ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam: pitch report, capacity and records
The Vizag stadium favours the chase: sides batting second have won seven of 11 men’s ODIs and all five of the 2025 Women’s World Cup games played there. Its pitch, capacity and every record, format by format.
Nov 22, 2023 · Updated Sep 25, 2026
The ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, the ground most fans simply call the Vizag stadium, opened in 2003, seats about 27,500 and has hosted three Tests, 11 men’s ODIs, five men’s T20Is, 17 IPL matches and five games of the 2025 Women’s World Cup. Its record points one way in white-ball cricket: win the toss, bowl first, and chase.
Rajkot, the other big Indian venue with a short international history, says the opposite, which makes the two worth reading side by side. The figures below come from ball-by-ball data for every match played here.
Vizag stadium at a glance
| Detail | Figure |
|---|---|
| Name | ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium |
| Full form | Andhra Cricket Association-Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association Stadium |
| City | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh |
| Capacity | About 27,500 |
| Opened | 2003 |
| Operator | Andhra Cricket Association |
| Ends | Vizzy End, DV Subba Rao End |
| First ODI | 5 April 2005, India v Pakistan |
| First T20I | 14 February 2016, India v Sri Lanka |
| First Test | 17 November 2016, India v England |
| IPL sides hosted | Deccan Chargers, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians, Rising Pune Supergiants, Delhi Capitals |
For years the ground carried the name of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the former Andhra Pradesh chief minister, as the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium. The Andhra Cricket Association removed his name in March 2025, which is why older scorecards, and many records pages, still use the longer title. It is the same ground.
Vizag pitch report: bat or bowl first?
Bowl. In men’s ODIs the side chasing has won seven of the 11 matches here, the side batting first three, and one was tied. Eight of the 11 captains who won the toss chose to field. In T20Is every toss winner has fielded first, five out of five.
| Format | Games | 1st inns avg | Bat 1st won | Chased |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men’s ODI | 11 | 276.4 | 3 | 7 |
| Men’s T20I | 5 | 162.0 | 2 | 3 |
| IPL | 17 | 169.5 | 9 | 8 |
| Women’s ODI (2025) | 5 | 235.8 | 0 | 5 |
The toss has decided a lot here. In the ten men’s ODIs that produced a result, the side that won the toss went on to win nine. The exception came in December 2019, when West Indies won it, chose to field, and watched India make 387 for 5.
The five women’s World Cup games in October 2025 make the point more bluntly. The side batting second won all five, including the biggest chase in women’s ODI history, and not one of those first innings reached 331. Compare that with Rajkot’s Niranjan Shah Stadium, where the side batting first has won four of five men’s ODIs and the first-innings average is 314.2.
The IPL is the exception. Across 17 games the split is 9-8, close to even, and the ground has been a floating home for five different franchises rather than one side’s fortress. Scoring there has moved with the rest of the league: the last four first-innings totals were 191, 272, 209 and 163.
Test records at Visakhapatnam
| Dates | Match | Scores | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17-21 Nov 2016 | India v England | Ind 455 & 204; Eng 255 & 158 | India by 246 runs |
| 2-6 Oct 2019 | India v South Africa | Ind 502/7d & 323/4d; SA 431 & 191 | India by 203 runs |
| 2-5 Feb 2024 | India v England | Ind 396 & 255; Eng 253 & 292 | India by 106 runs |
India have won all three Tests here, batting first each time after winning the toss. The 2019 match against South Africa had the ground’s biggest innings: Mayank Agarwal turned his first Test hundred into 215, and Rohit Sharma, opening in a Test for the first time, made 176 and 127. In 2024 Yashasvi Jaiswal made 209 and Jasprit Bumrah took 6/45 in England’s first innings, finishing with 9/91 in the match.
| Record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Highest total | 502/7 declared, India v South Africa, 2019 |
| Lowest total | 158, England, 2016 |
| Highest score | 215, Mayank Agarwal, 2019 |
| Best bowling | 7/145, R Ashwin v South Africa, 2019 |
| Best match figures | 9/91, Jasprit Bumrah v England, 2024 |
| Most runs | 330, Rohit Sharma |
| Most wickets | 19, R Ashwin |
ODI records at Visakhapatnam
| Date | Match | Batting first | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Apr 2005 | India v Pakistan | Ind 356/9 | India by 58 runs |
| 17 Feb 2007 | India v Sri Lanka | SL 259/7 | India by 7 wickets |
| 20 Oct 2010 | India v Australia | Aus 289/3 | India by 5 wickets |
| 2 Dec 2011 | India v West Indies | WI 269/9 | India by 5 wickets |
| 24 Nov 2013 | India v West Indies | Ind 288/7 | West Indies by 2 wickets |
| 29 Oct 2016 | India v New Zealand | Ind 269/6 | India by 190 runs |
| 17 Dec 2017 | India v Sri Lanka | SL 215 | India by 8 wickets |
| 24 Oct 2018 | India v West Indies | Ind 321/6 | Tied |
| 18 Dec 2019 | India v West Indies | Ind 387/5 | India by 107 runs |
| 19 Mar 2023 | India v Australia | Ind 117 | Australia by 10 wickets |
| 6 Dec 2025 | India v South Africa | SA 270 | India by 9 wickets |
India have had three of their better-remembered ODI days here. MS Dhoni’s 148 against Pakistan in the ground’s first international, in April 2005, was his maiden ODI hundred. In October 2018 Virat Kohli made 157 not out and became the fastest batter to 10,000 ODI runs, in his 205th innings, only for Shai Hope to hit the last ball for four and tie the match with 123 not out. And in December 2019 Rohit made 159, the ground’s highest ODI score, and Kuldeep Yadav took a hat-trick.
