Narendra Modi Stadium Records & Stats | Ahmedabad Cricket Ground
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Ahmedabad's international ground has been two different stadiums. The Sardar Patel Stadium at Motera opened in the early 1980s, staged its first Test in November 1983 and was for four decades one of the larger grounds in the country. It was then demolished and rebuilt on the same site, reopening in February 2021 as the Narendra Modi Stadium with a seating capacity of 132,000 — the largest of any cricket ground anywhere.
The playing record runs continuously across both. That record contains the highest innings total ever made in a Test in India, Sri Lanka's 760 for 7 in November 2009, and one of the lowest India have ever made at home, 76 against South Africa in April 2008. It also contains two World Cup finals less than two and a half years apart, one of which India lost and one of which they won.
The tables below are computed from ball-by-ball match data, complete for men's Tests and one-day internationals here from the 2005 season and for every men's T20 international and IPL match played at the ground. The Motera years before that — Sunil Gavaskar's ten-thousandth Test run, Kapil Dev passing Richard Hadlee — are described at the end and are not counted into any table.
Two stadiums on one site
| Format | Matches counted | India played | India W-L-D | Highest total | Lowest completed total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests (2005-2025) | 9 | 9 | 5-1-3 | Sri Lanka 760/7, 2009 | India 76, 2008 |
| ODIs (2005-2025) | 21 | 13 | 7-6 | South Africa 365/2, 2010 | Zimbabwe 85, 2006 |
| T20Is (2012-2026) | 14 | 11 | 8-3 | India 255/5, 2026 | New Zealand 66, 2023 |
| IPL (2010-2026) | 53 | — | — | Punjab Kings 243/5, 2025 | Sunrisers Hyderabad 86, 2026 |
Twelve of the fifty-three IPL matches, thirteen of the twenty-one ODIs and five of the nine Tests were played at the old stadium. Every Test since February 2021, every T20 international since March 2021 and the whole of Gujarat Titans' history belong to the new one.
Nine Tests: 760 for 7 at one end, 76 at the other
The second innings of a Test at this ground has produced 46.7 runs per wicket, comfortably the highest figure of the five major Indian venues, and two matches explain most of it. In November 2009 Sri Lanka replied to India's 426 with 760 for 7 declared, Mahela Jayawardene making 275 and Prasanna Jayawardene 154 not out in a sixth-wicket stand of 351 that broke a record which had stood since the 1930s. Nineteen months earlier South Africa had answered India's 76 with 494 for 7, Dale Steyn having taken 5 for 23 in a first innings that lasted twenty overs.
| Test | Result | Decisive figures |
|---|---|---|
| v Sri Lanka, Dec 2005 | India won by 259 runs | Harbhajan Singh 7/62 |
| v South Africa, Apr 2008 | South Africa won by an innings and 90 | India 76; Steyn 5/23; de Villiers 217 |
| v Sri Lanka, Nov 2009 | Drawn | Sri Lanka 760/7; Jayawardene 275 |
| v New Zealand, Nov 2010 | Drawn | Sehwag 173; Williamson 131 on debut |
| v England, Nov 2012 | India won by 9 wickets | Pujara 206; Ojha 5/45 |
| v England, Feb 2021 | India won by 10 wickets | Day-night Test; Axar Patel 11 wickets |
| v England, Mar 2021 | India won by an innings and 25 | Pant 101; Ashwin 5/47 |
| v Australia, Mar 2023 | Drawn | Kohli 186; Khawaja 180; Gill 128 |
| v West Indies, Oct 2025 | India won by an innings and 140 | Jadeja took the match award |
Every captain who has won the toss in a Test at this ground has chosen to bat. Nine out of nine is a small sample, but it is unanimous, and the first-innings figure of 32.6 runs per wicket does not obviously justify it — the second innings has been the better one to bat in.
Cheteshwar Pujara's 206 against England in November 2012 is the highest score by an India batter at the ground; Virat Kohli's 186 in March 2023 is the highest since the rebuild. Kohli's 246 runs across four Tests here came at a strike rate of 47.5, which is a fair summary of what the surface asks of a top-order batter. The fixture's longer arc is covered in the India v England Test head-to-head.
