University Stadium is located in the city of Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

, Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and is used for multiple sports - predominantly Football and Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 matches. The stadium is part of University of Kerala campus and was built in 1952. The stadium is used as the home ground for the Indian domestic cricket team - Kerala

Kerala cricket team

The Kerala cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is in the Plate Group of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first class cricket tournament in India. Kerala has produced two Indian test cricketers, Tinu Yohannan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth...

 till the late 1980s. The stadium has hosted 2 ODI matches with the host team - India

Indian cricket team

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....

 losing one match and the other match yielded no result.

Currently the stadium is the homeground of Chirag United Club, for the 2011-2012 I-League season.

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium is an international stadium in Kochi, Kerala. The stadium has a capacity of 60,000 spectators making it the third largest stadium in India after the Eden Gardens and Salt Lake Stadium, both in Kolkata...

 is currently the stadium preferred for International Cricket Matches in the state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 though the Kerala Cricket Association has plans to build a new stadium in the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram itself.

International Cricket Match

Match 1: NO RESULT - India

Indian cricket team

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....

 (175 All-Out in 37/37 Overs) and Australia

Australian cricket team

The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...

 (29/1 in 7.4 Overs)

Match 2: India

Indian cricket team

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....

 (239/8 in 45 Overs) lost to West Indies (241/1 in 42.5 Overs)

External links

• Cricinfo Website - Ground Page

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