The worst day was March 2023. India were bowled out for 117 in 26 overs, Mitchell Starc taking 5/53, and Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh knocked the runs off in 11 overs. Australia won by ten wickets with 234 balls to spare.
| Record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Highest total | 387/5, India v West Indies, 2019 |
| Lowest total | 79, New Zealand, 2016 |
| Highest score | 159, Rohit Sharma, 2019 |
| Best bowling | 5/18, Amit Mishra v New Zealand, 2016 |
| Most runs | 652, Virat Kohli, eight innings |
| Most wickets | 13, Kuldeep Yadav |
Kohli has three of the ground’s 12 ODI hundreds: 118 in 2010, 117 in 2011 and the 157 not out. The most recent hundreds came in the same match in December 2025, Quinton de Kock’s 106 for South Africa and Jaiswal’s unbeaten 116 as India won by nine wickets.
T20I records at Visakhapatnam
| Date | Match | Batting first | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 2016 | India v Sri Lanka | SL 82 | India by 9 wickets |
| 24 Feb 2019 | India v Australia | Ind 126/7 | Australia by 3 wickets |
| 14 Jun 2022 | India v South Africa | Ind 179/5 | India by 48 runs |
| 23 Nov 2023 | India v Australia | Aus 208/3 | India by 2 wickets |
| 28 Jan 2026 | India v New Zealand | NZ 215/7 | New Zealand by 50 runs |
Josh Inglis made the ground’s only T20I hundred, 110 from 50 balls, in November 2023, and India still chased Australia’s 208 for 3 with a ball to spare. R Ashwin’s 4/8 against Sri Lanka in 2016 is the best return here.
| Record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Highest total | 215/7, New Zealand v India, 2026 |
| Lowest total | 82, Sri Lanka, 2016 |
| Highest score | 110, Josh Inglis, 2023 |
| Best bowling | 4/8, R Ashwin v Sri Lanka, 2016 |
| Most wickets | 5, Jasprit Bumrah |
Women’s World Cup 2025 at Vizag
Vizag hosted five matches at the 2025 Women’s World Cup, and one of them set a record. India made 330, and Australia chased it down with six balls left, Alyssa Healy scoring 142 from 107 balls and Annabel Sutherland having taken 5/40 earlier. No side had ever chased more to win a women’s ODI. Healy came back four days later and made 113 not out as Australia beat Bangladesh by ten wickets.
The ground has also hosted women’s internationals since 2010, and two T20Is between India and Sri Lanka in December 2025, which India won by chasing both times.
IPL records at Vizag
Deccan Chargers first used Vizag as a second home in 2012, and since then Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians, Rising Pune Supergiants and Delhi Capitals have all played home games here. It also staged two 2019 playoffs, the Eliminator and Qualifier 2.
| Record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Highest total | 272/7, Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Capitals, 2024 |
| Highest score | 91, David Warner, 2015 |
| Best bowling | 6/19, Adam Zampa for Rising Pune Supergiants, 2016 |
| Most runs | 294, Shikhar Dhawan |
| Most wickets | 10, Adam Zampa and Mitchell Starc |
No batter has made an IPL hundred at the ground. The highest successful chase is Delhi Capitals’ 211 for 9 against Lucknow Super Giants in March 2025, won by one wicket. For how Vizag’s par compares with the league’s other venues, see our IPL par score by ground.
Frequently asked questions
What is the capacity of the Vizag cricket stadium?
The ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium holds about 27,500 spectators.
Is the Visakhapatnam pitch good for chasing?
In internationals, yes. Chasing sides have won seven of 11 men’s ODIs, three of five men’s T20Is and all five of the 2025 Women’s World Cup games. The IPL is closer to even at 9-8 to the side batting first.
What is the highest ODI score at Vizag?
India’s 387 for 5 against West Indies in December 2019 is the highest team total, and Rohit Sharma’s 159 in the same match is the highest individual score.
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