The Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) will be hosting the first Test between India and South Africa in Nagpur February 6 and South Africa are due to arrive in India on January 31, VCA said on Wednesday.
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
The GCA at its Special General Body meeting held in Porvorim on Sunday adopted the resolution with 86 votes in its favour while one member cricket club voted against it.
The track for the opening Super 10 Group 2 encounter in the ICC World Twenty20 here on March 15 is likely to be a batting-friendly wicket, unlike the VCA Stadium pitch that was on offer during the third India-South Africa Test match late last year. The track at the stadium situated on the Nagpur-Wardha road that was used for the third Test between India and South Africa was given a "poor" rating by the ICC match referee, Jeff Crowe in his report. India clinched the match by 124 runs inside three days with off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin leading the hosts' charge with a 11-wicket haul, supported well by the left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja and leggie Amit Mishra. The ICC later announced that the stadium has been given an official warning under the ICC's Pitch Monitoring process following the third Test held in November, 2015. In reaching the verdict, the ICC agreed with the "poor" rating given to the pitch by New Zealand's Crowe, the match referee for the Test played from November 25 to 27, who observed that it did not allow a fair contest between bat and the ball.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith played down the hype being attached to Saturday's World Cup match against India, saying he does not consider it more important than the others.
'We have been following our routine and that's the best part, we have done. All credit goes to the players as they have put in the hard work. I am very happy with the way they have respected me, and the players have never ignored the system we have followed.
India's most successful journeyman domestic coach Chandrakant Pandit will take over as the new coach of Madhya Pradesh in the next season after completing three eventful years with Vidarbha in which they won back-to-back Ranji Trophy and Irani Cup titles. In fact, Pandit during the final phase of his career played as a professional for Madhya Pradesh after successful time with Mumbai followed by Assam for a few years.
VCA restricted RCA to 183 for eight on their way to chasing the target of 246 in the Central Zone Ranji trophy one-day match in Indore.
India Test regulars like Cheteswar Pujara and Ishant Sharma have also thrown their hat into the ring with base prices of Rs 50 and Rs 75 lakh respectively.
Chahar, who also became the first male cricketer from the country to take a T20 International hat-trick, has been one of the Chennai Super Kings' successful new ball bowlers, used judiciously by franchise captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Images from the sixth One-Day International between India and Australia, in Nagpur, on Wednesday.
However, Australia have tasted victory once at this stadium against New Zealand on February 25, 2011, when they won by seven wickets in the Group A match of the World Cup.
Former India leg-spinner Sairaj Bahatule, 39, announced retirement from all forms of first class cricket.
Statistical highlights from the second day's play in the fourth Test between India and England at the VCA stadium in Nagpur.
Images from Day 2 of the fourth Test between India and England, at the VCA stadium, in Nagpur, on Friday.
Statistical highlights of the first day's play in the fourth Test between India and England in Nagpur, on Thursday.
According to Shreyas Iyer, the other major moments of the game were Deepak Chahar, who took a record breaking six-wicket haul including a hat-trick, taking two wickets in his first over and rookie Shivam Dube dismissing a well set Mohammad Naim and Afif Hossain off consecutive balls in the 16th over.
Railways wicketkeeper Mahesh Rawat set a national record in List A matches as he pouched seven catches during his team's match against Madhya Pradesh in the Central Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare competition at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha on Thursday. Railways dismissed MP for a paltry 48 and then won comfortably by nine wickets.
Chasing 297, after India, powered by Sachin Tendulkar's 48th ODI century (111), were dismissed in 48.4 overs, South Africa were home with two balls to spare.
The Trans-Tasman rivalry is set to resume at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha, Nagpur, when Australia take on New Zealand in the World Cup Group A encounter on Friday.
South Africa all-rounder JACQUES KALLIS says a packed VCA Stadium will bring out the best in the Proteas when they take on India in a crunch Group B match on Saturday.
With the death toll in the earthquake that hit the southern city of Christchurch going past 100, the minds of the New Zealand players will be as much on the happenings back home as the World Cup match against neighbours Australia, who they meet on Friday.
Rajasthan Royals edged Deccan Chargers by two runs in a highly entertaining Indian Premier League match featuring the two previous winners at the VCA Ground at Nagpur on Monday.
India Abroad's Bikash Mohapatra is at the VCA stadium in Nagpur posting updates as they happen. Follow the latest on the Test on Bikash's MyPage!
Career-best figures of four for 21 helped Shane Warne earn the man-of-the-match award and his Rajasthan Royals team a narrow two-run win over Deccan Chargers.
Akshay Karnewar struck his maiden first-class century to hand Vidarbha a crucial 95-run first-innings lead before Rest of India, riding on a fighting partnership, erased the deficit in the Irani Cup.
Statistical highlights of the second one-day international between India and Australia at the Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium.
South Africa humiliated India by an innings and six runs to win the opening Test at the VCA stadium, in Nagpur, on Tuesday. Chasing 325 just to make the visitors bat again, the home team crashed to 319 all out in their second innings shortly before the scheduled close on the fourth day.
Dale Steyn wrecked the Indian first innings with career-best figures of seven for 51 and South Africa took two second innings wickets to leave India staring at defeat at the end of the third day in the first Test at Nagpur on Monday.
Nagpur might have become a regular centre for hosting international matches but the newly built Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) stadium in Jamtha is not scheduled to host any of the matches of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) in March-April.
Team India has had little going in its favour in the opening two days of the first Test at the VCA Stadium here in Nagpur.
Young leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal said big grounds like the one at the VCA Stadium in Jamtha, Nagpur, provides him with a chance to flight the deliveries more in order to create a deception.
The first match of the two-Test series between India and South Africa will be played at Nagpur's VCA stadium in Jamtha from February 6 to 10, while the second will be at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from the 14th to 18th. The Proteas are scheduled to arrive in Mumbai on January 31 and proceed to Nagpur the next day, according to sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
India pacer S Sreesanth is likely to miss Wednesday's Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka because of an upset stomach. 'He is not well. We are hoping he will get well before the game,' India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.
Stadium in Nagpur has been decked up to host second match of the seven-one-day international cricket series between India and Australia.
From 19 matches in four World Cup appearances, Gavaskar amassed only 561 runs (@ 35.06).
Vihari, who had scored a hundred in the last Irani Cup, once again held the innings together, scoring 114 off 211 balls with 11 fours and two sixes. It was in complete contrast to Agarwal's innings which was laced with 10 fours and three sixes.
Nagpur will have a new cricket home when the Vidarbha Cricket Association unveils its brand new stadium for the fourth India-Australia Test, beginning on Thursday. VCA's old stadium at Civil Lines, in the heart of the city, will give way to a posh new stadium at Jamtha, situated 16 kms from the city on the Nagpur-Hyderabad highway, to host international matches.
The Indian squads for the upcoming Asia Cup T20 tournament in Bangladesh and the subsequent International Cricket Council World Twenty20 championship in India are to be chosen on February 5 at Delhi by the national selection panel headed by Sandeep Patil.
All-rounder JP Duminy has insisted that South Africa are capable enough to tackle the Indian spinners in the 'do or die' third Test match in Nagpur, which starts on Wednesday.
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