Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground

The Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground is a cricket ground located in the city of Nagpur.[1]

Not to be confused with Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium.

Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground
विदर्भ क्रिकेट असोसीएशन मैदान
VCA Ground
VCA Ground, Civil Lines, Nagpur
Ground information
LocationNagpur
Establishment1929 (First match recorded)
Capacity45,000
OwnerVidarbha Cricket Association
OperatorVidarbha Cricket Association
End names
Jaika End
Church End
International information
First Test3 October 1965:
 India v  New Zealand
Last Test1 March 2006:
 India v  England
First ODI23 January 1985:
 India v  England
Last ODI14 October 2007:
 India v  Australia
Only WODI18 December 1997:
 Australia v  England
As of 9 December 2019
Source: Cricinfo

The ground is known as the VCA Ground and belongs to the Central Zone. The first match was played here in October 1969. As of 19 August 2017, it has hosted nine Tests and 14 ODIs.

It has been replaced by a new stadium called Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium as an international cricket stadium. It continues to be used by the Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh cricket teams.

Sunil Gavaskar scored his only one day century here against New Zealand in the 1987 Reliance World Cup.

In 1995, during the 5th ODI between India and New Zealand, a wall in the East Stand collapsed, killing 9 people and injuring 70 others.[2]

History

The tenth Test venue in the country, the Vidarbha Cricket Association-managed ground, probably the only international venue where you can walk straight into the ground from the road, has always made headlines for various reasons.

Chetan Sharma takes the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield in Nagpur. All three were bowled.[3]

Sunil Gavaskar got his only one-day, and World Cup, century here when India won by a huge margin against New Zealand in their final league encounter of the 1987 Reliance World Cup. This is the second best ground for Sachin Tendulkar when it comes to centuries. Sachin Tendulkar has three here after four in Chepauk.

It was a dark hour when in 1995, during the fifth game of the India-New Zealand ODI series, the brickwall at the East stand collapsed and nine people died.

As for the pitch, previously, it was just like any other docile pitch, till the BCCI-appointed pitch committee recommended the re-laying of the wicket in 1999. It took a while for the wicket to assume the true shape that it was designed to.

Also the unique thing about this wicket is the 30-inch deep double-brick layer normally there is a 15-inch brick layer – that facilitates in the extra pace and bounce. Surely, that was the a case when Australia conquered the 'final frontier' as they beat India handsomely in the third Test to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

The local critics were up-in-arms at how the curator ignored the home team's cause and prepared a fast wicket that helped the opposition fast bowlers. But the curator insisted that he had simply followed the instructions of the pitch panel. Today Nagpur is one of the only grounds to assist genuine fast bowlers in pace and movement and several first-class games in the 2004/05 season ended within three days as the medium-pacers reaped rich rewards.

Records

Batting

Bowling

Batting

Bowling

List of Centuries

Key
  • * denotes that the batsman was not out.
  • Inns. denotes the number of the innings in the match.
  • Balls denotes the number of balls faced in an innings.
  • NR denotes that the number of balls was not recorded.
  • Parentheses next to the player's score denotes his century number at Edgbaston.
  • The column title Date refers to the date the match started.
  • The column title Result refers to the player's team result

Test Centuries
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1131Mohinder Amarnath India3012 Sri Lanka27 December 1986Won[4]
2153Dilip Vengsarkar India–2 Sri Lanka27 December 1986Won[4]
3107Navjot Singh Sidhu India2311 West Indies1 December 1994Draw[5]
4179Sachin Tendulkar India3221 West Indies1 December 1994Draw[5]
5125*Jimmy Adams West Indies3122 India1 December 1994Draw[5]
6110Shiv Sunder Das India1751 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
7162Rahul Dravid India3011 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
8201*Sachin Tendulkar India2811 Zimbabwe25 November 2000Draw[6]
9106*Grant Flower Zimbabwe1962 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
10102Alistair Campbell Zimbabwe1863 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
11232*Andy Flower Zimbabwe4443 India25 November 2000Draw[6]
12105Shiv Sunder Das India2032 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
13176Sachin Tendulkar India3162 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
14100*Sanjay Bangar India1552 Zimbabwe21 February 2002Won[7]
15114Damien Martyn Australia1651 India26 October 2004Won[8]
16134*Paul Collingwood England2521 India1 March 2006Draw[9]
17104*Alastair Cook England2433 India1 March 2006Draw[9]
18100Wasim Jaffer India1984 England1 March 2006Won[9]

