JSCA International Stadium Ranchi Cricket Records
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Ranchi is the newest of India's serious international grounds and it has crowded a great deal into a short life. The JSCA International Stadium Complex staged its first match on 19 January 2013, an ODI against England, and in the thirteen and a half years since it has held three Tests, seven one-day internationals, four Twenty20 internationals and seven Indian Premier League fixtures. The seating runs to roughly forty thousand, with a grass embankment behind one boundary that gives the ground a different look from the concrete bowls at Kolkata and Mumbai.
The single most striking number here belongs to Virat Kohli. In five ODI innings at the ground he has made 519 runs with three centuries, at an average of 173 and a strike rate a shade over 110. No batter anywhere in India has a better fifty-over return at a venue where they have batted five times. His 135 from 120 balls against South Africa on 30 November 2025 was the innings that carried India to 349 for 8, the highest total the ground has produced in any format.
Everything ranked below is computed from ball-by-ball records of every men's international and IPL match played at the venue. Because the ground opened in 2013, that archive is the ground's entire history rather than a window within it, which makes Ranchi one of the few Indian venues where the modern data and the complete record are the same thing.
The ledger, format by format
| Format | Matches | Span | India W-L-D-NR | Highest total | Lowest all-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 3 | Mar 2017 – Feb 2024 | 2-0-1 | India 603-9 dec v Australia, 2017 | South Africa 133, 2019 |
| ODI | 7 | Jan 2013 – Nov 2025 | 4-2-0-1 | India 349-8 v South Africa, 2025 | England 155, 2013 |
| T20I | 4 | Feb 2016 – Jan 2023 | 3-1-0 | India 196-6 v Sri Lanka, 2016 | — |
| IPL | 7 | May 2013 – May 2015 | — | Sunrisers Hyderabad 189-4, 2014 | — |
India have not lost a Test at Ranchi and have won two of the three. In one-day cricket they have taken four of the six completed matches; the losses came against New Zealand in 2016 and Australia in 2019, both while chasing. No side has been bowled out inside a hundred at the ground in any format, which is unusual for a venue with this many low first-innings scores in the IPL.
Three Tests, three different kinds of match
| Test | Result | Decisive figures |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2017 v Australia | Drawn | Cheteshwar Pujara 202 off 525 balls; Ravindra Jadeja 5-124 and 4-54 |
| Oct 2019 v South Africa | India won by an innings and 202 runs | Rohit Sharma 212; Mohammed Shami 2-22 and 3-10 |
| Feb 2024 v England | India won by 5 wickets | Dhruv Jurel 90 and 39 not out; Ravichandran Ashwin 5-51 |
The 2017 match is the one that set the ground's reputation for slowness. Australia made 451 across 137.3 overs, Steve Smith batting 361 balls for 178 not out, and India replied with 603 for 9 declared over 210 overs. Pujara's 202 took eight and a half hours and remains the longest innings played at the venue; Wriddhiman Saha's 117 came from 233 balls at number eight in the order. Australia then batted out 100 overs for 204 for 6 to save the game. Four innings, 1,258 runs, no result — a Border-Gavaskar Test in the mould described in the history of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Two and a half years later the same square produced something entirely different. India declared on 497 for 9, Rohit Sharma making 212 in his first series as a Test opener and Ajinkya Rahane 115, and South Africa were bowled out for 162 and 133. Shami's five wickets in the match cost 32 runs from 20 overs, the most economical five-wicket return the ground has seen; Umesh Yadav took five more. The margin, an innings and 202 runs, is India's largest at the venue.
The 2024 Test against England is the only one at Ranchi to reach a fourth innings, and it is the ground's best match. England made 353, Joe Root batting through 274 balls for 122 after opening the tour with three failures at the top of the order. India were 177 for 7 in reply before Dhruv Jurel made 90 from 149 balls with Kuldeep Yadav for company; Kuldeep faced 131 balls for 28 in a stand that dragged the deficit down to 46. Ashwin's 5 for 51 and Kuldeep's 4 for 22 then dismissed England for 145, and Jurel returned to finish the chase of 192 with 39 not out. He was player of the match in both innings roles, which is the kind of debut season a wicketkeeper rarely gets — the position's Indian lineage is traced in the guide to India's great wicketkeepers.
The fourth innings, and how little of it there has been
Only one Test at Ranchi has gone to a fourth innings, so the ground has almost no chasing record to speak of in the long form. India's 192 for 5 in 61 overs in 2024 is the only completed fourth-innings pursuit, and it was awkward rather than comfortable: Rohit made 55, Shubman Gill 52 not out from 124 balls, and Shoaib Bashir took three of the five wickets to fall. Set against that, the two Tests that did not reach a fourth innings both ran to more than 1,000 runs in three completed innings or ended in an innings win. Ranchi has produced no genuinely difficult final-day pitch yet. Whether that changes is a question about the square rather than the record, and the wider pattern of Indian surfaces is set out in the guide to pitch types and conditions across India.
