Ground information | |
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Location | Rajkot, Saurashtra, Gujarat India |
Establishment | 1935 |
Capacity | 15,000 |
Owner | Rajkot Municipal Corporation |
Operator | Saurashtra Cricket Association |
Tenants | India cricket team (1989- 2009) Saurashtra women's cricket team Saurashtra cricket team |
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International information | |
First ODI | 7 October 1989: India v Australia |
Last ODI | 15 December 2009: India v Sri Lanka |
First WODI | 18 January 2011: India v West Indies |
Last WODI | 19 January 2011: India v 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]
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]
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.
No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Inns. | Opposing team | Date | Result |
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1 | 102 | Raman Lamba | India | 120 | 1 | Australia | 7 October 1986 | Lost [7] |
2 | 110* | Viv Richards | West Indies | 77 | 2 | India | 5 January 1988 | Won [8] |
3 | 108 | Navjot Singh Sidhu | India | 132 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 15 February 1994 | Won [9] |
4 | 120 | Nathan Astle | New Zealand | 136 | 1 | India | 5 November 1999 | Won [10] |
5 | 114* | Virender Sehwag | India | 82 | 2 | West Indies | 12 November 2002 | Won [11] |
6 | 110 | Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 127 | 1 | India | 11 February 2007 | Won [12] |
7 | 138* | Yuvraj Singh | India | 78 | 1 | England | 14 November 2008 | Won [13] |
8 | 146 | Virender Sehwag | India | 102 | 1 | Sri Lanka | 15 December 2009 | Won [14] |
9 | 160 | Tillakaratne Dilshan | Sri Lanka | 124 | 2 | India | 15 December 2009 | Lost [14] |
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