It is the second largest cricket stadium in india after Eden Garden cricket stadium (Kolkata) and fourth-largest cricket stadium in the world The stadium has a seating capacity of 65,000. Inaugurated in 2008, this ground hosted its first ever match in 2010, when the Canada national cricket team arrived in India and played a practice match against the Chhattisgarh state team. In 2013, the stadium was declared as a second home venue for the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League(IPL) and has since hosted many of the Teams matches.The stadium is named after Veer Narayan Singh Binjhwar a landlord from Sonakhan who spearheaded the 1857 war Indian independence in Chhattisgarh.LocationStadium is situated close to the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Naya Raipur and is 21 km away from Raipur main city.Construction and arrangementsThe construction of the stadium began in the year 2001 and it was completed in a couple of years. It was built and owned by the Government of Chhattisgarh. The stadium has been built with as a modern sports arena. The media facilities have been redone, the corporate boxes are plush, and roofs cover the rest of the ground to provide comfort from heatInitial game hostingsThe First International Standard cricket match was played between Canadian national cricket team and the Chhattisgarh cricket team, the game was a One Day match, played on 21 November 2010.Stadium hosted a Half-Marathon, with the theme Let us run on 16 December 2012 to mark Vijay Diwas. Sunil Gavaskar had rated this stadium to as one of the best stadiums in the country and had proposed to utilize it for all types of matches. Irfan Pathan who was in awe of the facilities in the stadium noted that When opportunities are created, and such facilities are in place, there is the hope that cricketers will emerge.

Nice place fo encourage sports

Very nice..

Lovely weekend

There is a beautiful place but there is a bus stand nearby where there is a store of chaos, there is a government hospital nearby in the medical emergency.

New Delhi in Raipur