Indore Cricket Stadium Test match records: Holkar Stadium Test records and highest innings totals

Dixit Bhargav | 28/02/2023
Indore Cricket Stadium Test match records: Holkar Stadium Test records and highest innings totals

Holkar Stadium will be back as an international venue merely five weeks after last hosting an international match in the form of an India-New Zealand ODI. Indore’s second international match of the year will be an India-Australia Test match as cricket’s ancestral format is all is readiness of returning to this city for the second time after over three years.

Both the previous two Indore Tests were won by India by huge margins. Having also won the first two Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 Tests, the home team should be a confident set looking to seal the series at this venu this week.

Australia, on the other hand, have never a played a Test match at this stadium. Their only international match here was an ODI which they ended up losing by 5 wickets more than half-a-decade ago.

Indore Cricket Stadium Test match records

Highest run-scorers in Indore Tests are Ajinkya Rahane (297), Mayank Agarwal (243), Virat Kohli (228), Cheteshwar Pujara (196) and Mushfiqur Rahim (107). Other batters part of the current Indian squad to have scored some runs here are Ravindra Jadeja (77) and Rohit Sharma (57).

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Highest Test wicket-takers at this venue are Ravichandran Ashwin (18), Mohammed Shami (7), Umesh Yadav (5), Abu Jayed (4) and Jeetan Patel (4). India all-rounder Jadeja has picked four wickets across as many innings here.

Highest innings totals at Holkar Stadium

Score Overs Team Opposition Year
557/5d 169 India New Zealand 2016
493/6d 114 India Bangladesh 2019
299 90.2 New Zealand India 2016
216/3d 49 India New Zealand 2016
213 69.2 Bangladesh India 2019
153 44.5 New Zealand India 2016
150 58.3 Bangladesh India 2019

A total of seven innings have been possible across the two Test matches played at the Holkar Stadium till now. Both the matches had witnessed captains electing to bat first at the toss. While India registered a mammoth victory after doing so in the inaugural Indore Test, Bangladesh ended up losing by a massive margin in the second time around.

Moreover, it is noteworthy that no team has ever been able to seal a Test run-chase at this stadium.

Post Edited By: Jatin Hasija

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.