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Green Park Stadium

Cricket stadium

Field	Value
ground_name	Green Park Cricket Stadium
image	Green Park International Stadium Kanpur.jpg
country	India
location	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
coordinates
establishment	1945
seating_capacity	32,000
owner	Uttar Pradesh Government
operator	UPCA
end1	Media End
end2	River End
tenants	Uttar Pradesh cricket team
India national cricket team
India women's national cricket team
Gujarat Lions (defunct)
Kanpur Superstars
international	true
firsttestdate	12–14 January
firsttestyear	1952
firsttesthome	India
firsttestaway	England
lasttestdate	27 September – 1 October
lasttestyear	2024
lasttesthome	India
lasttestaway	Bangladesh
firstodidate	24 December
firstodiyear	1986
firstodihome	India
firstodiaway	Sri Lanka
lastodidate	29 October
lastodiyear	2017
lastodihome	India
lastodiaway	New Zealand
onlyt20idate	26 January
onlyt20iyear	2017
onlyt20ihome	India
onlyt20iaway	England
year1	2009 – Present
club1	Uttar Pradesh Cricket Team
year2	2009-Present
club2	India national cricket team
date	27 September
year	2024
source	https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/ground/58204.html ESPNcricinfo
club3	Gujarat Lions (defunct)	year3=2016-2017

India national cricket team India women's national cricket team Gujarat Lions (defunct) Kanpur Superstars

Green Park Stadium is an international cricket stadium in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its seating capacity increased to approximately 32,000 after a recent reconstruction. It is the home ground of Uttar Pradesh cricket team. It is located in the Civil Lines area in the north east part of Kanpur city near the banks of the river Ganga, which flows just behind the stadium.

This arena is an International Test match venue. Green Park is under the control of the Sports Department of Uttar Pradesh. It has hosted international cricket matches in both Test and ODI formats. The stadium hosted the 500th Test played by the Indian team. It also organized four Vivo IPL matches, on 19 and 21 May 2016 and on 10 and 13 May 2017. As of 19 August 2017, it has hosted 22 Tests, 14 ODIs, and 1 T20I.

History

The stadium was named after a British woman named Green who used to go horse riding there, and is nicknamed 'Billiards Table', and also 'Woolmer's turf', after the late cricket coach and player Bob Woolmer who was born in McRobert Hospital opposite to the stadium.

It is the only stadium in India where a student gallery is available. Green Park has the largest manually operated scoreboard in the world. It also has video screens that are used during international matches.

India's first Test win over Australia in December 1959 was at the Green Park ground. This was also the first match to be played on a turf wicket here.

Since 1957 India has lost only twice at Kanpur, both times to the West Indies, in 1958 and again in 1983.

Infrastructure

The ends are known as the Mill Pavilion End and the Hostel End. These are named after the Elgin Mill and DAV College which are close to the stadium.

Lakshmi (Gulee) is the head of Women Cricket Division.

Records

The ground hosted one 1987 Cricket World Cup Group B match, West Indies vs Sri Lanka.
It hosted one Nehru Cup 1989 match, England vs India.
It hosted the opening match of 1993 Hero Cup, Sri Lanka vs India.
It hosted one Wills world series 1994–95 match, West Indies vs India.
India registered their 100th Test victory here by defeating Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs.
It hosted India's 500th test match in September 2016, in which India beat New Zealand by 197 runs.
Sourav Ganguly got 5 wickets vs Zimbabwe in 2000.
It also hosted England in January 2002 which India won easily in what turned out to be the only match with Anil Kumble as captain.
It hosted its first day/night ODI on 29 October 2017 between India and New Zealand and India won this match by six runs.
The highest team total in ODI in this stadium is 337/7 by India on 29 October 2017 vs New Zealand.
Rohit Sharma is the only batsman who scored two centuries in ODIs in this ground.
Shreyas Iyer scored a century in the first innings and a half-century in the second innings in his debut test match against New Zealand in November 2021.

Gallery

File:Kanpur green park.jpg|Kanpur's green park stadium between a Day-Night cricket match File:Green Park Stadium during an IPL match (1).jpg|Green Park Stadium during Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians IPL match File:Green Park Stadium during an IPL match (2).jpg|Green Park Stadium during Gujarat Lions vs Mumbai Indians IPL match File:England Vs India T20 match practice session at Green Park Stadium.jpg|England Vs India T20 match practice session at Green Park Stadium File:England Vs India T20 match at Green Park Stadium (2).jpg|England Vs India T20 match at Green Park Stadium File:Mahendra Shukla - Green Park.jpg|Mahendra Shukla, former Indian first-class cricketer at Green Park Stadium File:Green Park Stadium Kanpur.jpg|Green Park Stadium in 2002

References

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