Brabourne Stadium
Ground information
Location	Churchgate, Mumbai
Established	1937
Seating capacity	20,000
Owner	Cricket Club of India
Operator	Cricket Club of India
Home team(s)	Mumbai
End names	Pavilion End, Church Gate End
Surface	Grass
Floodlight	Yes
First Test	India v West Indies - Dec 9-13, 1948
Last Test	Indiav England - Feb 6-11, 1973
First ODI	Australia v Pakistan - Oct 23, 1989
Last ODI	Australia v West Indies - November 5, 2006
Only T20	India v Australia - October 20, 2007
Stands

The Brabourne stadium west gate, facing Marine Drive.

The Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in the Indian city of Mumbai. It is located near Churchgate railway station in South Mumbai. The stadium is owned by the Cricket Club of India Brabourne stadium hosted Test matches from 1948 to the 1972, as well as the Bombay Pentangular matches. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 378 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: Ojas http://www. ... Churchgate is an area in downtown South Mumbai getting its name from the famous Churchgate Railway Station. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cricket Club of India (CCI) is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, near Churchgate in Mumbai, India. ... Cricket Club of India (CCI) is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, near Churchgate in Mumbai, India. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... The Indian cricket team is an international cricket team representing India. ... The logo of the England Cricket Team which shows the three Lions of England below a five-pointed crown The England cricket team is the national cricket team which represents England and Wales. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Marine Drive looking south Marine Drive is a 3 km long boulevard in South Mumbai in the city of Mumbai. ... This article is about the sport. ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... Churchgate is an area in downtown South Mumbai getting its name from the famous Churchgate Railway Station. ... South Mumbai South Mumbai (also referred to as South Bombay) is a geographic region in the city of Mumbai, India. ... Cricket Club of India (CCI) is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, near Churchgate in Mumbai, India. ... For the womens version of the game, see Womens Test cricket. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, India (now known as Mumbai) from 1912 to 1936. ...

Since the early 1970s, Brabourne Stadium ceased to be a major venue for international matches after a dispute between CCI and the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) over the allotment of tickets. The MCA then built a cricket stadium of their own, the Wankhede Stadium, a few hundred metres north of Brabourne. Since then it has lost out on major matches though first class matches are held when visiting teams arrive in the city. MCA logo The Mumbai cricket Assocition or MCA (formaly known as Bombay cricket Association) is the governing body for cricket in Mumbai and its surrounding regions like Thane and Navi Mumbai. ... The Wankhede stadium. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Founding

The CCI was incorporated as a company on November 8, 1933, during the MCC's 1933-34 tour of India, with its registered office in New Delhi. R. E. Grant Govan, the President of BCCI, became the first President of the club. Anthony de Mello, then the Secretary of BCCI, also served the secretary of CCI from 1933 to 1937. is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Lords 2005 The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1787, is a private members club and was the original governing body of cricket in England and across the world. ... , This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... Anthony Stanislaus de Mello (11 October 1900, Karachi, Sind – 24 May 1961, Delhi) was an Indian cricket administrator and one of the founders of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. ...

The negotiations for the land for the new cricket stadium took place between de Mello and the Bombay governor Lord Brabourne. The popular story goes that before returning at the end of the meeting, de Mello asked Lord Brabourne : 'Your excellency, which would you prefer to accept from sportsmen, money for your Government, or immortality for yourself'. Brabourne chose immortality and CCI was soon allotted 90,000 square yards at a price of Rs. 13.50 per square yard from land reclaimed in the Backbay reclamation scheme. Messrs. Gregson, Batley and King were appointed the architects of the stadium, Shapoorji Pallonji & co were awarded the contract for construction and Frank Tarrant was the first groundsman. The city of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay was attained by the British East India Company in 1664. ... The Right Honourable Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, GCSI, GCIE, MC (8 May 1895–23 February 1939) was a British peer and soldier, the son of Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne. ... Frank Tarrant (in full Francis Alfred Tarrant; born December 11, 1880, Melbourne, Australia; died January 29, 1951, Melbourne) was an Australian all_rounder who played with great success for Middlesex in the County Championship in the years before World War I. His record is sufficient to establish Tarrant as one of...

