Keenan Stadium

Keenan Stadium
Ground information
View of Keenan Stadium
Location	Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Establishment	1939
Capacity	19,000^[1]^[2]
Owner	Tata Steel
Operator	Jharkhand State Cricket Association
Tenants	Indian Cricket Team Jharkhand cricket team
End names
Dalma Hills End Naoroji Pavilion End
International information
First ODI	December 7, 1983: India v West Indies
Last ODI	April 12, 2006: India v England
As of June 21 2014 Source: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Cricinfo

Keenan Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium and an International Cricket Stadium in Jamshedpur, India. It is currently used mostly for cricket and football matches. It is also known as a venue for archery.

The stadium is named after John Lawrence Keenan a former general manager of the Tata Steel. The stadium is situated in Northern Town area of Bistupur & is owned by Tata Steel. It has a capacity of 19,000 people.

Since being built in 1939 the ground has hosted Ranji Trophy matches for the Bihar now Jharkhand cricket team. The venue staged its first international match in December 1983 when West Indies beat India in a One Day International.

The ground has staged a further 9 One Day Internationals out of which India has won only 1, the most recent in April 2006 when England beat India by five wickets.This stadium became infamous, for crowd turning violent and throwing crackers on field during India against West Indies match in 2002/03.

Sourav Ganguly scored a 100 to help India win its only match here. Team India limited over captain MS Dhoni has played many matches for Jharkhand in this stadium. He has spend a lot of time in this stadium in his early days when JSCA stadium was not built in Ranchi, and also featured in M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, the biopic on Dhoni.^[3]

One Day International cricket

The stadium has hosted following ODI matches till date.

Team (A)	Team (B)	Winner	Margin	Year
India	West Indies	West Indies	By 104 runs	1983
India	Australia	No result		1984
India	Pakistan	Pakistan	By 5 wicket	1987
India	England	England	By 6 wickets	1993
India	New Zealand	New Zealand	By 8 wickets	1995
Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Pakistan	By 9 runs	1999
India	South Africa	India	By 6 wickets	2000
India	West Indies	West Indies	By 4 wickets	2002
India	Pakistan	Pakistan	By 106 runs	2005
India	England	England	By 5 wickets	2006

References

External links

International cricket grounds in India

Test

Central	Green Park Stadium (Kanpur) K. D. Singh Babu Stadium (Lucknow) University Ground (Lucknow) Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground (Nagpur) Sawai Mansingh Stadium (Jaipur) Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium (Nagpur) Holkar Stadium (Indore)

East	Barabati Stadium (Cuttack) Eden Gardens (Kolkata) JSCA International Cricket Stadium (Ranchi)

North	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (New Delhi) Gandhi Stadium (Jalandhar) Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium (Mohali) Sector 16 Stadium (Chandigarh)

South	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium (Visakhapatnam) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Chennai) Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (Hyderabad) M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bangalore) Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium (Hyderabad)

West	Bombay Gymkhana (Mumbai) Brabourne Stadium (Mumbai) Sardar Patel Stadium (Ahmedabad) Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai)

ODI

Central	Barkatullah Khan Stadium (Jodhpur) Green Park Stadium (Kanpur) K. D. Singh Babu Stadium (Lucknow) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Indore) Roop Singh Stadium (Gwalior) Sawai Mansingh Stadium (Jaipur) Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground (Nagpur) Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium (Nagpur) Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex Greater Noida

East	Barabati Stadium (Cuttack) Eden Gardens (Kolkata) JSCA International Cricket Stadium (Ranchi) Keenan Stadium (Jamshedpur) Moin-ul-Haq Stadium (Patna) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Guwahati)

North	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (New Delhi) Gandhi Stadium (Jalandhar) Gandhi Sports Complex Ground (Amritsar) Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium (Dharamsala) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (New Delhi) Nahar Singh Stadium (Faridabad) Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium (Mohali) Sector 16 Stadium (Chandigarh) Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium (Srinagar)

South	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium (Vishakapatnam) Fatorda Stadium (Goa) Indira Gandhi Stadium (Vijayawada) Indira Priyadarshini Stadium (Vishakapatnam) Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (Hyderabad) M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bangalore) Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Kochi) Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium (Hyderabad) University Stadium (Thiruvananthapuram)

West	Brabourne Stadium (Mumbai) IPCL Sports Complex Ground (Vadodara) Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground (Rajkot) Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium (Pune) Moti Bagh Stadium (Vadodara) Nehru Stadium (Pune) Sardar Patel Stadium (Ahmedabad) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium (Ahmedabad) Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium (Rajkot) Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai)

Coordinates: 22°48′20.69″N 86°11′28.96″E / 22.8057472°N 86.1913778°E / 22.8057472; 86.1913778

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