Maharaja of Benares Palace Ground
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Full name | Maharaja of Benares Palace Ground |
---|---|
Location | Varanasi, Purvanchal |
Owner | Maharaja of Benares |
Operator | Maharaja of Benares |
Capacity | n/a |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 1934 |
Opened | 1934 |
Tenants | |
United Provinces cricket team (1934-1942) | |
Website | |
ESPNcricinfo |
Maharaja of Benares Palace Ground was a multipurpose stadium in Varanasi. The ground was mainly used for organizing matches of football, cricket and other sports. The stadium has hosted five first-class match [1] in 1934 when Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI played against Marylebone Cricket Club on historic tour of Marylebone Cricket Club in India and Ceylon in 1933/34.[2][3] The ground hosted two more first-class matches in 1940 to 1942, both of United Provinces cricket team against Hyderabad cricket team and Bengal cricket team. The stadium has hosted non-first-class matches when Benares Hindu University played against Patna University.[4][5]
Ranji Trophy matches
# | Team 1 | Team 2 | Winner | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Vizianagram's XI | MCC | Vizianagram's XI | 1934 |
2 | United Provinces | Rajasthan | United Provinces | 1940 |
3 | United Provinces | Madhya Pradesh | Drawn | 1942 |
References
External links
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2017
- Use Indian English from April 2017
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- Cricket grounds in Uttar Pradesh
- Sports venues in Varanasi
- Defunct cricket grounds in India
- Sports venues completed in 1934
- 1934 establishments in India
- 20th-century architecture in India
- All stub articles
- Indian sports venue stubs
- Indian cricket ground stubs