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List of World Series Cricket international centuries

World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition established by Kerry Packer which ran from 1977 and 1979. Packer set the competition up after failing to gain the rights to show Test cricket on his Channel Nine television channel.[1] It was opposed by the International Cricket Conference (ICC),[a] who ruled that such matches would not be first-class,[3] and any players taking part would be banned from playing in officially sanctioned cricket, although the latter was ruled to be a "restraint of trade" and was not enforceable.[4] They also barred the WSC from using the term "Test matches", or naming a team "Australia". As a result, the matches were dubbed "Supertests", while the teams were WSC Australia XI, WSC West Indies XI and WSC World XI. In all, 16 Supertests and 58 international one-day matches were played, before Packer and the Australian Cricket Board came to an agreement in May 1979, and World Series Cricket came to an end.[3]

Viv Richards.
Viv Richards scored 4 centuries in World Series Cricket, second only to Greg Chappell.

The first Supertest began on 2 December 1977,[3] although the first century (100 or more runs in a single innings) was not scored until the third match, in which Ian Chappell accumulated 141 runs in the first innings.[5][6] Bruce Laird and Viv Richards went on to score centuries in the same match.[6] A month later, Barry Richards achieved the competition's first double century, scoring 207 runs for the WSC World XI.[7] In the same innings, Gordon Greenidge and Richards also passed a hundred, while Greg Chappell did so in the second innings for WSC Australia XI.[8] In the next match, Greg Chappell surpassed Richards' total, remaining 246 not out, one of his record five WSC centuries.[9]

Only two centuries were made in the international one-day matches. Kepler Wessels scored the first, accruing 136 runs; his score is the highest in WSC one-day international matches, and makes him the only player to have scored a century in both a Supertest and an international one-day match in the WSC.[10][11] The other century was scored by Martin Kent, who scored 109 runs.[12] In all, 25 centuries were scored in Supertests, and 2 in international one-day matches. Seven of the centuries were scored at VFL Park in Melbourne, the most of any venue.

Key

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Symbol Meaning
* The century scorer remained not out.
Inn. The innings of the match in which the player scored his century.
Date The date on which the match began.
Lost The match was lost by the century scorer's team.
Won The match was won by the century scorer's team.
Drawn The match was drawn.

Century scores

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Centuries in Supertests[7]
No. Player Score For Against Inn. Venue Date Result Ref(s)
1 Ian Chappell 141   Australia   West Indies 1 Football Park, Adelaide 31 December 1977 Won [6][13]
2 Bruce Laird 106 2   Australia   West Indies 3 Football Park, Adelaide 31 December 1977 Won [6][13]
3 Viv Richards 123   West Indies   Australia 4 Football Park, Adelaide 31 December 1977 Lost [6][13]
4 Bruce Laird 106 1   Australia   World XI 1 RAS Showground, Sydney 14 January 1978 Lost [14][15]
5 Viv Richards 119   World XI   Australia 2 RAS Showground, Sydney 14 January 1978 Won [14][15]
6 Barry Richards 207   World XI   Australia 1 Gloucester Park, Perth 27 January 1978 Won [8][14]
7 Gordon Greenidge 140   World XI   Australia 1 Gloucester Park, Perth 27 January 1978 Won [8][14]
8 Viv Richards 177   World XI   Australia 1 Gloucester Park, Perth 27 January 1978 Won [8][14]
9 Greg Chappell 174   Australia   World XI 2 Gloucester Park, Perth 27 January 1978 Lost [8][14]
10 Rick McCosker 129   Australia   World XI 1 VFL Park, Melbourne 9 February 1978 Won [14][16]
11 Greg Chappell 246*   Australia   World XI 1 VFL Park, Melbourne 9 February 1978 Won [14][16]
12 Viv Richards 170   World XI   Australia 2 VFL Park, Melbourne 9 February 1978 Lost [14][16]
13 Asif Iqbal 107   World XI   West Indies 1 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 21 December 1978 Won [17][18]
14 Kepler Wessels 126   Australia   West Indies 1 VFL Park, Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn [17][11]
15 David Hookes 116   Australia   West Indies 1 VFL Park, Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn [17][11]
16 Lawrence Rowe 175   West Indies   Australia 2 VFL Park, Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn [17][11]
17 Barry Richards 101*   World XI   Australia 4 Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney 2 February 1979 Won [17][19]
18 Clive Lloyd 197   West Indies   Australia 3 Sabina Park, Kingston 23 February 1979 Won [20][21]
19 Bruce Laird 122   Australia   West Indies 1 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain 16 March 1979 Won [20][22]
20 Greg Chappell 150   Australia   West Indies 3 Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain 16 March 1979 Won [20][22]
21 Greg Chappell 113   Australia   West Indies 1 Bourda, Georgetown 25 March 1979 Drawn [20][23]
22 Collis King 110   West Indies   Australia 2 Bourda, Georgetown 25 March 1979 Drawn [20][23]
23 Greg Chappell 104   Australia   West Indies 1 Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's 6 April 1979 Drawn [20][24]
24 Lawrence Rowe 135   West Indies   Australia 2 Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's 6 April 1979 Drawn [20][24]
25 Rod Marsh 102*   Australia   West Indies 3 Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's 6 April 1979 Drawn [20][24]
Centuries in international one-day matches
No. Player Score For Against Inn. Venue Date Result Ref(s)
1 Kepler Wessels 136   Australia   West Indies 1 VFL Park, Melbourne 27 January 1979 Won [10][25]
2 Martin Kent 109   Australia   West Indies 2 Kensington Oval, Bridgetown 7 March 1979 Lost [12][26]

See also

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Notes and references

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Notes

  1. ^ The International Cricket Conference was renamed the International Cricket Council in 1989.[2]

References

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  26. ^ "Records / World Series Cricket Internationals (in West Indies), 1978/79 / High scores". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

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