Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground

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Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground
Ground information
Location Rajkot, Saurashtra, Gujarat India
Establishment1935
Capacity15,000
Owner Rajkot Municipal Corporation
Operator Saurashtra Cricket Association
Tenants India cricket team (1989- 2009)
Saurashtra women's cricket team
Saurashtra cricket team
End names
Pavilion End
Airport End [ citation needed ]
International information
First ODI7 October 1989:
Flag of India.svg  India v Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Last ODI15 December 2009:
Flag of India.svg  India v Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
First WODI18 January 2011:
Flag of India.svg  India v WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies
Last WODI19 January 2011:
Flag of India.svg  India v WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies
As of 8 December 2019
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Madhavrao Shindhia Cricket Ground also known as Municipal Corporation Ground or Racecourse Ground is a stadium located in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. [1]

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The venue hosted bilateral ODIs between 1980s-2000s, however since the venue's main tenent Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) built its own stadium in other part of the Rajkot city, they organise all international cricket allocated them at there. [2] [3]

History

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is also used for staging first class cricket. It has hosted 86 first class cricket match. [4]

The ground dimensions being comparatively small and the pitch usually is batsman-friendly contributed to some enormous scores in the past. New Zealand scored 349/5 in 2001, India scored 387/5 in 2008 but the best ever was in the Game between India and Sri Lanka on 15 December 2009 when India scored 414 runs (then highest ever in Indian history) but Sri Lanka almost won the contest and ended up with 411/8, just 3 runs short making it only second ODI match in which both team scored more than 400.

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground was abandoned as an international venue when the Saurashtra Cricket Association built the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in 2008 on the outskirts of the city at Khanderi village on Jamnagar highway, spread over 40 acres (160,000 m2), some 10 km from Rajkot, Gujarat.

This stadium has a spectator capacity of 28,000 and plays host to international and IPL matches. The new stadium is a modern complex which has a cricket ground & stadium, basketball, tennis, volleyball, badminton and squash courts, a swimming pool and an indoor stadium. [5] [6]

The Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground has since been used only as a venue for First-class and List A matches for the Indian domestic team of Saurashtra.

Ground Facts

List of Centuries

Key

One Day Internationals

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1102 Raman Lamba Flag of India.svg  India 1201Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 7 October 1986Lost [7]
2110* Viv Richards WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 772Flag of India.svg  India 5 January 1988Won [8]
3108 Navjot Singh Sidhu Flag of India.svg  India 1321Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 15 February 1994Won [9]
4120 Nathan Astle Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1361Flag of India.svg  India 5 November 1999Won [10]
5114* Virender Sehwag Flag of India.svg  India 822WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 12 November 2002Won [11]
6110 Kumar Sangakkara Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 1271Flag of India.svg  India 11 February 2007Won [12]
7138* Yuvraj Singh Flag of India.svg  India 781Flag of England.svg  England 14 November 2008Won [13]
8146 Virender Sehwag Flag of India.svg  India 1021Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 15 December 2009Won [14]
9160 Tillakaratne Dilshan Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 1242Flag of India.svg  India 15 December 2009Lost [14]

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