Tests and ODIs at Barabati Stadium

Following inputs are on international cricket matches played at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack till 2008. TESTS MATCHES: * In the first Test match here five seasons later, India seized an innings and 67-run victory Sri Lanka. * Dilip Vengsarkar made his highest Test score of 166, his fourth century in eight Tests at the Barabati match. * Kapil Dev bagged his 300th Test victim, bowling Rumesh Ratnayake in the above said Test. * The only other Test match at Barabati, against New Zealand in 1995-96, was badly affected by rain, affording less than 180 overs of playing time. * Narendra Hirwani, on a comeback trail, took 6 for 59 in New Zealand`s only innings to claim the best bowling figures at Barabati. ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS * Barabati Stadium in Cuttack hosted only the third one-day international in India, in January 1982, when India put it across England by five wickets to lift the series 2-1. * Barabati Stadium hosted its 15th ODI and the fourth against England on Nov 26, 2008. * Of the first three ODIs between the two countries at Barabati, England won two and India the remaining one. * Visiting sides sometimes expressed their displeasure about having to travel from Bhubaneshwar, an hour`s drive away, because of the lack of an airport and of quality accomodation in Cuttack.