DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai: pitch report, capacity and records

The DY Patil Stadium sits in Nerul, Navi Mumbai, and has done since it opened on 4 March 2008. It seats 45,300 by the most widely used figure, and it is where India won their first women’s World Cup, beating South Africa by 52 runs on 2 November 2025. What it has never staged is a men’s international. The one it was given, an India v Australia ODI on 11 November 2009, was washed out.

That gap runs through the whole record book. Every men’s match played here has been an IPL game, and since 2022 the women’s game has caught up almost exactly: 37 men’s matches against 36 women’s.

DY Patil Stadium at a glance

Location	DY Patil Sports Academy, Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Opened	4 March 2008
Architect	Hafeez Contractor
Capacity	45,300 (older sources say 55,000)
Cricket finals	IPL 2008 and 2010, Women’s World Cup 2025
Football finals	ISL 2014, AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022, FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022

The capacity question has two answers in circulation. Early coverage and our own older pages gave 55,000; the figure most sources use now is 45,300. The stadium’s cantilever roof, which carries no pillars, means few seats have a restricted view either way.

Has DY Patil hosted a men’s international?

No. It was built as the home of the Mumbai Indians for the first IPL season, and it has been an IPL ground in four seasons since: 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2022. The only men’s international it was ever handed, the ODI against Australia in 2009, was abandoned without a ball bowled.

Competition	Matches	Seasons
IPL	37	2008, 2010, 2011, 2022
Men’s internationals	0	2009 ODI washed out
WPL	22	2023, 2026
Women’s T20Is	8	2022 to 2024
Women’s ODIs	5	2025 World Cup
Women’s Tests	1	December 2023

Add the women’s rows up and you get 36 matches, one short of the men’s 37. The women’s matches have also been the bigger ones. The ground hosted its first Test, of any kind, in December 2023, and three of its five ODIs were a World Cup semi-final, a final and the group game against New Zealand that India had to win, and did, by 53 runs on DLS.

DY Patil Stadium pitch report

The short version is that this ground used to play below par and does not any more, and the change shows up in both leagues that have played here.

In the IPL, the side batting first averaged 146.6 across the 17 matches of 2008, 2010 and 2011, some way under the league. When the IPL came back in 2022, with the whole league stage squeezed into Mumbai and Pune, the first-innings average here was 170.7 against a league figure of 171.1. In other words, it played exactly like an average IPL ground.

The WPL tells the same story more sharply. In 2023 the first innings here averaged 147.7, nearly nine runs under the league’s 156.6. When the WPL returned in January 2026, the figure was 177.3, above the league’s 169.1. That is a rise of 29.6 runs in a league that rose by 12.5 over the same gap.

Captains have one firm habit here: they bowl first. Toss-winners chose to field in 27 of 37 IPL matches, 19 of 22 WPL matches and all eight women’s T20Is. The results only half back them. Chasing sides lead the IPL record 20 to 17 and the WPL 14 to 8, but in the five World Cup ODIs the side batting first won three and chased only once.

Competition	1st-innings average	Won batting first	Won chasing
IPL 2008 to 2011	146.6	7	10
IPL 2022	170.7	10	10
WPL 2023	147.7	3	8
WPL 2026	177.3	5	6
Women’s T20Is	168.5	2	5

For a T20 here now, 170 is roughly par. The women’s T20I that finished level, India v Australia in December 2022, is the one tie; India won the Super Over.

Women’s ODI records at DY Patil

Five ODIs, all at the 2025 World Cup, and they produced the biggest night in the ground’s history before the final had even been played. On 30 October, India chased 339 to beat Australia in the semi-final. It is the highest successful chase in women’s ODI history, and Jemimah Rodrigues made 127 not out, sharing 167 for the third wicket with Harmanpreet Kaur (89).

