150th Test being played at Lord’s… Know where most red ball matches were played, India not even in top-10?

Lord’s Cricket Ground 150th Match: The name of England’s historic Lord’s ground has once again been recorded in the golden pages of cricket history. On June 4, the first Test match between England and New Zealand started on this ground, which is the 150th red ball match to be played in this stadium. With this, Lord’s Cricket Ground has become the first ground in the world to host 150 test matches. So far, so many Test matches have not been played in any other stadium in the world. Whereas, if we talk about the first Test match in the history of cricket, this match was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. This ground of Australia is second in terms of hosting the maximum number of test matches. See the list of top-5 grounds, where maximum number of test matches have been played.

On which grounds were most tests played?

118 Test matches have been played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. Apart from this, 114 Tests have been played at Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia and 108 Tests have been played at Kennington Oval in London. After this comes the Manchester Old Trafford ground, where 86 test matches have been played. Apart from this, 84 Test matches have been played at Adelaide Oval in Australia, 82 Test matches at Headingley in England, 70 Test matches at Basin Reserve in New Zealand, 68 Test matches at Gabba in Australia and 67 Test matches have been played at Trent Bridge in England.

• Lord’s, London- 150* Test
• Melbourne Cricket Ground- 118 Tests
• Sydney Cricket Ground- 114 Test
• Kennington Oval, London – 108 Tests
• Old Trafford, Manchester – 86 Tests

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Where were most tests played in India?

Talking about India, maximum number of test matches have been played in Eden Gardens, Kolkata. This ground has hosted 43 test matches so far. It comes at number 23 in the overall list. Apart from this, 36 test matches have been played in Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Surprisingly, the National Stadium of Karachi, Pakistan is ahead of Eden Gardens in this list. This ground is present at 18th position.

These records were made at Lord’s ground

The 150th Test match is being played at Lord’s Cricket Ground in England from June 4. So far, out of 149 matches played here, 98 matches have been decided win-win, while 51 matches have been drawn. During all these matches, a lot of runs were scored and wickets also fell on this ground. According to the records, a total of 1,43,786 runs have been scored on this ground so far. At the same time, all the bowlers together have taken 4,627 wickets.

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