The Sector 16 Stadium is a

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stadium in

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. It hosted its first

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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

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started playing cricket at the Sector 16 Stadium. It fell out of favour to the nearby Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, (

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) cricket ground. After the stadium in

was built, there was no

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at the Sector 16 Stadium for 10 years before

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ended the barren spell by playing the

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Plate League semi-final in 2004/05. But after 14 years,

and

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played a match in October 2007.

Records

Batting in One Day Internationals

* Most runs – Navjot Sidhu (India) – 180 runs in two matches,

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- 126 runs and Mathew Hayden- 92 runs. * Highest score in an innings –

(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

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. * 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

List of Five Wicket Hauls

Key

Tests

References

External links

Cricinfo Website – Ground Page

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