Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium Records | Hyderabad
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Uppal is a young ground with a heavy scorecard. The Hyderabad Cricket Association's stadium was built in 2003, took its first one-day international on 16 November 2005 and its first Test five years after that. Its design capacity is 55,000 and it seats a little under forty thousand for a match. In two decades it has staged six Tests, ten one-day internationals, three Twenty20 internationals and ninety Indian Premier League matches — and in almost every format it has produced a number that stands out nationally.
India's 687 for 6 declared against Bangladesh in February 2017 is the highest team total made here and one of the largest India have ever posted at home; Virat Kohli made 204, Murali Vijay 108 and Wriddhiman Saha 106 in the same innings. India's 297 for 6 against Bangladesh in October 2024 is the highest Twenty20 international score the ground has seen. Australia's 350 for 4 in November 2009 is the highest fifty-over total, and India lost that match by three runs despite Sachin Tendulkar making 175.
What Uppal does not produce is fourth-innings cricket. Across the six Tests the first two innings have averaged 41 and 39 runs per wicket, the third 28 and the fourth 30, and only twenty wickets have ever fallen in a fourth innings here: two of the six Tests ended inside three innings and two more closed with a nominal target already in hand. The one occasion a genuine fourth-innings chase decided a match at Uppal, in January 2024, India lost it.
The ledger across four formats
| Format | Matches | Window | India played | India W-L-D | Highest total | Lowest all out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 6 | Nov 2010 – Jan 2024 | 6 | 4-1-1 | India 687-6 dec v Bangladesh | West Indies 127, 2018 |
| ODI | 10 | Nov 2005 – Oct 2023 | 7 | 4-3 | Australia 350-4 v India | England 174, 2011 |
| T20I | 3 | Dec 2019 – Oct 2024 | 3 | 3-0 | India 297-6 v Bangladesh | none, no side dismissed |
| IPL | 90 | 2008 – 2026 | — | — | Sunrisers Hyderabad 286-6, 2025 | Delhi Daredevils 80, 2013 |
Those Test, ODI and T20I counts are the ground's complete international record rather than an archive window: every men's international played at Uppal is covered by ball-by-ball scoring, which is not true of most Indian venues.
Six Tests, and the two that broke the pattern
| Test | Result | The decisive performance |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2010 v New Zealand | Drawn | Brendon McCullum 225, still the highest individual score at the ground |
| Aug 2012 v New Zealand | India won by an innings and 115 runs | Ravichandran Ashwin took six in each New Zealand innings |
| Mar 2013 v Australia | India won by an innings and 135 runs | Cheteshwar Pujara 204, Murali Vijay 167; Australia 131 in the third innings |
| Feb 2017 v Bangladesh | India won by 208 runs | Kohli 204 in a total of 687-6 declared |
| Oct 2018 v West Indies | India won by 10 wickets | Umesh Yadav took 6 and 4; Rishabh Pant 92 |
| Jan 2024 v England | England won by 28 runs | Ollie Pope 196, then Tom Hartley 7 wickets in India's second innings |
Three of the six were won by an innings or with ten wickets in hand, which is the mark of a ground where the side that gets its first innings right tends to win by a distance rather than a margin. The remaining three are the outliers: the 2010 draw in which both sides passed 350, the 208-run win over Bangladesh built on a declaration, and the 2024 defeat.
That January 2024 Test is worth its own paragraph. England were 246 all out and India replied with 436, a lead of 190. Ollie Pope then made 196 in the third innings, England reached 420, and Tom Hartley — playing his first Test — took seven wickets as India were bowled out for 202 chasing 231. It is the only Test India have lost at Uppal, and England had trailed by 190 on first innings when they began the third. The series it opened is covered in the India-England rivalry.
Test run scorers and wicket takers
| Most Test runs at the ground | Runs | Best |
|---|---|---|
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 510 | 204 v Australia, 2013 |
| Virat Kohli | 379 | 204 v Bangladesh, 2017 |
| Brendon McCullum | 293 | 225 v India, 2010 |
| Murali Vijay | 282 | 167 v Australia, 2013 |
| Ollie Pope | 197 | 196 v India, 2024 |
| Most Test wickets at the ground | Wickets | Best innings |
|---|---|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 33 | 6 v New Zealand, 2012 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 20 | 4 v Bangladesh, 2017 |
| Umesh Yadav | 15 | 6 v West Indies, 2018 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 9 | — |
| Tom Hartley | 9 | 7 v India, 2024 |
Tom Hartley's nine wickets came in a single Test and Pragyan Ojha's in two, which is a fair summary of how compressed this ground's Test history is. Cheteshwar Pujara has more runs at Uppal than anyone despite playing only three Tests here. The overall Test scoring rate across the window is 3.23 an over with 72 per cent dot balls, a shade quicker than most Indian venues, and the reason is the first two innings: 4,594 runs for 115 wickets across the six matches.
