The Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground is a cricket ground located in the city of Nagpur.
The ground is known as the VCA Ground and is located in Central Zone. Its first match was played in October 1969. As of 19 August 2017, it has hosted nine Tests and 14 ODIs.
Its role as an international venue has been succeeded by the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, but it continues to be used as a domestic cricket ground by the Vidarbha and Uttar Pradesh cricket teams.
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.
History
The ground is the tenth Test venue in India.
Chetan Sharma took the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick. With the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield in Nagpur.
Sunil Gavaskar performed a one-day, World Cup century for India against New Zealand in their final league encounter of the 1987 Reliance World Cup.
The pitch's wickets were re-layed in 1999. Strangely, the wicket was constructed with a 30-inch deep, double-brick layer (normally there is a 15-inch brick layer). This facilitates extra pace and bounce.
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 Test Batting Highest team total: 609/6 dec, by India against Zimbabwe in 2000/01, then 570/7 and 546/9, all by India. Lowest team total: 109, by India against New Zealand in 1969/70. Highest individual score: 232*, by Andy Flower against India in 2000/01. Most runs scored by Sachin Tendulkar (659 runs), Rahul Dravid (423 runs) and Andy Flower (298 runs).
Bowling Best bowling in an innings: 7/51, by Maninder Singh against Sri Lanka in 1986/87. Leading wicket takers Anil Kumble (20 wickets), Zaheer Khan (12 wickets) and Maninder Singh (10 wickets).
One Day International Batting Highest team total: 350, by India against Sri Lanka in 2005/06, New Zealand 348/3 and India 338/3. Lowest team total: 154, by Zimbabwe against Australia in 1995/96. Highest individual score: 149, by Shivnarine Chanderpaul against India in 2006/07. Most runs scored by Sourav Ganguly (398 runs), Rahul Dravid (392 runs) and Sachin Tendulkar (390 runs).
Bowling Best bowling in an innings: 6/29, by Patrick Patterson against India in 1987/88. Leading wicket takers were Ravi Shastri (8 wickets), Patrick Patterson (6 wickets) and Abdul Qadir (6 wickets).
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. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result 1 131 Mohinder Amarnath 301 2 27 December 1986 Won 2 153 Dilip Vengsarkar – 2 27 December 1986 Won 3 107 Navjot Singh Sidhu 231 1 1 December 1994 Draw 4 179 Sachin Tendulkar 322 1 1 December 1994 Draw 5 125* Jimmy Adams 312 2 1 December 1994 Draw 6 110 Shiv Sunder Das 175 1 25 November 2000 Draw 7 162 Rahul Dravid 301 1 25 November 2000 Draw 8 201* Sachin Tendulkar 281 1 25 November 2000 Draw 9 106* Grant Flower 196 2 25 November 2000 Draw 10 102 Alistair Campbell 186 3 25 November 2000 Draw 11 232* Andy Flower 444 3 25 November 2000 Draw 12 105 Shiv Sunder Das 203 2 21 February 2002 Won 13 176 Sachin Tendulkar 316 2 21 February 2002 Won 14 100* Sanjay Bangar 155 2 21 February 2002 Won 15 114 Damien Martyn 165 1 26 October 2004 Won 16 134* Paul Collingwood 252 1 1 March 2006 Draw 17 104* Alastair Cook 243 3 1 March 2006 Draw 18 100 Wasim Jaffer 198 4 1 March 2006 Won
One Day Internationals
No. Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result 1 103* Sunil Gavaskar 88 2 31 October 1987 Won 2 101* Ravi Shastri 147 1 1 December 1990 Won 3 104 Aravinda de Silva 124 2 1 December 1990 Lost 4 114 Nathan Astle 128 1 26 November 1995 Won 5 130* Saurav Ganguly 160 1 22 March 1999 Won 6 116 Rahul Dravid 118 1 22 March 1999 Won 7 103 Chris Gayle 116 2 9 November 2002 Won 8 149* Shivnarine Chanderpaul 136 2 21 January 2007 Lost 9 107* Andrew Symonds 88 1 14 October 2007 Won
List of Five Wicket Hauls
Key Symbol MeaningThe bowler was man of the match10 or more wickets taken in the match§One of two five-wicket hauls by the bowler in the matchDateDay the Test started or ODI was heldInnInnings in which five-wicket haul was takenOversNumber of overs bowled.RunsNumber of runs concededWktsNumber of wickets takenEconRuns conceded per overBatsmenBatsmen whose wickets were takenDrawnThe match was drawn.
Tests
No.BowlerDateTeamOpposing teamInnOversRunsWktsEconBatsmenResult 1 Srinivas Venkataraghavan Graham Dowling Mark Burgess Glenn Turner Ken Wadsworth Bob Cunis Dayle Hadlee Lost 2 Hedley Howarth Ajit Wadekar Rusi Surti Chetan Chauhan Ambar Roy Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Won 3 Ravi Shastri Mohsin Khan Wasim Raja Wasim Bari Tahir Naqqash Azeem Hafeez Drawn 4 Mohammad Nazir Anshuman Gaekwad Sunil Gavaskar Dilip Vengsarkar Ravi Shastri Kirti Azad Drawn 5 Shivlal Yadav Asanka Gurusinha Aravinda de Silva Guy de Alwis Arjuna Ranatunga Asoka de Silva Won 6 Maninder Singh Roy Dias Aravinda de Silva Duleep Mendis Arjuna Ranatunga Ravi Ratnayeke Asoka de Silva Guy de Alwis Won 7 Carl Hooper Manoj Prabhakar Vinod Kambli Navjot Singh Sidhu Mohammad Azharuddin Sanjay Manjrekar Draw 8 Venkatapathy Raju Anderson Cummins Brian Lara Keith Arthurton Shivnarine Chanderpaul Junior Murray Draw 9 Ravindra Pushpakumara Nayan Mongia Sachin Tendulkar Mohammad Azharuddin Sourav Ganguly Abey Kuruvilla Draw 10 Ray Price Deep Dasgupta Shiv Sunder Das Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Sachin Tendulkar Lost 11 Anil Kumble Alistair Campbell Andy Flower Gavin Rennie Grant Flower Heath Streak Won 12 Jason Gillespie Aakash Chopra Sachin Tendulkar Ajit Agarkar Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Won 13 Matthew Hoggard Virender Sehwag Rahul Dravid Wasim Jaffer VVS Laxman Irfan Pathan S. Sreesanth Draw
One Day Internationals
No.BowlerDateTeamOpposing teamInnOversRunsWktsEconBatsmenResult 1 Patrick Patterson Arun Lal Anshuman Gaekwad Krishnamachari Srikkanth Kapil Dev Ravi Shastri Kiran More Won
See also Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium List of Test cricket grounds
References
External links
VCA ground Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium Seating Layout Statistical Overview