ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium Visakhapatnam Records
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India have played three Tests at Visakhapatnam and won all three: by 246 runs against England in 2016, by 203 against South Africa in 2019 and by 106 against England in 2024. In each of them they batted first and passed 390. The square at Madhurawada has produced two Indian double centuries in eight years, both by openers on the way to those wins.
It is also the ground where MS Dhoni became a batter rather than a promising wicketkeeper. On 5 April 2005, in the second ODI against Pakistan, he was promoted to number three in only his fifth one-day international and made 148 from 123 balls. India's 356 for 9 stood as the highest total at the venue for fourteen years.
The stadium was built in 2003 for the Andhra Cricket Association and the Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association, seats roughly 28,000, and now carries the name of the former state chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy. The tables below are computed from ball-by-ball records of every men's international and IPL match played there.
The ground's record by format
| Format | Matches | Span | India W-L-T | Highest total | Lowest all-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 3 | Nov 2016 – Feb 2024 | 3-0 | India 502-7 dec v South Africa, 2019 | England 158, 2016 |
| ODI | 11 | Apr 2005 – Dec 2025 | 8-2-1 | India 387-5 v West Indies, 2019 | New Zealand 79, 2016 |
| T20I | 5 | Feb 2016 – Jan 2026 | 3-2 | New Zealand 215-7, 2026 | Sri Lanka 82, 2016 |
| IPL | 17 | Apr 2012 – Mar 2025 | — | Kolkata Knight Riders 272-7, 2024 | Mumbai Indians 92, 2016 |
Three Tests, three Indian wins and 3,715 runs at 40 per wicket. Eleven ODIs, eight Indian wins, one tie, and a New Zealand innings of 79 that is the smallest total in the ground's history. Five T20 internationals split three-two. The venue has been reliable for India in the longer formats and a coin-flip in the shortest.
Two double centuries, eight years apart
| Test | Result | The innings that built it |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2016 v England | India won by 246 runs | Virat Kohli 167 and 81; Ravichandran Ashwin 5-67 and 3-52 |
| Oct 2019 v South Africa | India won by 203 runs | Mayank Agarwal 215, Rohit Sharma 176 and 127 |
| Feb 2024 v England | India won by 106 runs | Yashasvi Jaiswal 209; Jasprit Bumrah 6-45 |
Mayank Agarwal's 215 from 371 balls in October 2019 remains the highest score made at the ground. In the same match Rohit Sharma, playing his first Test as an opener, made 176 and 127 — the only instance of two centuries in a match at this venue, and the innings that settled a question about his red-ball future. Dean Elgar replied with 160 and Quinton de Kock 111, South Africa reaching 431 in the first innings, and India still won by 203 runs after declaring on 323 for 4 second time round.
Yashasvi Jaiswal's 209 in February 2024 was his maiden Test double century, made from 290 balls out of India's 396 all out — 53 per cent of the team total. England, chasing 399, reached 292, which is the highest fourth innings the ground has produced and the only one above 200. Jasprit Bumrah's 6 for 45 in England's first innings is the best single-innings return in the venue's Test history, and his nine wickets in the match cost 91 runs across 33.1 overs.
The 2016 Test is the one that reads least like the other two. India made 455, Virat Kohli batting 267 balls for 167, and then were bowled out for 204 in the third innings — the only time India have failed to reach 250 in a Test innings here. England needed 405 and lasted 97.2 overs for 158, Alastair Cook facing 188 balls for 54 and Haseeb Hameed 144 for 25. Ashwin's 19 wickets across the three Tests make him the venue's leading bowler; the tradition he belongs to is set out in the guide to India's spin bowling tradition.
Dhoni's 148, and what the ODI ground became
| Highest ODI totals at Visakhapatnam | Score | Match | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 387-5 | v West Indies | 18 Dec 2019 |
| 2 | India 356-9 | v Pakistan | 5 Apr 2005 |
| 3 | India 321-6 | v West Indies | 24 Oct 2018 |
| 4 | West Indies 321-7 | v India | 24 Oct 2018 |
| 5 | Pakistan 298 | v India | 5 Apr 2005 |
MS Dhoni's 148 was his first ODI century and the innings that ended any doubt about his place in the side. He had been given out for a duck in his debut match four months earlier. Virender Sehwag made 74 from 40 balls at the top and Pakistan, chasing 357, were bowled out for 298 with Ashish Nehra taking 4 for 72. That fixture's long and interrupted history is set out in the India–Pakistan rivalry.
Fourteen years later the ground produced its largest score. India made 387 for 5 against West Indies in December 2019, Rohit Sharma 159 from 138 balls and KL Rahul 102, and won by 107 runs. A year before that the same fixture had produced the venue's only tie: India 321 for 6, Kohli 157 not out, and West Indies 321 for 7, Shai Hope 123 not out and Shimron Hetmyer 94 from 64 balls off the last ball of the fiftieth over.
