Analysing the venues for India-New Zealand Tests: Green Park Stadium, Kanpur

Highest run-scorers

Gundappa Viswanath scored 776 runs from the 7 games that he played at the Green Park

The gigantic totals that the teams have posted at the venue are largely due to the batsmen making merry and scoring runs with no hesitation about the wicket or for that sake, the bowler. Quite obvious is the fact that the top 10 run-getters at the Green Park have all been Indians, and the closest that a foreign player gets to the local ones is West Indies’Faoud Bacchus with his 259 runs from a solitary game that he played in 1979.

That tally, however, stands nowhere close to Gundappa Viswanath’s 776 runs from 7 matches at an average of 86.22 with 3 centuries and 4 half-centuries and a personal best score fo 179, who is the top run aggregator at the venue. Sunil Gavaskar, with 629 runs (9 matches), and Mohammad Azharuddin with 543 runs (3 matches) round off the top three.

Amongst others, Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar and Polly Umrigar have amassed more than 400 runs at the ground, while Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Chetan Chauhan have scored more than 300 runs. However, Sachi Tendulkar, the record holder for most runs in Test cricket, has only managed to score 199 runs at the Green Park.