National Sports Council of Assam Ground
| Full name | National Sports Council of Assam Ground |
|---|---|
| Former names | National Sports Council of Assam Stadium |
| Location | Jorhat, Assam |
| Owner | National Sports Council of Assam |
| Operator | National Sports Council of Assam |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1953 |
| Opened | 1953 |
| Website | |
| Cricinfo | |
The National Sports Council of Assam Ground, also known as the National Sports Council of Assam Stadium, is a former first-class cricket ground in Jorhat, Assam.
Ten first-class matches were played at the ground between 1953 and 1974, eight of them by Assam in the Ranji Trophy. In all ten matches the home team lost. There were many low innings totals and some notable bowling figures.
Paul Gibb made 154, which remained the highest score on the ground. He and Ken Meuleman (79) put on 211 for the first wicket.
S.K. Girdhari took six wickets in each innings for Assam and Bimal Bose took six in each innings for Bihar. Bose's 12 for 47 remained the best match figures on the ground; Girdhari took 12 for 66. Girdhari also top-scored for Assam in each innings, with 14 and 46.
Premangsu Chatterjee took 10 for 20 for Bengal in the first innings, which remain the best first-class figures ever taken outside England and Wales. Dattu Phadkar took 7 for 65 in Assam's second innings. For Assam, S.K. Girdhari took 7 for 157, Assam's best figures on the ground, and made 100, Assam's only century on the ground.
In his first first-class match, Jyoti Dutta took 7 for 18 and 3 for 21 for Bengal.
Wes Hall took 7 for 54 in the first innings, Eric Atkinson 6 for 10 in the second.
Jiban Ghosh took 7 for 15 in Assam's first innings. Pankaj Roy made 140 for Bengal.
Anand Shukla took 5 for 14 and 5 for 36.
Anand Shukla took 5 for 15 and 2 for 26, giving him 17 for 91 in two matches on the ground.
Ambar Roy made 126. Dilip Doshi took 6 for 6 in Assam's first innings; Aloke Bhattacharjee took 7 for 7 in the second innings, for match figures of 12.2–6–11–10. For Assam, Nandan Bezbarua top-scored in each innings with 11 and 8 not out; he carried his bat in the second innings.
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