Kohli's aggregate here is 652 runs in eight innings at 108.7, with three centuries and three fifties; he has passed fifty in six of the eight. Kuldeep Yadav leads the wicket-takers with 13 at 16.5. The most remarkable bowling figures belong to Amit Mishra, whose 5 for 18 from six overs in October 2016 helped bowl New Zealand out for 79 in 23.1 overs — the smallest total in the ground's history in any format and a 190-run defeat.
There have been only two Indian defeats. West Indies chased 289 with three balls left in November 2013, Darren Sammy making 63 from 45, and in March 2023 Australia won by ten wickets: India were bowled out for 117 in 26 overs, Mitchell Starc taking 5 for 53, and Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh knocked the runs off inside eleven overs. It is one of only two ten-wicket defeats India have suffered in a home ODI, and both came against Australia inside four years.
The T20 international ground: 82 and then 215
Five matches, and the range is as wide as any Indian venue with that many. In February 2016 Sri Lanka were bowled out for 82 and India needed 13.5 overs to win by nine wickets. Ten years later, in January 2026, New Zealand made 215 for 7 — Tim Seifert 62 from 36 balls, Devon Conway 44 from 23 — and won by 50 runs despite Shivam Dube hitting 65 from 23 balls in reply.
The best of the five was the fourth. Josh Inglis made 110 from 50 balls for Australia in November 2023 and Australia reached 208 for 3. India chased it with a ball to spare: Suryakumar Yadav 80 from 42, Ishan Kishan 58 from 39, and two wickets in hand. That 209 for 8 is the highest successful chase at the ground in any format.
The other two were low-scoring. India's 126 for 7 against Australia in February 2019 was overhauled by Glenn Maxwell's 56, and in June 2022 India's 179 for 5 proved 48 too many for South Africa. Across all five the first innings has averaged 162, from a set of scores that runs 82, 126, 179, 208 and 215.
Seventeen IPL matches for four different tenants
Visakhapatnam has never had a franchise of its own. It has been a second home for Deccan Chargers in 2012, Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2015, 2016 and 2019, and Delhi Capitals in 2024 and 2025, plus a neutral venue for six matches of the relocated second half of the 2016 season.
- Kolkata Knight Riders' 272 for 7 against Delhi Capitals on 3 April 2024 is the highest total the ground has seen in any format, and the 106-run margin is its largest IPL win. Delhi were bowled out for 166 in reply.
- Shikhar Dhawan is the leading run scorer with 294 in nine innings, ahead of David Warner's 269 in seven.
- Rishabh Pant has struck at 163 across seven innings here, the highest rate among batters with more than five.
- Mumbai Indians' 92 in May 2016, chasing 178 against Sunrisers Hyderabad, is the lowest total and the ground's only sub-100 score.
- Two of the seventeen have been decided by four runs, one by two wickets and one by a single wicket — Delhi Capitals chasing 210 against Lucknow Super Giants in March 2025.
Five things the Visakhapatnam record shows
- Batting first has settled the Tests and complicated the ODIs. India batted first in all three Tests and won all three. In fifty-over cricket they have batted first four times here and won once, tied once and lost twice, while winning five of the six matches in which they chased.
- The square favours the very long innings. Its five highest Test scores — 215, 209, 176, 167 and 160 — all came from more than 240 balls, and the quickest hundred at the ground is Rohit Sharma's 127 from 149.
- Openers own it. Agarwal, Rohit and Jaiswal made their big scores from the top of the order, and Rohit's twin hundreds in 2019 were his first two as a Test opener. The lineage is traced in the guide to India's great opening batters.
- The bowling record splits by format. Spin has taken the Test wickets — Ashwin 19, Ravindra Jadeja 9 — while the two best single-innings returns in any format belong to seamers, Bumrah's 6 for 45 and Starc's 5 for 53.
- The two extremes sit in the same competition. New Zealand's 79 and Kolkata's 272 were made on the same square eight years apart, which is a wider range than most Indian grounds produce across twice as many matches.
Sources and method
Every ranked table and aggregate above is computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive of men's Tests, ODIs, T20 internationals and IPL matches, released under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence, covering matches at this ground up to early August 2026. The archive records the venue under more than one name — including the earlier Andhra Cricket Association-Visakhapatnam District Cricket Association form and the current Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy version — and all of them are counted here as the same ground. Wickets go to a bowler only where the scorer attributed the dismissal, so run-outs sit outside bowling figures, and averages appear only where a player has batted or bowled here more than once.
The construction date, the capacity and the naming are taken from Andhra Cricket Association and published venue records rather than computed. Match counts move with each season, so read them as accurate to August 2026. For the rest of the country see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the guide to India's Test grounds, the northern venue at Green Park in Kanpur, and the cricket in India hub.