The Wankhede Stadium Mumbai is one of the important cricket stadiums in the country. This stadium was built in 1974. The stadium has a total capacity to accommodate 45000 people at once. The stadium was built after a dispute between Mumbai Cricket Association and Cricket Club of India.
These disputes became too prominent after test match between England and
India in 1973. After that in this year, S. K. Wankhede, the secretary
of the Mumbai Cricket Association, took the initiative to build a
stadium in South Mumbai. He along with his team took six months to
complete the stadium only to conduct the West Indies and India test
match in 1975.
The pitch of Wankhede Stadium is always known to favor the bowlers. Among bowlers of all sorts, spinners get the maximum amount of advantage in the pitch. The pitch has bounce for spin bowlers and swing for medium fast bowlers.
It is the second biggest cricket stadium in Mumbai. Some of the great innings have been witnessed by the audiences in this stadium.