IND vs ENG 4th T20I: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium T20 Stats & Records, IPL Numbers in Pune

Team India will look to bounce back and seal the series when they host England the third T20I at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune on Friday (January 31).

Suryakumar Yadav-led Men in Blue had claimed a 2-0 lead in the five-match series, having won the first two T20Is in Kolkata and Chennai, but Jos Buttler's England reduced the deficit with a victory in the third T20I in Rajkot.

After producing a poor display with bat and ball in the series opener at the Eden Gardens and Chepauk, England finally stepped up to their hype and put on an all-round show at the Niranjan Shah Stadium on Tuesday (January 28).

Put into bat, England rode on Ben Duckett’s 28-ball 51 and Liam Livingstone’s 24-ball 43 to post 171 despite Varun Chakravarthy’s fifer. In form skipper Buttler also contributed 24 off 22 balls for the visitors.

Chasing 172 on a slow surface, the Indian batters faltered as Adil Rashid, Jamie Overton and Brydon Carse put in the squeeze in the middle overs to seal a 26-run win for England.

After the first three matches on slow surfaces, the action will now shift to MCA Stadium, where wickets have often favoured the batters, but also assist the bowlers, especially the quicks.

The Pune venue last hosted a T20 international in 2023, when India fell short of a run chase of 207 against Sri Lanka. Axar Patel and Suryakumar Yadav scored quickfire fifties on that ocassion in a losing cause.

India also have a mixed record in T20Is at the venue, but have beaten England in the earlier meeting in Pune. The Men in Blue have won two and lost two matches in the shortest format at the venue.

Three T20I matches have seen scores go past 150 with two innings seeing the total go past 200. Here is a look at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium T20 stats and records followed by IPL numbers in Pune ahead of IND vs ENG 4th T20I:

MCA Stadium T20 Stats & Records

• Matches: 4
• Won Batting First: 2
• Won Batting Second: 2
• Highest Total: 206/6 by Sri Lanka vs India in 2023
• Lowest Total: 101 all out by India vs Sri Lanka in 2016
• Highest Successful Chase: 158/5 in 17.5 overs by India vs England in 2012
• Lowest Total Defended: 201/6 by India vs Sri Lanka in 2020
• Average 1st Innings Score: 166
• Highest Individual Score: Axar Patel (India) - 65 off 31 balls vs Sri Lanka in 2023
• Best Bowling Innings: Dasun Shanaka (India) - 3 for 16 vs India in 2016
• Total Sixes: 58 sixes
• Total Fours: 87 fours
• Total 50s: 8 fifties

IPL Record at MCA Stadium

Apart from the four Twenty 20 international matches, the MCA Stadium in Pune has played hosts to over fifty matches in the Indian Premier League, serving as one of the venues to the lucrative league as recently as 2022 when the season was hosted in limited number of venues due to COVID pandemic.

The Pune venue has served as home to to Punjab Kings, now defunct Rising Pune Supergiant and four-time champions Chennai Super Kings in earlier editions of the IPL. Here is a look at the IPL stats in Pune:

• Matches: 51
• Won Batting First: 28
• Won Chasing: 23
• Highest Total: 211
• Lowest Total: 73
• Highest Successful Chase: 196
• Lowest Total Defended: 119
• Total Sixes: 602 sixes
• Total Fours: 1237 fours