List of international cricket grounds in India

This is a list of international cricket grounds in India that have hosted at least one international cricket match. A cricket ground is a large grass field on which the game of cricket is played which are generally oval in shape with no fixed dimensions. A boundary rope usually demarcates the perimeter of the field and a cricket pitch, an area close to the centre of the field is where the batter hits the bowled ball and run between the wickets to score runs, while the fielding team tries to return the ball to either wicket to prevent this.^[1]

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body of cricket in India.^[2] The BCCI was established on 1 December 1928 at Madras and joined the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1926 which later became the International Cricket Council.^[3]^[4] BCCI is a consortium of state cricket associations who own and operate most of the stadiums along with the respective state governments.

International cricket was held in India for the first time on 15 December 1933 when the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay hosted the only test match during England's tour of India.^[5] India recorded its first win in fifth test of home series against England on 10 February 1952 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Madras.^[6]^[7] The first ODI match in India was hosted by the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad during the series against England on 25 November 1981.^[8] India played the first T20I match in India at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on 20 October 2007 against the visiting Australian team.^[9]

The first women's test match hosted by India began on 31 October 1976 with India playing West Indies at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore.^[10] The first WODI was hosted during the 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup with Australia playing New Zealand on 1 January 1978 at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur.^[11] India played its first WODI against England on the same day at Eden Gardens in Calcutta.^[12] The first WT20I played in India was hosted on 4 March 2010 by Bandra Kurla Complex Ground in Mumbai against England.^[13]

As of December 2023^[update], 80 cricket venues have hosted an international match, the most in any country.

List

Any stadium that has hosted an international match in the last five years have been listed as active unless the stadium has been deliberately closed.

Last updated:1 December 2023^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]

Active stadiums

S.No.	Name	Surface	City	Capacity	No. of matches						First match	Last match
S.No.	Name		City	Capacity	Test	ODI	T20I	WTest	WODI	WT20I	First match	Last match
1	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium		Chennai	38,200	34	28	2	1	11	4	10 February 1934	27 October 2023
2	Eden Gardens		Kolkata	68,000	42	36	11	0	4	1	5 January 1935	16 November 2023
3	Arun Jaitley Stadium		Delhi	35,200	35	31	7	2	2	6	10 November 1948	25 October 2023
4	Brabourne Stadium		Mumbai	50,000	18	9	1	0	11	10	9 December 1948	29 October 2018
5	Green Park Stadium		Kanpur	25,000	23	15	1	0	0	0	12 January 1952	25 November 2021
6	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium		Bengaluru	33,800	24	31	11	1	12	8	22 November 1974	17 January 2024
7	Wankhede Stadium		Mumbai	33,109	26	28	8	2	6	4	23 January 1975	2 January 2024
8	Barabati Stadium		Cuttack	45,000	2	19	3	1	8	0	27 January 1982	12 June 2022
9	Sawai Mansingh Stadium		Jaipur	23,185	1	19	1	0	9	0	2 October 1983	17 November 2021
10	Narendra Modi Stadium ^{[note 1]}		Ahmedabad	132,000	15	31	7	0	4	3	12 November 1983	19 November 2023
11	Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium		Mohali	27,000	14	26	7	0	1	3	22 November 1993	11 January 2024
12	IPCL Sports Complex Ground		Vadodara	20,000	0	10	0	0	11	3	16 December 1997	14 October 2019
13	YS Rajasekhara Reddy Stadium		Visakhapatnam	27,500	3	10	5	0	5	6	5 April 2005	2 February 2024
14	Rajiv Gandhi Stadium		Hyderabad	55,000	6	10	3	0	0	0	16 November 2005	25 January 2024
15	Holkar Stadium		Indore	30,000	3	7	4	0	0	0	15 April 2006	14 January 2024
16	VCA Stadium		Nagpur	45,000	7	9	13	0	3	2	6 November 2008	9 February 2023
17	Dr. DY Patil Sports Stadium		Navi Mumbai	45,300	0	0	0	1	0	2	11 November 2009	19 October 2023
18	MCA Stadium		Pune	37,406	2	12	4	0	0	0	20 December 2012	1 November 2023
19	SCA Stadium		Rajkot	28,000	3	4	5	0	0	0	11 January 2013	15 February 2024
20	JSCA Stadium		Ranchi	50,000	3	6	4	0	3	3	19 January 2013	23 February 2024
21	HPCA Stadium	SISGrass	Dharamshala	21,200	2	9	10	0	0	2	27 January 2013	7 March 2024
22	Greater Noida SC Ground		Greater Noida	8,000	0	5	6	0	0	0	8 March 2017	10 March 2020
23	ACA Stadium		Guwahati	37,800	0	2	5	0	0	3	10 October 2017	28 November 2023
24	Greenfield Stadium		Thiruvananthapuram	50,000	0	2	4	0	0	0	7 November 2017	26 November 2023
25	Rajiv Gandhi Stadium		Dehradun	25,000	1	5	6	0	0	0	3 June 2018	15 March 2019
26	BRSAB Vajpayee Ekana Stadium		Lucknow	50,000	1	9	6	0	0	0	6 November 2018	29 October 2023
27	Lalabhai Contractor Stadium		Surat	7,000	0	0	0	0	0	4	24 September 2019	4 October 2019
28	SV Narayan Singh Stadium		Raipur	65,000	0	1	1	0	0	0	21 January 2023	1 December 2023

