PCA Stadium, Mohali

Established: 1993

Floodlights: Yes

Capacity: 35,000

End Names: Pavilion End, City End

Home Team: Punjab, Chandigarh (IPL)

Just across the border from Chandigarh, the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali is perhaps one of the best-equipped stadia in India, and also one of the youngest, beginning serious cricket in 1992.

The first team to play here were the Courtney Walsh-led West Indies, and since then, Mohali has hosted many sides, not least of them Pakistan.

The stadium is built like a five-star hotel, and the complex also encompasses residential section. The ground, one of the biggest in India, has been modelled on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The lush green ground was a fielder's delight. The pitches, at least in their initial shape, were the fastest in India, as the home team found out in that very first Test.

More Headlines from

• Stats: India's record chasing 300 or more

• In pics: Cricket or soccer, we love it

• Blog: Let Sachin, Sourav play only Tests | Pics: Fun in games

• In Pics: Cheering cricketers? Get some exciting posters

• Boyz in blue