Greenfield International Stadium Records | Thiruvananthapuram
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Greenfield at Kariavattom is the only ground in this set with no Test history, no Indian Premier League history and fewer than ten internationals to its name. It was inaugurated on 26 January 2015 as India's first stadium built on a design-build-operate-transfer basis, sits on University of Kerala land and is run by Kariavattom Sports Facilities Limited with the Kerala Cricket Association. It seats about 50,000 and took its first international nearly three years after opening.
For a venue with so short a record it holds one of the largest numbers in the sport. On 15 January 2023 India made 390 for 5 against Sri Lanka and bowled them out for 73, winning by 317 runs — the biggest margin of victory by runs in the history of one-day international cricket, ahead of New Zealand's 290-run win over Ireland. Virat Kohli made 166 not out and Shubman Gill 116; Mohammed Siraj took four wickets, with Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav taking two each.
The ground's international record runs to seven men's matches, and because that is small enough to list in full, this page lists it in full rather than reporting averages that a single game would move.
Every men's international played at Greenfield
| Date | Format | Match | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Nov 2017 | T20I | India 67-5 v New Zealand 61-6 | India won by 6 runs, in a game cut to eight overs a side |
| 1 Nov 2018 | ODI | West Indies 104; India 105-1 | India won by 9 wickets |
| 8 Dec 2019 | T20I | India 170-7; West Indies 173-2 | West Indies won by 8 wickets |
| 28 Sep 2022 | T20I | South Africa 106-8; India 110-2 | India won by 8 wickets |
| 15 Jan 2023 | ODI | India 390-5; Sri Lanka 73 | India won by 317 runs |
| 26 Nov 2023 | T20I | India 235-4; Australia 191-9 | India won by 44 runs |
| 31 Jan 2026 | T20I | India 271-5; New Zealand 225 | India won by 46 runs |
India have played all seven and won six. Their only defeat came in December 2019, when West Indies chased 171 for the loss of two wickets. Six of the seven matches were decided by more than 40 runs or by seven wickets or more, which is a remarkably one-sided record for a ground of any age.
15 January 2023: the largest win in one-day history
The Sri Lanka match completed a 3-0 series sweep and rewrote a record that had stood since 2008. India's 390 for 5 was built on a second-wicket stand between Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli; Kohli's 166 not out is the highest individual score made at the ground in any format, and 390 the highest team total.
What followed was the stranger half. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 73, the lowest completed total the ground has recorded, and the 317-run margin beat New Zealand's 290-run win over Ireland in 2008. Nothing else at Greenfield is comparable: the ground's only other one-day international, in November 2018, saw West Indies dismissed for 104 and India lose a single wicket in passing it.
Two matches is not a fifty-over sample and no averages are offered here from it. What can be said is that both games were extremely one-sided and both first innings were extreme: 104 in one, 390 in the other. The wider fifty-over story is in the history of ODI cricket in India.
Five Twenty20 internationals, and 271 for 5
The Twenty20 international record here is more substantial than the one-day record, though still only five matches, and it has moved sharply upward.
| Highest T20I totals | Score | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 271-5 | New Zealand | 31 Jan 2026 |
| 2 | India 235-4 | Australia | 26 Nov 2023 |
| 3 | New Zealand 225 | India | 31 Jan 2026 |
| 4 | Australia 191-9 | India | 26 Nov 2023 |
| 5 | West Indies 173-2 | India | 8 Dec 2019 |
The January 2026 match against New Zealand is the highest-scoring game the ground has held, with 496 runs across the two innings. Ishan Kishan made 103 for India and Arshdeep Singh taking five wickets as New Zealand were bowled out for 225 in reply. Arshdeep's nine wickets is the leading bowling aggregate at the venue, and Kishan's 155 the most Twenty20 international runs anyone has scored here.
The two earliest T20 internationals sit at the other extreme. The ground's first international, on 7 November 2017, was reduced by rain to eight overs a side and India won a 67-against-61 contest by six runs. In September 2022 South Africa were held to 106 for 8 and India chased it for the loss of two wickets. On a five-match sample the first innings has averaged 196 across the four full-length games, but the range runs from 106 to 271, which tells you nothing usable about the surface and a great deal about who has been batting on it. The T20 international history sets out how the format's scoring has moved nationally over the same period.
