Jaipur Sawai Mansingh Stadium ( SMS )

Sawai Mansingh Stadium (SMS), Pink City (Jaipur)

Sawai Mansingh cricket Stadium is an international cricket Stadium situated in the capital Pink City or Jaipur of Rajasthan. It was built in the reign of Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II in the year 1983 that is the reason that this stadium name is Sawai Mansingh Stadium (SMS). This is also a sports park which gives the facilities of many more games like cricket, badminton, tennis, Table Tennis, Kabaddy, Kushty, bicycling, gymnastics games etc. In the pink city the location of SMS stadium is at the corner of Rambagh circle, Jaipur.

The SMS has two Pitches; the total Radius is 80 meters, total Perimeters, 502 meters, total Area is 20096 meter square.
The sitting capacity at the ground is 30,000; Numbers of rooms are 28 rooms. There are one Gym, one restaurant, two conference halls, one swimming pool and four floodlights are present.

There are number of national and international matches are played. The first One Day International Match (ODI) was played between India V/s Pakistan at 02 October, 1983. In this match India won by four wickets. The first test match was played between the India V/s Pakistan at 21-26 February, 1987. It is the lonely test match hosted by SMS Stadium. SMS Stadium hosted two World Cup Matches in the year 1987 and 1996 respectively. Some major tournaments are also played here. A large number of Indian Premier League (IPL) matches are also playing here time to time.

Sawai Mansingh Stadium also keeps many cricket records. The high score in ODI is 303-4 by India against the Shri Lanka in year 2005-06. The lowest score in ODI is 135 by India against the Pakistan. The maximum individual score is 183* by the Mahendra Singh Dhoni caption of Indian cricket team at the present time.

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