Formerly the Fateh Maidan, the Lal Bahadur Shastri construction hosted a match game as way back as 1955-56 while not ever changing into one amongst India's frontline venues. New island were the opponents altogether 3 Tests staged there - the last of that was a generation agone - and additionally had a section to play in one amongst the good tournament matches, once David Houghton's brilliant 142 fell simply wanting lifting Zimbabwe to AN epic finish in 1987. As a domestic venue, it contend host to a number of the titans of the Indian game, home turf for the likes of Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, cc Jaisimha, Muhammad Azharuddin and VVS Laxman. A slow and low batsman-friendly pitch was typically to the feeling of slow bowlers additionally, with another town hero, Arshad Ayub, nursing fond recollections of India's solely take a look at win there. As a one-day arena, it additionally witnessed a record-shattering 331-run partnership between Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in 1999-2000, with New island once more at the receiving finish. however with a replacement progressive venue having come back up across city, the times of bat blow ball in a global game might before long become a far off memory for this storied construction.