IS Bindra Stadium Records & Stats | Mohali Cricket Ground
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The Punjab Cricket Association opened its Mohali ground on 22 November 1993 with a one-day international against South Africa, and gave it a Test thirteen months later. It seats a little under 27,000, and in 2015 it was renamed after Inderjit Singh Bindra, the PCA and BCCI president who built it. By the end of 2019 it had staged thirteen Tests, twenty-five one-day internationals and five Twenty20 internationals, and it has added to each of those since.
For a ground that far north, Mohali has produced some very large scores. New Zealand's 630 for 6 declared in October 2003 is still the highest team total made here. India's 392 for 4 against Sri Lanka on 13 December 2017 is the highest one-day total, built on Rohit Sharma's 208 not out from 153 balls, with thirteen fours and twelve sixes — his third double century in the format. And in March 2019 Australia chased down 359 here, which remains the largest successful pursuit the ground has seen.
What has not happened at Mohali since 2003 is an India defeat in a Test. Across the nine matches in the ball-by-ball archive India have won seven and drawn two, and the innings-by-innings pattern explains the margin: 45 runs per wicket in the first innings of a match, 34 in the second, 26 in the third and 26 in the fourth. The pitch deteriorates steadily rather than suddenly, which rewards a side that can bat long early and bowl spin late.
The ledger, format by format
| Format | Matches counted | Window | India played | India W-L-D | Highest total | Lowest all out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 9 | Oct 2003 – Mar 2022 | 9 | 7-0-2 | New Zealand 630-6 dec, 2003 | South Africa 109, 2015 |
| ODI | 18 | Oct 2005 – Sep 2023 | 12 | 7-5 | India 392-4 v Sri Lanka, 2017 | Pakistan 89, 2006 |
| T20I | 6 | Dec 2009 – Sep 2022 | 4 | 3-1 | India 211-4 and Australia 211-6 | none, no side dismissed |
| IPL | 61 | 2008 – 2023 | — | — | Lucknow Super Giants 257-5, 2023 | Delhi Daredevils 67, 2017 |
The one-day record is the odd one out. India have lost five of twelve at Mohali in the fifty-over game, and four of those five defeats came when they batted first and were overhauled.
Nine Tests without a defeat
| Test | Result | The decisive performance |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2003 v New Zealand | Drawn | New Zealand 630-6 dec; Mark Richardson 145, Virender Sehwag 130 in reply |
| Mar 2006 v England | India won by 9 wickets | England 300 and 181; India needed 144 in the fourth innings |
| Oct 2008 v Australia | India won by 320 runs | Amit Mishra took five on Test debut; India declared 314-3 in the third innings |
| Dec 2008 v England | Drawn | Gautam Gambhir 179, Rahul Dravid 136; Kevin Pietersen 144 in reply |
| Oct 2010 v Australia | India won by 1 wicket | Zaheer Khan and Mitchell Johnson both took five; India 216-9 chasing 216 |
| Mar 2013 v Australia | India won by 6 wickets | Shikhar Dhawan 187 on Test debut, Murali Vijay 153 |
| Nov 2015 v South Africa | India won by 108 runs | Four innings of 201, 184, 200 and 109; Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin five each |
| Nov 2016 v England | India won by 8 wickets | Ben Stokes took five; India 417 in reply to 283 |
| Mar 2022 v Sri Lanka | India won by an innings and 222 runs | India 574-8 dec; Ravindra Jadeja 175 not out and five wickets |
That last match was Virat Kohli's hundredth Test, and it produced the widest winning margin in any Test the archive covers. The 2022 game and the 2015 one bracket the range of what Mohali can be: a total of 574 in one, and four completed innings adding up to 694 in the other.
The two Tests that were not about runs
October 2010 is the finish everyone remembers. Australia made 428 and 192, India 405 and then 216 for 9 chasing 216 — a one-wicket win completed by VVS Laxman and Pragyan Ojha with the last pair together. Zaheer Khan took five in Australia's first innings and Mitchell Johnson five in India's.
November 2015 is its opposite. India made 201 and 200, South Africa 184 and 109, and the match was finished inside three days. It is the only one of the nine in which no side reached 250, and the 109 remains the lowest completed total the ground has recorded. Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets each in the same innings, which is the sort of scoreline the Indian spin tradition is built on, and it came in a series India won 3-0.
Test run scorers and wicket takers
| Most Test runs at the ground | Runs | Best |
|---|---|---|
| Gautam Gambhir | 472 | 179 v England, 2008 |
| Virender Sehwag | 436 | 130 v New Zealand, 2003 |
| Rahul Dravid | 420 | 136 v England, 2008 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 368 | v Australia, 2008 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 327 | 175 not out v Sri Lanka, 2022 |
| Most Test wickets at the ground | Wickets | Best innings |
|---|---|---|
| Ravindra Jadeja | 27 | 5 v Sri Lanka, 2022 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 22 | 5 v South Africa, 2015 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 17 | — |
| Zaheer Khan | 15 | 5 v Australia, 2010 |
| Anil Kumble, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra | 12 each | Mishra 5 v Australia, 2008 |
Shikhar Dhawan's 187 in March 2013 is the highest individual Test score made at the ground, and it came on his debut — the fastest hundred anyone has made on a Test debut. Seven different bowlers have taken five in an innings at Mohali across those nine Tests, three of them visitors.