The scoring shape across all seven matches
The one thing a small sample can support is a phase breakdown, because it aggregates deliveries rather than matches.
- Across the five T20 internationals the powerplay has gone at 7.61 an over, the middle overs at 9.21 and the last five at 10.56. Middle-over scoring faster than the powerplay is unusual, and it is the ground's clearest statistical signature.
- Wickets, by contrast, fall early here: one every 17.3 balls in the powerplay against one every 25.1 in the middle overs, the reverse of the pattern at most of the other grounds covered in this set.
- Boundary hitting across the T20 international sample runs at 19.2 per cent of deliveries, and the dot-ball rate is 35.5 per cent.
- Across the two one-day internationals the scoring rate is 5.53 an over with a wicket every 26.9 runs, but with 729 deliveries in the sample those figures are descriptive rather than predictive.
The women's international record
Greenfield staged three women's Twenty20 internationals in five days at the end of December 2025, all against Sri Lanka, and India won all three. That block is now the ground's densest run of international cricket in any format.
| Date | Match | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Dec 2025 | Sri Lanka 112-7; India 115-2 | India won by 8 wickets |
| 28 Dec 2025 | India 221-2; Sri Lanka 191-6 | India won by 30 runs |
| 30 Dec 2025 | India 175-7; Sri Lanka 160-7 | India won by 15 runs |
India's 221 for 2 on 28 December is the highest women's international total made at the ground, built on 80 from Smriti Mandhana off 48 balls and 79 from Shafali Verma off 46. Sri Lanka's reply of 191 for 6 is the highest total made by a side losing a women's Twenty20 international here, and the aggregate of 412 in that match is higher than all but three of the men's games played here.
Shafali Verma has 163 runs across the three matches, more than anyone from either side; Hasini Perera leads Sri Lanka's scorers with 123. Deepti Sharma, Renuka Singh Thakur and Kavisha Dilhari have four wickets each. India's wider women's record is set out in the India women's national team history.
Kerala's two international grounds
Greenfield was built to replace an arrangement rather than a ground. Kerala's international cricket had previously run through the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Kaloor in Kochi, which staged one-day internationals from the 1990s onwards but is a multi-purpose venue with a football tenancy. Kariavattom gave the Kerala Cricket Association a purpose-built cricket square on university land, and the fixtures followed: seven men's internationals and three women's internationals between 2017 and the end of 2025, against a longer but thinner record at the Kochi ground.
What Greenfield has not attracted is red-ball cricket. It has no Test and, unlike almost every other new Indian stadium of its size, no Indian Premier League tenancy — the state has had no franchise since 2011. Its senior calendar is therefore built entirely from bilateral white-ball fixtures allotted by the BCCI, which is why the record is short, recent and heavily weighted towards India wins.
What Kerala's newest ground has, and has not, had
- No Test and no IPL match. Greenfield opened in 2015, four years after the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise folded, and it has never been allotted a Test. Its entire senior record is white-ball international cricket.
- India have won six of seven. The one defeat was a chase of 171 by West Indies in 2019, and no other match here has been close.
- The extremes are the record. A 317-run win, a total of 73, an eight-over international, a 271, and a 496-run T20 game — a seven-match history with almost nothing average in it.
- The middle overs are where Twenty20 scoring happens here. 9.21 an over between the seventh and the fifteenth, against 7.61 in the powerplay, is the wrong way round compared with most Indian grounds.
Sources and method
Every figure above is computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. For this ground the archive covers the venue's complete international record: two men's one-day internationals, five men's Twenty20 internationals and the three women's Twenty20 internationals of December 2025. No Test or IPL match has been played here, so nothing is withheld or missing, and Cricsheet's exclusion of Afghanistan men's fixtures does not touch this venue. Men's and women's figures are reported separately throughout and never combined into a single average.
Wickets count only dismissals a scorer credits to a bowler, so run-outs sit outside the bowling aggregates. The 2015 inauguration date, the DBOT arrangement, the ownership and the seating estimate are taken from the stadium's published information and the Kerala Cricket Association's material rather than derived from match data; the record-margin comparison with New Zealand's 290-run win over Ireland comes from published one-day international records. Everything was checked in August 2026, and a single further match at this ground can move any of the small-sample figures materially. For wider context, see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the companion Greenfield pitch and scoring report, the Kochi venue record for the state's older international ground, and the cricket in India hub.