The pink-ball Test that finished in two days
The new stadium's first Test, in February 2021, is the shortest played in India in the modern era. England made 112 and 81; India made 145 and then 49 without loss. Thirty wickets fell in a little over four sessions.
- Axar Patel, in only his second Test, took 6 for 38 and 5 for 32 — eleven wickets in the match at just over two runs an over.
- Joe Root, an occasional off-spinner, took 5 for 8 from 6.3 overs in India's first innings, with Jack Leach taking 4 for 54 at the other end.
- Ravichandran Ashwin took 3 for 26 and 4 for 48.
- No batter on either side reached 70. Rohit Sharma's 66 was the highest score of the match.
England's 81 is the second-lowest total ever made at the ground, behind India's 76 in 2008, and their 112 from the same match is third. Zak Crawley's 53 was the only England score above 30 in either innings.
Who takes the wickets here
| Bowler | Tests | Wickets | Average | Best innings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R Ashwin | 4 | 26 | 19.5 | 6/91 v Australia, 2023 |
| Axar Patel | 3 | 22 | 12.2 | 6/38 v England, 2021 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 4 | 17 | 33.9 | 7/62 v Sri Lanka, 2005 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 2 | 13 | 21.0 | 5/45 v England, 2012 |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 2 | 9 | 48.8 | 3/90 v India, 2005 |
| Mohammed Siraj | 2 | 9 | 14.2 | 4/40 v West Indies, 2025 |
Axar Patel's 22 wickets at 12.2 came in three Tests, most of them in the two England matches of 2021. Spin has bowled 64 per cent of the overs in nine Tests and conceded 2.93 an over, the most economical spin figure of the five big grounds — a consequence of large boundaries and a slow surface rather than of sharp turn. The scoring distributions behind that are set out on the Ahmedabad pitch report.
Fifty overs: a quarter-final, a final, and not much scoring in between
Twenty-one men's ODIs have been played at Motera in the ball-by-ball era and the median first innings is 262. Only two innings have passed 350: South Africa's 365 for 2 in February 2010, when Jacques Kallis made 104 and AB de Villiers 102 from 59 balls, and India's 356 against England in February 2025, built on Shubman Gill's 112.
The ground's two biggest occasions bracket that period.
- 24 March 2011. India beat Australia by five wickets in the 2011 World Cup quarter-final. Ricky Ponting made 104 in Australia's 260 for 6; Yuvraj Singh took 2 for 44 and then finished the chase with 57 not out. It ended Australia's run of three consecutive titles.
- 19 November 2023. Australia beat India by six wickets in the 2023 World Cup final. India were held to 240, Travis Head made 137 from 120 balls and added 192 with Marnus Labuschagne, and Jasprit Bumrah's 2 for 43 was the only Indian return that made the chase look difficult.
That tournament also brought the ground India's seven-wicket win over Pakistan on 14 October 2023, in which Pakistan were bowled out for 191 and Bumrah took the match award, and the opening fixture in which Devon Conway's 152 and Rachin Ravindra's 123 carried New Zealand past England with more than thirteen overs to spare.
India's women have played three one-day internationals at the ground, against New Zealand in October 2024, winning two of them. Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma took the match awards in the two wins; the wider story of that side sits in the history of India's women's national team.
Twenty20 internationals, and the night India won a home World Cup
Fourteen men's T20Is have been played here and they average 193 in the first innings, the highest figure of the five major grounds. Five of them came in one England series in March 2021 and six in the 2026 T20 World Cup, which the ground finished by staging the final.
| Record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Highest total | India 255/5 v New Zealand, 8 Mar 2026 |
| Lowest total | New Zealand 66 v India, 1 Feb 2023 |
| Highest individual innings | Shubman Gill 126 from 63 balls v New Zealand, 2023 |
| Most runs at the ground | Virat Kohli 258; Hardik Pandya 245; Aiden Markram 237 |
| Most wickets | Hardik Pandya 10; Marco Jansen 10; Jasprit Bumrah 10 |
| Best innings figures | Jasprit Bumrah 4/15, World Cup final, 2026 |
The final on 8 March 2026 produced the ground's two extremes in one match: India's 255 for 5 and then New Zealand out for 159, a 96-run win that made India the first host nation to win a men's T20 World Cup. Bumrah's ten wickets at the venue have cost 6.4 each at an economy rate of 4.27, which in twenty-over cricket is close to absurd.
