Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground also known as Municipal Ground or Racecourse Ground Corporation Ground is located in Rajkot, Gujarat.

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground
Ground information
LocationRajkot, Saurashtra, India
Establishment1935
Capacity15,000
OwnerRajkot Municipal Corporation
OperatorSaurashtra Cricket Association
TenantsIndian Cricket Team
Saurashtra cricket team
End names
Pavilion End
Airport End
International information
First ODI7 October 1989:
 India v  Australia
Last ODI15 December 2009:
 India v  Sri Lanka
First WODI18 January 2011:
 India v  West Indies
Last WODI19 January 2011:
 India v  West Indies
As of 8 December 2019
Source: ESPNcricinfo

As of 19 August, 2017 it has hosted 12 ODIs.

History

Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is also used for staging first class cricket. It has hosted 86 first class cricket match.[1]

The ground dimensions being comparatively small and the pitch usually 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.[2][3]

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
  • The highest partnership at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is 196 by SC Ganguly & Virendar Sehwag for India against West Indies in the 2003/2004 season.
  • The highest score by an individual batsman at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is 160 by Tillakaratne Dilshan for Sri Lanka against India on 15 December 2009.
  • The highest ODI total at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is 414/7 by India against Sri Lanka in the 2009 season, it is also the second Highest ODI Score for India until India scored 418/5 against West Indies.
  • The lowest ODI total at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground is 176/9 by West Indies against Sri Lanka in the 1998 season.[4]
  • Most runs scored here were by Virendar Sehwag- 405 runs, Tillakaratne Dilshan 275 runs and Yuvraj Singh- 246 runs.
  • Most wickets were by Venkatesh Prasad and Harbhajan Singh- 6 wickets and RP Singh- 5 wickets.

List of Centuries

Key
  • * denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
  • Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Edgbaston.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to the player's team result

One Day Internationals
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1102Raman Lamba India1201 Australia7October 1986Lost[5]
2110*Viv Richards West Indies772 India5January 1988Won[6]
3108Navjot Singh Sidhu India1321 Sri Lanka15February 1994Won[7]
4120Nathan Astle New Zealand1361 India5November 1999Won[8]
5114*Virender Sehwag India822 West Indies12November 2002Won[9]
6110Kumar Sangakkara Sri Lanka1271 India11February 2007Won[10]
7138*Yuvraj Singh India781 England14November 2008Won[11]
8146Virender Sehwag India1021 Sri Lanka15December 2009Won[12]
9160Tillakaratne Dilshan Sri Lanka1242 India15December 2009Lost[12]

References
  1. "Cricket Archive: First class matches played", Retrieved on 24 December 2007
  2. "From an article of TOI", Retrieved on 24 December 2007
  3. "A article from Projects Monitor", Retrieved on 24 December 2007
  4. "Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Ground Records", Retrieved on 13 November 2008
  5. "6th ODI, Australia tour of India at Rajkot, Oct 7 1986". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. "4th ODI, West Indies tour of India at Rajkot, Jan 5 1988". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  7. "1st ODI, Sri Lanka tour of India at Rajkot, Feb 15 1994". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  8. "1st ODI, New Zealand tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 5 1999". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  9. "3rd ODI, West Indies tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 12 2002". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  10. "2nd ODI, Sri Lanka tour of India at Rajkot, Feb 11 2007". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  11. "1st ODI, England tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 14 2008". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  12. "1st ODI, Sri Lanka tour of India at Rajkot, Dec 15 2009". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.

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