# Arnos Vale Stadium

The Arnos Vale Stadium is a cricket ground in Arnos Vale, near Kingstown, St. Vincent. The multi-use ground – part of Arnos Vale Sports Complex – is situated next to and to the west of the Arnos Vale Playing Field.
The stadium holds the capacity to accommodate 18,000 people and is mostly used for football and cricket matches.

## History

The stadium hosted its first ever international game on 4 February 1981. The match was an ODI between West Indies and England and was a close encounter which the hosts won by two runs.
The ground's maiden Test match came in 1997, when the West Indies played Sri Lanka to a draw, with Sri Lanka finishing on 233–8 chasing a target of 269 runs. The second Test held at the ground, in 2009, saw Bangladesh record their maiden Test victory over the West Indies by 95 runs. At the time the West Indies were without many of their leading players due to a dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board, so seven Test debutantes featured in the West Indian team.
Ahead of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, hosted by the West Indies, Arnos Vale Sports Complex was renovated over a period of 18 months. The ground's playing area was enlarged, and on the eastern side of the ground a new stand, media centre, operations centre, and pavilion were constructed.

## International centuries

There have been four Test and two ODI centuries scored at the venue.

### Test centuries

| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Opposing team | Date | Result |
| 1 | 115 | Brian Lara | West Indies | 207 | Sri Lanka | 20 June 1997 | Drawn |
| 2 | 128 | Tamim Iqbal | Bangladesh | 243 | West Indies | 9 July 2009 | Won |
| 3 | 212 | Kraigg Brathwaite | West Indies | 447 | Bangladesh | 5 September 2014 | Won |
| 4 | 116 | Mushfiqur Rahim | Bangladesh | 243 | West Indies | 5 September 2014 | Lost |

### ODI centuries

| No. | Score | Player | Team | Balls | Opposing team | Date | Result |
| 1 | 104 | Brian Lara | West Indies | 103 | New Zealand | 6 April 1996 | Won |
| 2 | 103* | Phil Simmons | West Indies | 124 | New Zealand | 6 April 1996 | Won |

## 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup matches

* 13 June 2024 10:30 UTC−4 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 159/5 (20 overs) | v | Netherlands 134/8 (20 overs) |
| Shakib Al Hasan 64* (46) Paul van Meekeren 2/15 (4 overs) | | Sybrand Engelbrecht 33 (22) Rishad Hossain 3/33 (4 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 25 runs Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown Umpires: Chris Brown (NZ) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) Player of the match: Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)
* Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
* Sri Lanka were eliminated as a result of this match.
* 14 June 2024 19:30 UTC−4 (N) Scorecard
| South Africa 115/7 (20 overs) | v | Nepal 114/7 (20 overs) |
| Reeza Hendricks 43 (49) Kushal Bhurtel 4/19 (4 overs) | | Aasif Sheikh 42 (49) Tabraiz Shamsi 4/19 (4 overs) |
* South Africa won by 1 run Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Joel Wilson (WI) Player of the match: Tabraiz Shamsi (SA)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
* Nepal were eliminated as a result of this match.
* 16 June 2024 19:30 UTC−4 (N) Scorecard
| Bangladesh 106 (19.3 overs) | v | Nepal 85 (19.2 overs) |
| Shakib Al Hasan 17 (22) Sompal Kami 2/10 (3 overs) | | Kushal Malla 27 (40) Tanzim Hasan Sakib 4/7 (4 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 21 runs Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown Umpires: Sam Nogajski (Aus) and Ahsan Raza (Pak) Player of the match: Tanzim Hasan Sakib (Ban)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
* Sandeep Lamichhane (Nep) took his 100th wicket in T20Is.
* Bangladesh qualified for the Super 8 while Netherlands were eliminated as a result of this match.

### Super 8s

* 22 June 2024 20:30 UTC−4 (N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 148/6 (20 overs) | v | Australia 127 (19.2 overs) |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz 60 (49) Pat Cummins 3/28 (4 overs) | | Glenn Maxwell 59 (41) Gulbadin Naib 4/20 (4 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 21 runs Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (SL) and Ahsan Raza (Pak) Player of the match: Gulbadin Naib (Afg)
* Australia won the toss and elected to field.
* Pat Cummins (Aus) took his second consecutive hat-trick in T20Is and became the only player to take more than one hat-tricks in T20 World Cup. This was the second hat-trick of the tournament overall and the eighth in the history of the T20 World Cup.
* This was Afganistan's first win against Australia in T20Is.
* 24 June 2024 20:30 UTC−4 (N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 115/5 (20 overs) | v | Bangladesh 105 (17.5 overs) |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz 43 (55) Rishad Hossain 3/26 (4 overs) | | Liton Das 54* (49) Rashid Khan 4/23 (4 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 8 runs (DLS method) Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Langton Rusere (Zim) Player of the match: Naveen-ul-Haq (Afg)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Bangladesh were set a revised target of 114 runs off 19 overs due to rain.
* Rashid Khan (Afg) took his 150th wicket in T20Is.
* Afghanistan qualified for the semi-finals while Australia and Bangladesh were eliminated as a result of this match.
* This was Afghanistan's first win against Bangladesh in T20 World Cup.
* Afghanistan qualified for the semi-finals of any major ICC Tournament for the first time in their cricketing history.

## List of five-wicket hauls

There have been 12 five-wicket hauls in international cricket on the ground.

### Test matches

Five-wicket hauls in Men's Test matches at Arnos Vale :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
| 1 | Ravindra Pushpakumara | 20 June 1997 | Sri Lanka | West Indies | 1 | 12.4 | 41 | 5 | Drawn |
| 2 | Carl Hooper | 20 June 1997 | West Indies | Sri Lanka | 2 | 13.4 | 26 | 5 | Drawn |
| 3 | Muttiah Muralitharan | 20 June 1997 | Sri Lanka | West Indies | 3 | 41 | 113 | 5 | Drawn |
| 4 | Darren Sammy | 9 July 2009 | West Indies | Bangladesh | 3 | 30.1 | 70 | 5 | Bangladesh won |
| 5 | Mahmudullah | 9 July 2009 | Bangladesh | West Indies | 4 | 15 | 51 | 5 | Bangladesh won |
| 6 | Taijul Islam | 5 September 2014 | Bangladesh | West Indies | 1 | 47 | 135 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 7 | Sulieman Benn | 5 September 2014 | West Indies | Bangladesh | 2 | 24.4 | 39 | 5 | West Indies won |

### One Day Internationals

Five-wicket hauls in Men's ODI matches at Arnos Vale :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
| 1 | Colin Croft | 4 February 1981 | West Indies | England | 2 | 9 | 15 | 6 | West Indies won |
| 2 | Franklyn Rose | 12 April 2000 | West Indies | Pakistan | 2 | 10 | 23 | 5 | West Indies won |
Five-wicket hauls in Women's ODI matches at Arnos Vale :
| No. | Bowler | Date | Team | Opposing Team | Inn | O | R | W | Result |
| 1 | Sandamali Dolawatte | 22 March 2003 | Sri Lanka | West Indies | 1 | 8 | 16 | 5 | Sri Lanka won |
| 2 | Anisa Mohammed | 28 August 2011 | West Indies | Pakistan | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | West Indies won |
| 3 | Anisa Mohammed | 30 August 2011 | West Indies | Pakistan | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | West Indies won |