Facts Opened 2009 Capacity 28,000 Known as Khandheri Cricket Stadium Location Rajkot, India Time Zone UTC +05:30 Home to Saurashtra Floodlights Yes Description A land of 30 acres was sanctioned in 2004 near the Jamnagar highway to build this state-of-the-art cricket stadium. The construction began in 2006 and almost 75 crores was spent. The media box at the venue resembles the one at Lord's and also for the spectators to move freely, there are several aisles between the seats. It also caters as a sporting complex to various other sports like badminton, volleyball and basketball.
There are also two grounds for cricket. One is the main ground which started hosting first-class matches in 2009 and is 90 metres. The other, which is right beside, is 70 metres long and is mainly used for district games. The stadium plays hosts for Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) along with the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground.
The venue holds together more than 60 hospitality boxes, but the SCA are against selling the tickets to corporates and only give them during an international game.
How does the pitch play?
The Ranji home team players Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja scored triple hundreds on this ground. That should give a fair indication as to what type of wicket we can expect here - it is of course batsmen-friendly. In the two international matches played at this venue, both were high-scoring encounters. First was an ODI between England and India - the visitors scored 325 and the hosts fell short by 9 runs.
The other game played here was a T20I involving Australia and India. The Aussies riding on the back of Aaron Finch's 89 set a target of 202. Yuvraj Singh won the game for India with two balls to spare, with his quickfire unbeaten 35-ball 77.
STATS - ODI
Total matches 2
Matches won batting first 2
Average 1st Inns scores 297
Average 2nd Inns scores 284
Highest total recorded
325/4 (50 Ov) by Eng vs IND
Lowest score defended
270/7 (50 Ov) by RSA vs IND
STATS - TEST Total matches 1 Average 1st Inns scores 537 Average 2nd Inns scores 488 Average 3rd Inns scores 260 Average 4th Inns scores 172 Highest total recorded 537/10 (159.3 Ov) by Eng vs IND Lowest total recorded 488/10 (162 Ov) by IND vs Eng STATS - T20I Total matches 2 Matches won batting first 1 Matches won bowling first 1 Average 1st Inns scores 198 Average 2nd Inns scores 179 Highest total recorded 202/4 (19.4 Ov) by IND vs AUS Highest score chased 202/4 (19.4 Ov) by IND vs AUS Lowest score defended 196/2 (20 Ov) by NZ vs IND
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