M. A. Chidambaram Stadium

M. A. Chidambaram Stadium
India
Ground information
Location	Chepauk, Chennai
Establishment	1916
Seating capacity	50,000
Owner	Government of Tamil Nadu
Operator	Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
End names	Anna Pavilion End V Pattabhiraman Gate End
International information
First Test	10 February 1934: India v England
Last Test	11 December 2008: India v England
First ODI	9 October 1987: India v Australia
Last ODI	10 June 2007: Africa XI v Asia XI
Domestic team information
Years	Team
	Tamil Nadu
	Chennai Super Kings (IPL)
As of 4 April 2008 Source: M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Cricinfo

An IPL match in progress at M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium

The M. A. Chidambaram Stadium is a cricket stadium in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, named after M. A. Chidambaram, the former President of BCCI and the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. The stadium was formerly known as Madras Cricket Club Ground or Chepauk Stadium. Commonly known as Chepauk, its first match was played 10 February 1934. Built by the East Coast Constructions and Industries, this stadium is where the Indian cricket team won its first ever Test victory here in 1952 against England. It is the home ground of the Tamil Nadu cricket team and also for IPL's Chennai Super Kings led by Team India Captain MS Dhoni.

The nature of the pitch at this ground is bouncy which offers something to both the bat and the ball in a country renowned for producing dry, low, spinning, flat wickets. In recent times, the wicket has got flatter.

The stadium witnessed history when only the second tied test was played here between India and Australia in 1986, which included Dean Jones making a heroic 210, Greg Matthews taking 10 wickets and Kapil Dev scoring an excellent century. Another famous moment was Saeed Anwar's record 194 against India in the Independence Cup on 21 May 1997. The stadium also witnessed dramatic scenes when 50,000 fans gave a standing ovation to the Pakistan cricket team in January 1999 after victory in a very closely fought test match. The stadium was also selected to replace Mumbai in the test series against England after the Mumbai terror attacks on 26 November 2008.

Ground facts and figures

• Virender Sehwag's 319 against South Africa is the highest test score at the ground.
• This stadium played host to the second tied-test in the history of test cricket.
• Saeed Anwar's 194 against India is the highest ODI score in this ground. It is, till date, the highest individual score by any batsman in the limited overs version of the game and he jointly holds the record with Chris Coventry of Zimbabwe who scored an unbeaten 194 against Bangladesh in August 2009.
• England hold the record for the highest score on the ground so far when they hit 652-7d runs against India.
• The Indians hold the record for the lowest score at the ground when England restricted them to just 83.
• Narendra Hirwani's match bowling figures of 16/136 currently are the best at the ground.
• Rahul Dravid scored his 10,000th Test run on this ground.
• India's 387/4 in the fourth innings of the first Test against England in December 2008, became the highest successful run chase in India. Incidentally, this also became the fourth highest in Test match history.^[1]
• It was in Chepauk, that Sachin Tendulkar scored his first century in the fourth innings in a winning cause for India.^[2]
• Sachin Tendulkar has scored more runs in Chepauk - 876 in nine Tests at an average of 87.60 - than any other venue in India.^[3]
• Jun 28 2009 Decision to start reconstruction work for setting up state-of-art facilities and an increased spectator capacity of 45,000 over the existing 36,000, the cost of which is Rs 175 crore.^[4]
• On Oct 15 2004 Shane Warne surpassed Muttiah Muralitharan's tally of 532 test wickets when he took the wicket of Irfan Pathan. It was his 533rd test wicket taken in his 114th test. Muttiah Muralitharan achieved this feat in 91 tests and is currently the highest wicket taker in the world with 770 test wickets
• On Mar 22 2001 India defeated Australia by 2 wickets to clinch the Border-Gavaskar

trophy after losing it to australia in 1999-2000 series. A match winning century by Sachin Tendulkar and a record of 32 wickets in the test series by Harbhajan Singh helped India to end the winning streak of Australia consecutively followed by an epic Kolkata test.Australia won 16 tests in succession.

Cricket World Cup

This stadium has hosted One Day International (ODI) matches evrerytime when india hosted the Cricket World Cup and they are

i. 1987 Cricket World Cup

ii. 1996 Cricket World Cup

iii. 2011 Cricket World Cup

i. 1987 Cricket World Cup

1. On 9-Oct-1987 India v/s Australia (Opening match of 1987 Cricket World Cup)

  Aus: 270/6 (50 overs) Geoff Marsh 110(141 balls), Manoj Prabhakar 2/47 (10 overs)
  Ind: 269/10 (49.5 overs) Navjot Sidhu 73(79 balls), Craig McDermott 4/56 (10 overs)
  Result: Australia won by 1 run
  Man of the match: Geoff Marsh of Australia

2. On 13-Oct-1987 Australia v/s v Zimbabwe

  Aus: 235/9 (50 overs): Allan Border 67(88), Kevin Curran 2/29 (8 overs)
  Zim: 139 (49.4 overs): Kevin Curran 30(38), Simon O'Donnell 4/39 (9.4 overs) 
  Result: Australia won by 96 runs
  Umpires: Khizer Hayat and David Shepherd
  Man of the Match: Steve Waugh

3. This stadium has 4 matches including 1 India match in 2011 world cup

See also

• List of Test cricket grounds

External links

• Cricinfo - Grounds - MA Chidambaram Stadium
• All about Chidambaram stadium
• Reference
• Players,Teams statistics

Coordinates: 13°03′46″N 80°16′46″E / 13.06278°N 80.27944°E / 13.06278; 80.27944

References