Gaddafi Stadium hosted 40
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...
, the first of these was in 1959 when
Pakistan
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played the touring
Australian side.
The ground has also hosted 60
One Day Internationals (ODIs), the first was in 1978 between Pakistan and
England
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.
In 1959 Australian
Norm O'Neill
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became the first player to score a Test
Century
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A centennial or ...
at the ground, 134 runs against Pakistan.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Inzamam-ul-Haq SI ( ur, ; born 3 March 1970), also known as Inzi, is a former Pakistan cricketer and captain of Pakistan national cricket team. He was also professional cricket coach for Pakistan.
He was the leading run scorer for Pakistan i ...
holds the record for the highest individual innings at the ground, 329. His innings, made against
New Zealand
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in 2002, is the only
triple century
A triple century (an individual score of 300 or more) in Test cricket has been scored on 31 occasions by 27 batsmen from eight of the twelve Test-cricket playing nations. No player from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland or Zimbabwe has scored 30 ...
at the ground.
Mohammad Yousuf holds the record for most centuries scored at by an individual player with 5.
40 ODI centuries have been scored at Gaddafi Stadium.
Zaheer Abbas became the first player to score an ODI century at the ground. He scored 123 against
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
in 1982.
Ijaz Ahmed holds the record for highest ODI score at the ground with 139 not out.
The first player to score a T20I century at Gaddafi Stadium was
Mohammad Rizwan, who scored 104* against
South Africa
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in February 2021.
The stadium also maintains an honor board.
Key
* * denotes that the batsman was
not out
In cricket, a batter is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batter is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress.
Occurrence
At least one batter is not out at t ...
.
* Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
* Balls denotes the number of
balls faced in an innings.
* NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
* Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Gaddafi Stadium.
* The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
* The column title Result refers to whether the player's team won,
lost
or if the match was drawn.
Test centuries
*The following table summarises the Test centuries scored at Gaddafi Stadium.
One Day International centuries
*The following table summarises the One Day International centuries scored at Gaddafi Stadium.
Twenty20 International centuries
*The following table summarises the Twenty20 International centuries scored at Gaddafi Stadium.
References
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Gaddafi
Cricket grounds in Pakistan
Centuries
Cricket in Lahore