Barsapara Cricket Stadium Guwahati Records & Stats
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Guwahati waited eight years between its first international and its first Test, and when the Test arrived in November 2025 it produced the heaviest defeat in India's history. South Africa made 489 and 260 for 5 declared, set India 549, and bowled them out for 140. The margin of 408 runs beat anything India had lost by in 93 years of Test cricket, and it completed a 2-0 series sweep — South Africa's first series win in India in twenty-five years.
That single match sits oddly against the rest of the ground's record. Barsapara is one of the highest-scoring short-format venues in the country: India have made 237 for 3 and 373 for 7 here, and in January 2026 they chased 154 against New Zealand inside ten overs. Four T20 internationals at the ground have produced four separate totals above 220.
The stadium was inaugurated on 10 October 2017, is run by the Assam Cricket Association, carries the official name of the Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika, and seats around 46,000 with room for more. Its first international was a T20 international against Australia on the day it opened, watched by a recorded crowd of 38,132. Everything below is computed from ball-by-ball records of every men's international and IPL match played there.
The ground's full record
| Format | Matches | Span | India W-L | Highest total | Lowest all-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 1 | Nov 2025 | 0-1 | South Africa 489, 2025 | India 140, 2025 |
| ODI | 2 | Oct 2018 – Jan 2023 | 2-0 | India 373-7 v Sri Lanka, 2023 | — |
| T20I | 4 | Oct 2017 – Jan 2026 | 2-2 | India 237-3 v South Africa, 2022 | India 118, 2017 |
| IPL | 8 | Apr 2023 – Apr 2026 | — | Rajasthan Royals 202-4, 2026 | Chennai Super Kings 127, 2026 |
Fifteen matches in nine years, and only one of them longer than a day. Both ODIs were Indian wins and both produced more than 300 for the side batting first. Neither ODI has seen a team bowled out.
The Test: 549 to win, 140 made
| 2025 Test v South Africa | Score | Key figures |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa 1st innings | 489 | Senuran Muthusamy 109, Marco Jansen 93 from 91 balls |
| India 1st innings | 201 | Jansen 6-48; Yashasvi Jaiswal 58 |
| South Africa 2nd innings | 260-5 dec | Tristan Stubbs 94 from 180 balls |
| India 2nd innings | 140 | Simon Harmer 6-37; Ravindra Jadeja 54 |
Two South African bowlers took six wickets in an innings. Marco Jansen's 6 for 48 came from 34.5 overs at an economy rate of 2.04, and he had also made 93 from 91 balls at number eight; Simon Harmer's 6 for 37 finished the match and gave him nine for 101 across 50 overs. Between them the two took sixteen wickets for 172 runs in a Test in which India managed 341 across two innings.
Senuran Muthusamy's 109 was made from 206 balls at number seven and rescued South Africa from a middling position. Tristan Stubbs then batted 180 balls for 94 in the second innings — the slowest 90-plus score of the match on a pitch that was by then taking spin sharply.
India's resistance came in unusual shapes. Ravindra Jadeja made 54 from 87 balls in the last innings, the only Indian fifty of the fourth day. Sai Sudharsan faced 139 balls in the fourth innings for 14, and Kuldeep Yadav 134 balls for 19 in the second — two innings played entirely for time on a pitch where India were never going to make 549. The wider arc of India's home record, and how rarely it has broken like this, is set out in the history of Test cricket in India.
Two ODIs, two Indian wins, four totals above 300
Barsapara has staged only two fifty-over internationals and both were high-scoring Indian wins.
In October 2018 West Indies made 322 for 8, Shimron Hetmyer hitting 106 from 78 balls, and India chased it in 42.1 overs for the loss of two wickets. Rohit Sharma made 152 not out from 117 balls and Virat Kohli 140 from 107; their second-wicket stand was worth 246, which remains the largest partnership at the ground in any format. The margin — eight wickets with 47 balls unused, against a total of 322 — is one of the most emphatic chases India have completed at home.
In January 2023 India batted first and made 373 for 7, Kohli 113 from 87 balls, Rohit 83 and Shubman Gill 70. Sri Lanka replied with 306 for 8, Dasun Shanaka making 108 not out from 88 balls, and lost by 67 runs. That 373 is the highest total the ground has produced in any format and the 679 runs in the match the most it has seen in a day.
Kohli's 253 runs from two innings at 126.5 and Rohit's 235 from two at 235 are the only aggregates above 100 in the ground's ODI record. India's fifty-over scoring peaks across the country are collected in India's highest ODI team totals.
The T20 ground: 118, then 237, then a ten-over chase
| T20 internationals at Guwahati | Result |
|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2017 | Australia 122-2 beat India 118 by 8 wickets |
| 2 Oct 2022 | India 237-3 beat South Africa 221-3 by 16 runs |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Australia 225-5 beat India 222-3 by 5 wickets |
| 25 Jan 2026 | India 155-2 beat New Zealand 153-9 by 8 wickets |
The 2022 match is the ground's high-water mark. India made 237 for 3 — Suryakumar Yadav 61 from 22 balls, KL Rahul 57 from 28, Kohli 49 not out from 28 — and South Africa's reply of 221 for 3, built on David Miller's 106 from 47 balls, still lost by 16. Both sides passing 220 in the same men's T20 international has happened fewer than twenty times anywhere, and Barsapara accounts for two of those.
