Nehru Stadium is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...

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. It was built in 1962 and holds the capacity of 15,000 spectators. Radha Govinda Baruah supervised, constructed and named it as ''Nehru Stadium''. The stadium is operated by the Board of Sports of Assam, Government of Assam. It is used both for

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and

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matches. It has hosted 13

One Day Internationals A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World Cu ...

matches and many matches of domestic cricket tournaments like

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and

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. In football, it regularly hosts prestigious Bordoloi Trophy and GSA Super Division Football League. The stadium has also hosted

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and

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, two top level domestic football tournaments of India. Guwahati City

All records and statistics

Leading run scorers are

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- 181 runs,

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- 163 runs and

Dinesh Mongia Dinesh Mongia (born 17 April 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and politician. Mongia has appeared in limited over internationals for India. Domestic career Mongia in domestic cricket career scored 8,100 runs at an average of just under 50 a ...

- 159 runs. Leading wicket takers are

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and

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- 7 wickets.

List of centuries

Key

* * denotes that the batsman was

not out In cricket, a batter is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batter is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress. Occurrence At least one batter is not out at t ...

. * 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

Centuries in One Day Internationals

List of five wicket hauls

Key

Five Wicket Hauls

External links

Info on venue

References

{{List of cricket grounds in India Cricket grounds in Assam Multi-purpose stadiums in India Sports venues in Guwahati Football venues in Assam Sports venues completed in 1962 1962 establishments in Assam