Barabati Stadium Records & Stats | Cuttack Cricket Ground
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Barabati was laid out in 1958, holds 45,000 and belongs to the state of Odisha rather than to a cricket board — the Odisha Cricket Association shares it with the state football association. It has staged two Tests, both of them a long time ago, and has since become one of India's most reliable one-day venues: nineteen fifty-over internationals had been played here by the middle of 2022, with more since.
The one-day record is the reason to read this page. Across the eight men's one-day internationals covered by ball-by-ball scoring, the first innings averages 291 and a wicket has cost 40.8 runs — the highest runs-per-wicket figure of any ground in this set of ten, in any format. On 19 January 2017 India made 381 for 6 against England and won by fifteen runs after England replied with 366 for 8, a match aggregate of 747.
The Twenty20 record runs the other way entirely. Four T20 internationals at Barabati have produced 6.81 runs an over and a wicket every 18.2 runs, with India bowled out for 92 in one of them and South Africa for 74 in another. Two formats, one square, and two completely different sets of numbers.
The two Tests
| Test | Result | Landmark |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1987 v Sri Lanka | India won by an innings and 67 runs | Dilip Vengsarkar 166, the highest Test score made at the ground |
| Nov 1995 v New Zealand | Drawn | Narendra Hirwani 6 for 59, the best Test bowling here |
Sri Lanka's 142 in the 1987 match is the lowest total either Test produced. Neither game falls inside the ball-by-ball archive, so nothing in the ranked tables below reflects them, and no Test has been allotted to Cuttack in the thirty years since. The grounds that carry India's red-ball fixtures now are set out in the Test cricket grounds guide, and the arc of the home record itself in the history of Test cricket in India.
The ledger, format by format
| Format | Matches counted | Window | India played | India W-L | Highest total | Lowest all out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 0 counted, 2 all-time | 1987 and 1995 | 2 | 1-0, one draw | — | — |
| ODI | 8 | Nov 2003 – Feb 2025 | 8 | 7-1 | India 381-6 v England, 2017 | Sri Lanka 194, 2014 |
| T20I | 4 | Oct 2015 – Dec 2025 | 4 | 2-2 | India 180-3 v Sri Lanka, 2017 | South Africa 74, 2025 |
| IPL | 7 | 2010 – 2014 | — | — | Kings XI Punjab 231-4, 2014 | none, no side dismissed |
Every one of the twelve internationals in the window involved India, which makes Barabati unusual: it has never been used as a neutral venue for a global tournament, and its record is therefore a record of India's home cricket rather than of world cricket passing through.
Eight one-day internationals, and a first-innings average of 291
| Highest ODI totals in the window | Score | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 381-6 | England | 19 Jan 2017 |
| 2 | England 366-8 | India | 19 Jan 2017 |
| 3 | India 363-5 | Sri Lanka | 2 Nov 2014 |
| 4 | India 316-6 | West Indies | 22 Dec 2019 |
| 5 | West Indies 315-5 | India | 22 Dec 2019 |
Four of the eight first innings in the window passed 300 and two passed 350. Only one side has been bowled out below 200 — Sri Lanka, for 194 in November 2014, in a match India won by 169 runs after Shikhar Dhawan made 113 and Ajinkya Rahane 111.
Rohit Sharma leads the run-scorers with 262 and MS Dhoni is next on 184. Ravindra Jadeja has ten wickets at the ground, more than anyone, and no bowler has taken five in an innings here in a one-day international. That combination — very high scoring, no five-wicket hauls, the highest runs-per-wicket of any venue in this series — describes a ground where bowlers contain rather than take wickets. The wider fifty-over record is set out in the history of ODI cricket in India.
Mohammad Azharuddin's 153 not out against Zimbabwe is the highest individual one-day score made at Barabati, and it falls outside the archive window.
19 January 2017: 747 runs in a day
India's second one-day international against England in January 2017 is the highest-scoring match the ground has held and one of the highest played anywhere in India. India made 381 for 6, built on 150 from Yuvraj Singh and 134 from MS Dhoni — the pair adding a partnership of more than 250 after India had lost three early wickets. England then made 366 for 8, with Eoin Morgan reaching 102, and lost by fifteen.
