Green Park Stadium
Green Park Stadium is an international standards cricket stadium of Kanpur, India. Its seating capacity increased to approximately 25,000 after a recent reconstruction. It is the home ground of Uttar Pradesh cricket team.
Aerial view of Green Park Stadium | |||||||
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| Location | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | ||||||
| Coordinates | 26°28′55″N 80°20′52″E | ||||||
| Establishment | 1945 | ||||||
| Capacity | 25,000 | ||||||
| Owner | Uttar Pradesh Government | ||||||
| Operator | UPCA | ||||||
| Tenants | Uttar Pradesh cricket team India national cricket team India women's national cricket team Gujarat Lions (defunct) Kanpur Superstars | ||||||
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| First Test | 12–14 January 1952: India v England | ||||||
| Last Test | 25–29 November 2021: India v New Zealand | ||||||
| First ODI | 24 December 1986: India v Sri Lanka | ||||||
| Last ODI | 29 October 2017: India v New Zealand | ||||||
| Only T20I | 26 January 2017: India v England | ||||||
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| As of 25 November 2021 Source: ESPNcricinfo | |||||||
This arena is an International Test match venue. Green Park is under the control of the Sports Department Uttar Pradesh. It has hosted international cricket matches in both of Test and ODI format. The stadium hosted the 500th test played by the Indian team. It also organized four Vivo IPL matches, on 19 and 21 May 2016 and on 10 and 13 May 2017.
As of 19 August 2017 it has hosted 22 Tests, 14 ODIs and 1 T20I. It is situated near the river Ganga.
The stadium was named after a British woman named Green who used to go horse riding there, and is nicknamed 'Billiards Table', and also 'Woolmer's turf', after the late cricket coach and player Bob Woolmer who was born in McRobert Hospital opposite to the stadium.