Analysing the venues for India-New Zealand Tests: Green Park Stadium, Kanpur

Best batting and bowling performances

Froud Bacchus’ knock of 250 runs is the highest individual score by a batsman at this venue

Ironically, for all the run-fests that the Indians have put up over the years at the Green Park, the record for the highest individual score at the venue lies with a Caribbean cricketer. Faoud Bacchus’ innings of 250 against the hosts in 1979 still stands as the best innings, in terms of runs scored, to be played at the ground. In fact, in the top 5 of this list, the West Indies batsmen outnumber the Indian batsmen.

Sir Garfield Sobers and Gordon Greenidge, with their knocks of 198 and 194 in 1958 and 1983 respectively, occupy the third and fourth spots in the list of top 5, while Mohammad Azharuddin and Gundappa Viswanath occupy the second and the fifth spots with their innings of 199 and 179 respectively, that they played against Sri Lanka and the West Indies in 1999 and 1979 respectively.

Jesubhai Patel’s 9/69 vs Australia in 1969 is the best bowling performance at the venue, followed by Subash Gupte’s 9/102 vs the West Indies in 1958. The next five names on the list are all foreigners, followed by Kapil Dev’s 6/63 against Pakistan in 1979.