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T-20 World Cup 2026 has started. The hosts of the 10th edition of the tournament are India and Sri Lanka. A total of 6 matches including 1 match of Super-8 will be played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The first match here will be between Netherlands cricket team and Namibia cricket team on 10 February. In such a situation, this ground is very special from the tournament point of view. Let’s take a look at the pitch report and interesting statistics from the stadium.
Such are the stadium figures in T-20 international cricket.
The first T-20 international match was played in this stadium in 2016. There have been 8 matches here. The team batting first has won 4 matches, the team batting later has also won 4 matches. The biggest innings here has been played jointly by Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Both of them had scored 80-80 runs against New Zealand in the year 2017. The best bowling performance has been from Chris Jordan (4/28 vs Sri Lanka, 2016).
Other statistics of Arun Jaitley Stadium
The highest score in Arun Jaitley Stadium is in the name of Indian team (221/9 vs Bangladesh). The smallest score here has been made by Sri Lanka (120 runs vs South Africa). Batting first, the average score on this ground has been 171 runs. On this ground, Jason Roy has scored the maximum of 125 runs in 3 innings of 3 matches. England’s Chris Jordan has taken the maximum of 6 wickets in 3 matches here.
What will be the nature of the pitch?
Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium is a paradise for batsmen. The fast outfield and short boundaries encourage the batsmen to score runs quickly. There is not much for fast bowlers on this pitch. In such a situation, they have to make extra efforts to take wickets. The spinners get help from the pitch and their record is also good. The pitch of this stadium is made of black soil, which is quite hard and flat.
This has been the history of the stadium
Arun Jaitley Stadium was established in the year 1883. Here about 55 thousand spectators can sit together and enjoy the match. Anil Kumble’s historic performance of 10/74 against Pakistan cricket team was seen in this stadium in the year 1999. This is the home ground of Delhi Capitals (DC) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In 2005, Sachin Tendulkar had overtaken Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 34 Test centuries on this very ground.
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