Quick facts
| Stadium Name | Green Park |
| Place, Country | Kanpur Nagar, India |
| Established | 1945 |
| Seating Capacity | 32,000 |
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Green Park Stadium in Kanpur has long been one of India's major Test venues. Green Park Stadium has ends known as the Mill Pavilion End and the Hostel End, while the cricket ground is famous for having one of the largest manually operated scoreboards in the world.
While not a regular Indian Premier League venue, Gujarat Lions played two IPL matches here in 2016 and 2017 when they used Kanpur as a secondary home ground.
Green Park currently features black soil pitches, but plans are in place to introduce red soil strips to improve bounce and pace as part of upcoming renovations.
Controversy surrounded Green Park (which is located close to the River Ganges) during a Test between India and Bangladesh in 2024. One of the stands was deemed unsafe for spectators and a day’s play was lost due to poor drainage.
Our OCBscores guide to India’s Green Park Stadium explores all you need to know, so read on.
Green Park International Stadium Kanpur - Photo by Ovalhighlander, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Green Park Pitch Report
Green Park Stadium has a reputation as being a great place to bat, with a pitch that does not tend to encourage either bounce and pace from fast bowlers.
This is the venue where Mohammad Azharuddin hit the last of his three consecutive hundreds, while it is also where Sri Lanka and India scored over 1000 runs for the loss of just 17 wickets.
The Green Park Stadium pitch report could soon be updated following plans for red-soil renovations and proposed capacity expansion (which have been announced, but not yet completed at time of publishing).
Data from Cricmetric shows the Kanpur ground has relatively steady scoring in T20 matches. In 2017, the average first innings T20 score was 175, which is up from 148 the year before.
Batting second has generally been an advantage in T20s here because of dew and shorter boundaries, though the sample size is limited.
Shahid Afridi memorably hit a 45-ball century at Green Park (in an ODI vs India in April 2005).
Based on limited data, it could be said that leg-break bowlers have the highest economy rate and off-break bowlers the lowest economy rate.
FAQs
The average first-innings T20 score was around 175 in 2017, during IPL fixtures hosted here.
The pitch is generally batting-friendly, with low bounce and little pace, but offers some turn for spinners.
Kanpur experiences hot summers (30–42°C) and a wet season between June and September, so rain interruptions can occur.
Traditionally, batters enjoy Green Park’s true bounce early, but spinners come into play as matches progress.