The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brabourne on May 22, 1936. The ground was intended to provide covered accommodation for 35000 spectators and contain pavilion, tennis courts and a swimming pool. The first match was played in the incomplete stadium in October 1937 between the CCI and the Spencer Cup XI. The stadium was opened on December 7, 1937 by Sir Lawrence Roger Lumley, the Governor of Bombay, Lord Brabourne being now the Governor of Bengal. The stadium was named after Brabourne at the suggestion of the Maharaja of Patiala. On the same day, CCI met the visiting Lord Tennyson's XI in the inaugural first class match in the stadium. is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Lawrence Lumley was the 11th Earl of Scarbrough. ... Maharaja Bhupinder Singh (born 12 October, 1891 in Patiala - died 23 March 1938 in Patiala) was maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

The estimated cost of construction was Rs. 18 lakhs (1.8 million) but the actual costs exceeded this by over a third. It took the efforts of people like Abubhai Jasdenwala who had succeeded de Mello as the secretary in 1937 and Sir Nowroji Saklatwala, the head of the Tatas for a few years for the CCI to cover the costs. The Maharaja of Idar paid for the Governor's pavilion and Maharaja of Patiala for the pavilion that was named after him. The deficits were paid off from the sale of debentures and from the income from the Bombay Pentangular matches. A lakh (Hindi: लाख, Urdu: Ù„Ú©Ú¾, Bengali: , Tamil : இலட்சம்) is a unit in the Indian numbering system, widely used both in official and other contexts in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ... Abubhai Adamji Jasdenwala (born 1899-06-24 in Bombay - died 1982-09-15 in Bombay) was a businessman and cricket administrator. ... Tata is one of the oldest and largest business conglomerates in India, with revenues in 2005-06 of $21. ... The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay (now known as Mumbai) from 1912 to 1936. ...

Cricket matches

20-20 Match between Orissa and Railways being played at Brabourne Stadium, April 2007.

With the completion of the stadium in 1937, the Bombay Pentangular tournament was moved from the Bombay Gymkhana. It was in this year that Rest entered the competition as a new team. Hindus, however, withdrew their team after a dispute over the seating allocation. The eight years at Brabourne were perhaps the most glorious in the history of the tournament. The battle between Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare in 1943-44 saw the record for the highest individual score being bettered three times in the first week of December ending with Hazare's 309 out of Rest's 387 allout in the final. In the Ranji match against Maharashtra that began on the last day of the year, Merchant improved upon it with an innings of 359 notout which still stands as the highest score made on the ground. In the 1944-45 final of the Pentangular, Muslims chased 298 to defeat the Hindus by one wicket. The Pentangular tournament was abandoned after the 1946-47 season . Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, India (now known as Mumbai) from 1912 to 1936. ... Picture of the Bombay Gymn. ... Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant (born October 12, 1911 in Bombay; died October 27, 1987, Bombay) was an Indian cricketer. ... Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915–18 December 2004) was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. ... The Maharashtra cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Maharashtra. ...

Brabourne hosted seventeen Test matches, starting with two against West Indies in India's first home series after the war in 1948-49. Vijay Hazare scored a hundred in each of his four appearances. 16 Ranji Trophy finals were played at the stadium between 1938 and 1973. Bombay figured in fourteen of these and won on each occasion. Among the other notable innings played at the ground are Denis Compton's 249* for Holkar in the 1944-45 final and Ajit Wadekar's triple century in 1966-67 against Chandrasekhar and Prasanna. Learie Constantine, was one of the first great West Indian players. ... The Ranji Trophy is the domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between state and city sides, equivalent to county cricket in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia, and also denotes the trophy that is awarded to the winner. ... Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (23 May 1918 - 23 April 1997) was an English cricketer and footballer. ... Ajit Laxman Wadekar (born April 1, 1941, Bombay, India) was a former international cricketer from India. ... Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar (Chandra) (born May 17, 1945 in Mysore) is a former Indian cricketer who specialised in leg spin. ... Erapalli Anantharao Srinivas Prasanna (born: May 22, 1940) is a famous cricket player from India. ...

The one serious instance of crowd trouble at the stadium happened in the final session of the fourth day (08-11-1969) of the Test match between India and Australia^[1]. With India in desperate trouble in the second innings Wadekar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan were involved in a partnership of 25 for the eighth wicket when the latter was declared out caught behind of Alan Connolly. The decision was the cricticised by the radio commentators, and as Venkat left the wicket after some hesitation, trouble broke out in the East Stand. Bottles were thrown on the ground and chairs burnt. The awnings were set on fire in the North stand. Play went on for an hour while all this happened. ^[2] Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, unsurprisingly often known by his nickname of Venkat, (born 21 April 1945, in Madras) was formerly a cricketer. ... Alan Norman Connolly (born June 29, 1939 in Victoria) was an Australian cricketer who played in 29 Tests and 1 ODI between 1963 and 1971. ...