Fifty-over cricket: three totals over 340
| Highest ODI totals | Score | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia 350-4 | India | 5 Nov 2009 |
| 2 | India 349-8 | New Zealand | 18 Jan 2023 |
| 3 | India 347 | Australia | 5 Nov 2009 |
| 4 | Pakistan 345-4 | Sri Lanka | 10 Oct 2023 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka 344-9 | Pakistan | 10 Oct 2023 |
Only ten one-day internationals have been played at Uppal and the mean first innings across them is 297, with four of the ten first innings past 300. On a sample that small a single tournament can move the figure, and the 2023 World Cup contributed three of the matches.
Two of those matches are among the more remarkable in the ground's record. On 5 November 2009 Australia made 350 for 4 and India, with Sachin Tendulkar making 175 from 141 balls, were bowled out for 347 with three balls left. On 10 October 2023 Pakistan chased down Sri Lanka's 344 for 9, reaching 345 for 4 with ten balls in hand — the largest successful chase the ground has seen and, at the time, Pakistan's highest in World Cup cricket. Between them sits Shubman Gill's 208 against New Zealand in January 2023, the only ODI double century made in Hyderabad, in a match India won by twelve runs after New Zealand were 337 all out. The wider one-day record is set out in the history of ODI cricket in India.
Three Twenty20 internationals, and 297 for 6
The T20 international sample here is three matches, which is too small to average honestly — the scoring rate across all three combined is 10.04 an over, a figure driven almost entirely by one innings. India have won all three, twice by chasing and once by 133 runs.
That last one is the record. On 12 October 2024 India made 297 for 6 against Bangladesh: Sanju Samson 111 from 47 balls, Suryakumar Yadav 75 from 34, Hardik Pandya 47 from 18 and Riyan Parag 34 from 12. Bangladesh were held to 164 for 7. It is the highest total India have made in a Twenty20 international. The two earlier matches — against West Indies in December 2019 and Australia in September 2022 — were both chases completed with an over or more to spare, the first of them built on 94 from Virat Kohli. How the format developed for India is traced in the T20 international history.
Sunrisers Hyderabad at home
Ninety IPL matches at Uppal, almost all of them involving the home franchise under one of its two names, and the Sunrisers Hyderabad record has been made largely here.
- The first innings averages 169 across 89 uninterrupted matches with a median of 164, but that hides a split: 135 in 2013, 144 in 2016, then 205 in 2024 and 209 in 2026.
- David Warner scored 1,623 runs at the ground and Shikhar Dhawan 1,477, both of them almost entirely for the home side; Heinrich Klaasen is next on 943.
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar has 48 wickets here, ahead of Amit Mishra on 30 and Rashid Khan on 28.
- The highest total is Sunrisers' 286 for 6 against Rajasthan Royals in March 2025, with Ishan Kishan making 106.
- The best bowling anywhere in IPL history was recorded at this ground: Alzarri Joseph's 6 for 12 for Mumbai Indians on 6 April 2019, when Sunrisers were bowled out for 96.
- Sides batting first have won 40 of 88 decided matches, so the ground is a modest chasing venue despite the scores.
The 2023 World Cup residency
Three of the ground's ten one-day internationals were played inside five days of October 2023, and the Netherlands featured in two of them. Pakistan beat them by 81 runs on 6 October after being bowled out for 286, and New Zealand beat them by 99 on 9 October having made 322 for 7 — Mitchell Santner taking five wickets, the only five-wicket haul in a one-day international at the venue. The third, on 10 October, was the Sri Lanka-Pakistan run chase.
Uppal was one of the few 2023 host grounds India never played at, which is why so much of the venue's fifty-over record belongs to other sides. Of the ten matches, three involved neither India nor a touring opponent of India's, and those three produced two of the five highest totals listed above. The wider tournament is covered in the India World Cup history.
What the Hyderabad numbers suggest
- First innings decide Tests here more than anywhere else in India. 4,594 runs for 115 wickets in the first two innings of six Tests, against 2,044 for 72 in the third and fourth. Get the first innings right and the match is usually over.
- The one time a fourth-innings chase settled a match, the visiting side won it. England's 28-run victory in 2024 came after they had trailed by 190 on first innings, and India were bowled out 29 short.
- The fifty-over record is short and uniformly high-scoring. Not one of the ten first innings fell below 236, and the lowest completed total in the ground's ODI history is England's 174 in 2011.
- The IPL square has moved with the competition, not ahead of it. From a 2013 first-innings average of 135 to 209 in 2026 is a doubling in scoring intent over thirteen seasons, and the 286 of 2025 is where it has landed.
Sources and method
The tables and splits on this page are computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. For this venue the archive covers every men's Test, one-day international and Twenty20 international played at the ground, so the international counts here are complete rather than windowed; the IPL count runs from the competition's first season to 2026. Cricsheet withholds matches involving the Afghanistan men's team, which does not affect this ground's record.
Bowling figures count only dismissals a scorer credits to a bowler, so run-outs and retirements fall outside them. Where a total is quoted as "all out" the innings ended with ten wickets down; declared innings are marked as such. Seating and design capacity, the ground's construction date and the first-match dates are taken from the Hyderabad Cricket Association's published venue record and the stadium's international match list rather than computed. Figures were checked in August 2026, and the IPL numbers move every season. For the rest of the country, see the iconic cricket stadiums survey, the companion Uppal pitch and scoring report, the Nagpur venue record for a ground of similar vintage, and the cricket in India hub.