Former stadiums

S.No.	Name	City	Capacity	No. of matches						First match	Last match
S.No.	Name	City	Capacity	Test	ODI	T20I	WTest	WODI	WT20I	First match	Last match
1	Gymkhana Ground	Mumbai	15,000	1	0	0	0	0	0	15 December 1933	15 December 1933
2	University Ground	Lucknow	n/a	1	0	0	0	0	0	23 October 1952	23 October 1952
3	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium	Hyderabad	25,000	3	14	0	1	7	0	19 November 1955	15 November 2003
4	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Chennai	40,000	9	0	0	0	0	0	6 January 1956	27 February 1965
5	VCA Ground	Nagpur	40,000	9	14	0	0	1	0	3 October 1969	14 October 2007
6	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium	Ahmedabad	50,000	0	1	0	0	0	0	25 November 1981	25 November 1981
7	Gandhi Stadium	Jalandhar	16,000	1	3	0	0	0	0	20 December 1981	20 February 1994
8	Gandhi Sports Complex Ground	Amritsar	16,000	0	2	0	0	0	0	12 September 1982	18 November 1995
9	Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium	Srinagar	12,000	0	2	0	0	0	0	13 October 1983	9 September 1986
10	Moti Bagh Stadium	Vadodara	18,000	0	3	0	0	0	0	9 November 1983	17 December 1988
11	Nehru Stadium	Indore	25,000	0	9	0	0	2	0	1 December 1983	31 March 2001
12	Keenan Stadium	Jamshedpur	19,000	0	10	0	1	3	0	7 December 1983	12 April 2006
13	Nehru Stadium	Guwahati	25,000	0	14	0	0	2	0	17 December 1983	28 November 2010
14	Country Golf Club Ground	Faridabad	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	19 January 1984	19 January 1984
15	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Delhi	60,000	0	2	0	0	0	0	28 September 1984	14 November 1991
16	University Stadium	Trivandrum	20,000	0	2	0	0	0	0	1 October 1984	25 January 1988
17	Nehru Stadium	Pune	25,000	0	11	0	0	4	0	5 December 1984	3 November 2005
18	Sector 16 Stadium	Chandigarh	30,000	1	5	0	0	2	0	27 January 1985	8 October 2007
19	Maulana Azad Stadium	Jammu	20,000	0	0	0	1	1	0	24 March 1985	24 March 1985
20	Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	Rajkot	15,000	0	12	0	0	2	0	7 October 1986	15 December 2009
21	Nahar Singh Stadium	Faridabad	25,000	0	8	0	0	2	0	19 January 1988	31 March 2006
22	Captain Roop Singh Stadium	Gwalior	18,000	0	12	0	0	0	0	22 January 1988	24 February 2010
23	Indira Priyadarshini Stadium	Visakhapatnam	25,000	0	5	0	0	0	0	10 December 1988	3 April 2001
24	Nehru Stadium	Fatorda	19,000	0	7	0	0	0	0	25 October 1989	14 February 2007
25	K. D. Singh Babu Stadium	Lucknow	25,000	1	1	0	4	4	0	27 October 1989	18 January 1994
26	Moin-ul-Haq Stadium	Patna	25,000	0	3	0	1	5	0	15 November 1993	27 February 1996
27	Calcutta Cricket and Football Club	Kolkata	15,000	0	0	0	1	0	0	17 November 1995	17 November 1995
28	Gangothri Glades Cricket Ground	Mysore	15,000	0	0	0	1	1	0	10 December 1997	10 December 1997
29	Karnail Singh Stadium	Delhi	5,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	11 December 1997	11 December 1997
30	Mohan Meakins Cricket Stadium	Ghaziabad	n/a	0	0	0	0	2	0	11 December 1997	15 December 1997
31	Gymkhana Ground	Secunderabad	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	14 December 1997	14 December 1997
32	Middle Income Group Ground	Mumbai	n/a	0	0	0	0	4	0	16 December 1997	13 February 2013
33	JMU Ground	Delhi	n/a	0	0	0	1	1	0	17 December 1997	17 December 1997
