Narendra Modi Stadium: Narendra Modi Stadium: World's largest stadium: Currently ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 is being organized in India and as many as 10 teams will compete at different places till 19 November. Then, in the first match of the ICC World Cup starting from 5 October 2023, England and New Zealand will clash at the world's largest stadium Narendra Modi Stadium. Then we need information about some features of this stadium and what is recorded in it.
Narendra Modi Stadium
The first match of ICC cricket match is to be played in Ahmedabad from 5th October. One day Cricket World Cup has been organised. The World Cup is about to begin with the world's largest Narendra Modi Stadium with a total capacity of 1 lakh and 20 thousand including VVIP. The practice match as well as the final match of this World Cup is also to be held at this stadium. God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar has been made the brand ambassador of this World Cup. Then the opening ceremony of this ICC Cricket World Cup is to be held by Sachin Tendulkar. And the trophy will be unveiled. Apart from this, the match between India and Pakistan will also be held in this stadium.
Stadium in Security Camp
Due to the security of the World Cup and the numerous spectators, VVIPs, and especially the players and support staff of different teams, the city of Ahmedabad has currently been converted into a security camp. Especially in this Narendra Modi Stadium and its surrounding areas, super security has been arranged with different layer system. It is noteworthy that this stadium was inaugurated in February 2021 after renovation. This stadium was operational even before that. Then let us look at some of the features and records of this stadium.
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Features of the stadium.
The features of this Narendra Modi Stadium are as follows.
- This stadium was built at a cost of Rs 800 crore.
- 4 dressing rooms have been prepared for the players.
- A total of 1 lakh 10 thousand people will be able to watch the match in this stadium.
- Which has more capacity than the world's largest Melbourne ground.
- 1 lakh people could watch the match in Melbourne Stadium.
- A total of 76 corporate boxes have been prepared.
- A total of 11 pitches are ready in this ground which have been prepared with red and black clay.
- The height of the floodlights in the grounds is 90 meters, which is as high as a 25-storey building.
- In case of rain, the field can be prepared again in 30 minutes.
- A sub-surface drainage system has been built beneath this field.
- Apart from cricket, competitions like football, hockey, Khokhlo, Kabaddi, volleyball, basketball, netball, tennis, badminton can be organized here.
Records made in Motera Stadium
The name of this Narendra Modi Stadium was earlier Motera Stadium, the records of which are as follows.
- First day-night test match in the history of Motera.
- Sunil Gavaskar completed 10 thousand runs against Pakistan at Motera Stadium.
- Kapil Dev broke Richard Hadlee's record of taking a total of 432 wickets at the Motera Stadium.
- In October 2009, Sachin Tendulkar scored the first double century of his career in Motera.
- Sachin completed 20 years of his career in Motera Stadium itself.
- In 2009, Sachin completed 30,000 runs in International Cricket in Motera.
- It was in Motera that Sachin became the first cricketer to score 18,000 runs.
- AB de Villiers scored his first double century in Test cricket at Motera.
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Test match records in this stadium
- Sri Lanka has scored the maximum of 760 runs in 1 inning against India.
- India's lowest score in an innings against South Africa was 76 runs.
- Sri Lankan women Jayawardene has scored 275 runs in one inning.
- In 1983, Kapil Dev took the maximum of 9 wickets in 1 inning against West Indies.
- Venkatapathy Raju has taken the highest number of 11 wickets in a test match in 1994.
- The highest score in this stadium is 771 runs by Rahul Dravid.
- Anil Kumble has taken 36 wickets, which is the highest in this stadium.
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