Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground


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

Key

No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1102Raman Lamba12017October 1986Lost
2110*Viv Richards7725January 1988Won
3108Navjot Singh Sidhu132115February 1994Won
4120Nathan Astle13615November 1999Won
5114*Virender Sehwag82212November 2002Won
6110Kumar Sangakkara127111February 2007Won
7138*Yuvraj Singh78114November 2008Won
8146Virender Sehwag102115December 2009Won
9160Tillakaratne Dilshan124215December 2009Lost