Ground information
Location Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Establishment 2006[1]
Capacity 25,416[2]
Owner Dhaka Division
Operator Bangladesh Cricket Board
Tenants Bangladesh national team
Bangladesh national women's team
Dhaka Dynamites
End names
Ispahani End
Dan Cake End
International information
First Test 25–27 May 2007:
Bangladesh v India
Last Test 28 October – 1 November 2016:
Bangladesh v England
First ODI 8 March 2006:
Bangladesh v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 9 October 2016:
Bangladesh v England
First T20I 11 October 2011:
Bangladesh v West Indies
Last T20I 6 March 2016:
Bangladesh v India
As of 28 October 2016
Source: ESPNcricinfo
The Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS; Bengali: শের-ই-বাংলা জাতীয় ক্রিকেট স্টেডিয়াম), also called Mirpur Stadium, is a cricket ground in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Located 10 kilometres away from the city centre in Mirpur, the ground holds approximately 25,000 people, and is named for the Bengali statesman A. K. Fazlul Huq, who was accorded the title Sher-e-Bangla ("tiger of Bengal"). The ground was originally constructed for football in the late 1980s, and first hosted matches at the 1987 Asian Club Championship. The venue was taken over by the Bangladesh Cricket Board in 2004, replacing the Bangabandhu National Stadium as the home of both the men's and women's national teams. The stadium has a field dimensions of 186 m X 136 m.