M A Chidambaram Stadium - ICC Cricket World Cup Venue

M A Chidambaram stadium during day night cricket match

Situated in Chennai M. A. Chidambaram Stadium is named after M. A. Chidambaram, the former President of BCCI and the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association.  This stadium is also known as Madras Cricket Club Ground or Chepauk Stadium., most commonly as Chepauk,. First match was played on 10 February 1934.  This is built by the East Coast Constructions and Industries, for cricket lovers information Indian cricket team won its first ever Test victory here in 1952 against England. Tamil Nadu cricket team's home ground and later IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings made it their home ground. 

Hopkins Architects have been asked by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association to find a way to increase capacity, provide additional corporate box and air-conditioned accommodation, maintain roof shading and get the swing back. It is also important that the principles of Vaasthu, an Indian form of feng shui, be adhered to in the design.

Ground facts and figures:

Narendra Hirwani in action

1. Sehwag's 319 against South Africa is the highest test score at the ground.
2. This stadium played host to the second tied-test in the history of Test cricket.
3. Sachin Tendulkar's 194 against Pakistan is the highest score on this ground.
4. England hold the record for the highest score on the ground so far when they hit 652-7d runs against India.
5. The Indians hold the record for the lowest score at the ground when England restricted them to just 83.
6. Narendra Hirwani's match bowling figures of 16/136 currently are the best at the ground.
7. Rahul Dravid scored his 10,000th Test run on this ground.
8. India's 387/4 in the fourth innings of the first Test against England in December 2008, became the highest successful run chase in India. Incidentally, this also became the fourth highest in Test match history.
9. It was in Chepauk, that Sachin Tendulkar scored his first century in the fourth innings in a winning cause for India.
10. Sachin Tendulkar has scored more runs in Chepauk - 876 in nine Tests at an average of 87.60 - than any other venue in India.
11. Jun 28 2009 Decision to start reconstruction work for setting up state-of-art facilities and an increased spectator capacity of 45,000 over the existing 36,000, the cost of which is Rs 175 crore.
12. On Oct 15 2004 Shane Warne surpassed Muttiah Muralitharan's tally of 532 Test wickets when he took the wicket of Irfan Pathan. It was his 533rd Test wicket taken in his 114th Test. Muttiah Muralitharan who recently retired from Test cricket, achieved this feat in 91 tests and is currently the highest wicket-taker in the world with 800 Test wickets.
13. On Mar 22 2001 India defeated Australia by 2 wickets to clinch the Border-Gavaskar trophy after losing it to Australia in 1999-2000 series. A match winning century by Sachin Tendulkar and a record of 32 wickets in the Test series by Harbhajan Singh helped India to end the winning streak of Australia consecutively followed by an epic Kolkata test.Australia won 16 tests in succession.

Information from wikipedia

For upcoming ICC cricket World Cup 2011, M A Chidambaram Stadium will host  four matches as per cricket world cup matches schedule.

1. 2nd Match, Group A - Kenya v New Zealand, 20 February 2011
2. 21st Match, Group B - England v South Africa, 6 March 2011
3. 36th Match, Group B - England v West Indies, 17 March 2010
4. 42nd Match, Group B - India v West Indies, 20 March 2010

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