The Sector 16 Stadium is a cricket stadium in Chandigarh, India.
It hosted its first One Day International match in January 1985 and its only Test match in 1990.
It has hosted only four matches. The likes of Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma and Yograj Singh started playing cricket at the Sector 16 Stadium. It fell out of favour to the nearby Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, (Mohali) cricket ground.
After the stadium in Mohali was built, there was no first-class cricket at the Sector 16 Stadium for 10 years before Haryana ended the barren spell by playing the Ranji Trophy Plate League semi-final in 2004/05. But after 14 years, India and Australia played a match in October 2007. Starting 2025, a new Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium in New Chandigarh has started emerging as a new choice for International matches.
Records
Batting in One Day Internationals
Most runs – Navjot Sidhu (India) – 180 runs in two matches, Geoff Marsh- 126 runs and Mathew Hayden- 92 runs. Highest score in an innings – Geoff Marsh (Australia) – 126* Highest team score- India vs Australia- 291/4 on 8 Oct 2007.
Bowling in One Day Internationals
Most wickets – Kapil Dev (India) – 4 wickets in three matches, T Sekhar- 3 wickets and V Raju- 3 wickets Best bowling in an innings – Thirumalai Sekhar (India) – 3 wickets for 23 runs
Batting in Test Most runs – Ravi Shastri (India) – 88 Runs in one match Highest score in an innings – Ravi Shastri (India) – 88 Highest team score- India vs Sri Lanka- 288 on 23 Nov 1990.
Bowling in Test Most wickets – Venkatapathy Raju (India) – 8 wickets in one match Best bowling in an innings – Venkatapathy Raju (India) – 6 wickets for 12 runs
List of Centuries
Key *(asterisk) 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
One Day Internationals
Score Player Team Balls Inns. Opposing team Date Result 1 126* Geoff Marsh 149 1 27 October 1987 Won 2 104* Navjot Singh Sidhu 109 2 25 December 1990 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
Bowler Date Team Opposing team Inn Overs Runs Wkts Econ Batsmen Result 1 Venkatapathy Raju Aravinda de Silva Arjuna Ranatunga Hashan Tillakaratne Marvan Attapatu Rumesh Ratnayake Jayananda Warnaweera Won
See also List of Test cricket grounds One-Test wonder Punjab Cricket Association Stadium Mullanpur International Cricket Stadium
References
External links Cricinfo Website – Ground Page cricketarchive Website – Ground Page