Decline

Ever since the Brabourne Stadium was constructed, CCI had a rough relationship with their tenants – the Bombay Cricket Association (BCA) – mostly owing to the disputes regarding the allotment of seats. On one instance, BCA even threatened to stage a Test at the Shivaji park with temporary stands. The Mumbai cricket team is one of the top cricket teams in the Ranji Trophy, Indias top domestic competition. ...

In 1971, BCA was told that they will not be allotted a single extra seat for the visit of England in 1972. CCI maintained that it spends a large amount in maintaining the ground and any further concessions would lead to substantial loss of revenue to the club. BCA went ahead and constructed a new stadium under the direction of the President S. K. Wankhede. The Wankhede Stadium hosted its first Test match early in 1975 during the tour of West Indies. Since then, except for a few Duleep Trophy matches, Brabourne staged few major matches for about two decades. Seshrao Krishnarao Wankhede (born September 24, 1914 in Nagpur - died January 30, 1988) in Bombay was a cricket administrator and politician. ... The Wankhede stadium. ... The Duleep Trophy competition was started by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 1961-62. ...

Recent cricket and other activities

International cricket returned to Brabourne in 1989 when Australia played Pakistan a one day international. Since then it has hosted two more ODIs. In recent years, many of the teams visiting India have started their tour with a match at the Brabourne. The match between Australia and Mumbai in 1997-98 was noted for Sachin Tendulkar's first double hundred in first class cricket. A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... Tendulkar redirects here. ...

CCI was the first to introduce single wicket cricket in India. This competition in 1965 was won by Vinoo Mankad. For three years after the termination of the Pentangular, Brabourne hosted an inter-zonal tournament which was revived later as the Duleep trophy. The CCI leases the ground to many schools in the vicinity for their annual sports day activities. In addition the ground is also leased to marriages, parties and other activities during the off season. Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad (12 April 1917-21 August 1978), better known as Vinoo Mankad, was an Indian cricket player. ...

Brabourne hosted the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania second round Group I match between India and Pakistan in April 2006. The Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open is held on the Cricket Club of India grounds next to the stadium. The great Australians Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall with the Cup in 1953 The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in mens tennis. ... The Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open is a tennis tournament held in Mumbai, India. ... Cricket Club of India (CCI) is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, near Churchgate in Mumbai, India. ...

Brabourne is one of the four ground that hosted the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy. International Cricket returned to the ground almost after 11 years when West Indies and Sri Lanka played the sixth match in the qualifying round. It also hosted the final of the ICC Champions trophy on 5 Nov 2006. The pitch faced criticism for being too slow for one-day cricket. The 2006 ICC Champions Trophy is a One-day International cricket tournament held in India from 7 October to 5 November 2006. ... The 2006 ICC Champions Trophy is a One-day International cricket tournament held in India from 7 October to 5 November 2006. ...

Brabourne Stadium hosted the first Twenty20 International on Indian soil, when India beat Australia in a one off game on 20th October 2007. Gautam Gambhir was Man of the Match for his contribution of 63 runs in a much hyped grudge game in wake of the Andrew Symonds controversy. ^[3] Gautam Gambhir(born 14 October 1981) is an Indian opening Batsmen. ... In sport, a man of the match or player of the game or man of the series award is given to the outstanding player in a particular match or series. ... Andrew Symonds (born June 9, 1975, Birmingham, England)[1] is an Australian cricketer of West Indian heritage. ...

References

1. ^ Scorecard of the India-Australia Test in 1969-70
2. ^ Sujit Mukherjee, 'Bombay Burning', An Indian cricket century, Orient Longman, 2002, pp. 97-101
3. ^ India vs Australia Twenty20

3.Score card of matches played at Brabourne stadium.

4. Vasant Raiji and Anandji Dossa, CCI and the Brabourne Stadium, Cricket Club of India, 1987

5. Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1990

6. Boria Majumdar Twenty two yards to freedom, Penguin, 2004

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