Here is some good news for all those cricket crazed kochiites out there. International cricket is coming back to Cochin after 3 years. Again with an India vs Australia match on October 17th at Kochi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. This match is the first in the series of India-Australia ODIs.
The Jawaharlal Nehru stadium is going through a major revamp in tune with the IPL. Work will soon finish. This is the 7th international match that will be played in Kochi. The first match played in Kochi was in 1998. Here is the history of matches played in Kochi so far.
- India-Australia 1998;India won by 41 runs
- India-South Africa 2000, India won by 3 wickets,
- India-Zimbabwe 2002, Zimbabwe won by 6 wkts,
- India-Pakistan 2005, India won by 87 runs,
- India-England 2006,India won by 4 wickets
- India-Australia 2007, Aussies won by 84 runs.
We sometimes wish Symonds had used his bat to hit other things as well.. 
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
.jpg&h=254&w=254&zc=1&q=90)
This is gr8 news…. hope it will not be a hot day……and will love to see Sreesanth in good bowling spell this time around….This match will also be a good platform for the IPL Kochi Franchisee to showcase themselves….mainly the stadium infrastructure and the floodlights…..
it is on October 17 not 19