One Day Internationals
No.ScorePlayerTeamBallsInns.Opposing teamDateResult
1103*Sunil Gavaskar India882 New Zealand31October 1987Won[10]
2101*Ravi Shastri India1471 Sri Lanka1December 1990Won[11]
3104Aravinda de Silva Sri Lanka1242 India1December 1990Lost[11]
4114Nathan Astle New Zealand1281 India26November 1995Won[12]
5130*Saurav Ganguly India1601 Sri Lanka22March 1999Won[13]
6116Rahul Dravid India1181 Sri Lanka22March 1999Won[13]
7103Chris Gayle West Indies1162 India9November 2002Won[14]
8149*Shivnarine Chanderpaul West Indies1362 India21January 2007Lost[15]
9107*Andrew Symonds Australia881 India14October 2007Won[16]

List of Five Wicket Hauls

Key
Symbol Meaning
The bowler was man of the match
10 or more wickets taken in the match
§ One of two five-wicket hauls by the bowler in the match
Date Day the Test started or ODI was held
Inn Innings in which five-wicket haul was taken
Overs Number of overs bowled.
Runs Number of runs conceded
Wkts Number of wickets taken
Econ Runs conceded per over
Batsmen Batsmen whose wickets were taken
Drawn The match was drawn.

Tests
No. Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Batsmen Result
1Srinivas Venkataraghavan3 October 1969 India New Zealand330.17462.45 Lost[17]
2Hedley Howarth3 October 1969 New Zealand India4233451.47 Won[17]
3Ravi Shastri 5 October 1983 India Pakistan230.47552.44 Drawn[18]
4Mohammad Nazir5 October 1983 Pakistan India3507251.44 Drawn[18]
5Shivlal Yadav27 December 1986 India Sri Lanka119.17653.96 Won[4]
6Maninder Singh 27 December 1986 India Sri Lanka317.45172.88 Won[4]
7Carl Hooper1 December 1994 West Indies India14011652.9 Draw[5]
8Venkatapathy Raju1 December 1994 India India25012752.54 Draw[5]
9Ravindra Pushpakumara26 November 1997 Sri Lanka India13212253.81 Draw[19]
10Ray Price21 February 2002 Zimbabwe India26818252.67 Lost[7]
11Anil Kumble21 February 2002 India Zimbabwe3376351.7 Won[7]
12Jason Gillespie26 October 2004 Australia India222.55652.45 Won[8]
13Matthew Hoggard1 March 206 England India230.55761.84 Draw[9]

One Day Internationals
No. Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Batsmen Result
1Patrick Patterson8 December 1987 West Indies India29.42963.00 Won[20]

See also

References
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  2. "20 years after wall collapsed, VCA moved on". TOI (Times of India). Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. India vs New Zealand
  4. "2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of India at Nagpur, Dec 27–31 1986". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. "2nd Test, West Indies tour of India at Nagpur, Dec 1–5 1994". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. "2nd Test, Zimbabwe tour of India at Nagpur, Nov 25–29 2000". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
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  9. "1st Test, England tour of India at Nagpur, Mar 1–5 2006". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  10. "24th Match, Reliance World Cup at Nagpur, Oct 31 1987". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  11. "1st ODI, Sri Lanka tour of India at Nagpur, Dec 1 1990". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  12. "5th ODI, New Zealand tour of India at Nagpur, Nov 26 1995". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  13. "2nd Match, Pepsi Cup at Nagpur, Mar 22 1999". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  14. "2nd ODI, West Indies tour of India at Nagpur, Nov 9 2002". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  15. "1st ODI, West Indies tour of India at Nagpur, Jan 21 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  16. "6th ODI, Australia tour of India at Nagpur, Oct 14 2007". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  17. "2nd Test, New Zealand tour of India at Nagpur, Oct 3–8 1969". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  18. "3rd Test, Pakistan tour of India at Nagpur, Oct 5–10 1983". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  19. "2nd Test, Sri Lanka tour of India at Nagpur, Nov 26–30 1997". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  20. "1st ODI, West Indies tour of India at Nagpur, Dec 8 1987". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 August 2019.

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