Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Agartala,

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. It is used mostly for

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matches. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was built in 1998.

Name and location

The college and the stadium are named after former Tripura

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Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Debbarma Bahadur (19 August 1908 – 17 May 1947) was a List of Tripuri Kings, king (or M''aharaja'') of Tripura (princely state), Tripura State. He was succeeded by his son, Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore De ...

. The ground is located in the Maharaja Bir Bikram College campus.

History

The stadium has been the home ground for the

Tripura cricket team The Tripura cricket team is a domestic cricket team representing the Indian state of Tripura. History Cricket developed later in Tripura than in most other parts of India with competitions first organized in the early 1960s, and the Tripura C ...

since 1998. There had been at least 44 first-class matches held.

References

External links

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Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala
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