Holkar Stadium, Indore: pitch report, records and stats
Indore has hosted three Tests, eight ODIs, four T20Is, nine IPL matches and a week of the 2025 Women’s World Cup. Full pitch report and record book, with every scoring figure derived match by match.
Mar 3, 2023 · Updated Aug 3, 2026
The Holkar Stadium in Indore has hosted three Tests, eight men’s ODIs, four men’s T20Is, nine IPL matches and a week of the 2025 Women’s World Cup, and in fifty-over cricket it produces higher scores than any other ground in India. Across the eight ODIs played here the side batting first has averaged 332. Narrow that to the six since 2011 and the figure climbs to 347, which is roughly 25 runs clear of the next Indian venue and more than 100 clear of Chepauk.
India’s highest ODI total was made here. So was the third-highest individual score in the history of men’s ODI cricket. The same square also produced a Test that finished inside three days and earned an ICC sanction. This page sets out what the ground actually is, what the pitch does in each format, and every record worth knowing, with the scoring numbers derived from the ball-by-ball record of every match played here rather than copied from a stat aggregator.
Holkar Cricket Stadium at a glance
| Full name | Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore, Madhya Pradesh |
| Former name | Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground, renamed in 2010 after the Holkar dynasty |
| Established | 1990 |
| Capacity | About 30,000 |
| Owner | Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association |
| Pavilions | Named in 2011 after C.K. Nayudu and Mushtaq Ali |
| Home teams | Madhya Pradesh, plus India as a tenant |
| First ODI | 15 April 2006, India v England |
| First Test | 8 October 2016, India v New Zealand |
| First T20I | 22 December 2017, India v Sri Lanka |
| Internationals hosted | 3 Tests, 8 men’s ODIs, 4 men’s T20Is, 5 women’s ODIs |
| IPL matches | 9, all between 2011 and 2018 |
| Next international | India v West Indies, third T20I, 11 October 2026 |
The playing area is small by international standards, and the short square boundaries are the simplest explanation for most of what follows. Indore became India’s 22nd Test venue when it staged its first match in the format in 2016, twenty-six years after the ground opened and a decade after it first held an ODI.
Holkar Stadium pitch report: the best batting surface in India
Eight men’s ODIs have been played at the Holkar Stadium. Here is every one of them, with the first-innings total that decided how the game was going to go.
| Date | Match | First innings | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr 2006 | India v England | England 288 | India won by 7 wickets |
| 17 Nov 2008 | India v England | India 292/9 | India won by 54 runs |
| 8 Dec 2011 | India v West Indies | India 418/5 | India won by 153 runs |
| 14 Oct 2015 | India v South Africa | India 247/9 | India won by 22 runs |
| 24 Sep 2017 | Australia v India | Australia 293/6 | India won by 5 wickets |
| 24 Jan 2023 | India v New Zealand | India 385/9 | India won by 90 runs |
| 24 Sep 2023 | India v Australia | India 399/5 | India won by 99 runs (DLS) |
| 18 Jan 2026 | New Zealand v India | New Zealand 337/8 | New Zealand won by 41 runs |
Those eight first innings average 332. The four played since 2016 average 353. Both figures are extreme, and the second one is the number to carry into any modern fifty-over match here.
The comparison is what makes it concrete. Taking every Indian ground with at least four men’s ODIs since the start of 2011, so that no venue is judged on a single game, this is how the first-innings averages line up.
| Ground | ODI first-innings average since 2011 | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Holkar Stadium, Indore | 346.5 | 6 |
| SCA Stadium, Rajkot | 321.8 | 4 |
| Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 317.8 | 12 |
| Barabati Stadium, Cuttack | 314.8 | 5 |
| MCA Stadium, Pune | 309.7 | 11 |
| Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | 295.4 | 5 |
| Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 279.1 | 14 |
| Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | 254.1 | 8 |
| MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 238.1 | 13 |
No other Indian venue averages 330 batting first. Indore has done it across eight matches spanning twenty years, which is a small sample by the standards of Eden Gardens or the Wankhede but a consistent one. Three of the eight first innings have reached 385 or more.
Batting first has been the winning move six times out of eight. The two exceptions were the 2006 opener, when India chased 289 with five balls to spare, and 2017, when Hardik Pandya’s 78 carried them past Australia’s 293 with five wickets in hand and thirteen balls to spare. Nothing about this ground rewards a captain who wins the toss and thinks about dew before he thinks about runs.
