Wankhede Stadium Records & Stats | Mumbai Cricket Ground
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit the six that won the 2011 World Cup over long-on at the Wankhede, and for most people outside Mumbai that is the ground's single defining image. It is not, however, what the scorecards emphasise. Strip the venue back to its numbers and the surprise is how much of its recent Test history has been decided by spin: in the seven men's Tests played here since ball-by-ball records became complete in the early 2000s, spinners have taken 199 of the 240 wickets that fell to bowlers, and the two most extraordinary bowling performances at the ground in that period were both by a left-arm spinner from Auckland.
The ground itself is a product of an argument. Bombay's cricket was played at the Brabourne Stadium until the Bombay Cricket Association, unhappy with the tickets it was allotted by the Cricket Club of India, built its own stadium a few hundred metres away. The Wankhede opened in 1974 and staged its first Test in January 1975 against Clive Lloyd's West Indies. It has been the city's international venue ever since, and Brabourne — whose own record is set out on the page for the Cricket Club of India's ground — has been left to Ranji Trophy cricket and the occasional IPL season.
This page sets out what the venue's record actually contains. The ranked tables below are computed from ball-by-ball data, which is complete for men's Tests and ODIs from the 2003 season onwards and for every men's T20 international and IPL match ever played here. Where a record predates that window it is named as a historical figure rather than counted into a table, and the method is described at the end.
The international record in numbers
| Format | Matches (ball-by-ball era) | India played | India W-L-D | Highest total | Lowest completed total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 7 (Nov 2004 – Nov 2024) | 7 | 4-2-1 | India 631 v England, 2016 | New Zealand 62, 2021 |
| ODI | 15 (Nov 2003 – Nov 2023) | 11 | 7-4-0 | South Africa 438-4, 2015 | Sri Lanka 55, 2023 |
| T20I | 16 (Dec 2012 – Mar 2026) | 8 | 6-2-0 | West Indies 254-6, 2026 | England 97, 2025 |
| IPL | 132 (2008 – 2026) | — | — | Sunrisers Hyderabad 249-4, 2026 | Kolkata Knight Riders 67, 2008 |
Two figures in that table are worth pausing on. India's 631 against England in December 2016 came in an innings victory built on Virat Kohli's 235, and it is the highest total the ground has seen in any format. New Zealand's 62 in December 2021 is the lowest, and it lasted 28.1 overs.
Test cricket at the Wankhede since 2004
Seven Tests, and not one of them dull.
| Test | Result | Defining performance |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2004 v Australia | India won by 13 runs | Michael Clarke's part-time left-arm spin took 6 for 9 in India's second innings of 205 |
| Nov 2011 v West Indies | Drawn with the aggregate scores level | India finished on 242 for 9 chasing 243 |
| Nov 2012 v England | England won by 10 wickets | Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann took 19 wickets between them; Kevin Pietersen made 186 |
| Nov 2013 v West Indies | India won by an innings and 126 runs | Pragyan Ojha took 5 for 40 and 5 for 49 in Sachin Tendulkar's final Test |
| Dec 2016 v England | India won by an innings and 36 runs | Kohli 235, Murali Vijay 136, Jayant Yadav 104 from number nine |
| Dec 2021 v New Zealand | India won by 372 runs | Ajaz Patel took all ten wickets in India's first innings; Mayank Agarwal made 150 |
| Nov 2024 v New Zealand | New Zealand won by 25 runs | Ajaz Patel again, with 11 in the match, as India were bowled out for 121 |
The 2011 draw is the oddity. West Indies made 590 and 134; India replied with 482 and 242 for 9. The two aggregates are identical at 724, which makes it one of the very few Tests in history to finish with the scores level and the match still drawn, because India had a wicket standing and no time in which to use it.
The 2013 Test is the one people remember for a different reason. Sachin Tendulkar played his 200th and last Test here, made 74 from 118 balls with twelve fours, and was caught behind. The match ended inside three days.