South Africa won all four of their 2026 World Cup matches at the ground, among them a 76-run defeat of India in which India were bowled out for 111 — their lowest twenty-over total here.
Gujarat Titans, four IPL finals, and the highest first innings in the league
Fifty-three IPL matches have been played at Motera and the first innings averages 181, higher than at the Wankhede, Eden Gardens, Chepauk or the Chinnaswamy. The ground has also become the competition's default neutral venue for knockout cricket: it has staged the finals of 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026.
| IPL record | Figure |
|---|---|
| Most runs at the ground | Shubman Gill 1,384; Sai Sudharsan 1,283; Jos Buttler 677 |
| Most wickets | Rashid Khan 34; Mohit Sharma 29; Kagiso Rabada 26 |
| Highest total | Punjab Kings 243/5, 2025 |
| Highest chase | Kolkata Knight Riders 207/7 chasing 205, 2023 |
| Lowest total | Sunrisers Hyderabad 86, 2026 |
| Best innings figures | Mohit Sharma 5/10 in Qualifier 2, 2023 |
| Highest individual innings | Shubman Gill 129 from 60 balls, 2023 |
Of the four finals, Gujarat Titans won the first, on their own ground, in May 2022. They lost the 2023 final to Chennai Super Kings on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern calculation after rain and the 2026 final to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and were not involved in 2025, when Bengaluru beat Punjab Kings by six runs. Gill's franchise record, most of it made here, is set out in his Gujarat Titans profile.
Landmarks from the Motera years
- March 1987. Sunil Gavaskar reached 10,000 Test runs against Pakistan, the first batter in the game's history to do so.
- February 1994. Kapil Dev took his 432nd Test wicket against Sri Lanka to pass Richard Hadlee as the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket.
- November 1983. The ground's first Test, against West Indies, in the season after India's first World Cup win.
- November 2010. Harbhajan Singh's maiden Test century, 115 against New Zealand from number eight.
- February 2021. The ground was renamed the Narendra Modi Stadium on the day of the pink-ball Test; the surrounding sports complex keeps Sardar Patel's name.
The ground's place among the country's venues is set out in the guide to India's iconic cricket stadiums, and its Test history sits inside the longer account of Test cricket in India.
What the record adds up to
- The second innings is the best time to bat. 46.7 runs per wicket, against 32.6 in the first, 30.2 in the third and 33.3 in the fourth. Nine captains have still chosen to bat first.
- Two of India's most extreme Test innings happened here. 76 in 2008 and, in the same fixture list, the 760 for 7 they conceded in 2009.
- The ground is now a T20 venue first. It averages 181 in the IPL first innings and 193 in T20 internationals, the highest of the five big grounds in both.
- Its ODI record is the opposite. Only two fifty-over innings here have passed 350 in twenty-one matches, and the World Cup final was won chasing 241.
- It is where the IPL goes for finals. Four of the last five deciding matches have been played on this square, and Gujarat Titans have contested three of them for one win.
Sources and method
Every table and aggregate is computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball match files, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. The archive covers men's Tests and ODIs at the ground from the 2005 season and all men's T20 internationals and IPL matches played here; matches at the old Sardar Patel Stadium before 2005 are not in it. Because the stadium was demolished and rebuilt on the same site, records for the two grounds are conventionally kept as one sequence, and that convention is followed here — the split between the two is stated wherever it matters.
Wickets are credited to bowlers only where a scorer would credit them, and pace and spin are separated from a reference list of bowling styles, with about two per cent of deliveries left unclassified. The Gavaskar and Kapil Dev landmarks, the seating figures and the naming of the stadium are descriptive and rest on the ground's published history and contemporary reporting. Figures were checked in August 2026 and anything covering the 2026 seasons will move again. The rest of the country's cricket sits under the cricket in India hub.