Good news for all the cricket fans of India, now they can proudly say that, India has a largest cricket stadium in the world, know as Motera Cricket Stadium (Sardar Patel Stadium)
Its has been renovated from the seating capacity of 54000 to 110000. The new modified stadium is going to be inaugurated by none other than the United State President - Donald Trump. On the occasion of Donald Trump visiting the Motera Cricket Stadium, Gujarat Government organized a program named "Namaste Trump".
24th and 25th February 2020, Donald Trump visiting India and as a part of this schedule, he will be inaugurating the Worlds biggest ground Sardhar Vallabhbhai Stadium along with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Excepting 1 lakh crowd to join the inauguration program of Motera Stadium. Its a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he dreamed about this when he was working as President of Gujarat Cricket Association.
This has been demolished in the year 2015 and since then the construction of expansion and renovation is been continued and completed in the year 2020.
Motera Stadium has 3 entrances and the cricket stadium in built in 63 acre land. It has Olympic range Swimming pool, 4 dressing rooms and 75 corporate blocks. The main attraction of the Gujarat stadium (motera Stadium) are the LED lights, generally all the cricket grounds has flood lights.
An estimation of 719 crores been used to construct Worlds biggest cricket stadium. It has moderate dressing room and food courts for the spectators. It has two indoor practice cricket pitches out side the stadium. When the weather did not support the match, players can use these two practice cricket grounds for practicing.
Motera Cricket stadium along with cricket, it also has badminton, tennis and squash courts inside the stadium.
The current largest cricket stadium title holder is Melbourne Cricket Stadium in Australia with 1 lakh seating capacity, Sardar stadium beats this record by 1 lakh ten thousand seats.
Sardar Vallabhabhai stadium has a huge parking slot, which can hold upto 3 thousand cars and 10 throunsand bikes.
Motera or Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium was first built in the year 1982 by the Gujarat Government, situated at Motera, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and which comes under Gujarat cricket association. Gujarat and Rajasthan Royals are the home teams for this ground.
Motera Stadium also know as Gujarat Stadium has two pavilions - Adani Pavilion End and GMDC Pavilion.
In 1983 the first International test match is played here between India and West Indies and the Last test match is played here 2012 between India vs England.
In 1984 the first international ODI match player here between India vs Australia and the last ODI match played here between India vs Sri Lanka in the year 2014.
The only T20 international match played here between the arc rivals India vs Pakistan in the year 2012, December 2018. (India won the Twenty20 match by 11 Runs).
Cricket Highlights in this Ground:
1. Sunil Gavaskar got his 10,000 Test Runs here in the first test match played against Pakistan
2. Kapil Dev got 432 Wicket to pass Richard Hedlee as test cricketer Leading wicket taker.
3. Test match between India vs South Africa completed in 3 days, due to the slowness for the pitch.
Official Tweet by BCCI
Its has been renovated from the seating capacity of 54000 to 110000. The new modified stadium is going to be inaugurated by none other than the United State President - Donald Trump. On the occasion of Donald Trump visiting the Motera Cricket Stadium, Gujarat Government organized a program named "Namaste Trump".
24th and 25th February 2020, Donald Trump visiting India and as a part of this schedule, he will be inaugurating the Worlds biggest ground Sardhar Vallabhbhai Stadium along with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Excepting 1 lakh crowd to join the inauguration program of Motera Stadium. Its a dream project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he dreamed about this when he was working as President of Gujarat Cricket Association.
This has been demolished in the year 2015 and since then the construction of expansion and renovation is been continued and completed in the year 2020.
Motera Stadium has 3 entrances and the cricket stadium in built in 63 acre land. It has Olympic range Swimming pool, 4 dressing rooms and 75 corporate blocks. The main attraction of the Gujarat stadium (motera Stadium) are the LED lights, generally all the cricket grounds has flood lights.
An estimation of 719 crores been used to construct Worlds biggest cricket stadium. It has moderate dressing room and food courts for the spectators. It has two indoor practice cricket pitches out side the stadium. When the weather did not support the match, players can use these two practice cricket grounds for practicing.
Motera Cricket stadium along with cricket, it also has badminton, tennis and squash courts inside the stadium.
The current largest cricket stadium title holder is Melbourne Cricket Stadium in Australia with 1 lakh seating capacity, Sardar stadium beats this record by 1 lakh ten thousand seats.
Sardar Vallabhabhai stadium has a huge parking slot, which can hold upto 3 thousand cars and 10 throunsand bikes.
Motera or Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium was first built in the year 1982 by the Gujarat Government, situated at Motera, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and which comes under Gujarat cricket association. Gujarat and Rajasthan Royals are the home teams for this ground.
Motera Stadium also know as Gujarat Stadium has two pavilions - Adani Pavilion End and GMDC Pavilion.
In 1983 the first International test match is played here between India and West Indies and the Last test match is played here 2012 between India vs England.
In 1984 the first international ODI match player here between India vs Australia and the last ODI match played here between India vs Sri Lanka in the year 2014.
The only T20 international match played here between the arc rivals India vs Pakistan in the year 2012, December 2018. (India won the Twenty20 match by 11 Runs).
Cricket Highlights in this Ground:
1. Sunil Gavaskar got his 10,000 Test Runs here in the first test match played against Pakistan
2. Kapil Dev got 432 Wicket to pass Richard Hedlee as test cricketer Leading wicket taker.
3. Test match between India vs South Africa completed in 3 days, due to the slowness for the pitch.
Official Tweet by BCCI
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 19, 2020