Why the IPL numbers here will mislead you
Search for a pitch report before a Twenty20 match at Indore and you will find a par score around 160 and a chasing record of eight wins from nine. Both are accurate. Neither should be used.
The ground has hosted nine IPL matches and the most recent was on 14 May 2018. Two came in 2011 when Kochi Tuskers Kerala borrowed the venue, the other seven when Kings XI Punjab used it as a second home in 2017 and 2018. The first-innings average across those nine is 160.3, rising only to 166.9 for the seven since 2016. That is a snapshot of what a good T20 total looked like eight years ago, not a read on the surface.
The T20I record is the better guide, because it runs to 2024. Four matches, first innings of 260, 142, 172 and 227, an average of 200. Compare that with the IPL’s 160 on the same square and the gap is entirely the calendar. For contrast, Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium averaged 165 in the IPL before 2026 and 225 during it. Twenty-over batting has moved a long way, and Indore’s IPL file stopped recording before it did.
Test records at the Holkar Stadium
Three Tests, and they split neatly into two very different pitches. India won the first two by 321 runs and by an innings and 130 runs, then lost the third to Australia in under three days on a surface the ICC sanctioned.
| Record | Detail |
|---|---|
| Highest team total | India 557/5 declared v New Zealand, 2016 |
| Lowest team total | India 109 v Australia, 2023 |
| Highest individual score | Mayank Agarwal 243 v Bangladesh, 2019 |
| Best bowling, innings | Nathan Lyon 8/64 v India, 2023 |
| Best bowling, match | Ravichandran Ashwin 13/140 v New Zealand, 2016 |
| Most runs | Ajinkya Rahane, 297 |
| Most wickets | Ravichandran Ashwin, 22 |
| Highest partnership | Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane, 365 for the fourth wicket, 2016 |
The Kohli and Rahane stand is the one that outlived the match. Kohli made 211, his second Test double hundred, Rahane 188, and their 365 passed the 353 Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman put together at Sydney in 2004 to become India’s highest for the fourth wicket in Tests. Ashwin’s 13 for 140 in the same game remains his best match return in Test cricket and took him back to the top of the ICC bowling rankings.
The 2023 Test went the other way in a hurry. India were bowled out for 109 inside two sessions, Matthew Kuhnemann taking 5 for 16, and Australia won by nine wickets inside three days of a scheduled five. Match referee Chris Broad rated the pitch poor and Holkar was given three demerit points. The BCCI appealed and won a partial reprieve: the rating was revised to below average and the demerit points cut from three to one, with the appeal panel accepting there had not been enough variable bounce to justify the harsher verdict.
ODI records at the Holkar Stadium
| Record | Detail |
|---|---|
| Highest team total | India 418/5 v West Indies, 2011 |
| Lowest completed total | Australia 217 all out, 2023 |
| Highest individual score | Virender Sehwag 219 v West Indies, 2011 |
| Best bowling | S Sreesanth 6/55 v England, 2006 |
| Highest successful chase | India 294/5 v Australia, 2017 |
| Result split | Side batting first has won six of eight |
India’s 418 for 5 against West Indies in December 2011 is still the highest total India have made in an ODI anywhere, ahead of the 414 for 7 against Sri Lanka at Rajkot. Sehwag’s 219 from 149 balls was the world record individual score at the time and stood until Rohit Sharma’s 264 at Eden Gardens in November 2014. It now sits third on the all-time list.
The most recent match here rewrote the ground’s other headline. India had won all seven ODIs they played at Indore, from that 2006 chase through to the 399 for 5 against Australia in September 2023. On 18 January 2026, New Zealand broke it. Daryl Mitchell made 137 from 131 balls and Glenn Phillips 106 from 88, the pair adding 219 for the fourth wicket after New Zealand had slipped to 58 for 3, and 337 for 8 proved 41 too many even though Virat Kohli answered with 124 from 108 for his 54th ODI hundred. That result completed New Zealand’s first ODI series win in India. If a page still tells you India have never lost a one-day international at Indore, it has not been updated since January.