Thirteen months later the ground did it again from the other side. Ruturaj Gaikwad made 123 from 57 balls, the highest T20 international score at the venue, and India reached 222 for 3. Australia chased it with two balls to spare, Glenn Maxwell making 104 from 48. Two hundreds in the same T20 international is rare enough; two in a successful chase of 223 is rarer.
The January 2026 match went the other way entirely. New Zealand were held to 153 for 9, Jasprit Bumrah taking 3 for 17, and India knocked the runs off in ten overs. Abhishek Sharma made 68 from 20 balls and Suryakumar Yadav 57 from 26 — a chase completed at 15.5 an over, and the only time India have knocked off a target of 150 or more at home inside ten overs.
Only the first match, in 2017, was low-scoring. India were bowled out for 118 with Jason Behrendorff taking 4 for 21, and Australia won inside sixteen overs. Nothing at the ground since has resembled it.
Where the runs come from
Across the twelve men's T20 internationals and IPL matches played at Barsapara, the scoring pattern is unusual for an Indian ground.
| Phase | Runs per over | Wickets |
|---|---|---|
| Overs 1-6 | 9.40 | 45 |
| Overs 7-15 | 8.63 | 60 |
| Overs 16-20 | 10.98 | 33 |
A powerplay rate of 9.40 is higher than the middle overs produce, which is the reverse of the usual shape and the clearest single signal about the surface: the new ball comes on to the bat, the outfield is quick, and there is very little early movement to keep openers honest. It also explains the two 220-plus first innings and the ten-over chase. The middle-over dip is where most of the wickets fall — 60 of the 138 in that window — and where spin has had its only real purchase.
It is worth noting how small the sample is: twelve matches, one of them cut to eleven overs a side by rain. But nine years of cricket at the ground have not yet produced a low-scoring T20 game other than the very first one. How Indian surfaces differ region by region is set out in the guide to pitch types and conditions.
Rajasthan Royals' second home
The IPL arrived in 2023 and Barsapara has been Rajasthan Royals' secondary venue ever since, staging eight matches across four seasons. The Royals have played all eight and won five.
- Yashasvi Jaiswal is the leading run scorer with 236 in eight innings at a strike rate of 162, including 77 not out from 32 balls against Mumbai Indians in a rain-shortened match in April 2026.
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi has struck at 296 across three innings here — 169 runs from 57 balls — the highest rate by anyone with more than one innings at the ground.
- Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma and Jofra Archer share the wicket-taking lead on six each. Nathan Ellis's 4 for 30 in the ground's first IPL match and Wanindu Hasaranga's 4 for 35 in 2025 are the best returns.
- Rajasthan's 202 for 4 in April 2026, chasing 202 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, is the highest total and the largest successful pursuit. Dhruv Jurel made 81 from 43 and Suryavanshi 78 from 26.
- Chennai Super Kings' 127 in March 2026 is the only side bowled out at the ground in the competition.
Two of the eight have been decided by six runs or fewer, which for a venue with these scoring rates is a reasonable rate of close finishes. Rajasthan's own competition record is covered in their franchise guide.
Four things the Guwahati record shows
- The short-format ground and the long-format ground are not the same place. Four T20 internationals have produced an average first innings of 182. The one Test produced 1,090 runs and 35 wickets across four innings, and lasted into a fifth day.
- Both ODIs were won by whoever scored fastest, not by whoever batted first. India chased 323 at 7.7 an over in 2018 and defended 373 in 2023; the two matches produced 1,327 runs between them and only nineteen wickets.
- The ground's biggest innings belong to number sevens and eights. Muthusamy's 109 came from number seven and Jansen's 93 from number eight in the same South African total, which is the only 480-plus score at the venue.
- India's record here reads 4-3 across formats and hides both extremes. Their two most one-sided results at the ground — the 408-run defeat and the ten-over chase — happened two months apart.
Sources and method
Every table and aggregate above is computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive of men's Tests, ODIs, T20 internationals and IPL matches, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence, covering all matches at the ground to early August 2026. The venue appears in that archive under both the Barsapara and Assam Cricket Association forms and both are counted as the same ground. Wickets are credited to a bowler only where the scorer attributed the dismissal, so run-outs sit outside all bowling figures, and averages appear only for players with more than one innings here.
The inauguration date, the official name, the capacity and the opening-day attendance come from Assam Cricket Association and published match records rather than from the ball-by-ball data. Because the ground has staged only fifteen international and IPL matches, several of the figures above rest on very small samples and should be read that way; a single Test is not a pitch report. For the country's other venues see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the eastern Test ground at the JSCA complex in Ranchi, and the cricket in India hub.