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Dharamsala Cricket Stadium records: List of HPCA Cricket Stadium records and batting and bowling stats in T20I

Dixit Bhargav
|PublishedFeb 25, 2022

Dharamsala Cricket Stadium records: List of HPCA Cricket Stadium records and batting and bowling stats in T20I

Dharamsala Cricket Stadium records: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium will be hosting a T20I after more than two years.

The second and third T20Is of the ongoing Sri Lanka’s tour of India will be played at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium on February 26 and 27 respectively.

Having last hosted an international match in 2019, Dharamsala will be hosting one after more than two years. It is for the first time that Dharamsala has been awarded two matches of the same bilateral series featuring India.

As far as the hosts are concerned, their solitary Dharamsala T20I was a high-scoring encounter against South Africa more than six years ago. It is noteworthy that India have never won a T20I at this venue.

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, have never played a Dharamsala T20I. Having said that, their lone international match in Dharamsala had witnessed them registering a 7-wicket victory after bundling out India for 112 in 38.2 overs.

Dharamsala Cricket Stadium records

As was the case in Lucknow, India captain Rohit Sharma has a T20I century in Dharamsala as well. Second-highest run-scorer in Dharamsala T20Is, Sharma (106) follows Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal (233) and is followed by the likes of Sabbir Rahman (72), JP Duminy (68) and Stephen Myburgh (56).

Highest wicket-takers in Dharamsala T20Is are Paul van Meekeren (6), Shakib Al Hasan (6), George Dockrell (4), Timm van der Gugten (4) and Mitchell McClenaghan (3). No Indian player of the current squad has picked a wicket in a Dharamsala T20I.

Highest innings totals at HPCA Stadium

The highest T20I innings at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium is also the highest run-chase at the venue. It was during the first match of South Africa’s tour of India in 2015 that former South Africa all-rounder Jean-Paul Duminy had scored a match-winning 68* (34) with the help of a four and seven sixes to seal a 200-run chase with a couple of deliveries remaining.

Score	Overs	Team	Opposition	Year

200/3	19.4	South Africa	India	2015
199/5	20	India	South Africa	2015
180/2	20	Bangladesh	Oman	2016
157/8	19.4	Oman	Ireland	2016
154/5	20	Ireland	Oman	2016

About the author

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.