T20I records at the Holkar Stadium
| Record | Detail |
|---|---|
| Highest team total | India 260/5 v Sri Lanka, 2017 |
| Lowest total | Sri Lanka 142/9, 2020 |
| Highest individual score | Rohit Sharma 118 off 43 v Sri Lanka, 2017 |
| Best bowling | Yuzvendra Chahal 4/52 v Sri Lanka, 2017 |
| Result split | Two wins batting first, two chasing |
Rohit’s innings on 22 December 2017 is the ground’s signature Twenty20 performance. He reached his hundred from 35 balls, equalling what was then the fastest in T20 international cricket, and India’s 260 for 5 is still the highest total made at the venue in any Twenty20 match, franchise cricket included. India have since gone past it elsewhere, reaching 297 for 6 against Bangladesh at Hyderabad in October 2024.
The one home defeat came in October 2022, when Rilee Rossouw’s 100 from 48 balls carried South Africa to 227 for 3 and India were bowled out for 178. The 2024 match against Afghanistan was the most recent Twenty20 here: Afghanistan 172, India home in 15.4 overs with Yashasvi Jaiswal making 68 from 34.
IPL records at the Holkar Stadium
| Record | Detail |
|---|---|
| Matches | 9, between 13 May 2011 and 14 May 2018 |
| Highest team total | Kolkata Knight Riders 245/6, 2018 |
| Lowest team total | Kings XI Punjab 88 all out, 2018 |
| Highest individual score | Hashim Amla 104 off 60, 2017 |
| Best bowling | Brad Hodge 4/13, 2011 |
| First-innings average | 160.3 |
| Result split | Chasing side has won eight of nine |
The lone win batting first came in the highest-scoring game the ground has staged in the competition, Kolkata’s 245 for 6 in May 2018, which Kings XI Punjab fell 31 short of despite reaching 214 for 8. Two days later the same Punjab side were bowled out for 88 and Royal Challengers Bangalore knocked off the runs without losing a wicket. Indore has not hosted an IPL match since.
The Women’s World Cup week that produced a record
The ground staged five matches of the 2025 ICC Women’s World Cup, and one of them produced the best bowling figures in the tournament’s history. On 25 October 2025, Alana King took 7 for 18 from seven overs as Australia bowled South Africa out for 97. Four of her seven victims were bowled. Those figures are the best by an Australian in women’s ODIs, passing Ellyse Perry’s 7 for 22 against England in 2019, and the fourth-best in all women’s one-day internationals.
The week also gave India one of their tighter losses of the tournament, England winning by four runs on 19 October.
Five matches that made the ground
India v West Indies, 8 December 2011. Sehwag’s 219, India’s 418 for 5, and a 153-run win. Still the highest ODI total India have made.
India v New Zealand, 8 to 11 October 2016. The ground’s first Test, and India treated it like an exhibition. Kohli and Rahane batted together for most of two days, Ashwin took 13 wickets, and the margin was 321 runs.
India v Sri Lanka, 22 December 2017. Rohit reached three figures in 35 balls, finished with 118 from 43, and the 260 for 5 that followed has not been beaten here by anyone in any form of Twenty20 cricket.
India v Australia, 1 to 3 March 2023. The one that went wrong. India 109 and 163, Lyon 8 for 64, Australia home by nine wickets, and an ICC pitch rating that took an appeal to soften.
New Zealand v India, 18 January 2026. Twenty years and seven wins into India’s occupancy, Mitchell and Phillips finally took the ground off them.
Quick answers
Is the Holkar Stadium a batting pitch? In fifty-over cricket, emphatically. The first-innings average of 332 across eight ODIs, and 353 across the four since 2016, is the highest of any Indian ground. In Tests it has produced both a 557 for 5 and a 109 all out, so the format matters more than the reputation.
What is the average first-innings score at Indore? Roughly 332 in ODIs, 200 in T20Is across four matches, 160 in the IPL on data that stops in 2018, and 272 in Tests across three matches.
Should you bat or chase at the Holkar Stadium? Bat in an ODI, where the side setting a total has won six of eight. The T20I record is level at two apiece. The IPL record favours the chase heavily but is too old to act on.
What is the highest score at the Holkar Cricket Stadium? India’s 418 for 5 against West Indies in 2011 in ODIs, India’s 557 for 5 declared against New Zealand in 2016 in Tests, and India’s 260 for 5 against Sri Lanka in 2017 in Twenty20 cricket.
How many Tests has Indore hosted? Three, in 2016, 2019 and 2023. India won the first two and Australia won the third.
What is the capacity of the Holkar Stadium? About 30,000, with floodlights, under the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association.
When is the next match at the Holkar Stadium? India play West Indies in the third T20I of their tour on 11 October 2026.