Record	Figure
Highest total	341/5, India v Australia, 30 Oct 2025
Highest first-innings total	340/3, India v New Zealand, 23 Oct 2025
Highest score	127*, Jemimah Rodrigues v Australia
Best bowling	5/39, Deepti Sharma v South Africa (final)
Most runs	227, Jemimah Rodrigues
Most wickets	9, Deepti Sharma

The 340 against New Zealand came from a 212-run opening stand and twin hundreds, 122 by Pratika Rawal and 109 by Smriti Mandhana. In the final, India made 298/7 with Shafali Verma scoring 87, and South Africa were bowled out for 246 despite 101 from their captain Laura Wolvaardt. Deepti took five. The other two games were smaller: Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by seven runs, and rain ended India v Bangladesh with India on 57 without loss.

Women’s T20I and Test records

India’s 217/4 against West Indies on 19 December 2024 is the highest women’s T20I total at the ground, and it came in a series decider India won by 60 runs. Mandhana has 406 T20I runs here, well clear of Beth Mooney’s 260, and Mooney’s unbeaten 89 in December 2022 remains the top individual score. Titas Sadhu’s 4/17 against Australia in January 2024 is the best bowling.

The one Test, India v England from 14 to 16 December 2023, was a rout. India made 428 and 186/6 declared, England were bowled out for 136 and 131, and the 347-run margin was the largest by runs in women’s Test history when it was set. Deepti Sharma took 5/7 in the first innings and nine wickets in the match.

IPL records at DY Patil

Record	Figure
Highest total	216/4, CSK v RCB, 12 Apr 2022
Lowest total	82 all out, Deccan Chargers v RCB, 24 Apr 2010
Highest score	140*, Quinton de Kock, LSG v KKR, 18 May 2022
Best bowling	5/10, Jasprit Bumrah, MI v KKR, 9 May 2022
Most runs	359, Robin Uthappa
Most wickets	9, Dwayne Bravo

De Kock’s 140 not out came in a 210-run opening stand with KL Rahul, with Lucknow batting all 20 overs without losing a wicket. It is still the joint-highest opening partnership in IPL history, level with Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan’s 210 in 2024. Bumrah’s 5/10 remains his best IPL figures, and Mumbai still lost that night by 52 runs.

Both early IPL finals were played here. Rajasthan Royals beat Chennai Super Kings by three wickets off the last ball in 2008, and Chennai beat Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in 2010. In 2011 the ground was the home of the new Pune Warriors, before they moved to Pune.

WPL records at DY Patil

The WPL began here. On 4 March 2023, Mumbai Indians made 207/5 against Gujarat Giants, Harmanpreet Kaur hit 65 from 30 balls, and Gujarat were held to 64/9. The 143-run margin is still the biggest win by runs in WPL history.

Record	Figure
Highest total	211/4, Delhi Capitals v UP Warriorz, 7 Mar 2023
Lowest total	64/9, Gujarat Giants v Mumbai Indians, 4 Mar 2023
Highest score	96, Smriti Mandhana, RCB v DC, 17 Jan 2026
Best bowling	5/15, Marizanne Kapp, DC v GG, 11 Mar 2023
Most runs	374, Meg Lanning
Most wickets	17, Amelia Kerr

In 2026 the ground shared the WPL with Vadodara’s Kotambi Stadium, taking the first 11 games before the tournament moved on.

Football and concerts

DY Patil has hosted more big football finals than cricket ones. Atlético de Kolkata won the first ISL final here on 20 December 2014, beating Kerala Blasters 1-0 through Mohammed Rafique’s stoppage-time header. It staged the second semi-final of the 2017 U-17 World Cup, Spain 3 Mali 1, and in 2022 it took two finals: China came from 2-0 down to beat South Korea 3-2 in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup, and Spain beat Colombia 1-0 in the U-17 Women’s World Cup.

It is also Mumbai’s big concert venue. Coldplay played three shows here in January 2025, on the 18th, 19th and 21st.

How it compares with Mumbai’s other grounds

For men’s international cricket, Mumbai means the Wankhede Stadium, with the Brabourne as the occasional second venue. DY Patil is the city’s biggest cricket ground by capacity and has become its home for women’s cricket instead. Our guide to Mumbai’s cricket stadiums covers all three, and the biggest cricket stadiums in the world puts the capacity in a wider frame.

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