Where the wickets have gone
The Wankhede is often described as a fast bowler's ground because of the sea breeze and the true bounce, and in white-ball cricket that is broadly right. In Tests since 2004 it has not been remotely true.
| Innings | Runs per wicket | Wickets to spin | Wickets to pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | 30.9 | 55 | 15 |
| Second | 36.4 | 51 | 15 |
| Third | 19.6 | 62 | 5 |
| Fourth | 17.5 | 31 | 6 |
Runs per wicket almost halves between the second innings and the third, and the pace share of wickets collapses to almost nothing. That pattern — a good batting surface for two days, then a red-soil pitch that grips and turns as the top layer breaks up — is why five of the seven Tests have finished inside four days. The Indian tradition of spin bowling is usually illustrated with Chennai and Delhi; the Wankhede belongs in the same argument.
The contrast with the white-ball record is stark. In the ground's 15 ODIs, pace has taken 149 wickets to spin's 54; in T20 internationals, 112 to 62. Same square, different length of match.
One-day internationals, and the night of 2 April 2011
Fifteen men's ODIs sit inside the ball-by-ball window, and India have won seven of eleven. The scoring has risen sharply: the first innings has averaged 301 across those fifteen matches, but six of them have produced 350 or more and all six came in 2015 or later.
| Highest ODI totals | Score | Match | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa 438-4 | v India | 25 Oct 2015 |
| 2 | South Africa 399-7 | v England | 21 Oct 2023 |
| 3 | India 397-4 | v New Zealand | 15 Nov 2023 |
| 4 | South Africa 382-5 | v Bangladesh | 24 Oct 2023 |
| 5 | New Zealand 358-6 | v Canada | 13 Mar 2011 |
| 6 | India 357-8 | v Sri Lanka | 2 Nov 2023 |
South Africa's 438 for 4, with hundreds from Faf du Plessis, Quinton de Kock and AB de Villiers, is the ground record and one of the highest ODI totals made anywhere in India. The lowest is Sri Lanka's 55 in the 2023 World Cup, a scorecard that ran to 20 overs and included five wickets for Mohammed Shami. Shami's best figures at the ground came a fortnight later, when he took seven in the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand.
The largest successful chase at the ground is New Zealand's 284 for 4 in October 2017, when Tom Latham's unbeaten 103 and Ross Taylor's 95 overhauled India's 280. That is a low ceiling for a venue with these totals, and it says something plain: at the Wankhede, a big first innings has usually been enough. Across all fifteen ODIs the side batting first has won eight and the side chasing seven, but every one of the four highest totals was successfully defended.
The 2011 final is not in the highest-totals table because it did not need to be. Sri Lanka made 274 for 6, Gautam Gambhir made 97, Dhoni 91 not out, and India won by six wickets with ten balls to spare — the first time a side had won the final of a World Cup on its own soil. India's four campaigns as champions are set out in the World Cup history for India.
Twenty20 internationals and the 2026 World Cup
Sixteen men's T20 internationals have been played here, and eight of them arrived in the space of five weeks in early 2026, when Mumbai was one of the busiest venues of the T20 World Cup. India have won six of their eight.
The first-innings average across all sixteen is 190, the median 183, and seven of the sixteen have passed 190. Only three have failed to reach 150. The phase splits explain where those runs come from: 9.11 an over in the first six, 8.63 through the middle, and 11.05 an over from the fifteenth over on, which is among the steepest death-overs rates at any Indian venue. More on how that surface behaves across formats is in the Wankhede pitch and scoring guide.
Three innings stand out. Abhishek Sharma's 135 from 54 balls against England in February 2025 remains the highest individual T20I score at the ground, and India's 247 for 9 that night was followed by England being bowled out for 97 inside ten overs. Chris Gayle's 100 from 48 balls in the 2016 World T20 came against England and won the match. And on 5 March 2026, in a World Cup semi-final, India made 253 for 7 and won by seven runs, with Jacob Bethell's 105 from 48 balls not quite enough — the highest-scoring international the ground has staged. India's route through that tournament and the ones before it is covered in the T20 international history for India.
Batting and bowling leaders at the ground
These are aggregates from the ball-by-ball era only, so they undercount anyone whose Wankhede career began before the early 2000s. Sunil Gavaskar's 1,122 Test runs here, made between 1975 and 1987, remain the ground's all-time Test record and sit entirely outside the window.
| Test cricket, 2004 onwards | Runs | Innings best |
|---|---|---|
| Virat Kohli | 474 | 235 |
| Cheteshwar Pujara | 348 | 135 |
| Darren Bravo | 254 | 166 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 247 | 74 |
| Test wickets, 2004 onwards | Wickets | Average |
|---|---|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 41 | 19.8 |
| Ajaz Patel | 25 | 15.4 |
| Pragyan Ojha | 22 | 19.1 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 16 | 18.2 |
Ajaz Patel's numbers are the strangest in Indian cricket. He has played three Tests at the Wankhede, taken 25 wickets at 15.4, and been on the losing side twice. His 10 for 119 in 2021 made him the third bowler in Test history to take all ten in an innings.
