Sector 16 of Chandigarh mostly famous for the lovers point and youth because of Rose garden, but some extent it’s also known for the Cricket stadium. And now it's High time for cricket lovers of the Chandigarh . Because stadium of Sector 16 Chandigarh going to hold yet another international match between Australia and Board President's XI on 25 September 2010. Many big name of cricket like Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma and Yog Raj Singh started playing cricket from the sector 16 cricket stadium.
The first match has been played on this stadium between India and England - Jan 27, 1985. The match has been reduced to 15 over because of overnight rain and India were in commanding position likely to win but Ravi Shastri run out before six balls left, in last over India needed 11 runs but only conceded three runs and England won by 7 runs margin. Moreover, 25000 people assembled to watch this match.
The last international ODI played at sector-16 stadiums between India and Australia on Oct 8, 2007, which India had won by eight runs. However, the real irony of this stadium is that no test match played here for last 20 years the test match, because the only test match played here between India and Sri-Lanka and India won that by an innings and eight runs. Its memorable ground for former Sri Lankan cricket player MS Attapattu, because he had made his debut on this ground.