34	Nehru Stadium	Gurgaon	25,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	18 December 1997	18 December 1997
35	Harbax Singh Stadium	Delhi	n/a	0	0	0	0	2	0	20 December 1997	24 December 1997
36	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Kochi	25,000	0	9	0	0	4	0	1 April 1998	8 October 2014
37	Barkatullah Khan Stadium	Jodhpur	30,000	0	2	0	0	0	0	8 December 2000	21 November 2002
38	Guru Nanak College Ground	Chennai	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	6 January 2002	6 January 2002
39	Indira Gandhi Stadium	Vijayawada	25,000	0	1	0	0	1	0	24 November 2002	24 November 2002
40	N2 Stadium	Aurangabad	20,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	7 December 2003	7 December 2003
41	Chemplast Cricket Ground	Chennai	n/a	0	0	0	0	8	0	16 December 2003	5 March 2007
42	Tata Digwadih Stadium	Dhanbad	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	26 February 2004	26 February 2004
43	Tau Devi Lal Stadium	Gurgaon	7,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	12 March 2004	12 March 2004
44	Infosys Ground	Mysore	n/a	0	0	0	0	2	0	11 December 2004	13 December 2004
45	Bilakhiya Stadium	Vapi	n/a	0	0	0	1	1	0	19 December 2004	19 December 2004
46	Pithwala Stadium	Surat	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	22 December 2004	22 December 2004
47	Mayajaal Ground	Chennai	n/a	0	0	0	0	1	0	28 December 2004	28 December 2004
48	Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium	Silchar	30,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	7 December 2005	7 December 2005
49	Bandra Kurla Complex Ground	Mumbai	n/a	0	0	0	0	4	3	1 March 2010	8 February 2013
50	DRIEMS Ground	Cuttack	n/a	0	0	0	0	3	0	1 February 2013	5 February 2013
51	Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex	Vizianagaram	n/a	0	0	0	0	0	2	25 January 2014	26 January 2014
52	ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground	Mulapadu	n/a	0	0	0	0	3	3	10 November 2016	22 November 2016

Gallery

International cricket stadiums in India
The 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium
The 68,000-capacity Eden Gardens
The 50,000-capacity Greenfield International Stadium
The 50,000-capacity BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium
The 44,904-capacity Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium
The 39,200-capacity Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium
The 38,200-capacity MA Chidambaram Stadium
The 35,200-capacity Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium
The 33,800-capacity M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
The 33,108-capacity Wankhede Stadium
The 27,500-capacity ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium
The 25,000-capacity Green Park Stadium

Notes

↑ The existing stadium was opened in 2020. Earlier matches were hosted by Sardar Patel Stadium at the same location which was torn down in 2015.

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[NMS-18] The existing stadium was opened in 2020. Earlier matches were hosted by Sardar Patel Stadium at the same location which was torn down in 2015.

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[2] "BCCI covered under Australia's Right to Information Act, rules top appellate body". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

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