Multan International Cricket Stadium

Multan Cricket Stadium is one of Pakistan's best known grounds, regularly holding international matches of various formats as well as domestic T20 games in the Pakistan Super League.  

Our full OCBscores guide to the Multan Cricket Stadium pitch report tells you all you need to know, so read on. 

Multan Cricket Stadium opened in 2001 and it has floodlights installed, so it is possible to play day-night matches at the venue.  

Multan was used as the venue for the opening ceremony of the 2023 Asia Cup and hosted a Test against England the following year, when the tourists ran up a massive score of 823/7 declared thanks to a superb triple century scored by batter Harry Brook. 

Built to replace the Qasim Bagh stadium, Multan was where Virender Sehwag hit a career-best 309 as India beat Pakistan by an innings, while it also recently held a WT20I series between Pakistan and South Africa as the country aims to give the women's game a higher profile.  

Multan Cricket Stadium Pitch Report

Multan has a reputation as a highly batter-friendly pitch, not least due to the Test match it held between Pakistan and England when the tourists racked up over 800 runs.  

The former England captain Michael Atherton was critical of the pitch, describing it as "shocking" and stating it had no balance between bat and ball.  

The Multan Cricket Stadium pitch report for that game was particularly notable for the lack of turn and drift, with spinners unable to have any real impact.  

Things changed in the second Test, when spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan took 20 wickets. 

In Tests at Multan prior to 2024, only three bowlers have taken more than five wickets in an innings - Abrar Ahmed, Danish Kaneria and Anil Kumble - and they are all leg spinners.  

This indicates that leg spinners can have a big impact, even if the Multan Cricket Stadium pitch report says otherwise.  

In the 2024 season, the average T20 first innings score at Multan was 170, which was a slight fall on the previous year.  

Batting first is a major advantage in T20s at Multan Cricket Stadium, according to data from Cricmetric. Teams chasing have only won 30.8% of T20 games here, with runs on the board helping teams batting first to win 69.2% of the time on the ground.  

Leg-break bowlers have the lowest economy rate and bowling average. 

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