Vizag	2016

+ Bannerman, Grace, Headley (in Bridgetwon), Mills, Lala Amarnath, Kripal Singh, Houghton (in Harare), Kirk Edwards & Abul Hasan did it on their debut Test.

+ Headley (in Georgetown) is the only player to score two hundreds in a venues maiden Test.

+ Headley’s 223 in Kingston is the highest individual score in the fourth innings of a chase.

+ Multan’s first Test saw five hundreds in one innings – Anwar, Umar, Inzamam, Yousuf and Razzaq.

+ The highest score (home) in 266 by Houghton in Bulawayo (Queen’s Sports Club)