Kohli's ODI ground
| Highest ODI totals at Ranchi | Score | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India 349-8 | South Africa | 30 Nov 2025 |
| 2 | South Africa 332 | India | 30 Nov 2025 |
| 3 | Australia 313-5 | India | 8 Mar 2019 |
| 4 | Australia 295-8 | India | 23 Oct 2013 |
| 5 | India 288-7 | Sri Lanka | 16 Nov 2014 |
The 2025 match against South Africa is the ground's outlier in both directions. India's 349 for 8 was built on Kohli's 135, KL Rahul's 60 and Rohit Sharma's 57, and South Africa's reply of 332 — Matthew Breetzke 72, Marco Jansen 70 from 39 balls, Corbin Bosch 67 — is the highest score by a side batting second at the venue and still lost by 17 runs. Before that day the ground had never seen a team pass 320. Its two 300-plus totals are now separated by six years, and both belong to the same fixture list rather than to any change in the surface. India's fifty-over scoring peaks are collected in the list of India's highest ODI team totals.
Kohli's other two hundreds here are worth separating. His 139 not out from 126 balls against Sri Lanka in November 2014 chased down 287 with three wickets left after Angelo Mathews had made 139 for the visitors — the only time two matching individual hundreds have been made in the same game at the ground. His 123 in March 2019 came in a losing cause, India falling 32 short of Australia's 313 for 5. Add the 77 that won the inaugural ODI in 2013 and the 45 against New Zealand in 2016, and Kohli has been involved in five of the ground's seven fifty-over matches.
Behind him the list thins quickly. Shreyas Iyer's 113 against South Africa in October 2022 and Ishan Kishan's 93 in the same innings produced the ground's most comfortable Indian win, a chase of 279 completed with 25 balls to spare. Kuldeep Yadav leads the ODI wicket-takers with eight at 22.6, four of them in the 2025 match, and Ravichandran Ashwin is next with six.
Twenty20 internationals: four matches, one washed-out format
Ranchi's T20I record runs to four matches between February 2016 and January 2023, and it has never staged a global-tournament fixture. India won three of the four. The best of them was the first: India made 196 for 6 against Sri Lanka in February 2016, Shikhar Dhawan hitting 51 from 25 balls, and Ashwin's 3 for 14 and Jasprit Bumrah's 2 for 17 held Sri Lanka to 127 for 9. The margin of 69 runs is still India's biggest T20I win at the venue.
The other three were tighter. Australia were bowled out for 118 in October 2017 and India needed 33 balls to knock the runs off. New Zealand were held to 153 for 6 in November 2021 and beaten with 16 balls in hand, KL Rahul making 65. Then in January 2023 Daryl Mitchell's 59 from 30 balls and Devon Conway's 52 took New Zealand to 176 for 6, and India's 155 for 9 in reply included Washington Sundar's 50 from 28 balls from number six, made after India had lost three wickets for 11 runs inside four overs. The wider arc of the format for India is covered in the history of T20 international cricket in India.
Chennai's borrowed home, 2014 and 2015
The IPL has visited Ranchi seven times and stopped coming after 2015. Kolkata Knight Riders played the first two, in May 2013, and then Chennai Super Kings used the ground as a second home for five matches across 2014 and 2015, winning three.
- The first innings averaged 149 across the seven matches, and only one of the seven passed 175.
- Sunrisers Hyderabad's 189 for 4 on 22 May 2014 is the highest total, chased down with two balls left after David Warner made 90 from 45 balls. It is also the only successful pursuit of more than 150 at the venue.
- MS Dhoni scored 138 runs in five innings at his home ground at a strike rate of 127, with one fifty — 57 from 41 balls in that Sunrisers match.
- Ravindra Jadeja is the leading wicket-taker with eight at 14.5, including 4 for 12 against Kolkata Knight Riders on 2 May 2014.
- Royal Challengers Bangalore's 115 for 9 in the ground's first IPL match, in May 2013, is the lowest total.
Nothing about those numbers suggests the venue could not hold a modern IPL crowd; the fixture simply moved with the franchises. The league's own history and the seasons involved are indexed in the Indian Premier League guide.
Five things the Ranchi record shows
- Spin has done the volume, pace the sharp bursts. Jadeja and Ashwin account for 26 of the 89 Test wickets to fall at the ground. But the two most concentrated returns are Shami's 5 for 32 in 20 overs in 2019 and Kuldeep Yadav's 4 for 22 in 15 overs in 2024.
- Chasing has been the better half of the coin. Of the nineteen decided matches across all four formats, the side batting second has won eleven. Both Indian ODI defeats came while chasing, but every other completed chase at the ground has succeeded more often than not.
- The scoring rate has risen sharply, and only recently. The first six ODIs here produced one total above 300. The seventh produced two in the same match.
- India's Test wins came from batting big early. Their three completed Test innings totals are 603 for 9, 497 for 9 and 307. The two 500-plus scores both came in the second and first innings respectively, and neither Test that contained one was lost.
- No Ranchi Test has been decided by the pitch collapsing. The lowest completed total in a Test here is 133, and the lowest by India is 307. At most Indian venues those figures are considerably smaller.
Sources and method
The tables and aggregates above are 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, and cover every such match played at the venue up to early August 2026. Because the ground opened in January 2013 the archive is complete rather than partial. Wickets are credited to a bowler only where the scorer attributed the dismissal to one, so run-outs sit outside all bowling figures. Batting averages are runs divided by dismissals and are quoted only where a player has batted at least twice at the ground.
Descriptive detail — the capacity, the ground's opening, the sequence of matches — is taken from the venue's published record and from Jharkhand State Cricket Association material, and is not computed. IPL and international counts move with each season, so treat the match totals as accurate to August 2026 rather than permanent. For the rest of the country, see the survey of India's iconic cricket stadiums, the newer eastern Test venue at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, the guide to India's Test grounds, and the cricket in India hub.