List of World Series Cricket international centuries
No Player Score For Against Inn Venue Date Result
1 Ian Chappell 141 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 1 Football Park , Adelaide 31 December 1977 Won
2 Bruce Laird 106 2 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 3 Football Park , Adelaide 31 December 1977 Won
3 Viv Richards 123 WSC West Indies XI WSC Australia XI 4 Football Park , Adelaide 31 December 1977 Lost
4 Bruce Laird 106 1 WSC Australia XI WSC World XI 1 RAS Showground , Sydney 14 January 1978 Lost
5 Viv Richards 119 WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 2 RAS Showground , Sydney 14 January 1978 Won
6 Barry Richards 207 WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 1 Gloucester Park , Perth 27 January 1978 Won
7 Gordon Greenidge 140 WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 1 Gloucester Park , Perth 27 January 1978 Won
8 Viv Richards 177 WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 1 Gloucester Park , Perth 27 January 1978 Won
9 Greg Chappell 174 WSC Australia XI WSC World XI 2 Gloucester Park , Perth 27 January 1978 Lost
10 Rick McCosker 129 WSC Australia XI WSC World XI 1 VFL Park , Melbourne 9 February 1978 Won
11 Greg Chappell 246 * WSC Australia XI WSC World XI 1 VFL Park , Melbourne 9 February 1978 Won
12 Viv Richards 170 WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 2 VFL Park , Melbourne 9 February 1978 Lost
13 Asif Iqbal 107 WSC World XI WSC West Indies XI 1 Sydney Cricket Ground , Sydney 21 December 1978 Won
14 Kepler Wessels 126 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 1 VFL Park , Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn
15 David Hookes 116 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 1 VFL Park , Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn
16 Lawrence Rowe 175 WSC West Indies XI WSC Australia XI 2 VFL Park , Melbourne 12 January 1979 Drawn
17 Barry Richards 101* WSC World XI WSC Australia XI 4 Sydney Cricket Ground , Sydney 2 February 1979 Won
18 Clive Lloyd 197 WSC West Indies XI WSC Australia XI 3 Sabina Park , Kingston 23 February 1979 Won
19 Bruce Laird 122 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 1 Queen 's Park Oval , Port of Spain 16 March 1979 Won
20 Greg Chappell 150 WSC Australia XI WSC West Indies XI 3 Queen 's Park Oval , Port of Spain 16 March 1979 Won
Century scores
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. It was opposed by the International Cricket Conference (ICC), who ruled that such matches would not be first-class, 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. 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. The first Supertest began on 2 December 1977, 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. Bruce Laird and Viv Richards went on to score centuries in the same match. A month later, Barry Richards achieved the competition's first double century, scoring 207 runs for the WSC World XI. 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. In the next match, Greg Chappell surpassed Richards' total, remaining 246 not out, one of his record five WSC centuries. Only two centuries were made in the international one-day matches.