Green Park Cricket Stadium Kanpur

Location: Green Park, Civil Lines, Kanpur

Established: 1945

Seating Capacity: 45,000

Floodlights: Yes

End Names: Mil Pavilion End, Hostel End

Home Team: Uttar Pradesh

First Test: India v England - Jan 12-14, 1952

First ODI: India v Sri Lanka - December 24, 1986

Located in the automated centermost of Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, the Green Esplanade amphitheater is anchored abutting to the river Ganges. The ground, anytime back its enactment in 1945, has hosted a amount of analysis matches and one day internationals. Boasting of a basement accommodation of 45, 000 people, Green Esplanade is aswell the home arena of the Uttar Pradesh candid team. The arena is, currently, beneath the acuity of the Sports Department Uttar Pradesh. Green Esplanade hosted its aboriginal analysis in the January of 1952 amid India and England and the aboriginal ODI was played amid India and Sri Lanka on December 24, 1986.

According to the history of the Green Esplanade Stadium, it was initially accepted as the Modi Stadium. It was in this arena that India recorded its aboriginal anytime achievement adjoin Australia in the December of 1959. The bout was aswell the aboriginal to be played on a accommodation wicket here. Indian off spinner, Jasubhai Patel's 14 wickets accomplishment was the key acumen for active India on the acceptable band in the match. Further, in 1958-59, Indian bowler, Subhash Gupte took nine West Indian wickets in an inning for 102 runs, alone missing Lance Gibbs, who was, in fact, alone by wicket babysitter Naren Tamhane.

Green Esplanade amphitheater has been refurbished and avant-garde to accomplish it accomplished in the present times. Floodlights accept been installed in the stadium, which assists in authoritative it one of the arch stadiums for arena day-night matches in India. Green Esplanade has two ends - Mill Pavilion End and the Hostel End, called afterwards the Elgin Mill and DAV College, which are anchored abutting to the stadium. Back its establishment, the angle of Green Esplanade is acutely favorable to spinners, which is why some of the amazing performances accept been recorded by spinners.

The Green Esplanade Amphitheater in Kanpur has so far witnessed some of the greatest performances in the history of candid and several annal accept been fabricated and torn in this ground. Kanpur candid arena is aswell one of Aggregation India's luckiest venues. Back Green Esplanade amphitheater belongs to the Uttar Pradesh Government, the Uttar Pradesh Candid Association has proposed to assemble a new arena of its own, in Lucknow.

Milestones at Green Esplanade Stadium:

* The accomplished Analysis absolute at the Green Esplanade amphitheater is 676 by India adjoin Sri Lanka in the 1986-87 season.

* The accomplished ODI absolute at the Green Esplanade amphitheater is 259 by India adjoin England in the 1989-90 season.

* The everyman ODI absolute at the Green Esplanade amphitheater is 78 by India adjoin Sri Lanka in the 1986-87 season.

* Indian, cricketer, Gundappa Viswanath has been the a lot of abounding batsman in Green esplanade stadium, recording a behemothic absolute of 776 runs.

* West Indies player, Faoud Bacchus, holds the almanac of the accomplished alone account of 250 runs, verses India in 1978-79 series.

* Indian cricketing giant, Kapil Dev charcoal the a lot of abounding bowler in the Green Esplanade stadium, absolute a absolute of 25 wickets.