Cricket in Australia
In 2007, "The Age" reported that a survey by Sweeney Sports had found that 69% of the Australian public have an interest in cricket, second to none. Cricket is often known as Australia's national sport due to its equal popularity in all parts of the country. Cricket is also a mass participation sport in Australia: a census conducted on behalf of Cricket Australia found that in the 2003–04 season there were 471,329 participants in Australian cricket programmes and competitions, including 47,780 female participants.
In 2015–16, a record 1,300,000 Australians played formal, organised cricket during the year, an increase of nine percent over the previous year, making cricket Australia's biggest participant sport.
List of international cricket centuries at the Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a cricket ground in Adelaide, Australia. It is the home ground of the South Australia cricket team and both the men's and women's Adelaide Strikers as well as Australian rules football and soccer teams. The ground has hosted international cricket matches, including Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20I). , the ground has hosted 76 Test matches, with the first in 1884 when Australia played England. It has staged 82 ODIs, the first of which was in 1975 when Australia beat the West Indies by five wickets. The ground has also hosted three T20Is, the first in 2011 when England beat Australia by one wicket.