Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium Raipur Records
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Raipur has the third-largest cricket ground in India and one of the shortest match lists. The Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Nava Raipur seats 65,000, opened on 11 September 2008, and had to wait until January 2023 for its first international. In the three and a half years since it has staged two one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals, on top of eight IPL matches spread across four seasons and thirteen years.
Those two ODIs are as far apart as two matches at the same ground can be. In the first, New Zealand were bowled out for 108 in 34.3 overs and India needed 20.1 overs to win. In the second, on 3 December 2025, India made 358 for 5 and lost — South Africa chased 359 and reached 362 for 6 with four balls to spare. That is the highest total any side has made to beat India in a home one-day international.
The ground is owned by the Chhattisgarh government, operated by the Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh, and named after the nineteenth-century Chhattisgarh landowner and rebel Veer Narayan Singh. What follows is computed from ball-by-ball records of every senior men's match played there.
The ground's record
| Format | Matches | Span | India W-L | Highest total | Lowest all-out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| ODI | 2 | Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 | 1-1 | South Africa 362-6, 2025 | New Zealand 108, 2023 |
| T20I | 2 | Dec 2023 – Jan 2026 | 2-0 | India 209-3, 2026 | — |
| IPL | 8 | Apr 2013 – May 2026 | — | Royal Challengers Bengaluru 194-4, 2026 | — |
Twelve matches, and no side has yet been bowled out at the ground in a twenty-over game. The only completed all-out innings in its history is New Zealand's 108 in 2023.
The 358 that was not enough
| 3 Dec 2025, India v South Africa | Score |
|---|---|
| India | 358-5 (Ruturaj Gaikwad 105, Virat Kohli 102, KL Rahul 66) |
| South Africa | 362-6 in 49.2 overs (Aiden Markram 110, Matthew Breetzke 68, Dewald Brevis 54) |
Ruturaj Gaikwad made 105 from 83 balls and Virat Kohli 102 from 93 in the same innings, the only pair of centuries India have made together at the ground. KL Rahul's 66 from 43 balls took them past 350. Nothing about 358 for 5 looked defendable on that surface and it was not: Aiden Markram made 110 from 98, Dewald Brevis 54 from 34, and South Africa needed only four overs of the last ten.
Two things make the match unusual beyond the totals. The first is that 358 is the largest total India have ever lost from after batting first in a home ODI — a mark they now share with a 358 they made at Mohali in March 2019. The second is the bowling: Prasidh Krishna's 8.2 overs cost 85, Arshdeep Singh's ten cost 54, and no Indian bowler took more than two wickets. The wider list of India's fifty-over peaks and the chases that have beaten them is set out in India's highest successful ODI chases.
108, and the ground's other face
Twenty-three months earlier the same square produced the shortest completed innings in its history. New Zealand, on 21 January 2023, were bowled out for 108 in 34.3 overs. Mohammed Shami took 3 for 18 from six overs, Washington Sundar 2 for 7 from seven, and Hardik Pandya 2 for 16 from six. Glenn Phillips's 36 from 52 balls was the highest score of the innings and the only one above 30.
India knocked the runs off inside 21 overs, Rohit Sharma making 51. The match lasted 55 overs in total, one of the three shortest completed fifty-over internationals played in India since 2020. Set the two Raipur ODIs side by side and the gap is 501 runs: 219 in the first, 720 in the second. On the evidence of two matches the surface has no settled character at all.
Two T20 internationals, both Indian wins
In December 2023 India made 174 for 9 against Australia — Rinku Singh 46 from 29 balls, Jitesh Sharma 35 from 19 — and Australia's reply of 154 for 7 fell 20 short. Axar Patel's 3 for 16 from four overs is still the best T20I return at the ground.
In January 2026 New Zealand made 208 for 6, Mitchell Santner hitting 47 from 27 balls from number seven, and India chased it in 15.2 overs. Suryakumar Yadav made 82 not out from 37 balls and Ishan Kishan 76 from 32; their second-wicket stand was worth 122 from 55 balls. India needed 92 balls in all, which is the quickest they have chased down a target of 200 or more in a home T20 international.
Suryakumar's 83 runs from two innings at a strike rate of 212.8 is the leading T20I aggregate at the venue, which says more about the sample than about him.
Delhi's outpost, then Bengaluru's
The IPL has visited Raipur in two distinct waves. Delhi Daredevils used the ground as a second home for six matches between 2013 and 2016, winning four. Ten years later, in May 2026, Royal Challengers Bengaluru played two matches there and won both.
- David Warner is the leading run scorer with 207 in four innings at 103.5, all of it in the Delhi years, with three fifties.
- Kohli's 105 not out from 60 balls for Bengaluru on 13 May 2026, chasing 193 against Kolkata Knight Riders, is the only IPL century made at the ground.
- Karun Nair's 83 not out from 59 balls in May 2016 is the highest score by a Delhi batter at the venue.
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar leads the wicket-takers with six, and his 4 for 23 in May 2026 is the best return the ground has seen; Corbin Bosch took 4 for 26 in the same match.
- Chennai Super Kings' 119 for 6 in May 2015 is the lowest total. Shreyas Iyer's 70 not out won that game for Delhi with twenty balls to spare.
Ten seasons separate the two spells, and the two eras look nothing alike: the six Delhi matches produced an average first innings of 146, the two Bengaluru matches 179.
The scoring shape across twelve matches
| Phase | Runs per over | Wickets |
|---|---|---|
| Overs 1-6 | 7.69 | 34 |
| Overs 7-15 | 7.86 | 39 |
| Overs 16-20 | 9.95 | 35 |
Those figures cover the ten twenty-over matches played here. A powerplay rate of 7.69 is low by current standards and the death-overs rate of 9.95 is unremarkable, which fits the six low-scoring Delhi Daredevils games that make up most of the sample. The two 2026 matches and the 2026 T20 international all scored considerably faster, so the numbers above are best read as a record of what the ground was rather than a forecast of what it is. For how surfaces vary across the country, see the guide to pitch types and conditions in India.
Four things the Raipur record shows
- Twelve matches is not a pitch report. Every figure on this page rests on a sample small enough that one more game could move it. The two ODIs differ by 501 runs.
- Both centuries in the ground's ODI history came in the same innings, and India still lost. Gaikwad and Kohli on 3 December 2025; Markram's reply was the third hundred of the day.
- Chasing has been overwhelmingly the winning side of the coin. Nine of the twelve matches at the ground have gone to the team batting second, across all three formats.
- The ground's size has never been tested. A 65,000-seat stadium has held four internationals in eighteen years of existence, and no Test at all. Its place among the country's grounds is surveyed in India's iconic cricket stadiums.
Sources and method
Every table and aggregate above is computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball archive of men's ODIs, T20 internationals and IPL matches, published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence, covering all matches at this ground to early August 2026. The venue appears in that archive under both its full and shortened names and both are treated here as the same ground. Wickets are credited to a bowler only where the scorer attributed the dismissal, so run-outs sit outside bowling figures, and averages appear only for players with more than one innings here.
The capacity, the opening date and the ownership come from Chhattisgarh State Cricket Sangh and published venue records rather than from the data. Because the ground has staged only twelve senior matches, nothing on this page should be read as a settled characteristic of the surface. For a venue with a comparable record of long gaps between fixtures, see Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, and for the national picture the cricket in India hub.