Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium
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Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium is a field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 stadium at Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It was the venue to the 1996 Men's Champions Trophy
1996 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)
The 1996 Men's Champions Trophy took place from December 7 to December 15, 1996 in the newly build Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Madras , India...

, and hosted the tournament
2005 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)
The 2005 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy took place in the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai, India. The event started December 10 and ended on December 18, 2005.=Head Coach: Barry Dancer#Jamie Dwyer#Liam de Young#Michael McCann#Nathan Eglington...

 again in December 2005. It was also the venue for 2007 edition of Asian Hockey Championship, in which India triumphed by a thumping margin of 7-2 over South Korea.
It is also the venue for all division matches of the Chennai Hockey Association.
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