About Holkar Cricket Stadium:

Holkar Cricket Stadium ( होलकर स्टेडियम) is located in Indore, India. It was earlier known as Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground. But in 2010, Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association renamed it after the Holkar dynasty of the Marathas that ruled Indore State. Indore city has another International Cricket stadium "Nehru Stadium" which was used for International matches until 31 March 2001.

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The ground stages the majority of Madhya Pradesh Cricket Team home matches in the Ranji Trophy. The stadium was selected to be one of the six new Test venues in India. On 8 October 2016, Holkar stadium hosted its first test match when India hosted New Zealand for the third and final test of the series and became the twenty-second test venue of India.

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The Stadium hosted its first ever IPL match on 13 May 2011. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi is the home venue for the Indian Premier League team Kochi Tuskers Kerala and officially hosted 5 home-matches of the franchise. The remaining 2 home matches were played at the Holkar Cricket Stadium. In 2017, Kings XI Punjab selected the Holkar stadium as one of their home grounds for three IPL matches.

Intriguingly, it is also the venue, where Virender Sehwag thwacked West Indies' attack to all corners of the ground and cracked a sparkling knock of 219 in 2011. The ground has state-of-the-art facilities. The floodlit stadium has a seating capacity touching 30,000, which is the norm for most cricket grounds in the smaller cities of India. In 2011, the Pavilions were named after C.K Nayudu and Mushtaq Ali.

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When India came face-to-face against England on April 15, 2006, the Holkar stadium became the 156th ODI venue in this country. It also hosts most of Madhya Pradesh's Ranji Trophy matches and Duleep Trophy encounters.

Some quick facts about this stadium:

1) Location- Indore,Madhya Pradesh,India.

2) Established- 1990

3) No of One-Day International Games Hosted- 4

4) No of Twenty-Twenty International Games Hosted- 2

5) No of Test Matches  Hosted- 2

6) Seating Capacity- 30,000.