Nothing about that match was typical of the venue's earlier history. Barabati's first four one-day internationals in the archive window produced first innings of 246, 270, 239 and 211. The step change came in 2014, and every match since has produced a first innings above 300. The rivalry's fuller story sits in the India-England rivalry.
The chases: 316, 308 and a one-wicket win
| Successful ODI chases at Barabati | Score | Target | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 316-6 | 316 | 22 Dec 2019 |
| 2 | India 308-6 | 305 | 9 Feb 2025 |
| 3 | India 273-4 | 271 | 26 Nov 2008 |
| 4 | New Zealand 249-6 | 247 | 6 Nov 2003 |
Sides batting first have won only two of the eight matches in the window. India's 316 for 6 against West Indies in December 2019 is the largest chase completed here; their 308 for 6 against England in February 2025, with Rohit Sharma making 119, is the most recent. The tightest was in November 2011, when West Indies made 211 for 9 and India got to 213 for 9 — a one-wicket win with the ninth wicket already down and two balls of the innings left unused.
Four Twenty20 internationals, none of them high-scoring
- 5 October 2015 v South Africa: India 92, South Africa 96 for 4. South Africa won by six wickets in a match that produced 188 runs in total.
- 20 December 2017 v Sri Lanka: India 180 for 3, Sri Lanka 87. India won by 93 runs.
- 12 June 2022 v South Africa: India 148 for 6, South Africa 149 for 6. South Africa won by four wickets off the last over.
- 9 December 2025 v South Africa: India 175 for 6, South Africa 74. India won by 101 runs.
Two of the four have ended with a side under 95, and the format's aggregate scoring rate at Barabati is 6.81 an over — lower than at any of the other grounds in this series apart from Lucknow. Wickets have also fallen faster here than anywhere else in the set: one every 18.2 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal's five wickets across the four matches is the leading bowling aggregate. How the format has developed nationally is covered in the T20 international history.
A short IPL history, 2010 to 2014
Barabati staged seven Indian Premier League matches in three separate seasons and has held none since 2014. Deccan Chargers used it as an alternative home in 2010 and Pune Warriors did the same in 2012, with Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab playing there in 2014.
The highest total is Kings XI Punjab's 231 for 4 on 7 May 2014, when Glenn Maxwell made 90 and Punjab beat Chennai's 187 for 6. Robin Uthappa scored 152 runs at the ground, the most by any batter, and four bowlers finished with four wickets. Across the seven matches the first innings averaged 168 and no side was ever bowled out. The competition's own history is set out in the Indian Premier League guide.
What the Barabati record shows
- It is a fifty-over ground first. Nineteen one-day internationals against two Tests and four Twenty20 internationals, and a fifty-over runs-per-wicket figure of 40.8 that no other venue in this set approaches.
- The scoring changed sharply in 2014. Every first innings before then was under 275; every one since has been over 300.
- Chasing works, and only just. Six of the eight one-day internationals in the window were won by the side batting second, and two of those went to the last two overs.
- The Twenty20 record contradicts the one-day record. 6.81 an over and a wicket every 18.2 runs, on the same square that has produced a 381 and a 366 in the same day.
Sources and method
The ranked tables and averages here are computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive, released under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. For this ground the archive holds eight men's one-day internationals from November 2003, four men's Twenty20 internationals and seven IPL matches; the venue's two Tests and its earlier one-day internationals, including Azharuddin's 153 not out, fall outside it and are described from the ground's published international record instead. Cricsheet withholds Afghanistan men's fixtures, none of which were played here.
Only dismissals a scorer credits to a bowler count towards the bowling figures, so run-outs are excluded. The 1958 construction date, the 45,000 seating figure, the ownership arrangement and the two Test scorecards come from the venue's published record and the Odisha Cricket Association's material. Figures were checked in August 2026; a single further international at a ground with this few matches will move the small-sample numbers noticeably. For comparison, see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the companion Barabati pitch and scoring report, the Indore venue record for another ground that graduated from one-day cricket to Tests, and the cricket in India hub.