The 2011 World Cup semi-final
Mohali has staged two World Cup semi-finals, fifteen years apart. In March 1996 Australia beat West Indies here by five runs. On 30 March 2011 India played Pakistan in front of both prime ministers and won by 29 runs, making 260 for 9 and holding Pakistan to 231. Wahab Riaz took five wickets in India's innings.
That match remains the most-watched fixture the ground has held, and it sits in the middle of the tournament covered in the India World Cup history. The 2011 competition brought three matches to Mohali in all, including South Africa's 351 for 5 against the Netherlands. The rivalry itself is traced in the India-Pakistan rivalry.
Fifty-over cricket, and four chases over 300
| Highest successful ODI chases at Mohali | Score | Target | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia 359-6 | 359 | 10 Mar 2019 |
| 2 | Pakistan 322-6 | 322 | 8 Nov 2007 |
| 3 | Australia 304-6 | 304 | 19 Oct 2013 |
| 4 | India 300-5 | 299 | 20 Oct 2011 |
Four chases past 300 in eighteen matches is a lot, and three of the four were against India. The March 2019 game is the largest: Shikhar Dhawan made 143 and India 358 for 9, Pat Cummins took five, and Australia got home with four wickets standing after Peter Handscomb made 117. India's own biggest chase here is the 300 for 5 in the table above; their most recent is 281 for 5 against Australia in September 2023, in a match Mohammed Shami finished with five wickets.
Across the window the mean first innings is 277 and the median 275, with three innings past 350 and one below 200. Rohit Sharma leads the run-scorers with 410, MS Dhoni is next on 363, and no bowler has more than eight wickets at the ground. That flat bowling distribution is the clearest sign of how many different attacks have passed through. The wider fifty-over story is in the history of ODI cricket in India.
Six Twenty20 internationals
Only six men's T20 internationals have been played at Mohali, three of them in the 2016 World T20, and the first innings across them averages 183. Four of the six first innings finished between 180 and 210, which on a six-match sample says more about who was batting than about the pitch.
India's 211 for 4 against Sri Lanka in December 2009 and Australia's 211 for 6 in September 2022 are the joint-highest totals. The 2022 match is the more interesting: India made 208 for 6 and lost, the largest total any side has failed to defend in a T20 international here. India's win over Australia in the 2016 World T20 came from a chase of 161, with Virat Kohli making 82 not out — the highest individual T20 international score at the venue. Format context is in the T20 international history.
Fifteen IPL seasons, then Mullanpur
Sixty-one IPL matches were played at Mohali between 2008 and 2023, after which the Punjab Kings moved their home fixtures to the new stadium at Mullanpur. The Mohali ledger is therefore closed, which makes it unusually easy to read.
- The first innings averaged 169 across 60 uninterrupted matches, with a median of 173. Season averages ran from 150 in 2014 to 198 in the final year, 2023.
- Shaun Marsh scored 1,064 runs at the ground, more than 400 clear of the next batter, David Miller on 645. Chris Gayle made 573 and KL Rahul 460.
- Piyush Chawla took 26 wickets here and Sandeep Sharma 22.
- The highest total is Lucknow Super Giants' 257 for 5 in April 2023; the lowest is Delhi Daredevils' 67 in April 2017.
- Paul Valthaty's 120 against Chennai Super Kings in April 2011 is the highest individual score at the ground in the competition.
- Sides batting first won 27 of 61, and 44 of 61 captains chose to field.
What Mohali's numbers show
- India do not lose Tests here, but they lose one-day matches. Seven wins and two draws in nine Tests since 2003, against five defeats in twelve ODIs.
- The ground gives up big chases in white-ball cricket and almost none in red. Four fifty-over chases past 300, but a highest Test fourth innings of 216.
- Its Test scores are polarised, not average. A 630 and a 574 at one end, a match with no innings above 201 at the other, and very little in between.
- The IPL record is a closed book. Fifteen seasons, 61 matches, one franchise, and a first-innings average that finished only 13 runs above where it began in 2008 before the fixture moved down the road.
Sources and method
The ranked tables and scoring splits above are computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. For this ground the archive covers nine men's Tests from October 2003, eighteen men's one-day internationals from October 2005, six men's Twenty20 internationals and all 61 IPL matches; every table states its own window, and none of them reach back to the ground's 1993 opening. Cricsheet withholds matches involving the Afghanistan men's team, which does not affect this venue's record.
Only dismissals a scorer credits to a bowler are counted in the bowling tables, so run-outs sit outside them. The 1993 inaugural one-day international, the 1994 first Test, the 1996 World Cup semi-final, the renaming in 2015 and the seating figure come from the Punjab Cricket Association's published venue record and are described rather than computed. Everything was checked in August 2026; the IPL section is now fixed rather than moving, since no IPL match has been played at Mohali since 2023. For comparison, see the iconic cricket stadiums survey, the companion Mohali pitch and scoring report, the Dharamsala venue record for the other northern Test ground, and the cricket in India hub.