Nehru Stadium, formerly known as ''Club of Maharashtra Ground'', 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 ...
in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
,
India
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. It is mainly used for
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
matches. The stadium was built in 1969 and holds a capacity of 25,000.
The ground is home to
Maharashtra Cricket Team
The Maharashtra cricket team is a domestic cricket team that represents Maharashtra state in domestic cricket of India. It is govern by Maharashtra Cricket Association. It plays its home matches at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune ...
who represent the state of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
in
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy (also known as Mastercard Ranji Trophy for sponsorship reasons) is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between multiple teams representing regional and state cricket associations. Board of Control for Cr ...
.
International Cricket
The stadium has hosted 11
One Day International
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 C ...
matches including two in the
Cricket World Cup
The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), e ...
(1987 & 1996), 4
WODI till date. The first ever
ODI played on this ground was between
India
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and
England
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in 1984. The ground is yet to host a
test match Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
* Test cricket
* Test match (indoor cricket)
* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
.
One of cricket's biggest upsets occurred on this very ground when
Kenya
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beat
West Indies
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in a low scoring encounter in the
1996 Cricket World Cup
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.
![Nehru Stadium, Pune](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Nehru_Stadium%2C_Pune.jpg)
List of ODIs
List of WODIs
Cricket World Cup
This stadium has hosted One Day International (ODI) matches when India hosted the Cricket World Cup.
# 1987 Cricket World Cup
# 1996 Cricket World Cup
;1987 Cricket World Cup
* Sri Lanka v/s England:
;1996 Cricket World Cup
* Kenya v/s West Indies:
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
One Day Internationals
List of Five Wicket Hauls
Key
One Day Internationals
The leading run scorers here have been
Mike Gatting
Michael William Gatting (born 6 June 1957) is an English former cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex (1975–1998; captain 1983–1997) and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test mat ...
- 161 runs,
Mark Waugh
Mark Edward Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, after previously making his One Day International (ODI) debu ...
- 133 runs and
Chris Cairns
Christopher Lance Cairns (born 13 June 1970) is a former New Zealand cricketer and former ODI captain, who played for the New Zealand cricket team as an all-rounder. Cairns finished his Test career with a batting average of 33.53 and a bowling ...
- 130 runs. The leading wicket takers here have been
Ajit Agarkar
Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar (born 4 December 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and a commentator. He has represented India in more than 200 international matches in all three formats of the game. He is the third highest wicket-taker for India i ...
- 8 wickets,
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj (Pronunciation: əpiːl deːʋ born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer. He was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, and was named by ''Wisden'' as the Indian Cricketer of the Centu ...
,
Javagal Srinath
Javagal Srinath, (, born 31 August 1969) is a former Indian cricketer and currently an ICC match referee. He is considered among India's finest fast bowlers, and was the first Indian fast bowler to take more than 300 wickets in One Day Inter ...
and
Brad Williams- 5 wickets.
Notes and references
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External links
Info on venue
More info on Nehru statium at Doors2India
Cricket grounds in Maharashtra
Multi-purpose stadiums in India
Cricket grounds in Pune
Sport in Pune
Sports venues in Pune
Sports venues in Maharashtra
Monuments and memorials to Jawaharlal Nehru
Defunct cricket grounds in India
Cricket in Pune
1987 Cricket World Cup stadiums
1996 Cricket World Cup stadiums
1969 establishments in Maharashtra
Sports venues completed in 1969
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