Team India has a special connection with Kennington Oval Stadium, the story of bringing elephants from the first win to the stadium
Team India Connection and Record in Kennington Oval: After a brilliant match in Manchester, now the caravan of Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy being played between India and England will reach the caravan of the Trophy at Kennington Oval Stadium in London, where India and England (India vs england The fifth and last Test match will be played between Record in Oval). In fourth test Indian team Has shown a great game and broke the dream of host England’s series winning the series, which is still 2–1 in the series.
At Kennington Oval Stadium Indian team Had played his first Test in the year 1936. India has played a total of 15 Test matches here so far, winning 2 and defeat in 6 while 7 matches are drawn. Of these, 14 matches have been played against England and one match against Australia, the final match of the World Test Championship 2023, in which India lost. India’s last Test victory came here in the year 2021 under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.
Even though the record here has not been very spectacular but the association of Indian cricket with the historic Oval ground makes it a special stadium for India.
India had to wait 39 years long for their first Test victory on England soil and that the first win was held in 1971 at the Kennington Oval Stadium, when Ajit Wadekar’s captained Indian team defeated England by 4 wickets. The first two matches of this three -match series were drawn and due to this victory, India also won the series.
The most interesting thing related to this match was that Ganesh Chaturthi was also lying when the Kennington Oval Stadium was going on. On the last day of the Test match, Ganesh Chaturthi was a festival and some Indian fans who came to see the match were coming inside the stadium with the baby of the elephant, which he borrowed from the nearby Chesington Zoo. Fans believed that the elephant would bring luck for the Indian team.
The main pavilion of the Kennington Oval Sachadium has a marble plate as a symbol of the strength of relationship with Indian cricket- it was given by BCCI Chief Raj Singh Dungarpur at one time. The more special thing is that the stadium has a ‘The India Room’ on the third floor of the Vaxol end.
Apart from this, The Oval is out of India, the lonely cricket stadium where a PM of India has a photo in the cricket kit. In this photo in India room, there is a photo of former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in the cricket gear- the pad tied, ready to go out for batting.
On the 1979 tour of England, the Indian batsman scored 221 runs in batting for more than 8 hours in the Test held here and India was very close to the target of 438 runs to win the Test.
The Oval has been a witness to many enemy moments
Among the greatest batsmen of cricket, Sir Don Bradman of Australia played at his last Test innings at the Oval Stadium.
The England cricket team played the first international match in their history in the year 1880 at the Kennington Oval Stadium.
The prestigious Tesch series Ashes between Australia and England was born in 1882 at Kennington Oval. When Australia defeated England in his house. After this defeat, a British newspaper announced the death of English cricket and said that the ashes would be taken to Australia. Since then, the Ashes series is played between the two teams.
