7 Best grounds for batting

#5) Green Park (India)

With 54.55% of games here ending in a draw, and an average runs per wicket of 35.73 in Tests and 36.37 in ODIs, Green Park is a fine place for batsmen.

Green Park and Gaddafi Stadium have a statistic in common - both venues saw a batter fall on 199. At Gaddafi, it was Younis Khan. However, while Khan would still manage to score no fewer than five double-centuries in Tests, Mohammad Azharuddin's 199 in Green Park would finish as his highest score.

Yet it is unlikely that this memory soured Azharuddin's feeling about the ground as he still scored two more centuries and averaged 183 at the venue. His 199 was also part of the highest Test partnership the ground has seen as he and Kapil Dev put on 272.

Green Park does seem to have an odd tendency to be kind to batsmen up until the point they near a double-century. Sheik Bacchus remains the only player to have reached the milestone at the ground, while three batsmen have fallen in the 190s.

Garfield Sobers was the first, as he was run out on 198 in 1958. The other unfortunate party was Gordon Greenidge, as he was out on 194 in 1983.

However, in ODIs, Rohit Sharma holds the two highest scores at the venue with his 150 against South Africa and his 147 against New Zealand. Generally when a batsman scores so much, it leads to an easy win. But because of Green Park's batter-friendly pitch, both games were tight and India even lost against South Africa.