This makes for the famous five-sided slab. More precisely, the home base must have one 17 inches long edge, two adjacent sides at 8-1/2 inches, and the remaining two sides at 12 inches and set at an angle to form a point. The home base must be a 17-inch square with two of the corners removed.The distance from the first base to the third base must be 127 feet, 3-3/8 inches.Īside from these, the MLB rulebook gives specs for the bases and the pitcher’s plate:.The distance from the home base to the centerfield must be at least 400 feet.The distance between the home base and the nearest obstruction on foul lines must be at least 325 feet.The distance from the home base along the foul lines must be at least 320 feet.The distance from the home base to the backstop and from the baselines to the nearest fence or other obstruction on foul territory should be 60 feet.The home base circle diameter is 26 feet.The distance between the home base and the nearest obstruction on fair territory must be at least 250 feet.Eleven of the 17 Tests here were drawn but there were some tense finishes - in 1948-49 against the West Indies, umpire Joshi removed the bails with 90 seconds left on the clock and India six short of a maiden Test win.The 2019 MLB rulebook has the following field dimension requirements: Merchant never played a Test here but made over 35% of his career first-class runs on this wicket, including an unbeaten 359 v Maharashtra. HazareĪlso hit centuries in all his four Tests at Brabourne. In the 1943-44 final between Rest and Hindus, Hazare parried Merchant's record 250 with an astonishing 309 out of 387, despite which Rest lost by an innings.

After it was built,the Pentangular shifted here from the Bombay Gymkhana in 1937-38 and it was here that Vijay Merchant - Vijay Hazare rivalry was played out with no quarter asked and none given. The Brabourne Stadium has a rich and fascinating history. It was later named a Test venue for England's tour of India in 2008, marking a revival after 35 years. International cricket returned to the venue after a 11-year hiatus, when it hosted five 2006 Champions Trophy games. The Brabourne these days has an air of faded splendor, and although it has hosted the occasional first-class match (Sachin Tendulkar made the first double century of his first-class career during Mumbai's win over Australia in 1997-98). It was also a multi-sport complex which hosted international tennis.īut the ground had its problems, mostly notably with the crowds who were often crammed in beyond capacity, and that, allied to constant disputes over ticketing arrangements, led to the Bombay Cricket Association building its own stadium half a mile away. It was as exclusive as its English counterpart and every bit as luxurious - Frank Worrell once remarked that it was the only place in the world where he could watch cricket in his dressing-gown and remove it when it was his turn to bat.

The idea that the ground would be the Lord's of India (the Cricket Club of India was regarded as the county's MCC) was the brainchild of a Goan, Neville de Mello. It was officially opened on Decemberħ 1937 following with a match between the CCI and Lord Tennyson's team. The Brabourne Stadium was built on a piece of land reclaimed from the sea which Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bombay, presented to the Cricket Club of India after being tempted with an offer of immortality in the bargain.

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