Capacity: 55,000 Hyderabad,India
This is the principal cricket stadium in Hyderabad, India and is the home ground of the Hyderabad Cricket Association. Stretched over 16 acres of land, the Rajiv GandhiInternational Cricket Stadium used to have a capacity of 55,000 but this has been reduced to 40,000 for the Indian Premier League. . The ends are named Pavilion End and NorthEnd.The jinx about this stadium is that the home team has never won a match here.Weirdly, the home team has never won a match here.
Most of the funding for the project came after an open auction of the stadium's title was held. Visaka Industries Limited won the auction with a bid price of Rs. 65,00,00,000. A sum of Rs. 43,00,00,000 was paid in advance and the stadium was named as VisakhaInternational Stadium in 2004.
By 2005 when most of the stadium was built, it was ready to host its first ODI Matches between India and South Africa. However, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh decided to change the name of the stadium to Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, in memory of the former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
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