In ODIs at the ground Kohli again leads with 474 runs at 67.7, and Shami's 15 wickets at 10.0 — from four matches — is the best return by any bowler. In T20 internationals the leading run scorer is Bethell with 203, a reminder of how much of that format's Wankhede record was made in a single World Cup.
Indian Premier League records
The Wankhede has staged 132 IPL matches, more than any other ground in the competition's history, and as Mumbai Indians' home it has a franchise record all of its own.
- Rohit Sharma has scored 2,632 runs at the ground in the IPL, at a strike rate of 141. Suryakumar Yadav is next with 1,556.
- Lasith Malinga took 68 wickets here at 17.3 and an economy of 7.00, still the best combination of volume and control the venue has seen. Jasprit Bumrah has 66 at 24.2.
- The first innings averages 173 and the median is 174. The side batting second has won 72 of 131 completed matches, which is a genuine chasing bias and the reverse of the ODI pattern.
- The death overs go at 10.56 an over across all 132 matches, against 8.04 in the powerplay.
- The highest total is Sunrisers Hyderabad's 249 for 4 in April 2026 — made in a chase, and successfully, after Mumbai had posted 243 for 5. The lowest is Kolkata's 67 in 2008.
The ground's IPL history and the wider competition are set out in the Indian Premier League guide.
India's women at the Wankhede
The most significant women's match here is recent. In December 2023 India beat Australia by eight wickets in a one-off Test, having conceded 219 and replied with 406 — Smriti Mandhana 74, Jemimah Rodrigues 73, Deepti Sharma 78 — before bowling Australia out for 261. It was the first time an Indian women's side had beaten Australia in a Test, in a fixture that goes back to the 1970s, and Richa Ghosh and Pooja Vastrakar contributed a fifty and a 47 to that first-innings total as well.
The women's ODI record at the ground is less kind: six matches, two won, both against England in 2019, and three defeats to Australia across the 2023-24 series, including Australia's 338 for 7. The longer arc of that side's development is covered in the history of India's women's national team.
Five things the record shows
- Spin decides Tests here, pace decides everything else. Spinners have 83 per cent of the classified Test wickets since 2004 and barely a quarter of the ODI wickets.
- The fourth-innings figure is brutal. Runs per wicket falls to 17.5, and no side has made more than 242 batting last in a Test at the ground in the modern era.
- A big ODI total has never been chased down. The record chase is 284; the four totals above 380 were all defended.
- The T20 record is front-loaded into 2026. Half of all men's T20Is at the venue were played in one World Cup, which is why the ground's T20 aggregates flatter recent players.
- The IPL and the ODI records disagree about chasing. Over 132 IPL matches the chasing side wins 55 per cent of the time; over 15 ODIs it wins 47 per cent. The difference is the length of the innings, not the pitch.
Sources and method
The ranked tables and every aggregate on this page are computed from Cricsheet's ball-by-ball match files, which are published under the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence. That archive is complete for men's Tests and ODIs at this ground from the 2003 season onwards, and complete for men's T20 internationals and IPL matches, so the windows stated in each table are the real limits of what has been counted rather than editorial choices. Wickets are attributed to the bowler only for dismissals a scorer credits to one; run-outs are excluded. Bowlers are classified as pace or spin from a reference list of bowling styles, and roughly three per cent of wickets could not be classified with confidence and are excluded from those splits rather than guessed at.
Records that predate the ball-by-ball window — Gavaskar's aggregate, the ground's first Test, the 1975 and 1987 fixtures — are described from the venue's published match history and are not counted into any table here. Match narratives are descriptive. Figures were checked in August 2026; totals such as IPL match counts and career aggregates at the ground move with every season, so treat them as correct to that date. Ground records for the rest of the country are collected in the guides to India's iconic cricket stadiums and the Test grounds, and the wider domestic and international picture sits under the cricket in India hub.