Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Nanded

Guru Gobind Singh Stadium
Location Nanded, Maharashtra
Capacity 30,000[1]

The Guru Gobind Singh Stadium is the main sports venue in Nanded, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium is named after Guru Gobind Singh, the founder of Sikhism. Nanded is of great historical significance for Sikhs and it has many Sufi shrines as well.

Two Ranji trophy matches were played here, one in 1980/81 between Maharashtra & Bombay (Now, Mumbai) team and other in 1983/84 between Maharashtra & Saurashtra team. Riaz Poonawala had scored 133 runs here against Saurashtra team in the later match. Highest partnership was of 134 runs between GA Parkar & RD Parkar against Bombay team in first match played here. 2nd highest 102 runs partnership between Bombay team players AV Mankad & ED Solkar was made in 1980/81 against Maharashtra team.

This stadium is now renovated with international standard pitch and 87 yard ground area. It has 4 main pitch with 6 more for practice. Stadium manager Mr. Ramesh Choure has taken efforts to develop the ground. He is working hard to make this stadium ready to host domestic Ranji Trophy/IPL matches and international Test/ODI match in near future.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.worldofstadiums.com/asia/india/maharashtra/guru-gobind-singh-stadium/

2 - http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Grounds/14/1158.html

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