27 articles tagged with "pitch report"
Sep 19, 2026
The Kotambi ground in Vadodara opened in December 2024 and has staged 21 matches above domestic level. Twenty of them were women’s cricket, which make...
Sep 6, 2026
Par at Eden Gardens has climbed 26 runs since 2023, the largest jump at any established IPL ground. What the ball-by-ball record of 107 matches says a...
Aug 16, 2026
Par is not one number in the IPL, it is a 25 run range that shifts by venue and by era. What the ball by ball record of 1,237 matches says about the s...
Jul 25, 2026
The world’s largest cricket ground has staged four IPL finals and two World Cup finals in five seasons. Here is what its pitch actually does, format b...
Jul 24, 2026
A full guide to the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai: capacity and history, what the Chepauk pitch does, whether to bat first or chase, and every Tes...
Dec 5, 2024
Adelaide Oval had a reputation as one of the easiest Test pitches in Australia until the pink ball arrived. This is its pitch report, the records in e...
Oct 2, 2024
In 15 Tests at Abu Dhabi no side has chased more than 108 to win, while T20 chasers have won 43 of 76. The pitch report and records for every format a...
Jul 31, 2024
The biggest ground in Sri Lanka has staged 158 ODIs, 55 T20Is and the highest team total in Test history. Here is what the Colombo pitch does and ever...
May 6, 2024
Chepauk and Ekana are the only two IPL grounds still scoring under nine an over, and they get there by different routes. Lucknow is slow because the b...
Mar 6, 2024
Fourteen of the 15 captains who won the toss in a Hagley Oval Test chose to bowl, and the side batting first has won four. Every Christchurch record,...
Jan 24, 2024
Uppal is one of the highest-scoring grounds in the IPL and the only one that is quicker than the league for fifteen overs and slower at the death. Eve...
Jan 19, 2024
The ground with the most ODIs in the world, a T20I pitch that rewards the side batting first, and the place India made their lowest ODI total: the Sha...
Dec 28, 2023
South Africa have won 25 of their 37 Tests at Newlands since 1992 and 32 of 39 ODIs, but only four of 14 T20Is. England are there next, from 3 to 7 Ja...
Nov 24, 2023
The Kerala venue has staged ten internationals across three formats since 2017, and the numbers from the first half of that run look nothing like the...
Nov 22, 2023
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 ther...
Nov 10, 2023
A full guide to Eden Gardens in Kolkata: capacity, history and ground specifications, plus every Test, ODI, T20I and IPL record set at India’s oldest...
Nov 9, 2023
Bengaluru is supposed to be the easiest batting ground in India. Across the last four IPL seasons its first-innings average is within a run of the lea...
Nov 3, 2023
The ground where India won the 2011 World Cup has staged 27 Tests, 28 ODIs and 132 IPL matches. Here is what the Mumbai pitch does and every record se...
Sep 26, 2023
Rajkot’s Niranjan Shah Stadium, the former Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, has a men’s ODI first-innings average of 314.2 and has seen only on...
Sep 1, 2023
Where Gaddafi Stadium is, what it holds after the 2025 rebuild, how the Lahore pitch has played in each format, and every Test, ODI, T20I and PSL reco...
Feb 11, 2023
The VCA Stadium at Jamtha has hosted seven Tests, 10 ODIs and 14 T20Is. Its Test pitch has gone from a two-day batting surface to a three-day turner,...
Dec 25, 2022
The MCG has hosted 118 Tests since the first ever in 1877. This is its pitch report, the full records in every format, and what the numbers say about...
Jun 9, 2022
Barabati Stadium in Cuttack has staged 20 ODIs, four T20Is and two Tests since 1982. Its 50-over cricket is among the highest scoring in India and its...
May 15, 2022
The Navi Mumbai ground where India won their first women’s World Cup has never staged a men’s international. Capacity, pitch behaviour and every IPL,...
