Best Cricket Stadiums



Cricket Stadium, encircling the circular cricket field, has the lofty stands all round it for the spectators to sit and enjoy the game of cricket from there. The field used for playing cricket is usually a large one though there are no fixed dimensions for it.

The field generally used for the game of cricket has a diameter between 450 feet to 500 feet. The perimeter of the field is marked by a rope and is known as the boundary. The stadium encircling the field provides the spectators with seating arrangements and a variety of amenities like food stalls and others. It also contains the club houses and the dressing rooms for the players.

The rectangular strip of land in the centre of the field is 22 yards in length and 10 feet in width. This is called the cricket pitch and this is where the batsman faces the bowler. There are different sections like the spaces between the fifteen or the thirty yards circles. There are a number of major cricket stadium in the world. Some of them are the Lord’s and Oval in England, the Wankhede and Eden Gardens in India, the Adelaide Oval and Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia and the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The cricket stadiums, with all their amenities, are quite popular among the lovers of cricket. To them, these stadiums are like heavens where they can see their favorite players playing in front of their eyes.

Best Cricket Stadiums

RANKING STADIUMS CAPACITY CITY/TOWN COUNTRY
1 Lord’s Cricket Ground 28,000 London United Kingdom
2 Melbourne Cricket Ground 96,000 Melbourne Australia
3 Eden Gardens 66,000 Kolkata India
4 The Oval 23,500 London United Kingdom
5 Sydney Cricket Ground 44,000 Sydney Australia
6 Newlands Cricket Ground 25,000 Cape Town South Africa
7 Trent Bridge 17,000 West Bridgford United Kingdom
8 Adelaide Oval 53,000 Adelaide Australia
9 Edgbaston Cricket Ground 25,000 Birmingham United Kingdom
10 Galle International Stadium 35,000 Galle Sri Lanka
11 Queen’s Park Oval 25,000 Port of Spain Trinidad & Tobago
12  Feroz Shah Kotla 40,000 Delhi India
13 Basin Reserve 11,600 Wellington New Zealand
14 Karachi Cricket Stadium 34,000 Karachi Pakistan
15 WACA 24,500 Perth Australia
16 Wankhede Stadium 34,000 Mumbai India
17 Kensington Oval 28,000 Bridgetown Barbados
18 The Wanderers Stadium 34,000 Johannesburg South Africa
19 The Gabba 42,000 Brisbane Australia
20 Headingley Stadium 17,000 Leeds United Kingdom
21 Port Elizabeth (St George’s Oval) 19,000 Port Elizabeth South Africa
22  Old Trafford 26,000 Manchester United Kingdom
23 Rose Bowl Cricket Ground 20,000 Southampton United Kingdom
24 SuperSport Park (formerly Centurion Park) 22,000 Centurion South Africa
25 HPCA Stadium 25,000 Dharamshala India

SOURCE:Bleacher Report
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